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It's the "Phantom Mod" for your viewing pleasure:

Here's the Link:

Enjoy!

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As always i could care less what most of you think.And a word of advice:My empire on the ladder is evil now so please be smart with your Posts ( for those of you in the ladder )

Seriously though.So often revolutionaries are criticized.Hadrians had his fair share of "Hey when is UM2 coming out the cold death of of the universes?" Almost all the things in LR where said to be impossible and yet its those things among the others i have actually stated how to do.You complain and complain things take too long yet you do not do anything to hurry.My mod for E BFD has taken years do they complain? NO.My mods for WC3 are big and i said may take months or a year at most do they complain?no in fact they offer to help.LR is something you cannot rush.Unlike Hadrians UM2 i dont have the money resources he does,the artistic talent nor the small army (i think he has an army he did for um1) of people helping me.SO please for the love of all thats chewable dont bother me on "wahh wahh LK whens it going to be done i am anoyying" and if you dont like my enthusiam and resulting lack of grammer DONT READ MY POSTS!! as i have stated earlier i am 14 and i have quite a lot to deal with,School,Jhonen Vasquez,Writing,freinds.and my three dogs who need me.So please be patient

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I've never cried about when your mod is going to be out. I don't think anyone ever has.

Most of the guys are just giving you a hard time, your going to have to get used to that, it's the way guys are. I mean, I work at a job where they call me Harry Potter and I can't call in a downed peace of equipment without somebody saying, "Just use your broom harry!" Try getting used to that.

Hey I would gladly help, I help out fyron quite often with stuff, but that is because he send me files and asks for advice. He doesn't just say, "Hey help me with this." and never shows me anything. He also doesn't place any responsibilities on me, he just asks for my advice. If I want to help I will.

Your time issues are nothing, give it a few years, then life really gets interesting.

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I do that.Those who do help me if they ask get my work so far.I dont expect anyone to be more productive or even as productive as me so if you do something maybe once a month i am a happy camper.in fact when someone helps me about the only stuff i dont tolerate are vauge criticisism and critisicim phrased in a mean manner( i dont mind "kodos i think thats bad" but i do "Kodos your an idiot that sucks.)(can i say sucks on the board ::shrugs:: ).Anyway Jhonen is releasing Everything can be Beaten and i am sick as a dog (sorry to my three) right now so i wont be posting or working as much (in all honesty i do put at least 3 hours of work in every two days or so)

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*pulls LK aside for a friendly little chat*

Kodos, I think the aggravating factor is the amount of press you get. (Note--I'm not comparing these mods to yours.) Hadrian rarely refers to UM. We don't hear much about P&N anymore. We see a lot about Proportions, but that's because PvK comes out with a new Version every twenty nano-seconds. Since we're not constantly hearing about them, we're pleasantly surprised when a new Version comes out.

Take this in contrast to this thread, and those that have preceded it. Modders have definitely gleaned a lot from your ideas, and the entire SE4 community has benefited--except for you. When you post so many updates, you create an expectation in your audience. Keep building it up, and don't release on time (for whatever reason), and people aren't going to be happy. Do it consistently, and you'll catch some flak (like what you've gotten lately).

Try this. Don't post every new idea you have. Work them out on your own; if you can't figure one out, send a PM to an experienced modder. When you're done, release it! You'll get credit for your specific ideas, instead of "Oh, yeah, Kodos thought of some cool stuff back in that one thread"; ZA, oleg, and Capt. Kwok will pass out in shock; and everyone will be happy to try out what you've come up with. So do yourself a favor--keep us in suspense.

*wanders off to look for more snack mix*

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As i said i post these for thefollowing reasons

1:So other people can ask me for permission and get it and then use them in their mods as mine wont be done for ages.
2:So you can hear the ideas and give me feedback on them.
3:Hear the ideas and maybe be inspired to add on them or suggest your own.

As i said alot of the things that seem hardest i explained

Sun Dwellers:Explained
Space Monsters(i think i was the first to come up with the actual implementable idea for them other then just "SE4 needs monsters):Explained
Primitives:Explained
Omnipotents:Explained
Necromancy:Explained
Energy Races:Explained

almost everything in LR was said impossible yet again those are the things i have come out and specifically explained how i intend to do.Again if you wanna use one or more of my ideas in you mod go ahead just please ask me and give me credit.Anything i have made can be used with the exception of the story as its still being refined.

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hell i may even release Sun Dwellers as a mod of its own ahead of time,as i people to make some cool sun dwelling races as i cant think of any.

