Grand Potato's Flag-Hacking-Guide

[Gammaray]

Grand Potato's flag-hacking-guide is availlable at the
Orion-Sector:

[#62] 01.28.2003 - While You're All Waiting, Something Fun To Do...

Grand Potato James has finally finished his flag-hacking-guide
for creating and inserting your own custom player flag
images into Master of Orion III. So if you are going to be
waiting for a while for MOO3 to be released, start designing
your own flags now and we'll probably have a flag maker's
contest shortly.

[LastFromVega]

Gammaray - could you post the link to the Orion Sector ?

danke schon..

[Gammaray]

Originally posted by LastFromVega
Gammaray - could you post the link to the Orion Sector ?

danke schon..

The link is within the quote, but for some reason it doesn't
appear underlined in IE (i've checked it with mozilla only).

Again

http://www.orionsector.com/pages/mods/flagguide.shtm

[Kc7mxo]

So, why is everyone so interested in hacking the flag. Is there no flag options in the game or something?

[Harry Seldon]

Nope. Can't change the flag, can't change colors, can't rename systems or ships.

[LastFromVega]

and you have to be pretty motivated to go through all of that just to change a 30x30 stamp... I bet we'll all be too busy practicing vs the machine and tournamenting in MP to draw flags, but Grand Potato's was fun

[jscott991]

You've got to think one of the early patches will change some of the lack of customization. I am completely baffled why its like this to begin with, but not being able to choose your race color is just plain ridiculous.

[darcy]

I remember hearing the same complaints when Age of Mythology was released (sans customization options).

The developers said there used to be too many arguments in MP when 2 peeps want the same colour.

[jscott991]

I don't think that kind of argument really makes sense in a TBS game where most people will play exclusively single player.

You never like to see a series backslide; removing features in previous versions. It will not be hard for MOO3 to top MOO2, but they aren't making it easy on themselves.

[Rantz]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
Nope. Can't change the flag, can't change colors, can't rename systems or ships.

You can change your flag, Potatoe's guide is if you want to make CUSTOM flags not included in the game shipping library.

[Harry Seldon]

Aaahhh! A hard fought cosolation. Maybe if we root Grand Potato on he can figure out how to change the screen colors, too. I've always been a bit of a dark purple man, myself. It makes me feel like a ninja.

[jscott991]

So you can change the flag but not the color? I guess that's new. I don't remember flags even being in MOO2.

I remember one of the early previews talked about his desire to play the "Sexy Ninja Babes" as an empire. I wonder he didn't want the dark purple color too. I also wonder how hard it is to see a human guy wearing an Star Wars empire uniform reporting to an empire called the Sexy Ninja Babes.

[Kc7mxo]

So you can change the flag but not the color? I guess that's new. I don't remember flags even being in MOO2.

I remember one of the early previews talked about his desire to play the "Sexy Ninja Babes" as an empire. I wonder he didn't want the dark purple color too. I also wonder how hard it is to see a human guy wearing an Star Wars empire uniform reporting to an empire called the Sexy Ninja Babes.

You could choose your flag in moo2, sort of. But basically you were just choosing your color.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Rantz


You can change your flag, Potatoe's guide is if you want to make CUSTOM flags not included in the game shipping library.

Rantz, don't spell "potato" with an "e" on the end, or you'll never have a chance of being vice president.

[Rantz]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry


Rantz, don't spell "potato" with an "e" on the end, or you'll never have a chance of being vice president.

hence the joke...