.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

Raging Tiger- Save $9.00
winSPMBT: Main Battle Tank- Save $6.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Shrapnel Community > Space Empires: IV & V

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old January 24th, 2001, 08:13 AM

Emperor Zodd Emperor Zodd is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Syracuse,NY USA
Posts: 320
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Emperor Zodd is on a distinguished road
Default What\'s your favourite race?

What race do you guys use to play as,a custom race or one from the game?

I use a custom race similar to the Jaenar.(Zoidian)
After the next patch I was planning on developing an AI for them and upload it.

I removed the EEE and the Cryslonite races.
They aren't humanoid enough for me. Plus I hate their ships.



[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 24 January 2001).]
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old January 24th, 2001, 09:57 AM
henk brouwer's Avatar

henk brouwer henk brouwer is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: netherlands
Posts: 369
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
henk brouwer is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

That's strange..

I prefer the non humanoid races, especially the cryslonite. I like to think evolution to be creative enough to design other intelligent races besides the humanoid creatures. Humanoid races are used far too much already in my opinion, I really prefer the more orriginal weird races.
__________________
Dungeon odyssey modules:

Christmas module v1.05 (attached to first post)

Xerathul's Revenge v0.5
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old January 24th, 2001, 03:55 PM
Mephisto's Avatar

Mephisto Mephisto is offline
Brigadier General
 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Posts: 1,994
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Mephisto is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

What should I add, Tampa_Gamer said it all.
__________________
For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal. - JFK
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old January 24th, 2001, 03:59 PM
Daynarr's Avatar

Daynarr Daynarr is offline
Lieutenant General
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,555
Thanks: 5
Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts
Daynarr is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

Nice answer Tampa. You covered it all.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old January 24th, 2001, 04:09 PM
Tampa_Gamer's Avatar

Tampa_Gamer Tampa_Gamer is offline
Captain
 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Posts: 862
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Tampa_Gamer is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

Aw shucks. .I'm blushing
__________________
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
-General George S. Patton
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old January 24th, 2001, 05:26 PM

Elwood Bluze Elwood Bluze is offline
Private
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 36
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Elwood Bluze is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

Thanks Tampa, I'm going to install them and let rip!
__________________
I'm back from the Big House, singin' Da Bluze!
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old January 24th, 2001, 08:38 PM

Nyx Nyx is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Fairfield, Iowa
Posts: 268
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Nyx is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

quote:
What race do you guys use to play as,a custom race or one from the game?


I use many different ones. My favorite ship sets are the Pyrochette, United Floran, Gron, and Voidshark's purple ships which will soon (hopefully) be a part of the Darlok mod. I have a couple of races that I designed for myself that I play regularly, but I'm a bit more than 50% likely to use a new race creation on any given game.

My favorite race to play is a republic with elitist nobles who love bringing slaves back to a world near their home. I try very hard to get at least a few slaves of each other race in the game and I drop them all on some Ice world with no atmosphere in my home system. This world get's renamed Menagerie. Every now and again a large population transport takes a tiny number of people from Homeworld to Menagerie as the nobles go on vacation and enjoy poking around their slaves. They also keep a mothballed fleet of captured enemy ship designs to look through and take their kids to see so that they grow up knowing how vastly superior they are to any other life form. After they get "enough" slaves they tend to commit genocide with plage weapons. They also like to build suicide bombers (ramming ships) and things like that on slave worlds (crewed by slaves of course). I usually use the Pyrochette shipset for them because the race portrait looks like an Illithid from AD&D and that's about how mind flayer's work. This race uses both the psychic and temporal tech trees and are artisans.

I've been using a variation of these guys since SE3, but I'm still working on a name for them and I tweak the starting settings often enough that I don't even have an .emp file for myself.

------------------
Compete in the Space Empires IV World Championship at www.twingalaxies.com.
__________________
Compete in the Space Empires IV World Championship at www.twingalaxies.com.
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old January 24th, 2001, 09:20 PM

Emperor Zodd Emperor Zodd is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Syracuse,NY USA
Posts: 320
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Emperor Zodd is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

I wonder what Sigmund Freud would have to say about that Nyx?
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old January 24th, 2001, 09:28 PM
Tampa_Gamer's Avatar

Tampa_Gamer Tampa_Gamer is offline
Captain
 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Posts: 862
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Tampa_Gamer is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

Nyx - I like and use the Pyrochette ship set as well. Did you ever fix some of the "fuzzies" on ships. I fixed a few of them, but was hoping the author would post an update.
__________________
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
-General George S. Patton
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old January 25th, 2001, 02:09 AM

Elwood Bluze Elwood Bluze is offline
Private
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 36
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Elwood Bluze is on a distinguished road
Default Re: What\'s your favourite race?

I particularly like the ship set for the United Flora! What I'd like to know is more info on the Sergetti and Mephisto mods before I try them out. Do they mod the AI? Will they attack more and with better strategy?
__________________
I'm back from the Big House, singin' Da Bluze!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:34 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.