Is Anyone working on the default races? - Page 2

Markavian · #11 February 17th, 2001, 12:31 PM

Trying to make speech files for each of the original races in SE4 is plain insane. They take as much effort and time as the shipsets do IMO.

I'm really proud to have a personallised speech file for the UCE Fleets, when you're playing against them its kinda 'wow' - they are 'different', and it makes it much more fun.

My UCE speech files are also VERY personalied, in the sense that rather than using the %Empirename Expressions, I jsut wrote in 'The United Colours Empire' of just 'The UCE'. So if anyone trys to use them for any other fleet you'll get VERY strange Messages. . .

Sinapus · #12 February 18th, 2001, 12:43 AM

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Originally posted by Markavians:
Trying to make speech files for each of the original races in SE4 is plain insane. They take as much effort and time as the shipsets do IMO.

So leave it to fans of the game to do so on their free time and let Aaron focus on improving the game further.

I just wish I had some talent so I could implement some of the ideas I've posted.
I'm okay for minor modifications and tweaks here and there, but I don't think I'm able to make up entire races and such

Okay, the Bugs from Starfire would be easy as a speech file. Just a bunch of garbled text as the message since they appear to not have any form of speech that other races can comprehend.

The Martians from Mars Attacks! OTOH...

Markavian · #13 February 18th, 2001, 07:57 PM

I'm not so sure about random garbled message empires :-/

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Okay, the Bugs from Starfire would be easy as a speech file. Just a bunch of garbled text as the message since they appear to not have any form of speech that other races can comprehend.

I'm not convinced that it'd work, but I suppose someone would have to experiment first!

Nyx · #14 February 19th, 2001, 08:35 PM

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Nyx - well, I would need Xi'Chung (the bugz buzzing talk) and Norak (very dark-religious talk). I haven't decided on the others yet but will tell you as soon as I do.

Sounds fun, I'm on it!

BTW, The totally unintelligible would be really annoying to play against. However, a Version with a partly innacurate translator could be a whole lot of fun. Gets into that old Monty Python skit about the tourist with the deliberately miswritten phrase book.

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