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I looked up your cards, good stuff. But there is a but. The drawings. The really look like drawings, some of them not especially good ones (heck, this is Zsinj? Where is his uniform? Are they teenagers or what? Well, Ghent and Bria ARE.). Of course this is not your fault or any fault whatsoever, but most of the drawings (except for Corran, Pellaeon and maybe Face) don't really fit with the other images in the game. It's just about style and continuety (or what it is called). I like the Pellaeon very much, though his rank insignia is somewhat odd. What was his rank at the time the drawing is supposed to cover?

Pulled some stats for comparison: NAME/TYPE: Eclipse-class Command Ship DESIGNER/MANUFACTURER: Kuat Drive Yards COMBAT DESIGNATION: Battleship LENGTH: standard 16,000 meters, prototype 17,500 meters CREW: 708,470 crew; 4,175 gunners PASSENGERS: 150,000 troops SPEED RATING: 40 MGLT HYPERDRIVE: x2 HULL RATING: approximately 65000 RU SHIELD RATING: approximately 120000 SBD CONSUMABLES: 10 years WEAPONS: 550 Taim & Bak Heavy Laser Cannons; 500 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Batteries; 75 Borstel Ion Cannon Batteries; 100 Phylon Tractor Beam Projectors; 10 Sienar Fleet Systems Gravity Well Projectors; Axial Superlaser (Planet-Destroyer)* STARFIGHTER SQUADRONS: 50 TIE Interceptor Squads, 8 TIE Bomber Squads PLANETARY ASSAULT TROOPS: 100 AT-AT walkers; 150 AT-ST walkers; 5 Pre-fabricated Garrison Bases OTHER ONBOARD CRAFT: 40 Lambda-Class Imperial Shuttles; 35 Assault Shuttles NAME/TYPE: Sovereign-class Command Ship DESIGNER/MANUFACTURER: Kuat Drive Yards COMBAT DESIGNATION: Battleship LENGTH: 15,000 meters CREW: 601,670 crew; 4,075 gunners PASSENGERS: 130,100 troops SPEED RATING: 30 MGLT HYPERDRIVE: x3 HULL RATING: approximately 47000 RU SHIELD RATING: approximately 96000 SBD CONSUMABLES: 5 years WEAPONS: 500 Taim & Bak Heavy Laser Cannons; 500 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Batteries; 75 Borstel Ion Cannon Batteries; 100 Phylon Tractor Beam Projectors; 5 Sienar Fleet Systems Gravity Well Projectors; Axial Superlaser (Planet-Destroyer)* STARFIGHTER SQUADRONS: 35 TIE Interceptor Squads, 5 TIE Bomber Squads PLANETARY ASSAULT TROOPS: 75 AT-AT walkers; 100 AT-ST walkers; 5 Pre-fabricated Garrison Bases OTHER ONBOARD CRAFT: 35 Lambda-Class Imperial Shuttles; 30 Assault Shuttles NAME/TYPE: Executor-class Command Ship DESIGNER/MANUFACTURER: Lira Wessex/Kuat Drive Yards COMBAT DESIGNATION: Battleship LENGTH: 8,000 meters CREW: 279,144; 1,590 gunners PASSENGERS: 38,000 troops SPEED RATING: 40 MGLT HYPERDRIVE: x2 HULL RATING: 45712 RU SHIELD RATING: 96000 SBD CONSUMABLES: 6 years WEAPONS: 250 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Batteries; 250 Taim & Bak Heavy Turbolaser Batteries; 250 Borstel Ion Cannon Batteries; 250 Krupx Concussion Missile Tubes; 40 Phylon Tractor Beam Projectors STARFIGHTER SQUADRONS: 2 Squads of TIE Interceptors; 2 Squads of TIE Bombers; 8 Squads of TIE Fighters PLANETARY ASSAULT TROOPS: Full Corps of Stormtroopers and other soldiers; 25 AT-AT walkers; 50 AT-ST walkers; 3 Pre-fabricated Garrison Bases OTHER ONBOARD CRAFT: 20 Lambda-Class Imperial Shuttles; 15 Assault Shuttles; 10 Assault Gunboats (The length is wrong (in most opinions, at least) and should be 17,600 meters). NAME/TYPE: Imperator II-class Star Destroyer DESIGNER/MANUFACTURER: Kuat Drive Yards COMBAT DESIGNATION: Battlecruiser LENGTH: 1,600 meters CREW: 36,755 crew; 330 gunners PASSENGERS: 9,700 troops SPEED RATING: 60 MGLT HYPERDRIVE: x1 HULL RATING: 2272 RU SHIELD RATING: 5760 SBD CONSUMABLES: 6 years WEAPONS: 50 Taim & Bak Heavy Turbolaser Batteries; 50 Taim & Bak Heavy Turbolaser Cannons; 20 Borstel Ion Cannon Batteries; 10 Phylon Tractor Beam Projectors STARFIGHTER SQUADRONS: Standard compliment of 3 TIE Fighter Squadrons; 2 TIE Interceptor Squadrons; 1 TIE Bomber Squadron (for other TIE compliments,see below) PLANETARY ASSAULT TROOPS: Full Standard Stormtrooper Division; 12 Landing Barges; 20 AT-AT walkers; 30 AT-ST walkers; 1 Pre-fab Garrison base OTHER ONBOARD CRAFT: 8 Lambda-class Imperial Shuttles; 10 Assault Shuttles; 5 Assault Gunboats Got it from http://www.hyperjump.net/swguides/sdguide/sdguide.html

