Hi everybody, I just joined as you can see, anyways I was looking for the original as abandonware and found you guys instead a week or two ago.
That's how most of us found it, I assume
I was wondering if anyone (and who) was still working on improving the game, or if the modders have been drifting off to other projects.
We're still quite active around here. I am currently hosting the Parallel Universe Mod, a mod aiming to include new features to the game or bring back features which have been taken out for the sake of balance. We implement new ships, items, campaigns, rebalance, etc. The core of the team consists of Melonhead, Zool and me. Follow the link in my signature to download the mod (if you use Windows, you only need PU1.1b6-DSE; unzip it into your installation folder and run setup.bat afterwards).
Remake base scenes in new rendered graphics
We have no active artworker on board, I'd appreciate that enormously!!!
Finish cockpits (I noticed some cockpits are old school graphics still), I think the Drayman could have a bridge type scene like some super-tanker.
Though I personally don't care too much for cockpits, there have been many requests in the past - I've found a cockpit for capships and will release it with the next update, but nevertheless, a bridge-like cockpit would fit the concept better.
The graphics for that santuary moon on RF (why is it some random photo scene?)
The random photo is a generic pic for unassigned bases - indeed, it could use some more beauty. If you like to take care of that, feel free to put in what you like - note that it is most likely light-populated and shouldn't contain entries to cooperate institutions like guilds or dealers - just a retro planet.
Make the Pirate bases in-flight look a little more distinct from mining bases (maybe just a new texture).
I'm looking forward for your propositions.
Is there a limit to the size of posts here?
I don't know... if there is, I never busted it, and I often post large bunches. Note that attachments need to be below 1meg and not all extensions are allowed.
You should not be able to get a Paradigm or Kamekh ever
Of course not, but wouldn't you like to own a tank instead of a mazda
? Seriously, you'll find a lot of canonity discrepancies in the game and even more in PU - nevertheless, if you are looking for more story realism for the cost of features, Gemini Gold will be a better choice for you (please don't take this as a try to get rid of you
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Drayman schematic has has icons for 4 turrets on the schematic, yet the Drayman cannot be upgraded likewise (this should be a pilotable ship as it's a merchant ship primarily, turrets should be restricted to light-medium weapons only though)
Yes, the turret icons are a remnant of the original game (which also didn't have those turrets btw). The Drayman is buyable, you most likely missed it after finishing the mission at Oxford.
Just a thought, if the Stiletto/Broadsword/Gladius are still going to be available in PR 1.3, make them milspec only choices for the player (like the country letting someone buy surplus arms, but not letting them get a souped up mega-fighter version) so it's love it or leave it.
PR1.3 will most likely not become truth. Work on PR has stopped, we're just modding PR1.2 for it offers more flexibility than Gemini Gold. However, it would be no problem to take out buyable ships or at least give a reasonable campaign-explanation why the player gets access to them... in my new campaign, I often let the player help certain high-ranking engineers or officer who thank him in form of an "access-card" to new ships.
Tone down the Demon for god's sakes! (Oxford 3 & Palan 3 were horribly hard) Once I bought mine I beat RF in 1 day, never used another ship since!
The Demon is actually the best ship before RF starts. Afterwards, shield stats for the Centurion increase. We had millions of discussions about the Demon, most people insist on keeping the ship as is. The next patch will increase other ships with the start of RF - creating a better balance to the Demon.
I noticed in the files everything has sector/system, I'm assuming this is used to generate random encounters and whatnot. Anyways, would it be possible to make it sector/quadrant/system? Say for example to make it less likely you'll encounter Kilrathi in Humboldt quad, but more likely in Clarke. I seem to be able to encounter everything everywhere at about the same rate in this game and I just don't find it that realistic to be encountering dralthis 6 or 7 jumps into Confed space without there being a good reason (i.e. part of the plot of a campaign and as a special encounter).
Good point. To explain: Every faction has spawning points where ships are generated. You might have noticed when you first launched, Troy was empty. You most likely encountered militia ship next, that is because they have a spawning point in Pyrenees. However, every ship has a range of 7 jumps - that's why you meet everyone everywhere. But at least non-mission-ships are likely to stay in their area - at least I never encountered a cat ship in Pentonville. We could reduce the jump range for cat ships though, but ships like talons are used by various factions and just need to be spread everywhere.
Trading: I thought the trade system also needed some working on, mainly the fact that you got guys in cargo ships trying to blow past platoons of retros and pirates to make a few credits per ton of cargo? It should be little more profitable than it is now.
Melonhead is currently reworking the trade system so that "standard" trading will be more profitable.
Concerning Targ Collective's upgrade, I'd propose to check out Parallel Universe first.
