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The Preferred format for these images is BMP. Race picture is 300 X 200 or larger. Other Pictures are 160 X 120 in size, 256 or more colors. 3 views of each ship: Top, Side and on an Angle. Backgrounds must be black. 1 x-ray image of the top view of the ship. 1 View each of 3 fighters ( Black back ground ) 1 View each of 3 ground units ( The ground is the background ) The race midi is optional. None of the buildings require minerals to build them, only supplies.
Basic Plan
Well do this: get all the Art work done, write a short General race outline. And a rough outline of what powers and ships the race will have. After you have seen and play tested version 4 you can go back and revisit the race idea, adding new things deleting things that just will not work. The RacePack has Race version number, the race ID number, race name, stats, special powers. Leader BMP, symbol BMP, 3 fighters 3 ground units, short race history / background. MIDI and a list of ship hulls it can build. Races have only the race midi--all other sounds are generic. Tim will compile the racepacks, with the greatest concern being that somebody will create an unfairly powerful race.Race Pack Format
version As Long racenum As Long (FED = 101) nm1 As String * 44 ' Long Name nm2 As String * 20 ' Short name nm3 As String * 30 ' Leader name nmgov As String * 30 ' Governent Type FarmLow As Long ' low farm climate (0 to 99) Normal = 40 FarmHigh As Long ' high farm climate (1 to 100) Normal = 60 FavClimate As Long ' climate this race likes the best Normal = 50 PlanetStruct As Long ' structs that this race can build ' bit 0 ' bit 1 Government Center ' bit 2 Base Shield ' bit 4 Resort ' bit 5 Labor Mine ' bit 6 Labor Camp ' bit 7 Training center ' bit 8 Smugglers Cantina ModMoney As Long Normal = 100 ' Double = 200 ModMine As Long Normal = 100 ModHappy As Long Normal = 100 contraLikes(1 To 12) As Long 'Rating of how much a race likes a contraband item 0 to 100 combatCrew As Long 'Combat rating 1 to 100 combatColonist As Long combatTroop As Long combatHighGuard As Long pilotcrew As Long 'Fighter pilot skill 1 to 100 pilotTroop As Long pilotHighGuard As Long deltacolcrew As Long 'Rate that crew is trained from colonists to crew deltacrewtroop As Long deltatroophg As Long growthrate As Long 'Birth rate (1 to 100) forcedark As Long (0 to 100) forcegood As Long (0 to 100) pcfactor As Long Policial Correctness (0 to 100) spifactor As Long (0 to 100) psifactor As Long (0 to 100) leadership As Long (0 to 100) lifeform As Long 'bit flags ' bit 0 ' bit 1 Humanoid (ugly bags of mostly water) ' bit 2 Humanoid / Animal ' bit 3 Cyborg ' bit 4 Machine ' bit 5 Silicon based ' bit 6 Lizard / Humanoid ' bit 7 Transdimensional Energy Being ' bit 8 Lovecraftian ' bit 9 Living fire ' bit 10 Sentiel Plant ' bit 11 Consuming Darkness ' bit 12 Being of Light ' bit 13 Avian / Humanoid ' bit 14 Insectoid / Humanoid PR As Long 'Public relations 0 to 100 law As Long ' How lawful the race is 0 to 100 resortE As Long ' flag of what a resort does for race ??? cantinaE As Long ' flag of what a cantina does for the race ??? shipB(1 To 40) As Integer ' the ship hulls that can be built (The race's ship list) PodSpeed As Long ' How fast a cargo pod can travel under boost (10 to 100) End of current formatshort Map Legend
- maximum pod speeds About 100 - can build smugglers cantina? resorts? A long that acts as a bit flag - can use prisoners? labour camps? labour mines? A long that acts as a bit flag (1 is yes?) - attitude towards every native races? PR and PC and LAW effect that in general (insectoids like Robots. Does my race like them too?) That is a veriable flag that I set - attitude against every other race? (Does my race really like the Draconians?) PR - spying factors for my race against every other race. (chance for succes) SPI and the FORCEs - same for smuggling Law and Forces and ship design (Stealth factor in ships) - what should be the influence of High Guards on several topics? Greatly improved law and order, increased combat skills - modifiers for ships and fighters, as you call it engine modifiers, weapon-modifiers, impact of weaponry on ship parts, fighter range, fighter speed, -... etc. etc. etc. !!! Deadline for new race-packs: WAS July 1998 !!! Work is still going on and new races are being designed even though this date has passed. Race programmers cannot finish their races until the game itself is finalized, thus there is an unwriten extension.Details
