BSG Mini Mod Project Update Thread

posted on August 29th, 2009, 8:47 pm

Ok guys bad news.  My hard drive suffered a fatle error, and I have to re-load the operating system, which in this case will make me lose everything on my computer.  Don't fear though because i'm working on backing up all my important data.  All this really means is that my progress has some to a screaching halt on the project.

  So far I have gotton past (most of) the buggs and my races have starbases, most of the finished weapons, and atleast one working ship finished.  Once I get all the buggs worked out, and the weapons finished, all I need to do is finish the ships which won't take long.  The only problem is finding time to work on it which is MUCH harder than you think.


    More things about the mod:

The stations will work like this.  It will have one singular station that has several Field yards/weapons/sensor pods that can be built onto it.  I'm not sure what they will do for reasourses, but as far as I can tell they will be kill based.  This means that you will gain reasourses by getting kills by your capital ships, and fighters.  Yes fighters will be heavly involve.

posted on August 29th, 2009, 9:40 pm

Use norton Ghost... makes you able to make a complete clone of a hardrive to a new one.

posted on August 29th, 2009, 11:11 pm

well, it is a lap top, and the hard drive it self is bad.  I got the stuff backed up, Now I just need to re-install the operating system.

Actually what i did was jerry rig the hard drive to be a slave drive with a staple, and put it in one of my other laptops that can hold two.

posted on August 29th, 2009, 11:25 pm

Oh...

Then the staple must've rusted or something. Anyway, they make those Drive indicators out of some sort of specific alloy I can't name.

But never use such a cheap shortcut because it just makes problems...

posted on August 30th, 2009, 12:24 am

The jumper Clips you speak of you can get at just about any eletronic store that sells computer parts .Tell the person that you need the jumper clips  for a computer hard drive .I think the cost is less than a dollar for a pkg of 10.

posted on August 31st, 2009, 12:08 am

no, no, no.  the jumper I made worked.  It isn't the reason it failed.  My computer is old, and just had a error in a system configureation file that wouldn't let it startup.  I got it backed up, but now I am haveing other problems, so it will take even more time.  Just don't expect this mod to come out before 3.0.8. 

posted on September 20th, 2009, 9:38 pm

UPDATE:Ok, So I fixed my comp, and Time seems to be slipping away quicker and quicker.  I have overcome plenty of fatel bugs in my mod, but More keep popping up.  Because Adding new races to FO is uncharted territory (not to say no one has done it before, there is just no book on it for FO) Progress for me is extremely slow, and I still have alot of plans to work on.  So here is the Deal.  I am ready to release the exact topic of what the mod is about, but I want' to know if you guys even want me to give away the surprise?  Also, I am planning on entering this into the Annual End of year Modding contest Over At FF ( that is how long I for see this taking.)

So, Do you guys Want to know, or should I keep this a secret?

posted on September 20th, 2009, 11:43 pm

I for one would defintly like to know. It just eats me up inside not knowing lol.

posted on September 20th, 2009, 11:47 pm

Muwahahahah, good, very good.  If I get more people to respond, I will try to update and post pics tomarrow.

posted on September 20th, 2009, 11:52 pm

cool

posted on September 21st, 2009, 12:21 am

der........ can you include a fully independent modeling tool?

posted on September 21st, 2009, 1:31 am

der........ can you include a fully independent modeling tool?

huh? are u mixed up on threads?

posted on September 22nd, 2009, 12:52 am

der........ can you include a fully independent modeling tool?

Uuh, if you are actually meaning to post this here, I can by no means model my own stuff, soo...


    So here is the big reveal.......................



It Is A Battlestar Glactica mini mod!!!!!  It will have two avatars, each avatar with one faction of that universe, the colonial side, and the cylon side.  The starbase will have roughly 5 docking ports, each one being able to build ships, or turrets, of any other things I decide to put in.  It will not have maby ships, mainly battle stars, vs base stars. They will also launch fighters and getting better with rankups, but it will not work the same as it does currently.  The fighters will be controlable, and will also actually have a ace rank up, so when they get five kills, they can rank up to an ace, and get really cool bonuses (Ideas are welcome)  All sorts of other features will be added, such as limited FTL drive, and specials.  Also there will be all new weapons, and hopefully sounds.  Here are some preivew pics of how far I have gotton.


I already Have the avatars and starbases somewhat working, Like I said, the only big problem now is time.

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posted on September 22nd, 2009, 3:16 am

Nice!!! I was suspecting it was a mini BSG mod lol!!!! Coincidently I finally got around to importing a few of the bsg ships from the bsg race beta....Im curently working on trying to get realistic (or as close to) guns on them....is that the reworked textures for the mercury class? Hmmm anyways SWEET!!!!!! I have some Ideas of my own for some special weapons/ablities but Im kinda getting stuck at trying to figure them out...anyways 

posted on September 22nd, 2009, 5:48 am

WOW! 
That's awsome! Uhm... don't know what to say 
I've been waiting for a BSG-Mod for FO for a very, very long time! Keep up the work, even if it will take some time. There are at least two guys around here who really want to get their hands on this mod