Rollo: yes I was busy making a spacemonster mod, as I posted earlier (I was the one who topped the thread out of oblivion after all).
I did some testing, ripping components from another mod and tweaking them, but I have the greatest difficulty getting the AI to design their own ships using the vastly superior monster components (like connective tissue that acts as life-support) and to get them to add to their own build cue correctly.
I am a total sputz in modding the designcreation file. I dont understand half the stuff there, like major weapon family etc.
Anyway for a picture set I advise using either species 8472 (some of their ships look like squiddly thingys with tentacles) or the Cephalopeian shipset which was basically meant as spacemonsters. Just ask permission I guess
Edit: my idea was also one planet which spawns the beasties (preferrable would be they didnt have a homeplanet but that doesnt work) which builds one starbase with a sector cloaking component (to avoid they get whiped out easily), and the planet keeps spawning them in various sizes, amongst which those able to harvest organics from asteroids (I hope the AI has some way of figuring this out), and a few sizes which can spawn new ships.
Their special shipsizes have -100% maintenance for obvious reasons.
[ 25 January 2002: Message edited by: Egregius ]