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Umm... Kodos, you were not the first to propose or design any space monsters.

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i never said i was the first to propose.I said i think i was the first to come up with a way to implement them.And again i said i think if i am and i probably am i apologice to whoever was the first to make a way to implement them.

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I forget who exactly it was, but it was for the Devnull mod. I think Rollo made them.

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Actually I think space monsters have been around for a long time. They have been in Devnull since 1.6 and I think somebody else developed the basic implementation (though not as well as in devnull) long before that. I know I had them implemented (and at the time I was not the first) in my pregold mod. Though I never truly finished them because gold came out and I started a new mod.

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No but i explained how to do it wayyy back in prehistorical times,in Some of My Ideas and Questions.I still think it should be made a classic thread,but i lost the URL whats the old forums adress i need to hunt it down.

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Null

[ March 07, 2003, 16:06: Message edited by: Iggiboo ]

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again i never claimed the idea only to be the first to come up with a way to do it.I see i was wrong and i apologize to mr mysterious (whoever made them implementable)

So whats the url of the old forums?

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This is the Shrapnel Forum. It has been at this URL for a very long time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Go to the main forum page and look for the Scenario Archive.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">*trembles in fear* *then busts up laughing at the Phantom Mod posted by Kwok*

Can someone explain the Universe Ladder? Is that supposed to be a threat? Heh. Sorry I dont keep up on the details of the Ladder... But curiousity compells me to join it now.

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Kodos isn't a threat. He thinks he is though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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lol im a threat realy ive murdered countless pizzas in the name of progress.New mod the Lord Kodos creative process!

RESOURCES:
Sleep
Pizza
Slurpees

Ship Sizes:
Procrastination
Laziness
Late night bursts of productivity

LOL joking bored im in the mood for some self mockery,although that is more or less how it works wait wait wait then one night in a burst do a helluva lot of crap.

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more newness

there are a few kinds of assimilation techs
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Assimilation(Mechanical)
Absorbtion(Liquid)
Infestation(Organic)

Each Assimilation tech is its own tree and you can only pick one,and thats provided you have the right required traits.Absorbtion was mainly made for about 2 races i have in the mod the Mok and the Hrual.Toying around now with various ideas.Im trieng to find out how to make a chance of Ruins being "bad" releasing some ancient plauge,releasing some horrendous monster(classic forbidden planet anyone?)im not sure how to though.

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Some how this tread was burried... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Kodos when are your mods coming out and what Version will they be fore...

1.49 or gold... You never ever stated what Version they are for ???

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Hey yah, so I heard you had a problem with losing your files. Was it a CWFU? Please tell me it was, I love those things....

Anyways, I just wanted to stop in and say:

Kodos! Stop slacking get back to work!!! Faster Faster Faster, NOWNOWNOWNOW!

Ok, I'm done.....

Or, am I? Dun Dun Dunnnnn

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..............
BEHOLD!
THE SLEEPING GIANT HAS AWAKENED!

Yes i am back.I was very POd with a good deal of the community and i had decided to discontinue this thread.However it is not right that the innocents must suffer in order to punish the ignorant so i am continuing.Yes Zero all of LR mod was lost.I am contacting former contributors and beggining work anew.I am probably including some sort of cinamatic trailer of it along with my Warcraft III mod,Legonds of Azeroth so wether or not you LIKE Warcraft III be sure to pick it up for the trailer.So that is that.There will be a great change in the mod once again.The artwork is possibly being paid for by me,so you can expect some great artwork.Of course this will possibly force me to start asking for donations,but it will be worth it,trust me.I will do all in my power to keep LR free but,if i do not get enough donations or raise enough money around my neighorhood i may have to.Well that is all for now good bye for today i look forward to hearing all of your POLITE and CONSTRUCTIVE not DESTRUCTIVE comments about my mod.

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Holy crap! Kodos I thought you were dead... going to have to start taking my pills again...

Anyways, I must warn you, I don't think anyone is going to give you donations... I don't mean to be mean, but it is just a fact of reality.

As for your mod, keep at it. Why don't you try your hand at doing the art yourself? You migt find you like doing artwork.

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Well i am trieng some things are rather nice.But the artowork i had was professional grade level and all very very nice.The mod has yet to be restarted because my PC currently lacks an internet connection and i am in Macintosh exile.I have some big plans though.My massive mod for Warcraft III,Legends of Azeroth is going to have some sort of trailer for Legacy of the Ra'shrakil so when i release it liking WC3 or not be sure to pick it up.

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Get yourself a copy of photoshop (if you don't already have it) then get a copy of moray and you can easily create nice images.

