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Sunfire

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Thrust into SPACE!!!
« on: September 07, 2012, 08:11:39 PM »

OK, so I was chilling, watching some anime, when suddenly I came up with an interesting idea for a mod, what if we make a mod where Earth is thrust into the universe in a time slightly in the future. We would have four different types of ships, Chinese, Russian, American, and European, however, all of these ships would be part of a single faction. Then we would create a few other factions, say a couple of alien factions and another human like faction, and let the fun begin, would anyone be willing to help me out here? I can't code and can only kit-bash, but I can churn out ideas and descriptions like crazy. So if I had a team with the skills I do not have, we could make this mod, or another one easily. PM me if you want to help, or post, also opinions?
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 08:29:29 PM »

Seems like a good idea to me! I would love to help you with this, but I have no modding experience and wouldn't know how to actually do anything to help you. I will keep an eye on this though!
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2012, 08:46:38 PM »

not to say this isn't a good idea but....

If you're trying to be the one to come up with the ideas, it's probably a good idea to know more than just kitbashing...

let's face it, thinking up ideas/descriptions is the easy part and kitbashing is one of the more common skills out here...

again, it's not that it's not a good idea, just that you should probably learn some more modding so you can at least do the majority of it...

that said, good luck with that. My genuine blessings to you
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2012, 10:42:34 PM »

You do realize This in effect this is the exact same as the ironclads mod.. right?
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2012, 11:38:25 PM »

You do realize This in effect this is the exact same as the ironclads mod.. right?

This
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2012, 12:53:16 AM »

You do realize This in effect this is the exact same as the ironclads mod.. right?

This

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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2012, 12:55:16 AM »

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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2012, 03:42:29 AM »

Enough of that.
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2012, 04:59:40 AM »

One thing I'd really like to make is a realistic space warfare mod, set around earth (with moon various stations and that's pretty much it), in the near future, like 2200. No lazors and shields ofc :D
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2012, 05:53:47 AM »

You do realize This in effect this is the exact same as the ironclads mod.. right?

Ok, maybe I was not clear, earth will be ONE faction, with realistic ships, like Uomoz was talking about, however, the aliens will have only a few ships, and the price differences and strength of the ships will be much stronger than the Earths ships. I was thinking that the aliens would have shields, be more manuverable, but have high flux weapons, and at that only a few of them, also they would not have ballistic weapons, only a few types of missles, and energy weapons. On the other hand, the Earth would have mostly ballistic weapons, may a couple of enery weapons, and of course, plenty of missles. I am trying to gain the skills to make sprites, unfortunantly I am not very good, but as everyone knows, practice makes perfect!
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2012, 06:40:39 AM »

Yeah but my "Earth" ships would be similar to "current" ships (after all its very hard to send armor pieces and heavy stuff in space) :D
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2012, 05:16:11 PM »

Yeah but my "Earth" ships would be similar to "current" ships (after all its very hard to send armor pieces and heavy stuff in space) :D

I mean like shuttle/rockets/ISS's
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2012, 02:14:34 PM »

Yeah but my "Earth" ships would be similar to "current" ships (after all its very hard to send armor pieces and heavy stuff in space) :D

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/google-backed-asteroid-mining-venture-adds-billionaire-investors.html

if you guys want realism, than you just might not have to worry about earthlings sending armor pieces in space. by "2200", there might be full fledged space shipyards.
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Re: Thrust into SPACE!!!
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2012, 03:06:15 PM »

making me think of freelancer a bit
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