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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #960 on: June 09, 2012, 04:19:54 AM »

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Green+purple looks so much more badass than orange+teal.

I'd ask to change the color theme of the entire faction to that, but I know that'd be a *** ton of work...
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #961 on: June 09, 2012, 04:20:54 AM »

I could still do it if i was given the graphics of each ship, its just changing the hue :D
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #962 on: June 09, 2012, 04:22:03 AM »

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Someone call for a heavy capital ship? :P
Calamar Heavy Capital:
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.....Green+purple looks so much more badass than orange+teal....
My thoughts exactly, It's more diverse of a colour scheme, as far as i have found that is
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #963 on: June 09, 2012, 05:17:05 AM »

Okay, Upgrade, I need a status report as to what needs developing for the next mission. Today people we need to make some more progress, I fear we are falling behind :/. I'll start cranking out ship sprites, If someone could add more details where needed that'd be great, We need some more weapons too and i want the space monster done :D. Let's get to work
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #964 on: June 09, 2012, 05:32:09 AM »

Yeah. I got NikolaiLev to do a review for us (through pm :D), and according to it, we have to bring up the netfhammer and hit our weapons with it. :)
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #965 on: June 09, 2012, 05:50:42 AM »

...bring up the netfhammer and hit our weapons with it. :)
Hmmm?
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #966 on: June 09, 2012, 05:52:19 AM »

Just lemme post his review here :)


Well, I've looked at the mod and fiddled with the weapons and ships for a half an hour or so.  So, first impressions.

From what I've seen, the ships look mostly fine.  But the weapons are absolutely batshit insane.  I don't know where to start, these things are ridiculous.  I could go on for hours, but from what I've seen the only ones that are fine at all are the heavy ballistic ones, which I didn't test very much.  The strike chaingun is ridiculous, the metal storm is bonkers, the other weapons are far too efficient... the Thunder MIRVs are just all around Too Good, even though it's an appealing concept.

By the way, have you tried making use of keptin's Balance Suite thing?  It's certainly done a great deal of good for Uomoz's mod, but I'm not sure it has a function for weapons (though it ought to.)

I was also disappointed at the lack of campaign integration, as I'm far more interested in campaign stuff than missions (since it's your own fleet that you build up and have experiences with.)

The ships are kinda uninteresting to me, but that's just me.  I like the Warhawk ones though.

Sorry that my feedback isn't as shimmering as it was with other mods.  I'd like you to keep in mind that this mostly comes up to personal taste (except for the weapon balances.)  Comprehensive balance feedback is much easier to do in the context of a campaign as well, since you're making choices on what to put in your fleet, and so it's much more natural to pick apart what's good at what and how.  I'll be playing around with the mod more, and I'll give a more thorough analysis on the ships and experiences in the missions.


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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #967 on: June 09, 2012, 06:01:02 AM »

I don't really think we should change the colour scheme of the sidus dim since they're a corp and technically the bad guys so green and orange fits better than blue and green.
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #968 on: June 09, 2012, 06:02:24 AM »

I don't really think we should change the colour scheme of the sidus dim since they're a corp and technically the bad guys so green and orange fits better than blue and green.

I fully agree!

So, what do you think of the review? A lot to learn from it? :)
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #969 on: June 09, 2012, 06:17:52 AM »

I guess the weapons could get some nerfs. And also I think we should create a small demo of it in campaign as long as it doesn't take up too much time.
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #970 on: June 09, 2012, 06:20:57 AM »

I guess the weapons could get some nerfs. And also I think we should create a small demo of it in campaign as long as it doesn't take up too much time.

I guess we could always create the first little system (the CAELUS system?).

But i'll need another coder and scripter to cover me here. Anyone up for the task? :D
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #971 on: June 09, 2012, 06:23:57 AM »

If I get teached I could maybe help, I somewhat know how to add planets.
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #972 on: June 09, 2012, 06:28:09 AM »

I think all of this conversation should belong in the submissions place.  this thread is really for the rest of the community to say what they think of the mod, right?
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #973 on: June 09, 2012, 06:37:30 AM »

I think all of this conversation should belong in the submissions place.  this thread is really for the rest of the community to say what they think of the mod, right?

Yeah, i agree. :)
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Re: Project CAELUS ,the biggest project starfarer will ever see. (DEMO 3)
« Reply #974 on: June 09, 2012, 07:16:38 AM »

Should we make a campaign demo now so that people may get an taste for what's coming? :D

EDIT: If we are, i'll need a second scripter with me, so that i'm not forever alone ;D
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