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

[Aezeal]

Be honest does this sound like the basis of a nice nation?

#name "Souls of Shiar"
#epithet "Shards of a dead world, seeds of a new religion."
#era 3
#brief "Remnants of a destroyed world have landed in a province the undead souls of the dead, blessed by a god and cursed by another, want to take over the galaxy creating an undead leadership over all life."
#descr "The people of Shiar had a long culture of ancestor worship next to the worship of their benign pretender, they had researched ways of easy communication with the souls of the dead, leaving the bodies resting. This benign death magic was widely practiced on Shiar and supervised by the clergy of their pretender to avoid evil use of necromancy. The world of Shiar was recently destroyed by demon invaders and their terrible pretender god. In the moment of destruction the pretender god of the Shiar, not strong enough to battle the demon pretender, tried to save his people by blessing them with eternal life using all his powers including his lifeforce. The demon pretender warped his spell and now the souls of the inhabitants of Shiar live on, undead. The spells also affected the dying pretender and he too was changed, now undead, and less benevolent. Shards of Shiar have fallen in a distant province and are now the centre of a new nation and religion. The new Shiar nation does not want to extriminate all life but want leadership of selected suitable undead souls over the unbalanced and often unthinking forms of life in the galaxy. They use their still powerfull death magic abilities in their old, but also in new ways."
#summary "Restless undead souls of inhabitants of Shiar are going to conquer the universe. An undead religious nation."

[rdonj]

Darkwind: With the new version the pretender somehow got messed up, it now looks like unit number 0 (nothing) and has a maxage of 50.
Streamguns: I didn't actually say they were bad until I used them. I know they fire 5 shots per round, but they're still useless. 3ap damage versus say an average prot of 12 for infantry units in the mod, prot is reduced to 6 for its effective protection, you need a DRN roll of 4 to do 1 damage. In my case I had a bunch of them shooting at space trolls and failed to do almost any damage. On the other hand laserguns tear things apart and may be even a bit too strong. The only thing that would prevent me from hiring nothing but deep one soldiers is their complete lack of a melee weapon. If nothing else you can give them a melee attack with their gun. Make it have similar stats to a Combat Knive, but with one extra length.
Also, the sprnbr error is still there.


Aezeal: It's interesting, sort of a blend between t'ien ch'i, ermor, and amos' traveler's mod. I'm thinking if you make this nation it's going to need a nation to pair it against... one with ties to its tragic past