built in ship viewer

[Commador Q]

Just a thought, but could the second eddition fleet book be printed such that the ship's stat pages are formated as table ready-ship reckords, or alternatively come with a disk contaning or a link to a digital series of table ready record sheets?

I know there are a number of player created record sheets floating around (and i've made some of my own for my favorate fleets), but it really seems like the sort of thing that should be included with the main book, rather than left to the end user to create for themselves.

 

[locarno24]

CD is probably going over the top, but pre-printed ship control sheets of photo copiableness would be nice...

There's some very good formats out there. (Epicarmycard and Burger's ship viewer to name but two)

 

[Burger]

I think an online viewer is better than a printed or CD one, because updates and changes and corrections can be immediately reflected.

If there were an official one then it'd save me a lot of typing... so I vote "yes"

 

[Locutus9956]

yup would be nice to have an official one though personally between Burgers shipviewer and Epicarmycard we dont really need one at the moment That said, not everyone who plays ACTA has ready access to a decent printer, or for that matter these forums and the internet. (Ok I admit the number of gamers who dont have any internet access at all is quite limited but I can think of one or two So Id say not to the CD idea as it would probably make the book cost more, but yes to photcopiable useable record sheet format. That would be awsomeness aplenty

 

[Goldritter]

I voted yes too.
And a CD is no problem.
AOG had one CD with all sheets of their "Ships of the Fleet" books.
All in PDF.
It was better to copy the files on Harddisk as to copy all the sheets from the book.

 

[Locutus9956]

Of course the danger there is that if one person in a club buys it copies of that disc have a tendancy to get around thus cutting sales..... (that said all the shipviewers online by fans at the moment are already available and you still need the book for actual rules (Ships of the Fleet was basically just a big book of ship control sheets) (ps good luck finding either of them these days sadly

 

[Goldritter]

(ps good luck finding either of them these days sadly

I´ve bought the first book as it came out.

 

[Locutus9956]

Aye Ive got SoTF 1 but 2 was nigh on impossible to find when I got into B5Wars (and 1 is just as bad now Im told). They occasionally appear on Ebay for extortionate prices though

 

[Obsidian]

I voted yes as well. There was talk between Matt and I at one point to include something like this with Sky Full of Stars so the idea isn't exactly unprecedented. Sadly, I couldn't deliver on my end so Mongoose never went forward with the idea and left it to the realm of Fandom. Should they go through with this, please god organize the weapons by arc and range. I just hate looking at ships like the Bin'Tak where it is all sorted by Weapon name. I want to know all the weapons in my forward arc. I do NOT want to know that I have the same weapon in 3 other arcs that I won't be using.

Still, something I am working on right now is writing out ship stats to a file so that you can define your baseline fleet and then modify it as time goes on. Ultimately I am thinking that the next step for my combat sim will be to allow you to enter one or more sets of fleets and walk through an entire game using it. It would handle all of the automatic type things that tend to get lost like boarded ship damage and repair rolls for criticals at the end of a round. One of these days I'll figure out how to draw the ships on a screen and allow people to play online, but until then having something that does all the rolling and remembers all the rules while I move the ships around a table is pretty good.