David Weber\'s Universe
 

I hope to receive SEIV Tuesday or Wednesday (hate ordering something on a Friday just before a 3-day weekend). I'm just starting to look at the downloaded demo but I thought I'd look at the forum for a bit first. There's some really good stuff here.

I haven't seen any topic yet on David Weber's Universe (I'm just reading THE SHIVA OPTION and have read his preceeding novels and really enjoyed his Honor Harrington series as well). This game appears to portray his use of warp points in his novels or am I missing something?

There seems to be a lot of mod work to replicate the Star Wars and Star Trek universes (with Babylon 5 coming up)along with some interesting alien races (except there doesn't seem to be any Starship Troopers' "Bugs" or Weber's "Bugs") with some great graphics but is any of Weber's work in here?

I've only looked at the first page of forum Posts so maybe I've just missed it. Anyone?

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

Use the forum search engine. I recall reading comments on it. I have a half completed Shiva map. I think you could have a bang up weber game but SEIV has techs that renders fighters obsolete or too easy to kill in the latterparts of the game. The Borg may be an option for a bug race. I think the Mod would be Easy to do.

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

Thanks Gozra, I'll give it a try. I just think that with all the sci-fi novels using Arachnids as the enemy that someone would create a mod using some good "Bugs" as the bad guys. I did see a mod using giant ants but no spiders. Guess I can only hope!

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

The fighter thing can be fixed. I've thought about doing a HH mod (drones make it possible), and actually started making a scenerio based on Proportions and Starfire. Abandoned it because it would taken entirely too long to do the way I set it up.

Not sure how you'd make a mod based on Path of the Fury, but that might be fun too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Phoenix-D

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

There was discussion on Weber's books, Insurrections, In Deaths Ground, and the other 2 in an earlier thread way back but can't remember which one off hand. Definitly a good series, I enjoyed it better then the Harrington Series, Already read the Shiva Option, but I won't tell you how it ends since your still reading it.... excellent series on space combat and new races...

just some ideas mac

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

The Honor Harrington thread includes a link to another thread about a StarFire mod.

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

"The Honor Harrington thread includes a link to another thread about a StarFire mod."

Which is now DEFUNCT I should add.

Phoenix-D

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The mod, or the thread?

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

The scenerio. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Phoenix-D

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

coudl someone please explain what this david weber deal is. I sure wish i knew being the umm un-avid sci-fi reader i am. I used to read some but that was in 5-7th grade when anything looked good so i don't have much of a discerning taste anymore.

EDIT: like 20 words ran together

[ June 01, 2002, 06:32: Message edited by: Skulky ]

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, SE4 gameplay and incremental upgrades of modular components (esp. weapons and the range & damage increments) feel very much like Starfire universe. In particular, two books by David Weber & Steve White called "On Death Ground" and "The Shiva Option"-- which means, "glassing" a planet because you can't afford the combat losses of a ground fight.

They end up using 4 levels of fighters, gunboats, drones, all of the normal ship sizes in different vehicle classes, varied weapons combinations & missile/fighter/point-defence/primary beam weapon vs. shield&armor battles, ECM & cloaking, warp point assaults, and, Last but certainly not least:

The risk of exploring and coming across a race that's bigger, nastier, more advanced, and regards your species as a tool-using food source which is (temporarily) inhabiting *their* planets.

[And why you should always scout cloaked.]

Anyway, the second book starts off with warp-point maps of around 100 stars, occupied by around a dozen different races, which explore, fight, trade technologies, etc. I've always assumed that SE4 was a spiritual descendant of Starfire plus military/Sci-Fi books-- something by S.M. Stirling-- "The Domination of the Draka", or David Drake, perhaps Horatio Hornblower.

-Chuck

Re: David Weber\'s Universe
 

The Starfire series

Crusade
Insurrection
In Deaths Ground
Shiva Option

Most excellent series, Start with Crusade then Insurrection etc. Shiva Option is the most recent. The series has a real feel similair to SE4. I highly recommend it if your into Space warefare...

just some ideas mac