Maps with NPC Races

posted on December 28th, 2008, 8:56 pm

One thing I was looking forward to in the new release was NPC Races on maps. Though I am by no means let down by 3.0, I was somewhat dissapointed that there were no maps with NPC races. I was browsing through the races.odf and noticed you have the Breen, Species 8472, Tholians, Bajorans, and Cardassians listed as NPC races. With a little AIP editing I was able to make a map with fully functional Breen AI, so it would be awesome if in the next release you shipped out a few maps with these races inhabiting them.

posted on December 28th, 2008, 10:25 pm

Yeah, I'd actually like to see the Breen as a separate race. The Dominion do not build Breen ships. The Breen do!!

The Breen do not need the Jem'Hadar to tell them how to do their sh*t. Right, now that this troubling situation has been resolved, can you show me where Earth is? I have some unfinished business.

posted on December 29th, 2008, 1:26 am

..but then how would you get together with your beloved Janeway 

posted on December 29th, 2008, 2:01 am

Ah. Yes. You have a point there. 

I have the answer. She will be spared.

posted on December 29th, 2008, 7:28 pm

It would be awesome to see the Breen as a separate race, though my request is more for NPCs in general and maps including them, not which race should or should not be playable.

posted on December 30th, 2008, 11:22 am

NP Races are on todo and will probably come back together with the Noxter in one of the next major content patches (at the moment we are working on soem improvements to the current version and will then start facelifting the Noxter).
NP Races will have their own KI, behaivor and personality and will build up small bases like a normal player would. NP Races will be split into 2 categories:

Minor NP Races are just single vessels or stations that can be used on maps to give a certain flair (like fluid space gates and 8472 organisms facing though or stuff like an ancient automated defense asteroid left alone by a race long forgotten)

Major NP Races feature everything a normal race would (starbases, constructors, freighters and a techtree), just that they usually have shorter techtrees and not that many different vesseltypes. They can be used on maps as an additional opponent, for example to make a Cardassian themed map. The Cardies will probably be our first major NP Race

posted on December 30th, 2008, 6:04 pm

Awesome, that news definitely brightened my day 

If you guys need any help with AIP's (or anything with NPCs in general) I can help out to alleviate the workload. I know how to edit virtually everything in armada, and I've already made fully functional Breen AI in V3 if you'd like to take a look at it. I have a feeling though that you require no aid for this sort of thing though.

Anyway, I'm lookin' forward to the NPCs 

posted on January 6th, 2009, 1:19 am

Yeah, I'd actually like to see the Breen as a separate race. The Dominion do not build Breen ships. The Breen do!!

The Breen do not need the Jem'Hadar to tell them how to do their sh*t. Right, now that this troubling situation has been resolved, can you show me where Earth is? I have some unfinished business.



LOL!! Earth is at sector 001! LMAO

posted on January 6th, 2009, 4:01 am

They can be used on maps as an additional opponent, for example to make a Cardassian themed map. The Cardies will probably be our first major NP Race

Thank you. Look forward to it.