ant dev thread/beta release

[biru biru]

The much ANTicipated rough draft release, my first scenario ever, and sincere thanks to Valmont, Cyrion, Krashka (sp cheers mate!) Harry Tuttle, Broken Erika, Harrison, etc. for technical advice, graphics, suggestions and such on the previously existing thread...

Harry's ant-shields/rank bars will be added to units, and the space ship dll'S need to be replaced. But I'd like to show-off what I've got so far and get some feedback if possible, so here's where we're at!

[biru biru]

This should be a playable scenario...

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=57835_ant.rar

[biru biru]

Current Units:

[biru biru]

and the sounds. kinda fun!

[biru biru]

All advice, criticism, and compliments welcome. Thanks guys for the help so far. I enjoyed working on this as much as I do playing Civ, if you know what I mean. Also, I am still committed to the project, and it's not done yet.

Please keep a special eye out for bugs in the game, of course.

[biru biru]

The name debate is possibly still open if anyone is interested. Left-off that I objected to 'For Queen and Colony' and recommended 'Queen and Colony' instead (big, risky leap!) with no further comment on the topic so far...

[biru biru]

shield emphasis and rank indicators will be added to units, thank Harry Tuttle!

[biru biru]

Previous link to scenario has been moved, sorry!

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=57835_ANT.rar

small but irritating problem fixed with spiders reset to no-no. Also changed most units to ignore zone control: 1) spice up combat a little, 2) who's gonna tell an ant where it can't go, and 3) solves problem with stalling around invisible ant-lions.

[Harry Tuttle]

Biru, the spiders seem to still be set on "nil, nil" allowing me to build them. I'm guessing from your last post this should be "no, no" ?

[Harry Tuttle]

Ok, I'm on turn 87, things are going so-so on queen level. There are plenty of interlopers and my exploring has paid off big time. I have 5 colonies, after losing four to interlopers. The blue ants just stole my firey genome, bastards...

I would change the roads to be called "scent trail", just to add that bit to the game. I know you have changed the word "roads" to scent trail in part of the files, but I think you need to find where it is in the "game.txt" and changed it there to make it the same across the scenario.

All in all it's looking good. Any idea on sounds?

[biru biru]

alright, this one should do it; spiders should be set to no-no!

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=57835_ANTsce.rar

!

[biru biru]

Sounds aren't working on your end? Should have about five different ones, from small ant to horde of angry ants. It's working on my end...

[biru biru]

Will dive back into game.txt asap; noted and appreciated.

[Harry Tuttle]

Ok, I got the sounds. Very neat, I feel like I'm in the insect section at the zoo.

[Harry Tuttle]

Oh and "barbarian uprising" can be changed too. I think all of this will be contained in the game.txt and the labels.txt.