Disasters

posted on November 19th, 2003, 11:16 am

yep there will be several exotiv space lifeforms (expsecially on the fluidic space tileset.. but that will have to wait for a while the new ships for the existing races are hard work

posted on November 19th, 2003, 4:07 pm

This is the Space Kraken.It is a SFC 2 or 3 model by Azel modellor I believe.
The poly count is way too high for Armada at 6000 or so but a new low poly model could be made.

i think this would be batter in space but it looks like a shrimp!

posted on November 20th, 2003, 8:15 pm

we are working on a trigger based system to get scripted mapevents like ion storms, meteors, subspace anomalies and all the other stuff.
exotic organisms and vessels can be used as Non Player vessels

Scripted Events!

Now I'm really wondering why Activision didn't go and find a few people like you, doca, and deketor and just make the game right the first time.

posted on November 20th, 2003, 9:33 pm

well ok this are not scripted events like "if player 2 has 4 sovereign class do this and that"
but more like "create a ionstorm at this and that position every 60 seconds"
but i'm still working on them and they are not completly done yet so it is still unsure if i can get them working as i want

posted on November 21st, 2003, 1:26 am

I really considered doing this same thing for my Shockwave addon by creating a non-playable race or a race with invisible stations that wouldnt be seen as a threat by the other races.These stations would build random ships and generate moving storms based on Westworlds work in Naval Armada.
The only reason I didnt do it was the lack of a decent comp at the time now its because of my job and lack of time.

posted on November 23rd, 2003, 3:12 am

sweet, i migh get shckwave any way, i heard it was good.

posted on November 23rd, 2003, 10:43 am

Yea, i heard that too. so i think it's worth a try, at least it is recommended by my friend Squire James (bubba you may know him from the afc.com boards) somebody who says he doesn't like fleetops and hasn't told me why.

DOCa Cola

posted on November 23rd, 2003, 1:05 pm

Squire James? I know of him....he goes to SGN...I play an RPG there.


And guys, I'm bettin that whatever you come up with disaster wise will be great no matter what happens.

posted on November 25th, 2003, 12:13 am

Yea, i heard that too. so i think it's worth a try, at least it is recommended by my friend Squire James (bubba you may know him from the afc.com boards) somebody who says he doesn't like fleetops and hasn't told me why.

DOCa Cola

Yes thats definately his style lol.I've seen him make many comments before without explaining.

As far as Shockwave is concerned you will have to judge that for yourselves.I'm very critical of myself and the mod would never have been possible without all the modeling friends I have in the community.All I did was put it together and test it for a long time.
You'll need a good computer and video card to play and defrag your hd after install.
No crashes have been reported after 2000 downloads from AFC.


THOLIANS:
Nobody has ever made a true working Tholian web-spinner so far to my knowledge and I would know.Are there any plans to have a small Tholian presence in this mod?They would be a nice complement to the mod and the weapon would be a plus.There ships are easy to make.

posted on November 25th, 2003, 6:51 am

yep, the tholians are planed for fleet operations and play an important role in the fleet operations history, there fore they are a relativly large NP race. (in fact they are the firs one i started to make and are nearly finished )
of course the tholians have developed in the past years two, and therefore their ships look a bit different from that undetailed tos style (they are made of crystal, for example like in klingon academy). They will be able to access advanced and unique technologies, including special abilities which are similar to the tholian web in TOS

posted on November 25th, 2003, 11:05 am

Im glad to hear that Optec.I use the KA style Tholians myself and many several variants of them.
There has been one Tholian Web made ffor A1 but doesnt really work well.