The Trillian Empire

[Suicide Junkie]

It would be the Trillian’s first generation of ships capable of sub-light speed.

Sublight is anything slower than light, you know... might want to reword that.
(My car is capable of sub-light speed!)

But anyways, Excellent story!

[minipol]

Reading chapter 2, it made me realise what i sometimes miss in SEIV what some other games do have: leaders! Adds to the roleplaying character of the game. Some games give you great leaders at random times with abilities that influence troops. In SEIV, that could mean that some leaders influence ground combat of the troops they lead, others fighters or fleets!
Maybe boost intelligence or research.

Dang, reminds me of, eh, what's it called * stands up, walks to box with old goodies * Hah, Starwars Rebellion.

Image that for a race (say Federation), you could suddenly end up with Jean-Luc Piccard
Would be fun. Then for modding you could make a number of leaders that would appear at a certain time or randomly.

I'm off to post this at the SEV wishlist.

* lalalalala *

[ June 19, 2003, 20:45: Message edited by: minipol ]

[primitive]

Now you got me hooked.
Keep them coming or I will hunt you down and ......

[Ragnarok]

Just finished reading the second chapter, Clark. Great job once again. The little bit of suspense at the end was a great touch. More, more!

[clark]

I edited the sublight Suicide, good eyes.

I am trying to hold off untill I have a bit more time to do the next installment- I feel the pacing of the story is a little too quick, and so it undermines the effect.

How long is too long (a story chapter)? Or is there such a thing?

[ June 19, 2003, 22:46: Message edited by: clark ]

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by clark:

How long is too long (a story chapter)? Or is there such a thing?

There is no such thing. Make them as long as you want. I personally try to keep them not as long because I know not everyone has the time to sit down and read a long chapter. So if I have to I just split a chapter up into two parts.

Another thing I do, this is just me, is I try to keep a chapter to around 4 pages long. That's how long my Last chapter in my story was (link in sig) and to me is a good size. But as I say, that is just the way I personally do it.

But I'm sure no matter how long you make the chapters that people will read and enjoy them just as much as they would shorter chapters.

[CNCRaymond]

I have read that 2000 to 2500 words are a good size chapter. Then again how many words are there in a regular paper back book? On average how many words per page, pages per chapter, chapters per book?

On average there are about 400 to 500 words per page of a paper back book using a normal size font. So do the math.

I don't get how you guys can do it. Writing and not getting paid to do it is a concept far beyond my understanding. (Forum posting not withstanding.)