Something that needs redoing

Tequilich · #1 March 19th, 2008, 05:00 AM

Machaka is a nation that always cried out for a random in blood magic, maybe at the cost of a random in nature... Spiders make me think of blood for some reason.

Kristoffer O · #2 March 19th, 2008, 06:07 AM

> Forget the militia being weak, it's more of the fact that, for instance, Acro gets hoplites in their province defence! why can't Machaka get their hoplites?

Otherwise you would never see militia and that would be a pity. What would you compare to flies then, I ask

All nations are created equal. Some nations are more equal. Machaka might not be the epitome of equality, but is still quite equal. Their graphics OTOH is rather unequal.

> Spiders make me think of blood for some reason.

You don't mean rain, do you?

Tequilich · #3 March 19th, 2008, 03:44 PM

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Kristoffer O said:

> Spiders make me think of blood for some reason.

You don't mean rain, do you?

I guess its from spiders sucking the blood and juices from its prey why I think of blood. Machaka needs a random in blood so crossbreeding can be viable. Crossbreeding has those spider monsters, even though they are not that great.

Edi · #4 March 19th, 2008, 06:13 AM

The FEDN magics are very thematic for Machaka. Blood, not so much, but if it was available for some randoms (e.g. the basic sorcerer), it would not be out of place. But it would pose the problem of adding more magic to them than most of the other nations get.

Currently the long-awaited Gath is the one being worked on, and presumably we will get Vanarus after that. Unless of course this thread happens to inspire Kristoffer to make an Early Era Machaka.

An EA Machaka could possibly have FAN with ED minor, that would be thematic in relation to most African mythologies in the early stage, with Earth and Death (closely linked in such mythologies) becoming more significant later (i.e. Middle Era).

Dedas · #5 March 19th, 2008, 07:11 AM

I think Machaka is a pretty nice nation on paper. The graphics needs a serious redoing though. Some of them are very blurry - shame on you Kristoffer!

Kristoffer O · #6 March 19th, 2008, 10:45 AM

> Some of them are very blurry - shame on you Kristoffer!

That's not me!

The blurring was done to all sprites when we went from dom-ppp sprites to dom2 sprites. About 1000 units from dom-ppp were resized and blurred. Since it is boring to redraw an existing sprite, I have put more energy into making new stuff. The uglies sprites were remade, but there are still glaring misses. Some Machakan units got fixed, but most are still ugly.

llamabeast · #7 March 19th, 2008, 10:50 AM

Longdeads and soulless! They'd be no 1 on my list to update the sprites for, since they come up so often. Actually, apart from vampires, I think they are the only sprites which bother me.

Zeldor · #8 March 19th, 2008, 12:57 PM

Kristoffer:

I cannot imagine anything more ugly than vampires

Lingchih · #9 March 20th, 2008, 02:01 AM

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Zeldor said:
Kristoffer:

I cannot imagine anything more ugly than vampires

Umm... Shadow Vestals look like blurry blobs. I would argue that they are more ugly. I love them, don't get me wrong, but I never zoom in on them for sure.

Kristoffer O · #10 March 30th, 2008, 05:40 AM

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llamabeast said:
Longdeads and soulless! They'd be no 1 on my list to update the sprites for, since they come up so often. Actually, apart from vampires, I think they are the only sprites which bother me.

Thanks for the tip. I made some longdeads today. Since I've done some undead Rephaim it was not too much of a bother to make a longdead template and rework the longdead infantry.