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The Insectoid Spcitti

The Arachnid Zoidzorg

The Robotic Bendoid

The Elemental Whooshi

The Cybernetic Zneggi

[silentstormpt]

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<- urquan

i think i've found something here hummmm

[Sproginator]

<- vux
<- urquan

i think i've found something here hummmm

ALIENS

[Erick Doe]

Nice finds.

I'll introduce many alien races with distinct ship styles. The initial mod will have only 2 or 3 races. But the fun part is, I can keep on expanding the mod. Currently finishing up the Earthlings.

Earthlings are an odd species. I mean, they have two eyes and this weird thing they call a nose. Apparently this "nose" makes them put chemicals on their body to mask their musk. Weirdo's.

[Erick Doe]

The Earthlings are nearly done. I'll post all the species and their ship up in the OP.

Want to contribute? Help me think of some suitable names for weapons. Quirky is what we're looking for. Just have a look at some the species:

The Dualpod Earthlings (We walk on two legs, how exotic!)
Fires: Pows

The Insectoid Spcitti (Yum! Spaghetti!)
Fires: Squirts

The Arachnid Zoidzorg (Zoidberg anyone?)
Fires: Blobs

The Robotic Bendoid (Bender anyone?)
Fires: Kabooms

The Elemental Whooshi (Whoosh! Gone are your eyebrows... don't play with fire!)
Fires: Swooshes

The Cybernetic Zneggi (Cybernetic? Zneggi? Right! Think Terminators. Think Schwarzenegger.
Fires: Bangs

[Erick Doe]

Okay, my deliciously allied species. Here's our recordings on Earthling starships:

Starships:

Odin-class

The more advanced the starship, the larger it is. There are not but 6 types of starships. Instead the Earthlings follow three different research paths, resulting in 18 different starships.

Disgusting nose-breathers.

[Erick Doe]

Rare "Alien" spaceships will pass through space during the campaign, unaffiliated with any of the "normal" species. They are superior in every way. There is a small chance of capturing their vessels, giving you a boost. But also a powerful enemy.

[Erick Doe]

Now that crew numbers is a part of fighter wings, we have another interesting angle to work with in this mod.

The starships require a minimal number of crewmembers. But the ship can also accommodate extra crew, needed to man the ships that launch from the starship. A better starship might have more hangar space and more crewmembers, allowing it to maintaint a larger fleet.

Let's say a starship requires 100 crew to operate and has 200 crew maximum. This allows the starship to maintain a fleet at 100 crew maximum. It all comes down to personal preference in how you set up your defense fleet. Will you use lots of interceptors and corvettes? Or a handful of destroyers and cruisers? Or perhaps a combination of the two...

Choice is a central  spearpoint in this mod.

P.S.

I love listening to this

[silentstormpt]

Once i release the first version of the Star Control im working on (probably tomorrow) be sure to check out anything you need from there, also i left a folder with really low px based ships from the original Star Control 2 or 1.

Edit: The mod is released.

[WKOB]

So I was thinking about your mod at work and drew up some stuff in MSPaint. Turns out I made them too high-res.

Still, might you have any use for these? Do they need to made more chunky? Got any tips on an easy way to do that?

I did some variants, as well. I like the black with no outlines best.

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[Trylobot]

If you want the chunky, work at half the resolution you intend. Then as the last step, resize to target size using the Nearest Neighbor algorithm (no filtering blurriness).

[WKOB]

Yeah, tried using Nearest Neighbor, Pixelate filter and so on but they kind of screw up the shape of the ship. If Erick Doe wants them I may just redo them.

[Erick Doe]

I think they look very nice. You've certainly looked at the design of some of the ships.

But they don't fit the overall pixelated style of the mod. However, you could turn them into a mod of their own. The black/ purple ones would make an awesome faction of phasing ships.

On a side note, I've achieved the pixel look by actually using a block of four pixels to represent what normally would be one pixel. I hope that makes sense. 

[Muffins]

The Earthlings are nearly done. I'll post all the species and their ship up in the OP.

Want to contribute? Help me think of some suitable names for weapons. Quirky is what we're looking for. Just have a look at some the species:

The Dualpod Earthlings (We walk on two legs, how exotic!)
Fires: Pows

The Insectoid Spcitti (Yum! Spaghetti!)
Fires: Squirts

The Arachnid Zoidzorg (Zoidberg anyone?)
Fires: Blobs

The Robotic Bendoid (Bender anyone?)
Fires: Kabooms

The Elemental Whooshi (Whoosh! Gone are your eyebrows... don't play with fire!)
Fires: Swooshes

The Cybernetic Zneggi (Cybernetic? Zneggi? Right! Think Terminators. Think Schwarzenegger.
Fires: Bangs

Quirky names? do you mean ones that suit the species like Zoidzorg "Splurge-Blasters"? or Whooshi "Space-Sweeper"? Or just funny sounding names overall? Like.... i dunno Matter-Mashers?

EDIT:

Spicitti "Pasta-Blasta"

[Cypher]

necro!

[Erick Doe]

That's not going to speed up development though.