Mod tools question.

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Hello all!


I'm extremely interested in the mod tools. What will we have access to? Can we craft full campaigns; including dialogue trees & response triggers?

Obviously, I'm going to enjoy the game the way Stardock intended first before I go mucking about with my own stories. I figure I can get away with "Gee Cap'n, the universal translator is on the fritz, so you're going to have to read the subtitles," but beyond that, I'd like to know what kind of control we're going to have.

Custom ships?

Custom Races? (Spore-like Creature Creator?)

Please let us know!

Also, anyone interested in participating in a Babylon-5-themed Mod campaign, please let me know. ;-)

 

V/R,

BabaLament

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Reply #1 from StarControl Forums Top

The developers will be going into more detail on this at a later date. Founders will have earliest insight into these tools but we won't be able to share that on the regular forums until Stardock opens up about it, but it will probably not be public information until later this year or early next.

However, they have publicly confirmed that ship design and customization will be a big part of the game. It's my unofficial educated guess that it may bear a resemblance to the ship design tools in GalCiv. They are basically developing the game with the same authoring tools that will ultimately be available to players, so it stands to reason the game will be heavily modifiable and we'll have a tremendous amount of design flexibility when designing custom ships.

I asked a few months ago about how designing custom races (a la Spore) would work, and they did reply that this aspect is also being incorporated into the authoring tools, in one form or another. I'm especially interested in seeing how that works; the community will surely come up with some terrific stuff.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Nice to see you again Awk!

 

Yeah, I'm looking forward to all of the community-generated content more than anything; so many excellent stories to tell. I know Stardock is officially leaving the Post-SCII lore alone for a time when Fred & Paul are free to carry on...but what about user-generated content? I'd like to see the Project 6014 guys have the opportunity to tell their story using mod tools.

 

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