Ask about Stella Polaris

[Rasbelin]

Well, continuing Joeno's anwer.

The GOD is being developed right now too, but it's not visible. The Alpha 1 version is under development too, but I can't say any release date or deadline for it; at least not yet. The official project status is Pre-Alpha.

Hopefully this satifies you, DBTS.

[Mark123jansen]

will there be some sort of fungus squares on the habiteble worlds?? (nice to know this when in the "aliens & natives" thread)

[aaglo]

Most likely there will be some sort of alien plants - not necessarily fungus...

[DeathByTheSword]

Q: are we going to use a workshop for terrestial units or not because I read in several threads different things!?! and if we are going to incorporate spaceships lets have a workshop for them anyways....for terrestial units i dont care.

[DeathByTheSword]

yet another Q: when is the new website finished?

if you need any help i can help with that part.

[Rasbelin]

1. What workshop? If you mean unit editing and creating, that will be done using suitable graphics editing software and editing the values in the text files.

2. December 2002. No further help is needed right now (3-4 persons working on it now). I can contact you in the case your help is needed in the content writing.

[DeathByTheSword]

i ment are we going to have a unit workshop in the game like SMAC?

[Rasbelin]

I don't know about the unit workshop in SMAC, but I would say no as this isn't SMAC after all.

[DeathByTheSword]

ok i question will this be a MoO like game or a smac-like game because i am thinkin everone things differently about that and i would like some clarity....maybe a poll? because i dont think this has been decided.....and if you are trying both....well...then....let me think about that

[vovan]

Yes, I actually agree with DBtS. I have been reading the threads here, and it seems that there is no general plan on what the game is going to be like, other than that it will be a TBS. Everybody draws their inspiration from different games, and "pulls the blanket onto their side of the bed."

I think that we have plenty of suggestions to start making a more or less finalized plan. With such a big project, we can't just start coding without having a more or less detailed plan, and most importantly, a plan that is approved and accepted by all. We cannot just come up with our own ideas and start implementing them.

Hope we get more coordination of our efforts some time soon.

[Joeno]

A final plan is/was being worked on by a few people, as the General Outlook thingie, but it's going a bit slow because of the webservices that are not available.

[DeathByTheSword]

do you know when we can expected it?

[vovan]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
do you know when we can expected it?

Rasbelin said that the web-site would be up somewhere during december, if I am not mistaken, so I would be guessing it would take a bit of time to work on the GOD thing (izzat what it's abbreviated is?), so I would guess some time next year? Middle of January maybe?

[Rasbelin]

Replies to all questions and claims...

ok i question will this be a MoO like game or a smac-like game because i am thinkin everone things differently about that and i would like some clarity....maybe a poll?

Back to the basics. First of all Stella Polaris isn't a clone or a game being inspired by only one or two games. If you really want to list up what games are behind StP, it would look something like this: SMAC, MoO, RoN, CtP2, Stars!, Civ II and Civ III. And no, this is not a subject that warrants a poll as that would clear stamp the game as "a free open source clone of X with several minor changes." Creativity is what matters, not how well you immitate the old.

I think that we have plenty of suggestions to start making a more or less finalized plan. With such a big project, we can't just start coding without having a more or less detailed plan, and most importantly, a plan that is approved and accepted by all. We cannot just come up with our own ideas and start implementing them.

This is indeed true. The much spoken GOD and The Exodus will indeed help to start the work. Right now I'm doing what I can.

A final plan is/was being worked on by a few people, as the General Outlook thingie, but it's going a bit slow because of the webservices that are not available.

Yes, Joeno, but more precisely it's a collection of information from this forum and old FreeAC Forums. So it will include information about the concepts that have been agreed about in the discussions. I.e. Gateway and I don't decide how the game is going to look like. We are just scribbling down what is agreed here.

do you know when we can expected it?

Version 0.1 will be distributed to the SPDT members in the nearby future. I have to add that it won't be complete as things are added as there's something to add.

Rasbelin said that the web-site would be up somewhere during december, if I am not mistaken, so I would be guessing it would take a bit of time to work on the GOD thing (izzat what it's abbreviated is?), so I would guess some time next year? Middle of January maybe?

The website will be launched during December (read the date for GOD 0.1 above) as it's finished. Disparat is working on it.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Version 0.1 will be distributed to the SPDT members in the nearby future. I have to add that it won't be complete as things are added as there's something to add.

::rubs his hands in anticipation::

Thanks for the answers, Rasbelin. Can't wait to see the god