Sounds: MP3 converters are seldomly free of charge. There is a thing called libVorbis or something like that and sees extensive use in the BG2 modding community. Converts to .ogg and back to wav. The thing that could be really difficult is to write up a tool that patches the dlls.

Boba at Sernpidal? Did I miss half of Vector Prime? Gotta look up theforce.net.

I'd go for Sovereign. The ship is 'less overkill' than the Eclipse. Game balancing will be very difficult. The Sovereign is considerably less powerful than the Eclipse but still able to whack an SSD into three days from next week.

deXtoRious: The XWA NJO-Project site is at http://njoproject.skywalkeronline.net Maybe some ships like the Mediator, Viscount or Bothan Assault Cruiser won't be in the TC, but I would REALLY appreciate if someone converted their models for Rebellion.

I'd say Dendo's. Page was a little more than a lieutenant at that time, so Dendo (was he colonel in Isards Revenge?) seems more logical to me.

Get a slice of Bothan Troops, too. Erhem. But do we really want to make troops determined by species?

We definetely will have to replace the backgrounds, just for switching the Alliance Symbol for whatever the New Republic uses. Black backgrounds would be fine; they are somewhat neutral and don't make problems with borders stand out too much.

Brings up another problem: How do we include and easy installer? I mean, we can't simply tell people to open resource hacker and start replacing models and stuff for a few days. And the tactical.dll get's way to large with many models added (mine is about 40 MB).

Har har, Dash is Alive and Kicking, not some Belfast Child but some really nasty aliens with Simple Minds. (sorry for the pun(s)). I wonder when Boba Fett makes his appearance in the NJO. Trejiuvanat: Have you looked up Mask's Daala and Isard? I really like the pics he used, so you might save yourself some work and get some inspiration or whatever in the process. Geez, I gotta get Booster into my team!

Oh heck, we can add planets. And we can make them look GOOD. BTW, I need a graphics program which lets me assign a defined palette to a pic (like for the fighters). Where can I get one? (I have got Paint, some Micro$oft standard from Win98b other than Paint and CorelDraw 4...)

