Aldebaran 2: Smax

[#endgame]

Possibly mine, but Midsemester exams are really eating my time... Someone else play if it is.

[Lord Nword]

Well.... I've been lazy about the text editing... But what I have been working on this morning is more important in my opinion. The various pictures of the moons and the beautiful cut-view of the planet that you see when you starte a custom game, I've fixed those. The black space around them was out of place and I've replaced that with the transparency color.

One small problem, there are 27 different planet view pics; plus 6 moon pics... not a small bunch of files... just over 6 mb unzipped...

Everything appears to work properly, I've tested them in both 1024x768 and 800x640 modes. (though if anyone uses the later, they should be smacked or sell their ancient comp on Ebay for big bucks )

Good gawd... the pics only zip to 4.13 megs....

So should i go ahead and use the upload service, or should I put it on Geocites?

[smacksim]

This is why I was NOT going to change the planet profiles, though it would be a fun project. I suppose we can make an add-on graphics package for the game, if further developments occur.

[Lord Nword]

Hehe... well it makes me happy too not be looking at graphics that don't mesh well...

**'tis mine, my preeeeciouses**

And how about calling "The Henge", "Nword's Henge" or "Nord's Henge", whichever you like better

[smacksim]

Nord's Henge sounds good.

Endgame Flats.

[Lord Nword]

I'm doing a load of link fixes atm, as well as other text fixes.

One question, is it supposed to be Xenobannana or Xenobanana? The first is the current one in use. The latter has the correct spelling of banana. I don't know if Xenobannana is a fellow user or whatnot... (didn't find anything when searching the forum usernames...)

Edit: I've also included Endgame Flats in the concepts area

Edit2: I'm posting the changes as I make them here.
Following concepts being fixed:

• Commerce (Basic) -- Added Primus Matsumura's name along with the already present CEO Morgan. Interestingly, the regular concepts.txt file contains Morgan's name as a link, the conceptsx.txt file does not. This brings up a question I have, does Aldebaran require the expansion or not? The last part of the Commerce section, I recommend removing. It simply states:
  

  Economic related technologies include $LINK, $LINK,
  $LINK

  - You can't convince me to try and convert that to the new system.
• Dicover(Governor)
• Zone of Control
• Ecology (Basic) & (Advanced)
• Inefficiency (Basic) & (Advanced) Paranoia Progaganda & Utopian Economics instead of Democratic and Green
• Landmarks etc.
• Morale
• Rainfall
• Altitude
• Disengage
• Scoring -- changed Alpha Centauri Score to Aldebaran Score
• Economic Victory -- changed tech to Commercial Applications, which is noted in blurb as being the correct tech...
• Fungus/Xenofungus -- Xenoempathy Dome changed to Fungal University

*Note: I changed all reference to "Probe Teams" to "Shrouds"
**Note2: For both concepts and Secret Projects, I searched the .txt files for every single useage of $link and fixed whatever I found. I also searched for a few other keywords like Soil Enricher and Mirror.

Secret Projects being fixed.

• The University Syndrome -- link fixed, AC to Aldebaran
• Seventh Law of Thermodynamics -- alliance datalinks
• The Nautical College -- link fixed
• The Greatest Game -- link fixed
• The Cloudbase Academy -- link fixed
• The Cloning Vats -- link fixed
• The Nethack Terminus -- shroud fixed

Other Facilities being fixed.

• Maritime Factory, was labled Maritime Training for the facility...
• Cult of Planet -- link fixed
• Flechette Defense System -- link fixed
• Core Extraction Facility -- see mart7x5's post
• Core Mining Facility -- " "
• Geosynchro Pod -- " "
• Habitation Dome -- " "
• Mind Machine Lab -- " "
• Projection Defense Pod -- " " and shrouds
• Convert Ops Center -- fixed link
• Psi Gate -- fixed obvious error

Also in helpx and help.txt files, searched for and replaced or edited following terms:
-Soil Enricher (but not the #;SOIL line)
-Mirror (but not the #;MIRROR 13 line) Changed An to A
-Minefield: fixed some grammar
-Probe;
* fixed Algorithmic Enhancement
* fixed Shroud and Claudius descriptions (edited line to say "The shroud with the
highest LINKmorale=11 level, and/or reactor level, usually wins.
")

In replacing the phrase probe team everywhere i've been so far, I've enforced a uniformity of only capitalizing Shroud for the module, Secret project, default unit, and ability, as well as the beginning of a sentence :roll: ....

[Lord Nword]

Here we go.... all that stuff done....

4 text files.

Edit...Ignore this stuff now... see post below.

[Lord Nword]

Well I found a couple more things to fix.
A single typo each in Blurbs.txt and blurbsx.txt

Also in Concepts and Help:

Alorithmic Enhancement -- Hunter Seeker Algorithm changed to Unleashed
Ecology Basic -- Accidently skipped over fix mentioned in previous post
Inefficieny (Basic) -- changed Paranoia to Unity
Landmarks etc -- Missed one correction in Concepts.txt

You don't need the previous download above...

[GeoModder]

Just to let you know that I'm still busy with the 'Planetlovers' graphics, Smacksim...

[smacksim]

Good, good.

I'm going a little slower on this right now anyways. I'm glad I wasn't working on the text again. In the future Nword, could you announce the moment you start working on a file so that I can collate my own work so the match-up is easier? Thanks. I still have some work to do with testing the new SE table....

[Lord Nword]

?? I posted those as i was working on them.

I edited the first of the last three 4 or 5 times. I even documented them :-p

[Lord Nword]

Just a note to whoever does the next round of text fixes...

Voice of Planet and Ascent to Transcendence both fail to link to each other; incorrect numbers used in links.

Also an excuse to wonder... Anything else new???

[#endgame]

Yeah I understand that # is a special character in the txtfiles so Endgame Flats is .

Smacksim, don't chuck a Valve on us. The people want a release!

[smacksim]

No Valve chucking or Rotor shaving going on here. I'm just taking my time. I really want to do a 'This is it, it's done' type update, but we have graphics, and lots of testing yet to do.

Nwords updates are great, but as far as game-changing stuff, I don't have too much yet.

[GeoModder]

All landbases of the Planetlovers are graphi'ed, now only five seabases to put perimeters/tachyon fields around. If all goes well I sent it over in two days. (was busy preparing for a test last week).