Space Vikings sneak preview

[Rollo]

Hello dogscoff,
thanks for bumping this thread. I didn't know it was actually you who is doing the Viking shipset (duh, I kind of feel stupid right now). Maybe my post in the other thread sounded a little odd. I thought I was talking about a third person...

Anyway, I've looked at the preview shipset. I love it! I also vote for Fast Courier #1. (Whats a FC anyway, which mod?)

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originally posted by dogscoff (in the Spiralus PBW thread):
Wierd coincidence... I've was drawing Space Viking comics at school. ooOOOOoooOOOOooh!!
ANyway, permission to use it is yours as soon as it's working. I'd also love some help with the AI files, although I'm more worried about the "clever" stuff (i design files, anger files) than the spech, which I already have some ideas for.

Anyway, we're getting off topic. Can we continue this conversation on the proper thread? I'll bump it to the top of the forum for you...

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Well, thanks a lot for your permission. I am sorry that I can't be much of assistance with the AI files. I only have this game for about a week now and have no experience with designing AI at all (always willing to learn, though). Maybe we should ask some of the expert modders about this (suicide_junkie: HEEEEELP !). All I can offer you is mostly moral support and my opinion on things.
Maybe the small and medium freighter should look somewhat more like the big one (which looks great). Right now they look more like the warships (destroyer, light cruiser). Anyway, if I can suppport you in any way, feel free to contact me (email in profile).

Keep up the good work,

Rollo (a Space Viking by heart)

[Suicide Junkie]

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I only have this game for about a week now and have no experience with designing AI at all (always willing to learn, though). Maybe we should ask some of the expert modders about this (suicide_junkie: HEEEEELP !).

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My AI experience is actually quite limited, basically only what I needed to get AIs working with all of my modded components, shipsizes, techareas & such. I have read nearly all the Posts on this forum, though, and I'd be willing to look into any specific questions you have.

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The latest info on Pirates & Nomads (forum thread).
-<Download V2.1>- (Now with extra scenario support!)
-<Download V1.7>- (With default AIs patched)
-<Download compatible EMPs for P&N v1.2 and higher>-
-<Download SJs latest AI Patcher>-
Visit My Homepage

Other Links:
-<Play By Web>-
-<Schlock Mercenary>- (great space-based webcartoon)
-<8-bit Theater>- (fun comic with the pixellated FF1 characters)

[Quikngruvn]

Viking city names from Civilization II's "CIVILIZATION CITY LIST"
(Copyright (c) 1995 by MicroProse Software)

Trondheim
Kaupang
Uppsala
Hladir
Aarhus
Viborg
Roskilde
The Udal
Lindholm
Jorvik
Westness
Jarrow
Skara
Ravning Enge
Birka
Jarlshof
Sigtuna
Odense
Lunde
Larne
Hedeby
Aldeigjuborg
Holmgard
Nonnebakken
Ribblehead
Thwaite
Askrigg
Trelleborg
Risby
Jelling
Vorbasse
Fyrkat
Kvivik

I hope this helps! (If this post appears to be too much of a copyright infringement on Microprose, let me know and I'll delete this post with all expedient speed.)

Quikngruvn

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"That which does not kill you will make you stronger." -- Nietzsche

[Rollo]

dogscoff,
I've been making my own race portrait and flag for the Vikings. I doubt that you will include them in your set, but they will be be ones I'll be using (for the meantime). If you want to see them, I can mail them to you.

Rollo

[dogscoff]

Quik..vn: Thanks for the names. Probably not enough there for a full shipset, and the copyright thing makes me a little twitchy, but it's food for thought.

Rollo: Yeah I'd love to see your images. Post them or mail me (dogscoff@altavista.co.uk). You can even have some webspace for it if you want.

Thanks for the feedback too. The fast courier, corvette etc are to be used with Devnullmod. That mod doesn't even support additional images yet, but I'm hoping it soon will.

There are details of the mods supported on the site, as well as information about how and why I made each image and more besides. It's all linked to from the top of the main viking.htm page.

Oh, and don't worry about being an SEIV newbie - by the time I get the viking images finished you'll be an old veteran. (it's taking me ages to do them all=-)

Voting so far:
Fast courier #1 : 2
Fast courier #2 : 0

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[Rollo]

I will email them to you this afternoon.

[capnq]

Given that I recognize several of the names as modern-day cities, and that you could find them all in historical atlases, I really doubt there's a copyright issue.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Rollo]

dogscoff, I have sent you the images. Have you received them?

suicide_junkie, thank you for your offer to help. I'll try and fiddle around with the AI files over the weekend. I bet I'll have a lot of questions (and I'll try to be specific about them ).

Rollo

[Quikngruvn]

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Originally posted by capnq:
Given that I recognize several of the names as modern-day cities, and that you could find them all in historical atlases, I really doubt there's a copyright issue.

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Actually, if we were really antsy about copyright, a good chunk of races and shipsets (read: Star Trek-based) would not have been posted. I put the copyright info as a CYA for the post itself, since I copied and pasted straight from the CivII file.

Quikngruvn

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Ponder this: Scientists already knew that matter is 98% empty space. After they figured out the structure of protons, they determined the remaining 2% is mostly made up of... well, nothing. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

[Suicide Junkie]

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suicide_junkie, thank you for your offer to help. I'll try and fiddle around with the AI files over the weekend. I bet I'll have a lot of questions (and I'll try to be specific about them)

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You'll have to wait till monday for any of my replies, since I'll be up north in a lake all weekend

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The latest info on Pirates & Nomads (forum thread).
-<Download V2.1>- (Now with extra scenario support!)
-<Download V1.7>- (With default AIs patched)
-<Download compatible EMPs for P&N v1.2 through v1.7>-
-<Download SJs latest AI Patcher>-
Visit My Homepage

Other Links:
-<Play By Web>-
-<Schlock Mercenary>- (great space-based webcartoon)
-<8-bit Theater>- (fun comic with the pixellated FF1 characters)