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LoL. I had moray but I recently learned the hard way that it does not run with windows XP. Or so thats the reason I am given why it does not run.

I am getting my new speakers soon, so I can start working on music once again.

Also I and Locutus (yes the guy I went to war with on the ladder lol) are working on a small WH40K mod. I am using it mainly to test some ideas from LR, so that is being done first. The Necron and Tyranid races will be most impressive, and certainly unique.

Well more news on LR mod:
I am currently working on the Liquid Metal tree.

Also there will be AGES you can select your empire to start in:
Pre Industrial: I've gone through this WAY too many times.
Space Age: The beginning of a unified planetary government, only slightly more advanced then we are today IRL so the most powerful weapons are things like Nukes and such.
Modern: Basic starting tech level of SE.

Now why pick an early age? For one thing it's fun, for another it gives you some extra racial points to spend on more things.
The Racial Quirks are being added. They are minor things like the Number of Arms and Legs, and other such things.

Edited punctuation & paragraphs for easier reading.

[ October 16, 2002, 21:39: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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Kodos: Moray works fine in XP. Just make sure you have the latest Version.

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Oh so someone fed me false info i geuss okay back to wrok i geuss.I am working more on Special drives here is a refined list:

Ether Drive
Slipstream Drive
Temporal Displacement Drive

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hmm.Im wondering is there any way of race propagation.IE can i make a component that when i land on a planet(with population) i can create an entire new race(i dont mean empire i mean a new race with AT LEAST a different race-set?)
well just a question answer it or dont it makes no difference.

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No

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yechh.Oh well.im currently working on Planetary Invasion and i am shooting to finish it sometime soon.Of course my website (Vectorianmainframe.net) should be coming up soon im purchasing a domain sometime between this and next week.

My site should cover most of my interests with sections for:Malfador,Blizzard,Sonic Team(specifically Phantasy Star Online),Nintendo(Metroid mostly),Dune,Warhammer 40k,and also house any projects i work on as well as Columns and Comics me and my friends create.

There will also be a shop where i will sell some...crud (mostly my friends manga he is working on and he is taking too long to finish...whats it remind you of)as well as a few LR or one of my other project related things (again i may sell LR if i dont get enough space to house it)

and no i dont aspire to replace se.org(well i do but...)i intend to be "NUmber two in se for a reason!"(number one is FARRR too much responsibilty for me.

But now then back on topic:

I have gotten back most of the artistic work me and my consortes invested in lr (the 60+ original race styles remain to be recompiled...).I re-obtained Moray and i am hard at work on what will be my first race style the Mok(again i got permission BEFORE Hadrian did),of course since with a few exceptions,their ships are spheres i dont see how hard it ca be to mess up...

"So whaddaya think?"
"Uhmm why are they triangles?"
::nervous eye movements::"No there not,get your eyes checked.."

well i must be going now ive...gasp...WORK to do!

Be seeing you!

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Ahh, a metroid fan, that game is sweet.

As for doing the Mok: Why? I understand hadrian's desire to do it, but why would anybody else desire to do another one? I mean, it just doesn't make sense, they're freakin spheres for cripes sake....

Now that that rant is done,

Where exactly is this website of yours?

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La La La. Works coming nicely.Im dedicating most of my time now to Planetary Invasion.Simply because it doesent require Gold,and its alot easier. I should have something to show soon. Also ive been playing around with Moray,as well as Softy 3D.

Another item that recently caught my eye was MetEdit,a editor for the Rom of the NES Metroid,in time we shall see what i can produce with this little gem. Me and Kaiser have been toying around with the idea of a DO mod set in the SE universe nothing concrete there yet either.

Also work continues on my Warcraft 3 mod,Legends of Azeroth,but thats not for discussion here,this is for SE silly rabbits!

Kaiser has also introduced me into the world of Star Control and if there are enough shipsets made,or demand,i will throw something together there,me and Locotus have also been working on a small WH40K mod,youll see some LR features such as Space Monsters and Mercanaries.

WELL this post is longer and more coherent then the usual Lord Kodos Fare,partly because skool has been less stressfull,and im a little more proud of my work and less in a rush. See and they say crazy people are hopeless.

Well,'till next time,

Be Seeing You.

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Doom

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Umm...Right! Im going out getting some of the nicest images for all of you to see and gawk at PI and of course LR. I have decided to work on that SE RP which is currently being called Space Empires:The Oddyssy. Asides of the axtual mod engie i am planning to release a few modules with it.

