The Stars Beyond

[Aury]

Say, mind if your Xelerus Exotics may sell my Star Light Breaker for 400,000 Rin?

I'm planning on adding a series of various items in all levels that are tagged as "exotic"

To get Xelerus Exotics to use your weapon, just tag it as "exotic" (all lowercase) in the same field where you put things like "Military" or "Illegal" or "EnergyWeapon"

The max item level is level 12 though at the moment - they won't sell any high-end Therrusian stuff or the iocrym disentigrator/healer/cocoon

Xelerus Exotics deals in credits btw, not rin, since the chain runs through all system levels. I'm going to have to lower the frequency of them though, since I tend to get too many.

[Aury]

I've released version 0:1:0002:0014:k

I'm hoping to get another version out fairly soon with better functionality of the ranx empire stations.

[Aury]

0:1:0002:0042:d has been out, though I found some bugs:
1) ranx stations can't install devices
2) ranx stations will buy installed items
3) occasional crash when using the debug battle rom

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anyways, from those participating in the pre-alpha, I would really like to get some feedback on how its going (over here though: http://eternalmodding.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=20 )

[Aury]

I havn't been updating this recently since I'm working on the next big release.

At post 1000 here, I'll be revealing my "surprise" [not to hard to figure out what it is though]

Anyways, shortly after that, I plan to release the next version in the pre-alpha

[Aury]

Various other random things I hope to add in the future:

alpha striking
ship engine glow (customized to that ship)
real cargo expansion pods (in a balance manner, needs 1.0's overlays)
device expansion brackets (some have various limitations)
little blinky lights on stations

[Aury]

You guys need to post more, so I can reply more and upload...
0:1:0011:0029:a (or whatever it will be by the time I get 1k posts)

Changelog up to now:
-Ranx install device now works
-Ranx will nolonger buy installed devices
-changes to the debug rom marked "iocrym boss test"
-minor rebalances to teraton ships
-minor rebalances to ranx ships
-my surprise [not yet complete, but you can see some of it]
-Xelerus exotics sells alien goods
-God mod is now compatible [thanks to prophet!]
-No more infinite ID and turret dispensers
-a few new shields and items [the shields will be very much subject to change however]

[Aury]

The urge to reveal my surprise is too strong:
I'll release it on IRC [and that way I can get tweaks and refinements done], but the official release won't be until post 1k still.

[Aury]

I'm using textures now as you can see...
Antares VIII, without and with textures

[Hatsuya Kanzaki]

Say, you can always download my Star Light Crisis ship packages, and then feel free to adjust their weapons, and even give the Star Light Breaker different variations.

You're now permitted to use my SLC ships and weapons actually, Wolfy.

[Aury]

Thanks for letting me use the ships: recolorations would work nicely as different variants and such [thinks back to the EV games]

Aren't all your weapons designed as post-heretic ones and are thus extremely powerful? (TX2 is designed to be a balanced mod)

[Atarlost]

You can use my stuff too. I need to re-render the ships because they're lit from the wrong direction, but I'll get around to that eventually.

[Hatsuya Kanzaki]

Hatsuya's, Hatoru's and Hatsumi's exclusive weapons can be sold in a certain alien shops, and the Star Light Breaker is a quest weapon where you really have to mine for the cannon itself, and even make use of different ores to make Star Light Breaker cartridges.

Allowed?

[Aury]

When I use content made by someone else, it gets rebalanced and chanaged to fit TX2's planned balance and canon (which by extention is designed to more or less follow george's canon). Just to let everyone know.

[Atarlost]

I've tried to keep my stuff reasonably balanced. The ships aren't working so well at present in balance terms and need a re-render to fix the lighting anyways, but the devices and armor should be close to George's balance. If you want to make balance changes tell me. They'd likely make it into my version as well.

[Aury]

Post 1000!

Here's a couple therrusian ships I made a few weeks back:




I might get some textures for them too, to bump up their detail level even further. These two ships, being a mere fighter and auton, are not exactly the most imposing or awesome of their ships, but I think they look rather nice.

I'll probably finalize and upload the next version of TX2 very, which has been long in the making [most of the changes are minor, but there are a good number of small balance tweaks] (up until a few days ago when I got nostalgic for some of my older games)