Comments - rm5248

It was for Empire at War, we are moving on to Red Alert 3.

Yes, originally we were for EAW. This mod is in no way related to Stargate: Empire at War. Thank you.

Hey, I would, but I just don't have the time unfortunately. :(

Slow.

These screenshots are from EAW.

Of course. No ships from Star Wars will be in the game, however until we get new models, asteriod mining facilities and laser/missile sattilites will still be buildable.

This is just for regular EAW, not for FOC. We will have a first version(space only) out by the end of may.

Yes, we have thought about that before. No, that is not going to happen. We feel that we can produce a better quality mod - although that will be up to the community to decide.

If you're curious, we were actually around first, before SG:EAW. We've just had bad luck.

Eventually, the Ori, Tok'ra, and many other races will be implemented. However, only the major races will be playable. For the first release, only the Tau'ri (with some Asgard ships) and the Goa'uld will be playable. After that, we will slowly be adding in new races and fucntionality.

The Tollan will probably be in it eventually, although probably not as a playable race.

Yes, eventually they will be in the game. However, only the major races will be playable. This means possibly the Replicators, definately the Ori, but probably not the Tok'ra.

No, unfortunately we don't need any models at the moment, but any help with texturing the models is greatly appreciated.

Can you not see?

Yes!

It is entirely your prefrence on what you say is better. If you think that SGEAW's is better, then that's fine. You can think that.

Well, let me explain a few things.
1. I have(for the most part) developed most of the mod on my own. Yes, there are other team members, but many of them are very busy. We can't all work on this.
2. We're working twoard a quality release at the moment. Yes, it takes longer, but it will be better in the long run.
3. I didn't say that SGEAW is bad - I'm saying taht it's essentially a unit replacement mod. You are just replacing units with ones that you have made, without changing the essential gameplay, which is what we aim to do to make the mod closer to the SG universe.

Yes, Stargate Empire at War is out. Is it better? No. Will ours be better? Yes. Our models are actually much better(although that depends on what you think). Stargate Empire at War is not really a mod. It's a unit replacement mod. Nothing new is added. We are totally re-creating the Stargate universe, with the proper sounds, weapons graphics, and everything.

Just wait and see.

From waht I have seen, most of the time there are sandbags on top of the barrels. I think that we will add those in later.

So, are you still developing your Stargate mod? I'm looking for help with my mod... Final Front. If you're interested, have a look.

This is going to be for regular EAW only, however we may move to Universe At War when the EAW version is finished.

We have some ideas on how exactly the bombers will work. This has not been finalized yet, but we're wokring on it. ;)

"Actually we have one of the best marketing techniques you can use. Flooding the market with weekly updates is not good marketing. "

I disagree with you there. On the mods that I'm working on, we have weekly blogs to show what's going on. It at least shows that you're not dead, and that you have stuff to work on. It also helps to enforce deadlines(at least for me), so that you can have a certain thing done (for example) the second week of October, and not go over a deadline. Personally, I check the BM website every couple of weeks/months to see if there's another update, and it gets discouraging when there's nothing new.

Just my two cents. But whatever floats your boat. :)

Yes, the Al'kesh is the Goa'uld class of bomber. I was talking about an Earth bomber; it would make sense to have one as there is a bomber for the Goa'uld but not one for Earth and their allies. A SLAMMER missile(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM) is an Air to Air missile, not an air to ground missile.

As for quality, yes, our ships are of very high quality. :) Plus they're all low-poly, so it will be easier for people with low-end computers to play the mod. Unfortunately, we dont' have a dedicated texture artist at the moments, so we're lacking in textures. :( If you know of anyone who can help, please send them our way!

And finally, you need enough of a variety of ships to use. I agree that people do tend to concentrate on one class of ship in EAW, but some ships are better than others(for example the broadside cruiser and the Marauder missle cruiser are better at taking out long range targets). Hopefully, we will be able to balance the game such that people will not use only one class of ship.

We are definately going to have a space only release before the end of the year. :)

Thanks for the input on the fighters. :) All of our models have fewer faces than the ships in EAW, so that the mod should run better on computers that have a hard time playing regular EAW. The use of fighters will be tested. If possible, we may have the ships spawn fighters as some sort of special ability, like the AT-AT's 'deploy stormtroopers' ability. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Or should we just follow the EAW model and have fighters deploy automatically from a hangar on the ship?

The size of the ships will be changed over the course of making the mod; there is not a set size yet.

@MerlinGalgotta

Thanks. ;) Your mod looks pretty good so far.

@QuamieMasterT

I'm unsure of that at the moment, I need to take a look at the code to see if that is possible. If we can, that would be very cool. :)

We really only have 3 modelers, and only one of us is good at texturing. We're working as fast as we can though.

And just some comments on the other Stargate mod, the translations from German to English are sometimes hard to understand, and at least in my view it's just a unit replacement mod.

It is amazing at what they have managed to get done in a short period of time though.

We're aiming for a quality release. ;) Besides, they're only doing it for FOC, we're going to do everything in normal EAW. :) In fact, cloaking for ships is close to being done. :)

Hopefully, we will have a space only beta out by the end of July.

We may have some bombers, it depends. We do have a concept for a bomber, which we may use for planetary bombardment. Since there are not many different classes of ships, it may make more sense to have some kind of bomber so that you have more of a choice in the types of craft that you can use.

We will perhaps have a mini mod. If we do have a mini mod though, it would proably be space only and be our first release. That's still to be determined.