As for PI heres a breif list of some of the Facilities
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Factory-Shipyards
Supply Depot-Pretty Obvious here
Garage-Repair Station
Entertainmet Center-Makes people happy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Laboratory(Basic,Standard and Advanced)-Obvious
Labyrynth-Increases storage size by allowing people to live underground!
Mine,Agridome,Nuclear Extractor-Obvious
Storage Tanks-Obvious
Trade Center-Spaceport
Shield Generator-Obvious
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PI will have several Scenarios included as well as maps of some of the more famous worlds.

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Lord Kodos:

What happened to your website?

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Its about all planned out. Looking for a service to get it from. I always ask hadrian...and I always forget to bookmark the site he says,ARGHH But as O said give me a week or two. I say with 99% certainty the Domain is being purchased this week. Of course even after that its still a lot of work And i need to call in some of my older contacts as they are far supirior in HTML then I am.

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Might I suggest spaceports? It only costs 20 bucks to get rid of banners and they offer 20 megs of space and 4 gigs of transfer. When you reach your limit it isn't that hard to get it increased, or so Fyron tells me, I have not yet met my limit.

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Well...my laptop crashed, apparently i got a virus...damned Kazaa. in ANY event, nothing was lost for once, but! it was my singular Windows based connection to the internet, which leaves me in mac Exile, this means two things. The first: im going to be playing Marathon...ALOT. The second, i cant make a site because Macs $^%#(^&% stink.

On the bright side some of my other projects i havent bothered to announce here are coming nicely. One of them is for Space Empires IV, and thats all im saying on that. The other two are hopefully, aimed at Dungeon Oddyssy, and work begins when my DO and SEGold arrive (yeah i screwed up the order form...).

Unreal Championship has me in its evil grasp, as do the talons of Morrowind Tribunal, so i wont be doing much for anything outside of Morrowind for a while.

But, i suppose if you people pester me enough, take a few shots, and whatnot, i may leak what im working for on SEIV.

Well 'till later, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Be Seeing You.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I got 5 more MB when I requested it without any hassle.

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I'm suprised that no one has noticed that I've named a Klingon class of ship 'Kodos' in honour of our favourite modder. It's a conjectural design between the old K'Tinga and the Vor'Cha class. Hmm.

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Is kodos still alive?

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Null

[ March 07, 2003, 16:07: Message edited by: Iggiboo ]

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Hmmm, that's odd.... I access these forums, as well as just about all SE forums I care to visit from macs at school all the time.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You're gonna make his head bloat. Don't encourage the completely dearanged. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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YAY SHIPS-NAMED-AFTER-ME GOODNESS!

uhh okay that was scary. I can acess this forum, but oddly, not the SE.ORG ones, in fact, due to Hadrians rules there, i cant even view it, but hey, if it keeps hackers away, im all for it.

Also my Mac, is rather old, its one of the first generation iMacs i think i got it in 98 not sure though. Skool (intentional mispelling, for those who read my Nonsensical Ramblings thread at SE.Org, a Skool is a crummy bad School that only destroys individuality, whereas a School is a good school) starts tomorrow, and this will hinder my productive creative brainjuices from circulating in my brainmeats.

About my spooky secret SE project, lets say its something similer to Planetary Invasion.

THATS ALL FOR NOW!

Be seeing you.

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Preventing people from seeing the forums that are not logged in does not stop hackers, or even slow them down by much.

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Well lots of news. Zero, has been nice enough to make me a Vectorian Armada, modeled after the Irkans of Invader Zim. LRs sorta on hiatus, I needed a break from it; so, I find myself working a little on PI, and a little on Space Empires the Odyssey and a little on ::cue spooky music:: my mysterious projects.

Well this post was more or less a "LOOK IM ALIVE" post.

Be Seeing you

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More newsies.

The Vectorian fleet is coming along nicely, thanks again Zero.

Also, ill announce one of my super secret spooky mystifieng amazing mini-projects of DOOM: A mod based on the Star Control Universe (1, and 2 of course, 3 is just awfull).

I may be preparing some images for the image mod, namely some habitable asteroids from LR which took me 3 minutes to make, some images ripped straight from the Ur-Quan Masters, and some other MM images, that I thought would make nice planets, of course, some other goodies , I made/found/fought off ninjas for, will also be there.

As always, im still requesting graphics artists, so if you have nothing better to do, drop me a line why dont you?

Be Seeing You

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One of my secret projects, if you havent geussed; is in fact a mod based off of Star Control 1 and 2(three stunk to the high heavens.)

If anyone has ideas/images/ things to suggest, go ahead.