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

[rdonj]

Okay, I had a chance to play a little. I played as neoclidia on the big blue planet (cerulea). It was nice, the planet was blue which fits its look better. And the space battles looked much nicer, although having deep ones standing around in space did look a bit weird. I found a few space provinces that still looked like forests though, but I don't remember which ones. I wasn't entirely sure I liked the black hole pic, it seemed a bit... grainy, and it was a bit hard to make out units on that map.

Also I found a few bugs :P The neoclidian battleship summon spell doesn't summon battleships, it just summons warships. Also I tried the x-wing summon and it summoned ulmish space fighters. Oh and drones look like militia, personally I would rather make them look like space mines (which you may want to remove anyway since they don't really seem to work).

[Aezeal]

actually I saw spacemines work 2 days ago, I think I changed something in a version you didn't see. Only they don't move so enemies can ALWAYS walk up to them and attack them first.. so I might give them a lil battlefield movement.

[rdonj]

Probably a good idea, I could get behind that. Besides most of the time in fiction when you see mines they can move, so it wouldn't be unheard of.

[Aezeal]

not unheard.. but they'd be pretty overpowered ..

[Darkwind]

They might only move slowly, to represent residual cosmic winds and inertia from being first sent off.

[Aezeal]

SO what do you all think of the backgrounds etc?

[Johan K]

Space battles feel much more space now without the trees and with spacey backdrop. Nice work.

[rdonj]

I already said what I think about them .

[Aezeal]

Yay feedback from the master himself!

I think it all looks much better now too. Rdonj, your feedback has of course been noted, I wondered if you maybe had more to say.

As a reply on what you said:
- nice the blue planet looks better, was the intention
- Nice space battles look better
- I'm not responsible for the Neoclidia sprites
- let met know which space provs look like forest please and I'll change them.
- I'll have a closer ingame look a the black hole pic.

Anyway if you have nice backgrounds just send me the pic and I'll add them.. it's very very easy so you can even check it yourself if it looks better. It actually works with pics of all sizes but then it just takes a box from the center it shows (I guess the nearest 512-1024 etc in range or something) If you have something you like just name it spacebackground**.tga and send it to me and I can change a few numbers in the mod too. (or I can add it to a specific province if you want that.
- I was wondering about the background on the city planet middle right is that acceptable or does it look weird?


I'll change the bugs for a next version. The drones should be spacemines actually so something not right there.

[Aezeal]

Since ''m mostly tweaking and testing when I have time I've not relaly played the maps and mod..

Another thing I wonder is do you get the new sites regularly or do you still mostly get the old ones?