Mod New Nation-\

HoneyBadger · #1 August 18th, 2007, 09:23 AM

Based on August Derleth's "Fthaggua", Lovecraftian fire-vampires, combined with Richard Sharpe Shaver's "Dero"-subterranean humanoids, and influenced by the Phantasm movies, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos concepts, and a whole lot of other things.

All original graphics-I'm not saying they're great, but I guarantee original. I didn't play around with shadows or transparencies much, so they're missing, as of now.

Late-age nation

Plenty of national summons, equivalent to Lanka, Mictlan.

A 1 (one) Pretender nation. F'Thaqqua is meant to be played, thematically and for balance-purposes, with only the "Great Death" Chassis.

Heroes-4 unique, 1 multi, and I plan to add more.

Low to very low magic.

Lots of immortal, etherial, life-drainer summons.

National troops are generally old/have short lifespans, have low hit-points, are all capable of going berserk, and all are expensive. They're all sacred too, most are size 1, and I'm going to be adding darkvision and stealth. Some will have insanity too, when I figure out how to add it.

Very little leadership, across the board.

Very low starting gems-1 astral-but there's a national summon that produces them.

I've played it in SP enough to get something of a handle on it, and it's not terribly easy to exploit the best aspects of the nation, but I won't claim it's very balanced, either.
I'm going to work hard on getting the balancing right though, especially the National Summons.

I mostly made it to get a handle on the overall process of creating a mod-thanks go to everyone here for providing an excellent enviroment to research how to do that, and what mistakes to avoid.

Starshine_Monarch · #2 August 19th, 2007, 08:05 AM

Okay...Where is it?

Sombre · #3 August 19th, 2007, 09:21 AM

He said he'll upload it today or tomorrow - which in modspeak could mean any time this month.

HoneyBadger · #4 August 19th, 2007, 12:46 PM

Yeah, it's taking me longer than I thought it would, due to my computer breaking down and needing to do a few last minute fixes, but I'll have it up as soon as possible.

Shovah32 · #5 August 20th, 2007, 03:01 PM

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Sombre said:
He said he'll upload it today or tomorrow - which in modspeak could mean any time this month.

Sounds like this prophecy is coming true

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HoneyBadger · #6 August 20th, 2007, 05:42 PM

Yeah yeah, I don't want to hear it

I could upload it sooner, but there's some minor things I want to fix before I do, I've decided. So, you'll have to wait a bit, but the end product will benefit from it.

Valandil · #7 August 22nd, 2007, 02:22 AM

Erm. Does it have strengths?

Juzza · #8 August 22nd, 2007, 02:33 AM

come oon!! post it!! pwease? I don't care if it's not finnish just release another few updates later!!

HoneyBadger · #9 August 22nd, 2007, 01:22 PM

Erm...strength of character?

I will post it soon, I have the next 3 days off.

Valandil · #10 August 22nd, 2007, 03:10 PM

Actually, that's sufficient strength for me. Can't wait.