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Reply to Elemental: Day 0 Preview in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] One piece of good news on MP. Originally we had planned to eliminate tactical battles from MP entirely because of balance. Some people correctly guessed the misguided (in hindsight) reason for this: We were approaching MP from a purely competitive point of view. Based on the persuasive arguments made by our players, we have decided that tactical battles will be made available in MP – as an option – at a later date as a free update. [/quote]

Reply to Elemental & Multiplayer - an essay in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

This announcement was a huge disappointment to my friends and I. We were following Elemental avidly because we wanted a new game to take the place that Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic had in our hearts for Fantasy Turn-Based strategy. I'm posting simply to echo the disappointment of other customers and say that three sales were lost with this announcement. We'll keep an eye out to see if this functionality comes back to the multi-player game, but until then looking is all we'l

Reply to Mod Idea: Honorverse in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]"HELP! SOMEONE IS MAKING THEIR OWN MODELS INSPIRED BY OUR IDEAS AND RELEASING IT FOR FREE!"[/quote] Unfortunately that's pretty much how it goes with them. They don't understand the concept of a fan-base very well. :)

Reply to Official Honor Harrington MOD request in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Unfortunately anything you do with someone else's IP is subject to termination at their behest, even if it's not for profit. I was an artist involved in the very short-lived Honorverse mod for [i]Homeworld 2[/i]. It's actually my fault that got shut down, as there was some discussion on copyright permission and I suggested we just ask directly instead of living in constant fear that they might shut us down. I figured if we came to them openly and expressed our love for the mate

Reply to This game reminds me of the series of books by David Weber and Steve White in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Nice to see some other Honorverse fans in here. I was a member of a planned Honorverse Homeworld 2 mod, which, unfortunately, got shut down for IP reasons. Unfortunately David's lawyers frown on fan-created material so an unofficial gaming project is unlikely for Sins or any other game. The story had a happy ending for me, though. I ended up doing art and design for [link="http://www.adastragames.com/"]Ad Astra Games[/link], which holds the official license for most things Honorverse. A

Reply to Problem with Human Replacing AI in Multiplayer Savegame in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My friends and I have tried this in a game before as well and the same thing happened. It would open up a lot of nice multi-player options if they're able to fix it.

Reply to Project: BattleStar Galactica - Sins of Alethia (SoA) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this, and maybe offering a few pieces of concept art here and there if they're wanted. Ever since I got into BSG I wanted a strategy game that focused on the first Cylon war, with hundreds of Colonial ships vs. hundreds of Cylon ships. While I doubt you're going to be limiting this to the first Cylon War I am hopeful that a whatever you decide to do at some point I'll get to send my Colonial fleet out to smash some frakkin' toasters. :) Work

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] I had been trying thinking up a "federation Planetary Bombardment" ship role. The best idea I had was a "transporter beam" that beamed down security squads to fight in ground combat.[/quote] This is along the lines of the internal discussions we've been having. Either transporter beams or assault shuttles leave the ships and then instead of nukes on the planet you see webs of phaser fire or something of that nature. It'll probably end up being something like

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thank you for all of your suggestions, everyone. We're glad there's a lot of community interest in the mod already and are confident we can deliver another great Star Trek experience. :) That said, right now our primary focus is getting ship models into the game. We have a rough outline of a Starfleet ship list and some initial choices for the other races as well. For now we're going to spend most of our time designing and modeling the ships. Finer points of balance, ship roles and abil

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] I've uploaded a small sample of two soase like tracks (I whipped them together in a couple of minutes, so be kind) here if you're interested! Obviously a star trek soundtrack will have a different feel to it, but hey, it's what I happen to have uploaded.[/quote] Your stuff sounds great, man! I can't speak for anyone else but I certainly would love to be able to claim original music for our

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] I only care about Klingon D7's. Without Klingon D-7's it is simply not Star Trek for me. [/quote] SoA2 should have them; SoA did, and they were all over DS9. Anyway, some more concept art for you guys, this time for our pale friends the Jem'Hadar: [img]http://www.secondstartotheleft.com/images/Trekmods/DominionLightCruiser2.jpg[/img]

Reply to The Third Battle of Lutiz in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

And now that I have a chance to read it, great job! Keep them coming.

Reply to The Third Battle of Lutiz in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

Don't feed the trolls.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hey Stress, I finished up a dorsal concept sketch of a Breen battleship. I have a render of the regular Breen cruiser next to it for scale. Names are conjectural. [img]http://www.secondstartotheleft.com/images/Trekmods/BreenBattlecruiser.jpg[/img]

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hey man, I don't see you online anymore on MSN... my SN there is tmarrone (at) hotmail (dot) com. Send me a message when you're on and we'll shoot the shit.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Stardock Forums

Hey Stress, Howie just linked me to this. Get in touch with me over IM if you can (some addresses in my profile here.) I'd love to at least keep up with this and maybe contribute some designs or something if needed. Anything I've already done is of course free for you to use. Hope to hear from you. Good Trek strategy has been a dry well for a while now so I'd love to help get this in gear in some small way, at least.