What I say (well, write) now will much likely be impossible, BUT... Could there be a way to add a new file to the -dats and make the game use it? Say, for Bilbringi or something? There just has to be a file telling Rebellion: "Oh, while your busy getting my beer from the cellar, take a look in the GData folder and fetch me some files, too, willya? I'll give you a list..." Otherwise the savegame editor could be an excellent tool for making scenarios. So we could make a savegame for the TC in which most of it is REALLY authentic.

What do we do about the Imperials? I don't remember any recognizable droid that could do the job, but simply keeping the originals is kinda boring.

JediGreg, working on an inofficial Rebellion 2. There are still some threads about Rebellion 2 active.

If I may quote Austin Powers on this one: "Yeah baby, yeah!" Now we just have to work up the stuff for the planets in Strategy.dll and then send them over to Strategy.dll. The game resizes starfighters if the newly imported pic has a different resolution. Is this true for planets, too?

Yeah. A-Wing B-Wing Research: E-Wing Incom T-65## X-Wing (we could use the J of XJ version or come up with a new name for our model that's between the old T-65 and the T-65XJ)

Mask: Hehe, always used the German version. Would explain me finding nothing new for quite some time... Right now, I' experiencing MANY crashes in tac mode, usually at the end of a battle. It has something to do with replaced models. I started switching around things for the TC and replaced the following: Quasar Carrier - MC-80a Corvette - MC-40 Medium Transport - Assault Frigate Bulk Cruiser - Gunship With the Imps just Dreadnaught - Lancer Frigate So now each side starts of with different ships, but somehow it causes crashes. Ideas?

Mask: Abi '97? Five years (OK, six)... Where the heck do you get 12 tests from? BTW, the only thing that makes your English recognizable as of German origin is the way you place some commas... Erhem, I know this is OT from our current food discussion but is there any progress regarding GData?

I think we should chose Eclipse or Sovereign. They have exactly the same purpose/function/strenghts/weaknesses. No point in having both. JediIgor: I, too, thought they knew, but they don't. They even brought up this five-mile-nonsense. In the movies and even in TIE Fighter, the SSD is at least 11 times the size of an ISD. But 12 km is fine for the game. But in the original game, the SSD was tiny.

Latest X-Wing book was Starfighters of Adumar. Dunno about a cloned Daala, maybe you mean tha cloned Isard. I vote for Isard! The real one, not her clone. Mask already has a pretty good card for her. I like the Corran pic from I, Jedi that's around in the cards section. But a new one for Pellaeon is a must. We need some for Covell, Dorja and Brandei, too. And Ferrier and Borsk. Go ahead Trejiuvanat, work them up! Is there a possiblity for a cards section with limited access for our TC cards, so that we might load them up for inspection? I did quite a few ship cards and want to present them, but not to the public (talk about surprises).

Yeah, GO FOR BOTHAN TROOPS! Let SOME of them die in a real fight! No, just kidding.

It's all about level of detail and which model is shown depending on how close the viewer gets.

This would be found in the starting conditions in the GData folder. Dunno how to get into it, Mask is working on a savegame editor and has already dug some things up; maybe he can be of assistance. Right now, I know of only three planets with specific starting conditions: Coruscant, Yavin and the HQ. There could be a way to set flags for other systems or other catagories of systems (as defined by importance). Would be nice to really have the Sluis Van, Corellia, Fondor, Kuat and Bilbringi Shipyards or the training centre on Caridia. Would put a new pressure on the player to get these systems. But right now, it's not yet possible. BTW, I often use the same galaxy settings as you do. To get the AI a little boost, I usually bombard 5 to 8 sectors so they join the enemy. But the AI has problems with so many systems joining and takes a lot of time to get production running in them. It's really cool to play alliance when the Empire start out with 8 ISDs, 14 VSDs and lots of Carracks. No more blasting into systems with your two Corvettes and a Carrier...

Oh, most of the sources I did not recognize were sourcebooks and encyclopedias and such things. The short names for the books are pretty distinctive, though.