Mod: Dominions 3000 v0.81 - lots of new indies, new map (using the brand new map commands)

[rdonj]

That's actually less than I was expecting, I take it you're going to muck with the population sizes later on yourself? Or do you have some general guidelines you want me to follow for setting those? Anyway you can email me at: kurisu(dot)basu(dot)gasu(dot)bakuhatsu(at)gmail(do t)com. Yes I know, it's a bit long

[Aezeal]

you can set pop sizes if you want too there will be examples in the solarsystem file

You will also have to clear the provinces you want to be starting points of any army (else players will get those indies in addition to their starting army)

so you have to select 7 provinces (at least) as starting provinces (I'd say one on each of the major planets.

Well if you've done this we can see what needs to be done afterwards... if this is done we'll be much farther along at least

[Aezeal]

hey you've got mail.. and I do hope that is your name or else you are just psycho for having such a mail adres..

any special meaning to it?

[rdonj]

Well, it's my first name in japanese followed by a japanese tongue twister. No real special meaning, I was kind of annoyed when I created that email address and my revenge was creating that horrible address for people to have to type

[Aezeal]

hehe I used to have an adress paperclipdp on hotmail.. created it when I was in a loser clan darkpriest in starcraft (no I never was good) for half a week just when I needed a mail adress.. my 7 years in university I kept it but kept getting question about what it meant...explaining that when you are a year away of being a MD is somewhat annoying/awkward... when I had to sent letters for jobinterviews I decided that I''d probably lower my chances with that mailadress and created the one I send my mail to you from (which might seem strange too but is just my first and last name in a row )

PS got the pic?
or found anything during testing?

[rdonj]

Heh, I was recruited into a starcraft clan also a long time ago, but I never got involved in it. I was never that good either I think the new address was a good idea, your name is always better to use for professional purposes. For some reason I thought you were italian, guess not.

I got the picture. I had to download gimp and convert it into a .tga before I could use the map editor. Frustratingly, said map editor seems to have connected the space provinces to absolutely nothing so I'm going to have to be careful about space connections.

[Aezeal]

nope dutch, been that all my life.. italy is for holidays

Good luck on the work... if you get totally stuck... mail all you got back to me and I'll see where to go..

PS.. IF you have finished all stuff in the program and then start working on things with a text editor and typing and you see an error somewhere.. you CANNOT just open it in the editor again.. well you can but if you save you'll loose everything you've edited manually.. so I'd just try to do it perfect first time or save what you typed to a separate file so you can copy it in later again.

[rdonj]

Good idea, I will keep that in mind.

I am really busy doing several things at once right now so I have not done too much yet with the map. I will probably finish with it before tomorrow though.

[rdonj]

I think all the neighbors are set, I'm beginning on setting province terrains. Do you want me to mark all space provinces as small provinces? Also, what do you think about setting all of the secondary planets (i.e. no-start planets) as high magic site frequency? Just as a little added incentive to fight over them.

[rdonj]

Hmm, coming up with names for space is hard. I think I'm going to use some more of yours.