Any interest in an Eclipse Mod game at PBW?

Ragnarok-X · #1 June 16th, 2005, 01:39 PM

so, how is it going.

Kevin Arisa · #2 June 17th, 2005, 06:11 AM

I have been a little busy so things have not been progressing as fast as I would like, but progress is being made. Reworking all the Empire files and AI General files is going to take far more work and effort than I feel up to doing at this time so the racial traits will remain as they are for now. I am focusing on finishing all the rebalancing and error fixing right now. It shouldnt be too much longer before the patch will be ready and we can start a PBW game.

If anyone has any more suggestions or ideas please post them soon. This could possibly be the last patch for the SE4 Eclispe Mod. I intend to get started on preliminary work for the SE5 Eclipse Mod as soon as I get more free time.

Kevin Arisa · #3 June 20th, 2005, 02:20 AM

I am almost done. However, my gramma is in the hostpital because of a tumor in her head. So far they say it is benign but her age and health condition make solving the problem more complicated. Because of this my schedule is chaotic. I can no longer give an accurate time frame for the patch. I'll try to keep you all posted as I get stuff done, but no promises.

Ed Kolis · #4 June 20th, 2005, 01:23 PM

Wish your grandma the best for me!

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 June 20th, 2005, 02:29 PM

Hope your grandma gets better.

Both of mine are dead. Fortunatly, they lived good, long lives, but I still miss them.

Kevin Arisa · #6 June 23rd, 2005, 09:44 PM

I found time to do some in-game testing. So far everything looks good. I only have a few more things to test and then it should be ready. Sorry for all the delays.

Kevin Arisa · #7 June 27th, 2005, 04:44 PM

Okay, it is done. Go to my website in my sig to download it. I'll upload it to SE.net soon.

I dont want to host the PBW game so I just have a few suggestions about the game setup.

1 Huge Homeworld
High Starting Resource
High Racial Points
Low Tech Costs
Low Tech Start
Small Galaxy
Medium Event Severity and Rate

These settings should give Eclipse a good PBW trial run.

Oh and lets make an agreement not to take traits that our species does not have. A thing to remember is that even if you dont take any of the racial trait techs, there is still plenty of variety in the standard tech tree.