Lost Eden - playtesters requested please

[Kilkakon]

@Ete
Do we know if deletions are working again?

@BU
Heh, cheers. Sadly it doesn't work as well as the default (doesn't really fit on my laptop screen), so I will stick with that. A good attempt though

[Kilkakon]

Trying to update a picture

[Buster's Uncle]

Y'all need to pester t_ras for help.  He has server access, and all the big tech knowledge I lack...

[ete]

File uploads not working is a known issue, unfortunately I've not had much free time for a couple of weeks. If t_ras wants to try and figure it out that's good, but until then we can set up a workaround with files hosted on the forums able to be displayed on wiki if that's good enough for you?

[Buster's Uncle]

[img] link from an album or something?  Sure.

[ete]

Okay, set that up. Kilka, you can now use HTML style <img> tags to display images hosted on ac2. I can add your site as an exception too (currently images from other sites should fail) if you want to use images hosted there.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've created a dedicated album anyone can post to for this:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=media;sa=album;in=26

[Kilkakon]

Most of my templates are directly linking to files themselves, which means that a workaround would require editing the templates, but that isn't necessarily impossible, as long as it works.

Hope that you are doing well, Ete.

[Kilkakon]

*struts with his new badge*

Oh yeah--I made a small change to LE and was wondering what you all thought. I have allowed Science and Gold specialists again. These can be added to any size city and provide +2 Labs or +2 Gold respectively. What do you think? Too strong? There are some late game versions that provide +3.

It does reduce the reliance on Trade Focus for its +2 ECONOMY, -1 INDUSTRY, -1 GROWTH (Pirates were pretty much doomed until they got it for example), allowing the Growth Focus or Industry Focus to be feasible again.

[Geo]

*struts with his new badge*

Looks more like dancing?

[Kilkakon]

Yeah he is. :O Dancing mander go haha~

Made a new faction for the hell of it. Won't be able to release him sadly due to not owning the leaderpic I used but he was amusing.

-1 GROWTH
-2 INDUSTRY
No Trade Focus allowed (no +1 trade per square :O)
Free HQ in every city

Might use him in LANs as that's the only way the game gets played and I could use a handicap anyway.

[Kilkakon]

Well--I had a spare evening to think for once and realised how close this project is to actually being finished. Here's all that needs to be done:

3 voice overs
Wiki
Title screen

I have had a good hard think about the wiki. It is a really cool thing, and I definitely appreciate the help people have given (especially Ete) in getting it going for me, but I am unsure if it's really necessary for LE. Hardly anybody actually plays the game (more distantly respects) so it's not really needed. So currently I am thinking I might just skip the 10 hours or so of work getting a Wiki going and focus on other tasks instead.

I've recorded one of the VAs last night (my sister, haha) so after a bit of post the only two left to go are ones I voice anyway. Shouldn't be tooo hard to organise something there.

A minor aside--I am a tad annoyed of how hard it is for me to match my original Meora voice work. He's got a distinct voice, and the new laptop makes me sound completely different. :O Probably will mean sitting down for an hour or so with the old lines and try to match them as best as I can. It's gotta be done though as Meora is one character who will be brought into future projects (C&C, stand alone SMAC faction, planned commerical games) so yeah~

With the title screen, I've been thinking that a suitably epic picture would be a fun way to finish off the project and be happy. Something with all the characters on it! I will definitely need some help with laying all that out and will post in the offtopic board my progress. It'll probably take a few days at least to draw it all with the sheer number of people involved (15!)

Also hi. Hope you guys are doing well.

[Kilkakon]

Anybody around? Bit of a ghost town lately.

[Buster's Uncle]

Life begins with you.

[Kilkakon]

Haha well I have tried.

Recorded my sister the other day, her voices are ingame. Probably tomorrow I will record the other 2 and do a bit of a start on the title screen.