anyone up for another Chiron Chronicles?

[Mellian]

map and screenie requests will be posted in three four hours.

in other news, i am learning html and now know how to better do that menu list thing in the Datalinks

-mellian

[Sovereign]

Hi, Guardian.

Good to see you. Still reading BAC, Hydro's PBEM's, and the occasional original SMAC fiction?


Mellian, excellent. Good to hear you're learning HTML.

[Mellian]

okay, here is the modified map for those who have Alien Crossfire, and here is the guidelines concerning base placement.

-not sure how many bases an faction should have by 2250...but how about making it the average of 5?

any base higher than that would mean the factions pop could be more spread out, and bases have less amount of infrastructure averagely...

and those with less bases than the average would mean their bases are bigger, their pop more concentrated, and more infrastructure.

-each square is 200km x 200km, so realisticly, can technicly have bases in adjacent squares from each other...but i think should be a minimum of one square away from each other without effectivity of bases production and etc compromising each other.

-i'd rather see bases being on the same continent from each other, or on islands or as seabases off the coast of where they are on the continent. like, can have outposts and etc setup in a distance, but actual Bases not to far from each other. as for the pirates, generally stay in the same sea to start off.

-bases doesn't automaticly define where your borders are, something to figure plot wise, and between authors if they are adjacent from each other....but borders can't be more than 1000km from the nearest base, as in about five squares. seabases won't have borders further than about 500km...2-3 squares.

-when placing bases, keep in mind of the other factions neighouring yours, which would realisticly effect where a faction places their bases from 2100 to 2250.

so yes...any questions or suggestions?

-mellian

[Mellian]

sovereign, here is the garland crater area screenie as requested.

it is zipped as i am not interested in resizing it

-mellian

[Sovereign]

Thanks, Mellian.

How do I upload the screenshot up here after marking where I want my bases on them?

[Mart]

So here come Peacekeepers. Proposed bases.

[Mellian]

when writing up a post after pressing post reply, there is a section to attach a file. when you attach pics, the forum automaticly shows them in the post.

just scroll down in that reply page.

-mellian

[Mart]

The picture was to large to attach. I did not want to decrease the resolution...

[Sovereign]

Thanks Mellian. I will get right on it.

[Mart]

Anything new? Are bases' locations decided yet?

[Sovereign]

I don't know why, but I can't seem to mark my map with my intended base location.

Are there any free JPEG editing software that I could download, or any trial versions?

I'd like to know so I can edit my JPEG's including the maps Mellian gave me.

[Mellian]

just give me the coordinates of where you would like the bases to be, or describe where.

as for jpeg programs, can get adobe photoshop. can also get the non-trial 'evaluation' with kazaa.

i am trying to find time, but i am behind my schoolwork and i am tyring to catch up. also doesn't help the fact i have been spending a lot of time out lately to.

there is not only the authored factions bases to consider, also have to figure out those of the factions that have no authors and etc, which will take a few hours to figure out.

-mellian

[Sovereign]

I'll have to use another computer.

Hopefully I'll have the picture edited and ready to upload by Friday at the latest.

Are you going to have more free time over the summer, Mellian?

[Mart]

What you can do also is save jpg as bitmap, edit it in paint for example and then save as jpg again.

This one will shuffle formats:

http://www.irfanview.com/

freeware for home use.

This one is quite powerfull, but complicated. You can get free code from Satori for version 2.29

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/daily/bldd022900.htm

[Sovereign]

Appreciate it, Mart.

Hopefully we can start doing this fun story / semi-PBEM over the summer.