[In-Progress] Unofficial SEIV Expansion Pack

[Urendi Maleldil]

I've opened up a development group on Google that should help us collaborate a little better, especially once we start flinging files around.

http://groups.google.com/group/use4ep-development/

[Atrocities]

Not to be negative, but I am telling you that this selling concept can only end badly. I have been through with it some very skilled and up front people over a Tribes deal and it ended very badly. (I mean VERY badly.)

However if your going to give it a whirl, and can use any of my stuff, I give you permission to do so as long as any portion of my percentage of the profit goes toward PBW as a donation.

[Fyron]

Ultimate Strategies Mod is a good place to get formations (and strategies) from. It is a compilation of all that I could find.

FQM seems to have a few fans here and there. Might be a decent place to get quadrant, system, etc. data from. I'd recommend using the "no ast" type quadrant options, to avoid the excesses created by the full asteroid rings typical of the mod. You would have to modify the non-mid-life quadrants to use the no ast type, but that's just a matter of copy/pasting the respective system lists from the mid-life no asts.

"text file additions - design types, cultures, etc."

There are some decent base files for the flavor files (empire names, design types, etc.) included in FQM as well. I think they are in both standard and deluxe, but I forget. Might be a good base for your purposes.

[Atrocities]

I would be happy to have all my non trek ship sets added.

[Suicide Junkie]

Oooh, yeah, shipsets.
How many shipsets are in that huge compilation torrent?

[Atrocities]

200 plus I think.

[Gandalf Parker]

Id love to see it. I recently tried to re-create my personal mod and ran into alot of problems. I didnt keep track originally of what I put into it but after loading the SEIV on my other desktop that I got with my copy of SEV I was shocked at the difference. I think there is a LOT of neutral stuff that can be incorporated into a single expansion pack which would allow other more specialized mods to run without conflict. Run better in fact since some seem to take for granted that I have capabilities that dont seem to be in place such as extra formations or attack instructions.

Somehow I ended up with:

of course all of the added graphics

huge galaxies (Fyrons Quadrant thing)

a couple of hundred shipsets which I mostly added one at a time.

an extensive list of emperor titles, and types of government, and all the other choices for creating a race

extended neutral races (altho I think I might have done that myself)

extended AI's

extra ship-name lists (some of which I might have done myself)

extra formations and default instructions for ships

space monsters and pirates

[Urendi Maleldil]

Atrocities said:
200 plus I think.

Yikes! The number of new races should probably be edited down to about 3-5, based on image quality, AI quality, and how they mesh with the overall look and feel of stock SE4.