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Posessed	May 12 2008, 9:42am Anchor
Posessed	Hey. So i bought the game "sins of a solar empire" and played it for a little while, then i decided to hit up mod DB to check if there were some sweet mods for it. There's the "dawn of victory" mod, but i was really sad to see there was no warhammer 40k mod for it. Warhammer 40k has a sub-game called "battlefleet gothic" that focuses on immense battlefleet conflicts involving thousands of ships. The game has a complex boarding system and alot of cool flanking and broadsiding rules. Sins is the perfect game to make a battlefleet gothic mod for. You could implement everything from boarding to in-ship fighting to planetary exterminatuses and battles. You could implement titans, orbital troop support and bombardment, deep strike shock troops, ongoing planetary fighting campaigns and much more. If there's any more WH40k fans out there who are also interested in maybe looking into this idea, please share your opinions here. Here's some reading for those of you who's never heard of battlefleet gothic before: Reading And here's some pictures of BFG models (not mine): Chaos: Imperium of man: Space marines: Orcz: Necrons: Ships: Eldar: Void stalker Eclipse Hemlock Shadow Nightshade Orc: Kill kroozer Brute ram ship Ravager Terrorship Imperium of man: Emperor Retribution Dauntless Exorcist Space marines: Battlebarge Strike cruiser Strike vessels Chaos: Planetkiller Despoiler Chaos cruiser Bonus: Chaos blackstone fortress Note, this is not a Quote:"lolol, make a mod for me plz" thread. I'm just looking to share opinions.
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	May 12 2008, 9:47am Anchor
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	Battlefleet Gothic - no, Battlefleet Gothic style - yes. It'd work so much better in another engine, such as Unreal 3, however.
Posessed	May 12 2008, 9:49am Anchor
Posessed	Why? -- Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the throne of korn.
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	May 12 2008, 10:16am Anchor
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	Battlefleet Gothic really (really) lacks variety. All ships have either lances or batteries. Ordnance is split into three types. All ships are basically similar, with a slight distribution of these 5 assets. No ships have any real special abilities outside of the later added fleets. Sins of a Solar empire really wouldn't benefit a) the detail, or b) the scale of the BFG material.
Posessed	May 12 2008, 10:33am Anchor
Posessed	Why the unreal engine then? That wouldn't make a good RTS, now would it ? -- Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the throne of korn.
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	May 12 2008, 10:45am Anchor
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	Why not? I can't find a fault with the engine for a space-based RTS. At very least it would allow you to create ships with fire arcs (possibly the most critical feature of BFG), unlike Sins. At most, you have a strong material, particle and environment editor, the ability to use the existing component system to your advantage to allow for all manner of independent sub-objects, and the ability to script practically any behaviour you require of your objects.
Posessed	May 12 2008, 10:48am Anchor
Posessed	Yeah. You make a good point. But re-scripting an fps engine to function as an rts engine...isn't that really really hard? -- Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the throne of korn.
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	May 12 2008, 11:04am Anchor
ambershee Nimbushfish Rawks	Nah. The hardest part would probably be the AI, but UT already has a reasonable path-finding system that could be tweaked to work a bit more dynamically.
Henley Currently Occupied for Reasons Unknown	May 12 2008, 11:51am Anchor
Henley Currently Occupied for Reasons Unknown	ambershee wrote:Nah. The hardest part would probably be the AI, but UT already has a reasonable path-finding system that could be tweaked to work a bit more dynamically. they already have a rts for the ut2004 engine.. phil something orather/... -- Homepage \| Youtube \| Deviantart \| Arcadium
Posessed	May 12 2008, 1:01pm Anchor
Posessed	Pathfinding would probably be the hardest part. -- Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the throne of korn.
overlordjebus	May 14 2008, 6:54am Anchor
overlordjebus	check the official sins website, their already is a battlefleet gothic mod...