Space Empires IV Game... of Doom! (Adamant Mod)

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-06-03 11:11pm

That would create an interesting situation, to say the least. After all, he'd have to split the homeworlds, otherwise there would be little point to bothering with that and not just surrendering to one person.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-04 02:28pm

Or you could get someone to replace him.

U235 isn't playing. I dunno whether it was because Adamant didn't interest him or because he was afraid 3 games would be too much, but since the games are going at a snail's pace now who knows he might be interested.

MkSheppard also might want to play. He has enough time to post hours and hours worth of military trivia so he might be interested lol

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Is Covenant playing?

Brian

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-06-04 04:52pm

Yes, but let's not take too long deliberating this. Games get discontinued this way. Happens all the time. Best for the exiting player to just make a decision and do it.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-04 05:32pm

Neph could just kick Booyah right now since he said he's leaving. With turn timer there's no reason why the game should just "die" heh heh, the AI could run even if we spend a month finding a replacement. Well the empire would be trashed by then but oh well, AI taking turns shouldn't be as devastating in Adamant.

Before I stopped playing I noticed all the games were set to ALPU. I think they could go back to 48 hours. Of course my opinion matters little since I'm not playing, at least not for a week more

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Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-06-04 05:33pm

Someone, whoever's the most forceful, decide for me now. I could talk Covenant into joining probably, he missed Adamant's opening by like 3 days.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-04 05:36pm

Nephtys wrote:Someone, whoever's the most forceful, decide for me now. I could talk Covenant into joining probably, he missed Adamant's opening by like 3 days.

Ok.

Just do it

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You're doing booyah a favor since if he can't play a 15 minute SE:IV turn he doesn't have time to log onto SD.net that often.

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-06-04 05:42pm

Kicked. Shall I run the turn now, or ask Shep/Covie/Jesus to take over?

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-04 05:44pm

Nephtys wrote:Kicked. Shall I run the turn now, or ask Shep/Covie/Jesus to take over?

Lol you know what you want to do. Go for it.

Godesses of the Underworld don't ask their minions for opinions often. Something strange is going on... ok what did you do with the real Nephtys

Anyway if you're indecisive because you really really want to see the the next turn but you really don't want to roll back... it's one of the perks of being game boss you can execute it anyway just for yourself and keep everybody waiting...

Brian

Nova Andromeda · Post by **Nova Andromeda** » 2006-06-04 06:02pm

--I prefer that we let the AI (or Nephyts) preserve the empire (until/unless we can find a replacement player). However, we really souldn't let the game updates lag. Arthur's right; games die that way.

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2006-06-06 03:20am

You all lose, I am now in control.

Just be glad you're not facing my Vree or Zerg, with my custom, home-made Vree and Zerg shipsets.

The new Vree set

I am very proud of my faithful Vree adaptations! Mostly faithful.

Their ground units had sooo many possibilities. So cute! ^_^

Don't even try to take out my planetary defense guns. They've got reinforced with concrete. And sandbags. Bitch.

Zerg in play

A zerg Corvette!

Was experimenting with some Slylandro probes for an energy nomad race.

Anyway, this'll do for now. I'm still trying to install all the right shipsets. Gonna do my best to whip this Empire into fighting shape! Feel free to PM me and update me on the current diplomatic situations between our dudes. I'm not a fan of this whole "open borders" colonization thing, but I'm not going to just start firing at allies.

But next time, you're gettin' Zerged. Kekeke!

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-06 09:36am

I'm not a fan of this whole "open borders" colonization thing, but I'm not going to just start firing at allies.

Speak for yourself... or your er empire, I've shot up Dalton's colonizers, nearly went to war with Tux, tried to rush Nephtys. It's in the north where everything's hazy but even then... I have pretty clearly defined borders

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The reason why nobody's going to serious war is 'cause of trade and research alliances, not really because of diplomacy... if I could declare war and win I would haha, it's not B5

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You all lose, I am now in control.

We will see. Whether I get my computer back tomorrow heh heh.

Brian

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-06-06 09:50am

Covenant wrote:Feel free to PM me and update me on the current diplomatic situations between our dudes.

The Reiji are a vassal state of General Zod, since the Great Kneeling of Turn 12.

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2006-06-06 03:09pm

brianeyci wrote: We will see. Whether I get my computer back tomorrow heh heh.

Brian

Your forces are weak, old man. The Reji will could never even concieve of a defeat to the likes of a man like you. The fact that you're a compuplegic for the past week or so is just adding insult to injury, I assure you.

Nobody commented on my great shipsets though! Fully custom! Brand new! C'mon, they sure roxor that Atrocity guy's soxors.

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-06-06 06:22pm

Are you that new race that popped up with the same shipset as Nova?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-06-06 08:28pm

No, that's Tux I think.

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-06-06 09:45pm

Why's it got the same shipset? Am I missing one?

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2006-06-06 09:48pm

I'm having some issues installing my shipsets as well. I'll give 'em another look. 'tis always a problem when people don't use funky shipsets---you run the risk of seeing the same one twice!

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-06-06 11:32pm

Yes. It's something I didn't even think of when I decided to use a base shipset. Good thing I don't use the main map as much as the ship selection menu, or I'd get my ships confused with his!

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-07 09:16am

Covenant wrote:Your forces are weak, old man. The Reji will could never even concieve of a defeat to the likes of a man like you. The fact that you're a compuplegic for the past week or so is just adding insult to injury, I assure you.

