Good suggestion or waste of time?

Atrocities · #1 May 29th, 2001, 10:48 AM

Hey, what is your impression of Mankind? I have been kicking it around from sometime, and wonder if its worth the $ to play. An input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

dogscoff · #2 May 29th, 2001, 04:25 PM

I have never played Mankind. Sorry.

Any takers on the AI modding? My graphics set is progressing slowly but surely. It doesn't have to be a Rage-killer AI but I'd like it to have a bit of personality. I can do the AI_general and the speech / shipnames files, I just need someone to do the clever bits=-)

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

zen. · #3 May 29th, 2001, 08:05 PM

Atrocities: I haven't played Mankind either, but it looks cool. I'm really impressed with their unit portraits, and the in-game engine looks clean. I've been dabbling with trying it out if I can find the time while job-hunting. You can download the program (~17MB) and try it out for free; there are some limitations is all (16 units in your empire vs. infinite number being one of them).

dogscoff: What is the theme of your shipset? No, I'm not volunteering for AI (damnit Jim, I'm a graphic designer not a programmer!

), but I spent the weekend working on a shipset based on just the Taiidan side of the original Homeworld game. I'm just waiting for permission to use the troops/weapon platform graphics from the Addisian shipset. It's mostly going to be eye candy for the players; they can copy whatever AI files they want into it.

zen

dogscoff · #4 May 30th, 2001, 09:28 AM

*heh*... Well the theme is Space Vikings. It's all hand pixelled in paintshop pro, so some of the perspective is imperfect and I haven't even started on the colouring yet. (I have nearly all the portraits done in B&W) However it's coming along, and I will probably be ready to start colouring this week.

Anyway, I was thinking loyal/ honourable warrior race (trustworthy allies but unforgiving enemies) with emphasis on heavily shielded, close range ships and fighters. No special tchs, but extra movement and high combat bonuses. Perhaps they could use boarding parties and troops as well, but I don't think the AI does these very well.

If I remember I'll post some preview pics on my webspace tonight.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

zen. · #5 May 30th, 2001, 02:44 PM

"Vikings in Spaaaaaace!"

heh heh...I like it! Although IMHO you should bag the whole warrior thing and make them pillaging berserkers who give swirlies to the Rage on the weekends.

zen

dogscoff · #6 May 30th, 2001, 04:18 PM

I'm really looking fwd to doing the speech file as well. Might get me into trouble with any Scandinavians who see it though=-)

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

mottlee · #7 June 1st, 2001, 05:42 AM

quote:
Originally posted by zenbudo:
"Vikings in Spaaaaaace!"

heh heh...I like it! Although IMHO you should bag the whole warrior thing and make them pillaging berserkers who give swirlies to the Rage on the weekends.

zen

LOL "Swirlies" thats cool!

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