the ea, tauri, colonials, and the federation would all be allies with each other as they are all very similar altho being that the federation values are set much higher than anyone elses maybe the should be like +1 or neutral 0 with the ea, tauri, and colonials

i think the ancients could even be added into this alliance being as their values are pretty high as well and are kinda on the same level as the federation

the milky way asgard could even be in this alliance

well... the entity.manifest would have to include all the entries for all of the mods. The galaxy scenario def could be trimmed to almost nothing if your not overly concerned with maps or starting units.

The problem areas I see are with the shared files and hardcoding.

Shared files you will need to be concerned with:

Explosions.explosiondata

SoundDialogue.sounddata

SoundMusic.sounddata

Also of note: Sounds are limited to 2000 entries.

enum { MAX_SOUNDDATA = 2000 };
enum { MAX_SOUNDIDS_PER_TYPE = 6 };

* If only there was a sounddata.manifest....

Other hard codes that will need attention (i.e. may affect the # of "Add a mod" you can activate):

enum { MAX_NUM_MESHES = 400 };
enum { MAX_NUM_FILE_TEXTURES = 1000 };
enum { MAX_NUM_FILE_CUBE_TEXTURES = 10 };

enum { MAX_NUM_ICONS = 2000 };

Edit - The English.str will be particularly large as well

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@ ZombiesRus: Ya the sound is what has me thinking still. I figure a few human races can share sound effects and music will use the same names so just load different depending what add-on is highest. Textures not a problem unless some boob tries to load more than 10 races.

@ sparta: Great suggestions. keep em comin'.

Ya, I just did a test run of this with my mod and other than the debugger warnings it worked well enough. I only have a few shared assets in Races mod folder and all the other race specific in their own folder.

What I think would be funny is for you to do this, except maybe use the thumbnail pictures and get all the races on the player setup screen...

Way ahead of ya there but its a surprise 

@ sparda: sorry you were a page back so I was to lazy to check. 
More great ones. I will get the pages updated soon  

There will be add-ons for specific galaxies that change or add planets and sky-boxes. If you do not enable it they will be stock.

Thanks for the nice complement

The EA and Minbari don't ally until after the EA Civil War.  Yeah, they're part of the Babylon Project, but the Minbari kicked human ass in the Earth-Minbari War until they were within spitting distance of orbitally bombarding Earth.  Besides, EA being Neutral/Friendly with all of the B5 races would be boring.  There needs to be some in-universe tension for those that want to play games where everyone is from the same universe.

myfist0: I hate to poke you again, but you've added the Vorlons and have forgotten the Shadows.

As much as hate agreeing with any part of this mortal insult to the English language, I do think the Systems Alliance would be pretty cool.  I'd love to have an EA/Tau'ri/Systems Alliance/Colonial/Argon stellar cage deathmatch.

OK they are going in. I really need a final list though soon please.

Who is this "System Alliance"?

@Zman: Figured out the sound limit workaround. There is 2 methods to get your sounds in.

Of the races picked, the top most mod will be the sound set used so if I pick 

• Empire
• TEC
• Vorlon

the "Empires" voice effects will be used even if I choose to play Vorlon. If I want Vorlon voices I have to move that add-on to the top.

Method 2 is a "My favourite Sounds" add-on which a player can copy there favourite races sounds into and keep that on top of all the races.

• My Sounds
• Empire 
• TEC 
• Vorlon

If I have Advent sounds in "My Sounds" add-on they will override the top player add-on and will be multi-player compatible as long as the same add-ons are enabled in the same order.

Thats the main plan man.

you do realize that you have to have all the TEC Psi Phase removed from the names so they are all the same?

Squad_TechCombat_OnSelected_0.ogg
to
Squad_Combat_OnSelected_0.ogg 

Squad_PsiCombat_OnSelected_0.ogg
to
Squad_Combat_OnSelected_0.ogg 

then use the same soundDialogue file in each add-on if you need to add specific entries

Keep the weapons and engine sounds in the main mod. These may pile up and need to be share amongst races.

Basically the framework and I like the challenge of accomplishing what no one else could. The framework is MOST IMPOTANTE. To add a race later will be a big problemo. Its the way the main m0d is designed to handle all the races.

I have been collecting assets for a while but no where near enough to finish even 1 add-on.
At least I have a place to put them all and test them.

Been working on EVE models, music and icons lately. Made lots of icons and music and UI for SOA2 so thats my stuff that they are using without listing me in the credits.  Getting a lot better at modelling. Almost done my first Galaxy Class.

Any assets donated will defiantly be appreciated and credit and karma given.

Added Cardassian, System Alliance and Shadows and corrected Dalek spelling.

I'm looking into that.      Trying to keep as many race files as I can in the add-ons.

If I was TEC and playing Empire there should be a way for that race specific file (Empire) to be loaded with the Empire add-on.

Adding all the races I have to 0 out all the changes to the relationships that were suggested but I will keep a copy of all the suggestion posts and update all the race pages once all the race links are in each page.