Hive Quadrangular (new smacx pbem)

[Lazerus]

I've had a look at it and while the no pods could allow us to bring back in the WP there doesn't seem to be much land nor are there any landbridges over that large amount of water which i think will really limit any combat

Well actually the more i look at it the more im thinkin its fine .. whats your guys take ?

[Senethro]

I'm tempted to cook up a land bridged version. If I do so, I'll hack away some of the jungle and show it here for approval.

[Setroc]

Sounds good.

I do like pods, however, especially with Yang. Want them to be put in by Darsnan? (if he has the time). I like how pod collecting is an alternative resource gathering tool, even if it can depend on luck.

[Lazerus]

Hive Quad map

See what you guys think of that, then we can get a CMN to stick a few units down, set the passwords and we can get going

[Senethro]

A lightly podded version for your delectation.

Pods are placed to about 2 squares of each other, in a mirror fashion. Each quarter of the map has about 12ish pods.

[Setroc]

yay, ready to start soon then

[Lazerus]

So with pods being present the WP is to be disabled

[Lazerus]

Since it would be wise to alter each of our base graphics abit to avoid total confusion over whos who i'm going to keep the original Hive bases but edit them from blue to red ... when i figure out how to use this pcx editor anyways.

[Setroc]

Hey guys, since it's been a while since anything has been done about this game, I'm checking to see if everyone's still interested. Since we all know the map, we don't need a CMN, so hopefully Senethro will be putting us all on the map ready to play.

I'm not 100% sure this is the best time for me to start another PBEM since my PC is crashing a lot at the moment. But I seem to be able keep a good turn rate most of the time (occassionally after a crash reload).

[Lazerus]

I'm still interested, but we should each need to get our own set of custom base graphics / colours done otherwise it could get rather confusing if all 4 meet

[Setroc]

Just when you thought I'd forgotten about this again. I'm not sure about this whole pcx thing Laz, but is the attached file (Hive_red.pcx) the kind of thing you are looking for? Faction colours dont display perfectly (they show blue and red) but everything else seems ok.

Originally posted by Senethro
I'll happily take that title and faction, but only if I can have the hero of the Russian people as my faction graphic leader :P
This would involve someone with a clue creating the file.

Is Hive_gief.pcx what you need?

[Lazerus]

Yeah, (lol @ zangief) otherwise we'll all end up with the same blue bases. Does your pcx files work ingame ? everytime i've tried to edit some for me it's totally screwed up the ingame graphics

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=21010_damned10.zip

I'll just use that (the graphics, not the text) unless somebody cares to colour me in some Hive bases heh.

[Setroc]

I had the same graphics screw up problem, until I took one of the smac .pcx files in paintshoppro, saved the palette, and then loaded that palette on the changed .pcx file. This allowed it to run in smac without the awful glitches.

I've come up with 3 different colours - red, green and gold for Yang, each witch different coloured clothes in the portrait. The 4th is Senethro who will play the traditional blue with a picture of an irate Zangief in tight white underpants as his portrait.

Here are the different factions to view..

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=65328_HiveQuadpcx.zip

[Leon Trotsky]

I know it's late for this, but isn't this map a bit... resource abundant? It looks as we'll getting Air Power before even making contact. Perhaps spicing some xenofungus would engourage... interaction.

[Setroc]

We're still playing no co-operative victory and no tech trading right?

In this case, airpower will take long enough anyway- I think we need the resources.