Know your enemy and know yourself. And I know you and that you have at most six to eight move heavy frigates. Shoot your pollen and stingers and keep making those ships of tree bark and leaves and see if you can get through my shields, armor and good old fashioned thermonuclear warheads

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Nobody commented on my great shipsets though! Fully custom! Brand new! C'mon, they sure roxor that Atrocity guy's soxors.

Your shipsets are really good. Maybe later we could start a Starcraft themed Adamant game. Or other themes.

For a very long time I've wanted to start with ten homeworlds. The next game will definitely be ten homeworlds, yes.

What we really need to do is figure out how to make maps.

Brian

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-23 11:26pm

Tobor please do your turn the turn timer's a day overdue.

Four day turns is too slow. We'll be playing for a year especially since Adamant homeworlds are invincible motherfuckers. If everybody could please do their turns in general in two days and on occassion every three days if things get busy, that would be great.

If I may make a suggestion. Please turn the turn timer to automatic, so if anybody, even I, takes longer than seventy two hours then too bad. Or the game will last a year and we'll only finish 90 turns. Star Trek took around 100 turns, people surrendered and it's a way faster game than Adamant.

The game has been going way too slow on ALPU.

Brian

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-23 11:42pm

Ah shit, making it go on automatic made Tobor miss his turn...

...hopefully we don't have to roll back.

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-06-28 10:58pm

How odd. I'm running sims vs your ships and... after each hit, it's HULL regenerates damage, instead of taking it?! That's so weird! I'm doing let's say, 20 damage to the shields, which takes it to zero.. suddenly, the HULL takes -16 damage, regenerating a broken system!

That's... em. What is that?

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-06-29 12:45am

That's how I'm gonna survive even though I have half your resources and a quarter of your research

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Hm. Well. What I can say is that if you play enough stock PBW games, two traits show up often, crystalline and religious. Crystal's a bitch to beat but it's possible. That's all I can say without giving a lot away. The information's out there.

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Actually forget it. It seems cheap for me to use a powerful game mechanism and not explain how it works if someone asks.

SE:IV FAQ wrote: 1.1.2.1.1.1: Crystalline Armor: Crystalline armor requires an operational shield generator on the ship in order to work. Every hit that does non-armor-skipping damage to the hull will cause the shields to be recharged! Only hull damage counts towards this recharge, up to a maximum of the total crystalline armor ability points on your ship. The end result is a damaged ship, with extra shields to protect against the next attack. (Suicide Junkie)
1.1.2.1.1.2: Effect vs. damage amount. If the total CA ability amount is roughly equal to or greater than HALF the damage of a single weapon hit, then the Crystalline Effect will reduce damage by 50%. If the total CA ability amount is less than half the damage from a single weapon impact, then it will act very similar to Emissive Armor, and reduce damage by its ability amount. If the CA ability is greater than the weapon damage, AND the weapon damage is less than half the hitpoints of a CA component, the damage will be completely negated. (Suicide Junkie)

Bolte knew this last game and if he hadn't quit... the Ferengi would've been crushed when he had around 30 warships massed on my eastern border before I sent a warp point closer sealing it off.

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Wow, I destroyed everything... I wrote all of the above before I had a chance to look at the turn, sorry for my arrogance! If I knew I stomped you I would've explained it right away. I thought the battle was still stalemated, but I guess my uh guess that my missiles were running outta fuel from far away was right.

Brian

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-07-02 07:27am

After an entire day's worth of toil and countless mouse clicks, the Somtaaw armada is ready to defeat the Beast Invasion

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Some pictures like research station I didn't put in the collage, they're in the files though.

I had to take some creative liberties since there weren't enough classes of ships. Besides, if I wanted it exact I would've just cut and paste the ships from screenshots or the game. It was fun making 'em, you can get it here. For now they're all called "Addisian" since that's the shipset I started out with and I can't change that until the game's over, but when it's done I'm gonna change it to Somtaaw and upload it somewhere.

If you know of or use DOGA, my data's here for you to play with. Have fun heh heh.

Thanks to Nephtys for all the help.

If there are any problems with the shipset, let me know... I haven't tested it thoroughly yet and I might have missed a few pictures.

Before you install please delete the old "Addisian" directory or rename it if you really want to keep it. When you install... install to the seiv/Adamant 15.00/Pictures/Races/ directory.

If you are thinking of doing this and thinking it's too hard... well, mine are not as good as Covenant obviously but before today er yesterday lol (damn stayed up all night) I had no idea how to do this. But it is tedious especially the renaming. I could probably make a shitty shipset a day now if I had the free time. It's really easy but it does take between 10-15 hours.

<edit>Hm found one mistake already, "juggernaut" should be "baseship". I'll fix it and everything else the next big update. Also I'm not sure if I like this brown racial color. It reminds me of well, shit. I might change it to a colorful red or green.

The cruiser doesn't look enough like a Deacon at all. And I might want to change the colony ships and transports to reflect actual homeworld ships. And the proportions for the mini sizes are off. But it's okay I'll fix it all next time around heh heh.
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<edit>Hm don't know what I was thinking making them brown, it blows compared to this :

Anyway it'll be awhile until I update... the last one took me three hours putting together all the files bleh.
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What the hell does a Kushan look like? Does anybody have homeworld cataclysm installed who can take screenshots of the cut scenes? Don't seem to remember.

Brian

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-07-02 02:03pm

Hm now I regret rushing the shit... take a look at this.

A proper Deacon destroyer, not the shit I made half-dead last night lol.

Damn, I might redo everything and trash a whole day's work lol... the brown color really looks like shit and the models don't have any detail on them... surprising what a good night's sleep can do for you lol.

Brian