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

[Aezeal]

hmmm the idea is nice.. balancing it might not be so nice though..
graphs seem pretty easy.. just a lot of pixels in a greyish color

Pirians will probably be a better bet to start on a fire-ish nation could fit better for now (the niche isn't filled yet)

I myself have (aside from Machaka) still that Jedi idea in my head.

Sacred padawan recruits,
Jedi knight leaders (sacred)
Jedi master summons (sacred)
Jedi Supreme master summons (sacred)
Droid troopers (NNE and inanimate)
Droideka trooper (NNE and inanimate)
Stormtroopers
Bountyhunter as scout/assassin (weakish assassin for dom3K though)

X-wing medium starfigher (recruit)
A-wing weak starfighter as 2nd form for stormtroopers)
B-wing strong starfighter or bomber (summon)
Y-wing Bomber (summon)
Vulture droid fighter (summons?)

Jedi's in space would be in A-wings too but would remain sacred and the leaders able to buff.
Summonable Jedi's in stronger ships (might not be that usefull)

All jedi will be H1/N1 (or S1 but that give vulnerability for duels etc)
the Jedi power spells will be either H1/N1 (holy spell which you start with) or N1/H1 (which will be somewhere researchable.

next to that I'd need some sort of real magician (I'm thinking doing it ulmish style so engineers) I'm thinking EDNF as paths

If I put Sith in (summons maybe) that would work as Jedi's but with H/D.. which probably won't add much to the nation.

sprites are the problem as usual.. I'd like to test work on those force powers


Ow In 0.8 there will be added
- Shiar
- Neoclidia

- an ulmish turret (sprite + att sprite) + (spaceform sprite + att sprite) as summon

and did some spriting ** WARNING polished is somewhat subjective ****

- New sprites for Orc spacecraft (+ attspr)
- new sprites for Ulm cap and dreadnaught (both HUGE) + Att
- att sprite for kraken and ancient kraken (different solutions)
- polished the ulmish transport sprite, pirate sprite, ulmish fighter sprite
- polished wyrmling sprite & bonebiter sprite
- att sprite for ghostdragon
- att sprite for tank and orc tank (with nice backwards movement on blast)

Changed some of the many typo's which I accidentaly saw... didn't check it that much though

removed Amos line about death scales from the insects.

[Aezeal]

ow the orc shooter in space sprite now has the same attack stuff in an attack sprite as the one not in space (I'm pretty proud on that blood and the nozzle, hoped you all liked is as much as me )

Made an attack sprite for the orc brute too.

[Aezeal]

Orc chopper and orcchopper space now have att sprites

and the rager and rager space also (and a different, more raging solution for it for them.)

[Aezeal]

Due to lack of sprites (as usual) I had to drop the jedi nation idea, I found a lot of good sprites but humans where 50 pix large which is just to much.

Anyway I couldn't stop my self from getting a Jedi
I've made just one, an all in one Jedi-knight
I think I'll make him a summon too btw

he's the master of self buffs, but not a real good mage, all spells I wanted to make jedi spells he can cast
A1 for airshield (jedi deflect), aim (jedi force correction of the bullets or just the focus you have (think luke's shooting etc), or if you want to go darkside (this is a side effect and not intended as such) resist lightning and chargebody.
S1 for Twistfate, personal luck and Body ethereal (all something like jedi's not being hit easily)
W1 for quicken self and of course the most thematic jedi power of summon water elemental

Ow and lets not forget selfblessing for all blessings you deem him worthy of.

#newmonster 2731
#name "Jedi Knight"
#forestsurvival #spr1 "./dominions 3000/2731_Jedi_Knight_1.tga"
#spr2 "./dominions 3000/2731_Jedi_Knight_2.tga"
#descr "Jedi's are the keepers of peace in the galaxy, they are masters of the lightsabre."
#hp 15
#size 2
#prot 0
#mor 15
#mr 14
#enc 2
#str 12
#att 17
#def 17
#prec 14
#mapmove 2
#ap 16
#weapon 757
#armor 349
#magicskill 1 1
#magicskill 8 1
#magicskill 4 1
#magicskill 2 1
#holy
#maxage 150
#goodleader
#gcost 175
#rcost 5
#forestshape 2732
#end

#newmonster 2732
#name "Jedi Knight"
#forestsurvival #spr1 "./dominions 3000/2732_Jedi_Knight_1.tga"
#spr2 "./dominions 3000/2732_Jedi_Knight_2.tga"
#descr "Jedi's are the keepers of peace in the galaxy, they are masters of the lightsabre."
#hp 20
#size 4
#prot 16
#mor 15
#mr 14
#enc 2
#str 12
#att 17
#def 17
#prec 14
#mapmove 2
#ap 16
#weapon 717
#weapon 717
#weapon 719
#weapon 719
#inanimate
#magicskill 1 1
#magicskill 8 1
#magicskill 6 1
#holy
#flying
#maxage 150
#goodleader
#gcost 175
#rcost 5
#plainshape 2731
#end

[Aezeal]

#newspell
#name "Contact Jedi Counsil"
#descr "You contact the Jedi Counsil and beg them for help on your noble cause the bring peace and stability to the galaxy. A Jedi Knight is send to do your bidding. May the Force be with you."
#school 0
#researchlevel 5
#path 0 4
#pathlevel 0 3
#effect 10021
#fatiguecost 500
#damage 2731
#nreff 1
#end

economical as I am with sprites I've naturally not wasted the X-wing sprite on just that rare jedi. I've made it a summon for all nations relatively high on the research tree so ulm gets their own summons first.

[llamabeast]

counsil -> council
is send to do your bidding -> is sent to do your bidding

Hello!

[Aezeal]

screw the english language

[Darkwind]

So, Aezeal, how's merging Neoclidia and Shiar in going? You haven't posted in the thread for a while, and usually you're a rather prolific poster, so something must be up.

[Aezeal]

Well I do have a 4 weeks old son now and nightshifts this week that might have something to do with ti

Well merging the nations was about 1 min work since it was just copy pasting .
I've asked Rdonj which sprites bothered him most and changed that as I posted about and entered that jedi knight, Xwing and ulmish turret.. thought I was doing quite a lot really

I'm mainly waiting till the neew patch comes out and Rdonj finishes his map so we can present it all at once but I guess I could releast 0.8 already

Are there any other sprites you think need to be changed btw then I can look into that.

[rdonj]

The map is DONE. I just spent ~3 hours finishing it up. Don't ask me how it took that long, I have no idea :/ I will definitely look into using the rand program if I ever have to do something like that again, there is so much work involved in placing independants on a map that large. I tried to make sure there were no bugs, and just gave the .map document a final once over to try and catch any copy/paste errors I might have let creep in there... and there were a fair number of them. I think they are all gone now but it is still possible there are some bugs with the map. Anyway, I am sending the finished document to your email now Aezeal.

Anyone who guesses all the references right gets a prize. What prize I'm not sure. Perhaps making the next Dom3k map...