new race/ship set

Hrothgar · #1 June 7th, 2003, 11:42 PM

Thanks, Oleg--glad you like it.

I posted the corrected zip [fixing the errors in the names of the two ship files] on the mod forum. Here's the link:

1055021044.zip

I also noted there that I wasn't sure how to proceed with the design name and speech files. I had intended to use titles of pulp magazines for the design name file, but that's only a few dozen choices--there were hundred's of them, but I don't know all the names--plus, most of them aren't SF mags--"Railroad Stories," "Love Stories," etc. I still may do this, if I get the time.

As for the speech file, I started making changes, but quickly became daunted by the sheer number of lines and my lack of a clear idea of how I wanted to proceed. So, after a couple of changes, I ended up just eliminating mentions of senates or councils and substituted "Constituent Assembly," which is what I decided to call Duke Kutt-Nur's legislative and advisory body.

[Note to Shrapnel: there doesn't seem to be a storage space problem, but there's no reason to keep a file with errors available, so please feel free to remove 1054966558.zip]

[ June 07, 2003, 22:54: Message edited by: Hrothgar ]

oleg · #2 June 8th, 2003, 02:02 AM

Still, it would be nice to have design names file. Even if it is short. As it is, one must assign some file manually before starting game or will have to type names of every ship - very inconvinient !

don't worry about obsolete files - pathfinder posted 1024 AI files for bab5 mod.

Your stuff is just a drop in the ocean !

Hrothgar · #3 June 8th, 2003, 03:54 AM

Oleg,

When I made the emp files, I chose the "ravager.txt" file as the one from which names would be picked. I'm surprised you've had to name the ships manually.

Anyway, I put together a "pulp.txt" file with 390+ names--mostly pulp magazine titles, plus a few dozen authors and artists from the pulps. Here's the link:

1055036835.txt

Hopefully I can do some work on the speech file.

trooper · #4 June 8th, 2003, 10:03 AM

Hrothgar, I like your shipset very much. When you have come to a definitive Version, would you mind me to host it on my site ? (If you aim for fame and fortune, it's the place to be

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[ June 08, 2003, 09:06: Message edited by: trooper ]

Hrothgar · #5 June 8th, 2003, 10:55 AM

Certes, Trooper! I'd be happy for you to host the race. I'd like to make some more changes to the speech file, but that's all I have planned for now. With more experience, I'm sure I could improve the AI, but that's beyond me right now.

Atrocities · #6 June 8th, 2003, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by trooper:
(If you aim for fame and fortune, it's the place to be )

He only says this because he wants to be the King Host of ship sets.

And it is a nice set.

trooper · #7 June 8th, 2003, 11:57 AM

Atrocities : Not king, emperor ! (In my country, kings have their head cut off, whereas emperors are considered as great politicians in history books

!

More seriously, I think it's definitively a good way to make new material popular amongst SEIV players.

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Hrothgar (BTW, don't you think it's an awfull nickname to remember ?), send me the zip file when you think you won't make more changes on the pulp shipset (at least for the moment). Have you considered to make it neostandard ? (Neostandard races are the best. )