more than 1 race can own a planet. 26 different buildings. There are limits on some things to one, like the Government center, because you only need one any more would be a waste. The limit on farms is linked to climate. Things like factories and mines have very high limits 10,000 or so. It is not linked to population or climate, only money. There used to be 30, but lobbying by Timo of the race author's list convinced Tim to cut 4 buildings. Race authors are now permitted to create up to 4 unique buildings for their races. 3 units with race specific functions. These can be combat units or something widely different. Some structures use resources every turn and others, like farms generate resources each turn. food, medical stuff, and good old: supplies, minerals and money. You can always ship in MedUnits from other planets with a MedLab. You will start the game with a large supply of Med Units. no native-government-type No tax system. natives can be moved and are using their own ships Planets have weapons dumps and part storage. 5..40 ship hulls for each race. ( 5 to 20 is a good range.) Hulls have damage modifiers with a normal setting of 100. If set to 50, weapons would do only half as much damage to these parts. Modifiers are for: modparts (part modifier) modsys (system modifier) modeng (engine modifier) modlife (Life support modifier) modhyp (Hyperdrive modifier) 3 types of fighters, Each defined by: > beam (1-100 indicating strength, number and type) > missile (1-100 indicating strength, number and type) > odds beam > odds missile > Max Range the fight can flay alone > Armor from 0 to 10 > Evasive Mod 0 to 100 (100 is best- 1 is cheap junk) > Attack Mod 0 to 100 (100 is best- 1 is cheap junk) > cost > range missile > range beam > Max speed (1-200 with 200 top) > Generator ( 1-40 Power generated per second ) > Batteries ( 1-500 Power stored in the fighters batteries) --Power is used to fire weapons. > Ground attack mods: Against ground units: (1-100) Against Ground troops: (1-100) Against Cities: (1-100) Against air defenses: (1-100) > Defense ( Ratings of NOT being shot down ) Against Air Defenses: (1-100) (Anti-Aircraft guns) Against Troops: (1-100) Against ground units: (1-100) Race-dependant assault units do cost money, but do not use mineral resources. The max is 10,000 units each. You can control which ones will be built. There are 3 fighter types and 3 ground units for each race to pick from. The Fighter plants and Assault plants don't use minerals to produce fighters and assault crafts. They require MC only. ships can have - up to 5 aux generators for additional power. - up to 20 engines Valid max ship speeds are: 13 15 20 40 45 50 80 90 105 110 120 190 - beams - fighters Maximum 20 bays and 100 pads per bay. A fighter wing, can set a chain of 6 waypoints just like a ship. - torpedos - up to 10 point defenses - sand casters One of the Large Weapons now - up to 1 super weapon 5 Proto-Matter Bomb 4 Anti-Matter Maul 3 World Crusher Missile 2 Nemesis Torpedo 1 Super Laser To which race-specific properties can be added..... - 30 small weapons\ / this may include torps, bombs and beams,.. ALL small weapons are the same size. - 20 large weapons/ \ ..i do not have specific information See Tim's Page for more information. Large weapons come in different sizes. The mounts are: 30,40,50,60,150,700,800,2000 A ship with size 150 mounts, can use any weapon with a size of 30,40,50,60 or 150 LARGE weapons can only be used on larger ships and do a lot of damage in any single shot, however, they take a long time to recharge. - ALL races use the same weapons. - Super Weapons can have abilities based on race. - 20000 kt max cargo - 20000 max crewmen - shields. The shield limits are: (No data on what this measures) 30,40,80,210,350,400,900,1000,1500,3000 - Armor. Maximum armor is a number from 0-3000 - Moral penaltys possible after a flagship is lost in combat. Cargo Pods Yes, when a pod is launched to an X,Y in space or at another planet the pod will travel at that speed until it reaches its target. If no target is given the pod will just orbit the planet it was launched from waiting to be towed or loaded into a cargo bay. - The Pod pad builds them when you load and launch them. - They cost 25mc each to make. - You can make an unlimited number of them as long as you have the money. - They are there when you need them, if you have the money. - Top speed (1-100) specific to each race. - You can keep pods with weapons, engine parts on the planet surface. other new aspects: - time travel - prisoners - contrabands - space monsters - psi - High Guards - Nemisis Torpedo. Fired into the sun, it destroys small mass ships and fighters. - ship plan theft. The ability to steal plans is a special race ability. All ships carry one blueprint in the computer and capturing that ship will give you that set of blueprints. - Movement in ion storms. There is a device which allows ships to not cloak, but maintain full manouverability in ion storms. - You have the option of landing on an enemy planet and not destroying any enemy buildings, just some, or all. You can also add enemy buildings to your own. - There are a few things in the game that generate cash: farms and cities. Cities: - A City or an Undercity require 100000 colonists. - You can build the city without having the full number of colonists. - If you have less that 100% of the colonists in the city you will get only a % of the MC and they will use some of the supplies the city requires. - For a City you need to build a MedLab at 425 MC. - You will recieve some money from the colonists and natives even if you have no cities. time travel means: a ship or a base can vanish for some turns and reappear later. May be even on another place.
