Correction: Ares have always been in, but at first the only ship they had was the Sandstorm. Sandstorms were one of the toughest end-game enemies, and would usually be the only ships the player would encounter for a couple of systems immediately before Heretic. They were also the only enemy in the g...

The Centauri command ship was in the game until the Centauri got their current visual overhaul. The old Centauri still did the occupying stations thing, but their raiders were tiny and metallic brown/orange, faster (Wolfen speed) and weaker (light recoilless cannon). There were no heavy raiders or a...

I don't post in the mod forums much but I can contribute a little xml of my own. I like the "Background Events / Details" idea because it is a logical extension of Transcendence itself. A lot of modders have great big ideas and go all out with them, and resulting product is often very different in t...

http://www.neurohack.com/kronosaur/AdventuresintheTranscende.html "Adventures in the Transcendence Universe" Several adventure ideas postulated by George himself ;) These are all cool. My idea for this thread is not plot-related but structure-related, discussing how possible missions could work gam...

Mission idea- Lay marker buoys to direct traffic Player gets two marker buoys from a station and has to figure out where to place them to create safe trade lanes through a system full of powerful enemy ships docked at stations that are too well defended for the player to easily kill at that level. A...

post mission ideas here to provide inspiration to other modders. particularly welcomed are suggestions like "KILL DOMANA AND GET 2 CREATE NEW POWERS" "MAKE IT ALL 3D" and "COOP MODE WITH XBOX LIVE POINTS" Edit: this thread is for suggesting mission gameplay ideas that are not plot-specific. see my p...

Roving ships seem to occur in packs and are usually associated with stations in their system. I can't think of any points in the game where the player will encounter a single, free-roaming hostile gunship.

At long last, I got to fight the ICS without ever installing a reactor (and while honoring permadeath). I am confident that I could have defeated it in a straight-up fight if I had flown more carefully, turtled or brought some autons. My omni-thermo and M5 Nemesis missiles took down the cocoon reall...

LordSutekh wrote:Maybe the reason that the Kobol and the Rogue Fleet attack you is so that they can get the resources for their own pilgrimage to the core.

Do we really know anything about the Kobol or Rogue Fleet?

Come to think of it, no one ever on the new highscore list is registered as "left Human Space" while there are a number of people killed in Heretic system. (9 in top 100, to be precise) Looks very suspicious. Since the game doesn't end after Heretic, players who go through the Heretic stargate don'...

I'm inclined to believe the sisters provide cheap @#$! spacecraft to pilgrims without the resources to buy something decent. If Domina wills it they'll survive even so. If they don't survive, well Domina works in mysterious ways. I don't really see this happening, given that the sisters frequently ...

Or can anyone be called to become a pilgrim? What would someone do if they didn't have a spaceship but felt the compulsion to travel to the Core? Do Transhumans (Ringers, Teratons, Ares, Zoanthropes) get called? How many pilgrims have there been since people first started getting called? Did the Sis...

Here's a sample of various ships from Hornet to Phobos: http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/668/shipscalesample.jpg Stations and more ships will come later. Haha, I guess "Worldship" is a little bit of hyperbole on the part of the Xenophobes. I mean, don't get me wrong, a spaceship the size of the S...

I thought I had encountered every eventuality in the Transcendence universe, but apparently not. When I tried using my jumpdrive while disabled by an EMP, I was sent off into a random corner of the systems and all my cargo was scattered around near me. I thought that was a cute touch, especially giv...

When a modern military pilot goes on holiday he usually doesn't take his jet fighter with him. The real issue is that Rama is absconding with a Centurion/X gunship, which is expensive Commonwealth military hardware. He also has an explicit deathwish, so it's not like he's intending to return it. As ...