New Mod: Babylon 5 Shadowfall - Page 2

ImUrOBGYN · #1 July 20th, 2006, 03:17 AM

Can't wait to try the update. I've been enjoying ver 2 for about 3 days now. I loved B5. One of my fav sci fi shows of its type ever. [Right after Farscape. ;-)]

Psientist · #2 July 20th, 2006, 11:40 AM

Full final release due soon - playtesting now.

Mobbex · #3 July 20th, 2006, 06:33 PM

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Can't wait to try the update. I've been enjoying ver 2 for about 3 days now. I loved B5. One of my fav sci fi shows of its type ever. [Right after Farscape. ;-)]

Whoa a Farscape mod would be fantastic...

PaddirN · #4 November 25th, 2006, 01:21 PM

This is probably one of the best mod for WW or SAIS I've seen, but there were a couple of things that bothered me about it so I went in and started fiddling around some:

* Neroon wasn't showing up as an ally, turns out you need to add a line to the top "FLAG ally", and prolly change the ALLY # in distribution.ini. Also didn't know how else to get friendly with the centauri, so having the Primus now makes them friendly towards you.

* For some reason the drazi merc doesn't work. I even checked that quest file versus the garthan merc in the original and I still don't see why not. I added a pak'ma'ra ranger ally and had no trouble with that one showing up. very strange b/c i remember the drazi working in an older version.

* Didn't like the way mr. morden just drops off a drakh cannon and then everyone else hates you. Instead he now asks the chilling line, "What do you want?" and acts more like a timeless bauble instead, only i upped the penalty. Seems like a better trade off now.

* Brought some unused ships over from the original WW and added ships for drazi and made a new race, the raiders, even included primordius fortress (now a raider mothership) as a mission, but have yet to see it show up so I don't know if it even worked.

* I'm wanting to add in the rivalry between the narn and the centauri by having their ally ships make you enemies of each other race. So if you get the narn ship the centauri will attack and vice versa. Good idea?

Well, I prolly completely overstepped my bounds by making all those changes, please forgive me psientist, if anything, take them as suggestions.

Jamiri · #5 November 30th, 2006, 08:22 AM

I like the changes you made (as from reading), PaddirN. Why don't you make your version available as a download here?

Psientist seems to have abandoned this project (he even does not comment on it in this forum any longer), so why don't we just optimize the mod a little bit for him. I think the mod could be much more complete, if it was an open project to which everyone could contribute.

BTW: do you know how to get friendly with the Brakiri or other neutral races? Because I don't (except the Drazi).

PaddirN · #6 November 30th, 2006, 02:35 PM

Aight, I might throw it up on here, but I'll check with Psientist first. I just feel like I'd be stepping on somebody else's toes if I released an updated version of their mod. Also with the release of v1.2 I'll need to update the files in the gamedata folder.

Other changes made and/ or planned:

* Starfuries! Already got it in, just trying to tweak the gameplay. In my first simulator runs they were getting creamed by raiders and something about that just didn't seem right.

* Might take a stab at adding jumpgates in game, although in a rather cheap way. Psientist tried before but I think he abandoned the idea.

* A couple of ideas I've got floating around that will hopefully take advantage of v1.2 features.

Jamiri · #7 December 1st, 2006, 11:31 AM

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PaddirN said:
Aight, I might throw it up on here, but I'll check with Psientist first.

Hopefully, he'll answer at all. Haven't seen him on this forum for a long time.

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PaddirN said:
Other changes made and/ or planned:

* Starfuries! Already got it in, just trying to tweak the gameplay. In my first simulator runs they were getting creamed by raiders and something about that just didn't seem right.

* Might take a stab at adding jumpgates in game, although in a rather cheap way. Psientist tried before but I think he abandoned the idea.

* A couple of ideas I've got floating around that will hopefully take advantage of v1.2 features.

Cool, Starfuries! I was really missing them. So, will they be a fighter add-on to the player ship (launch bay)?

The jumpgates are already in the game (as an event) although they don't seem to work.

Keep going, PaddirN, so we might see a complete mod eventually! If you need help for playtesting, I'll do it.

Jamiri

N.B.: Just found out about the 1.2 upgrade of WW. Cool thing!

PaddirN · #8 December 1st, 2006, 05:11 PM

yea, the starfuries aren't much to jump and shout about, but they're prolly the most recognizable ship from the series, it seems a crime to not include them. For now it seems the best place to put them is in a fighter bay in an upgraded Omega class ship. I'm toying with the idea of including the EA as an encounterable race and including the Earth conflict in this.

From what I could gather, Psientist was trying to use an aethric mirror effect for the jumpgates. I tried messing around with it myself, but nothing worked and I can see why he dropped it. I've got something a little different planned that might even add a new element to the game. Or it might just be plain stupid.