When can we expect an NPC race to show up?

[The Undying Nephalim]

posted on June 11th, 2009, 2:57 am

Last edited by The Undying Nephalim on June 11th, 2009, 6:30 am, edited 1 time in total.

I was curious as to how long it will be before we can expect an NPC race to show up in Fleet Ops. Will one of them show up in the next patch or are they still not considered much of a priority? The Breen as an NPC race could easily be finished off soon, they already have a Starbase, shipyard, turret, and cryogenics lab (research station?) complete... all that would be needed is a mining base, constructor, mining ship, and a simple AIP and they could finally show up on a few maps.

[Anonymous]

posted on June 11th, 2009, 3:03 am

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I hope they come soon. I cant wate to see what they do with the species 8472, and what the textures will look like.

btw (not to be a butt kisser ), but, your mod demo is amazing, and nothing if not FO quality.  I hope you finish that soon too. 

posted on June 11th, 2009, 1:18 pm

I think it will be a ways off: probably after the Fed and Romulan redoes... but who knows, we may get lucky (I think the Breen stuff is planned on being completely redone though... at least new textures  )

posted on June 11th, 2009, 1:23 pm

I'd actually like map players to actually act like a player. Sure they might have a small tech tree. But that is more reason to make their AI become spammers! Besides I was thinking about making a map where there are 4 players and 4 non players. Where each player has an ally. Would that be cool? But the Devs need to complete them NPC though.

posted on June 11th, 2009, 1:46 pm

You can get NPC teams to play like players. I learned it the hard way when I put a massive fleet of Federation starships, starbases & shipyards with an AI difficulty level.

posted on June 11th, 2009, 4:38 pm

I'd actually like map players to actually act like a player. Sure they might have a small tech tree. But that is more reason to make their AI become spammers! Besides I was thinking about making a map where there are 4 players and 4 non players. Where each player has an ally. Would that be cool? But the Devs need to complete them NPC though.

That would certainly be a fun map...

One player gets a Breen NPC ally, another gets a Bajoran NPC ally and so on. The awesome thing is that's all possible in the map editor (just set it so the human players and the ai_mission players are forced to team (x)

btw (not to be a butt kisser ), but, your mod demo is amazing, and nothing if not FO quality.  I hope you finish that soon too. 

Thank you so much  . I'm glad people enjoyed it. It takes about 3-4 months to finish a full race so it will be a little over a year before the full thing is done. It's probably best to discuss that sort of thing on that website, this thread should probably stick to just FO NPC races 

posted on June 11th, 2009, 5:49 pm

It's probably best to discuss that sort of thing on that website, this thread should probably stick to just FO NPC races 

What would that website be?

Anyway, the Breen are already a part of the dominion so what would you suggest as replacement if they were to be made a NPC race.

posted on June 11th, 2009, 6:16 pm

What would that website be?

Anyway, the Breen are already a part of the dominion so what would you suggest as replacement if they were to be made a NPC race.

Here's the website: Sigma

I just mentioned the Breen as an NPC race because if you look at the races.odf file (it's in the data/odf folder) they have the Breen listed as an NPC race, along with the Bajorans, Cardassians, Species 8472, and Tholians. They also have npc_holdtheline as a race so I presume there will be some sort of mode where two or more players have to stand off against a horde of enemies. That sounds like it will be a fun mode to play.

posted on June 14th, 2009, 7:27 pm

I don't wish to double post, but I'm still curious for an answer to my question about an NPC race showing up.

posted on June 14th, 2009, 8:26 pm

we are at the moment working on some other new features, but the first NP races are planed for a patch for version 3

posted on June 15th, 2009, 4:15 am

we are at the moment working on some other new features, but the first NP races are planed for a patch for version 3

Awesome, I look forward to them showing up.