Space Monsters!!!

Suicide Junkie · #1 January 27th, 2002, 06:47 AM

Just place the components from worst to best, and without anything else to base its decision on, the AI takes the Last component.

EDIT:
The Morepics.zip has been added to the image mod, but has not been uploaded.
(I need your credits first.)

The beam & torp images are #51 (both)
The components got slots 300 through 305, alphabetical order.

[ 27 January 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]

Andr�s · #2 January 27th, 2002, 04:08 PM

Just mention my name for the credits.

I guess you would eventually find some visible planet, but would you make contact with them if their planets are invisible?
If you turn show planet names on, would you see the names of invisible planets?

What would be the race portrait of monsters if you contact them?
They should have a speech file to ensure they don't talk at all. It wouldn't make sense if monsters answer "It's not our time for alliaces."

Rollo · #3 January 27th, 2002, 04:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Andr�s Lescano:
Just mention my name for the credits.

I guess you would eventually find some visible planet, but would you make contact with them if their planets are invisible?
If you turn show planet names on, would you see the names of invisible planets?

What would be the race portrait of monsters if you contact them?
They should have a speech file to ensure they don't talk at all. It wouldn't make sense if monsters answer "It's not our time for alliaces."

If they do not colonize and don't use troops there will be no visible planets. Contact has usually been established by monster scout ships. Not sure if the planet name shows or not, but I'll check. Wouldn't make any difference really, if a human knows where the planet is. Humans just don't have the sensors to detect (and attack) the planet. The homesystem of the monsters can be found easily enough in the borders screen anyway (too bad this cannot be turned off for homesystems, just for colonized systems).

I was thinking to use the race portrait (dragon)that was in the zip. Wasn't that the reason you included it?

The speech file isn't a problem. I was counting on Puke to come up with some nice speech lines. The only one I can currently think of is "Yum yum..."

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Rollo

Andr�s · #4 January 27th, 2002, 09:42 PM

You would be able to attack a visible ship above the planet and that would make it show in combat.

Would a dragon be apropiate to speak for a space amoeba?
That's the portrait I was planning to use for the dragon shipset. I was including just as a preview.
If I ever finish it will be a little confusing to have an empire with the same portrait of monsters wouldn't it? If you find the pic is apropiate use anyway. I'll worry when I finish that shipset.
Any idea for a flag?

Suicide Junkie · #5 January 27th, 2002, 10:54 PM

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You would be able to attack a visible ship above the planet and that would make it show in combat.

Except that it is an entire-sector cloak. Anything in orbit will also be invisible and non-attackable.

Rollo · #6 January 28th, 2002, 10:59 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Andr�s Lescano:
... Would a dragon be apropiate to speak for a space amoeba?
That's the portrait I was planning to use for the dragon shipset. I was including just as a preview.
If I ever finish it will be a little confusing to have an empire with the same portrait of monsters wouldn't it? If you find the pic is apropiate use anyway. I'll worry when I finish that shipset.
Any idea for a flag?

Oh, I see. Well, if that is the picture for the dragon shipset, it should stay that way. I'll find something else (or maybe somebody could do something ..hint...hint

). I haven't really given much thought what picture and flag would be good. Top prioriety for me right now is making it work.

Rollo

dogscoff · #7 January 29th, 2002, 02:54 AM

Rollo - I might have a dragon pic for you, if I can just find it. I drew a cool lizard years ago and it's now stashed away on my Amiga (which is currently mothballed), but maybe some of my friends would have a copy of it somewhere. I'll mail them and find out.

I have an idea for a cool space monster pic as well. I just hope it looks as good on screen as it does in my head. I'll try to pixel it this week, at least in outline.

Also, I'm not up to date with this thread, so this might have been suggested already, but how's this for a space monster idea:

A warp point monster - you give it warp open / close abilities and let it roam around the galaxy. It wouldn't even have to be aggressive, it could just wander about altering the map at random, making the game a little more interesting for human players.

Or, you could make it invisible (impenetrable cloak) and pretend the warp points opening all over the place are random events=-)

Of course you'd have to be careful the wp tech didn't fall into human hands but I have a feeling you've already discussed that kind of thing on this thread.

Not sure how you'd persuade the monster to actually use the wp components, but imagine how cool it would be if you could get it working...