Tehulotl
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30 years Ascendancy
1995 - Ascendancy came out. 30 years Ascendancy, congratulations!
2025 - Ascendancy Delyxe or Ascendelyxe 2.2 Mod upload to hopefully enhance the gameplay by far
INTRO:
I still remember that Ascendancy was my first game I actually WANTED, conscious decision. I sat in the bus way home from school, and some child had the "PC GAMES" and looked at the page where Ascendancy was introduced, guess what, 1995, and I wanted it, and I got it, and I played it, and I loved it. Then I began to kind of hate it, cause, yes, you scan the enemy AI ship, you see it includes great Special Weapons, it manouvres stupid, it attacks idiot, it stands still, it never uses these Special Weapons, kaboom, gone.
The AI handling of ship movement, ship weaponry, fleet movement, diplomacy, just everything about AI is, oh wonder why, non existent. If you dont write the lines of proper usage for the AI - there just IS NO AI, AND NO PROPER USAGE, you really really have to WRITE IT, or IT DOES NOT WORK. This is not a dream where it miracoulosly happens to function. This indeed is a PC game, and you NEED to WRITE the AI lines, really really > it just can actually use what is written.
The greatest bummer is, that in 2011, Ascendancy for iOS only came out. So, they STILL HAD the source code, they STILL HAD the rights, and....... made the same Ascendancy BS game, just for touchscreen iPhone. After years and years and years and years of rotten announcements, an iOS only version, with absolutely no fixes, but touchscreen - while they STILL HAD the source code, the rights, and the bloody possibility since 30 bloody years, to just pimp these 573 kb Ascend.exe and its SHTy written AI lines to some MB of AI perfection. They had it all. All the time. And did bloody nothing out of it. Hire some student of some PC language gibberish and let him upgrade these 573 kb Ascend.exe to a fully working AI handling of the FKing game in his FREE TIME JUST FOR FUN, encode it, and send it out - still a DOS game, and EVERYBODY with DosBox would STILL PLAY IT.
Ascendelyxe 2.2 Mod:
End of 2012 I found out how to change the Ascend00.COB via using Notepad++. Around 2013 my Supremacy and Totally Cracy Mod came out, and a german guy called "Franky" contacted me, and experimented for his own version, to just change Special Weapons into common weapons, I doubted the outcome, cause I am a negative axehole, unbelievable I know,
, BUT, it worked, and since, all of these badaxe weapons shoot.
Then my Ascendancy Delyxe 1.6 came out. With a Total War diplomacy, just all versus all.
Then my Ascendancy Delyxe 2.0 came out. Far better Tec Tree. With Warmongers and Peacekeepers diplomacy.
End of 2024, I really tried hard to finalize my Ascendancy Delyxe, or Ascendelyxe Mod, to perfection, my 2.2 version.
I CANNOT HELP non existent AI code to function. I dont have the source code. The creators of Ascendancy still have the source code obviously, and the rights, obviously, and still dont want to add one single line of Ascend.exe Dos Game code to enhance the gameplay, which would STILL BE DOPE in 2025! It STILL IS NOT TOO LATE, to re-gain brain capacity from zero to hero. STILL, to write MORE LINES into the original Dos Game .exe, would have players and fans, imo, just imagine: A 2 MB fleshed out Ascend.exe to kick yo axe.
I really tried hard to re-gain some quality play for Ascendancy, and my 2.2 includes this:
> The annoying torturing ping sound is gone
> The annoying Transport Tubes are gone
> The Tec Tree from 2.0, slightly better
> The Planetary Items are far better
> The Ship Items are far better
> The Items texts are far smoother
> The Diplomacy texts are far smoother
> The Diplomacy is Warmongers, Peacekeepers
> War, Peace, Alliance, are ALL possible FOR ALL
> 4 Difficulty Levels, Easy, Middle, Heavy, Brutal
You need 4 free workers for the ShipYard, and 16 free workers for the Orbital Docks.
I really tried hard, to accomplish some kind of quality play for Ascendancy, and I call it Ascendancy Delyxe, or,
Ascendelyxe 2.2. DOWNLOAD:
1995 - Ascendancy came out. 30 years Ascendancy, congratulations!
2025 - Ascendancy Delyxe or Ascendelyxe 2.2 Mod upload to hopefully enhance the gameplay by far
INTRO:
I still remember that Ascendancy was my first game I actually WANTED, conscious decision. I sat in the bus way home from school, and some child had the "PC GAMES" and looked at the page where Ascendancy was introduced, guess what, 1995, and I wanted it, and I got it, and I played it, and I loved it. Then I began to kind of hate it, cause, yes, you scan the enemy AI ship, you see it includes great Special Weapons, it manouvres stupid, it attacks idiot, it stands still, it never uses these Special Weapons, kaboom, gone.
The AI handling of ship movement, ship weaponry, fleet movement, diplomacy, just everything about AI is, oh wonder why, non existent. If you dont write the lines of proper usage for the AI - there just IS NO AI, AND NO PROPER USAGE, you really really have to WRITE IT, or IT DOES NOT WORK. This is not a dream where it miracoulosly happens to function. This indeed is a PC game, and you NEED to WRITE the AI lines, really really > it just can actually use what is written.
The greatest bummer is, that in 2011, Ascendancy for iOS only came out. So, they STILL HAD the source code, they STILL HAD the rights, and....... made the same Ascendancy BS game, just for touchscreen iPhone. After years and years and years and years of rotten announcements, an iOS only version, with absolutely no fixes, but touchscreen - while they STILL HAD the source code, the rights, and the bloody possibility since 30 bloody years, to just pimp these 573 kb Ascend.exe and its SHTy written AI lines to some MB of AI perfection. They had it all. All the time. And did bloody nothing out of it. Hire some student of some PC language gibberish and let him upgrade these 573 kb Ascend.exe to a fully working AI handling of the FKing game in his FREE TIME JUST FOR FUN, encode it, and send it out - still a DOS game, and EVERYBODY with DosBox would STILL PLAY IT.
Ascendelyxe 2.2 Mod:
End of 2012 I found out how to change the Ascend00.COB via using Notepad++. Around 2013 my Supremacy and Totally Cracy Mod came out, and a german guy called "Franky" contacted me, and experimented for his own version, to just change Special Weapons into common weapons, I doubted the outcome, cause I am a negative axehole, unbelievable I know,
, BUT, it worked, and since, all of these badaxe weapons shoot.Then my Ascendancy Delyxe 1.6 came out. With a Total War diplomacy, just all versus all.
Then my Ascendancy Delyxe 2.0 came out. Far better Tec Tree. With Warmongers and Peacekeepers diplomacy.
End of 2024, I really tried hard to finalize my Ascendancy Delyxe, or Ascendelyxe Mod, to perfection, my 2.2 version.
I CANNOT HELP non existent AI code to function. I dont have the source code. The creators of Ascendancy still have the source code obviously, and the rights, obviously, and still dont want to add one single line of Ascend.exe Dos Game code to enhance the gameplay, which would STILL BE DOPE in 2025! It STILL IS NOT TOO LATE, to re-gain brain capacity from zero to hero. STILL, to write MORE LINES into the original Dos Game .exe, would have players and fans, imo, just imagine: A 2 MB fleshed out Ascend.exe to kick yo axe.
I really tried hard to re-gain some quality play for Ascendancy, and my 2.2 includes this:
> The annoying torturing ping sound is gone
> The annoying Transport Tubes are gone
> The Tec Tree from 2.0, slightly better
> The Planetary Items are far better
> The Ship Items are far better
> The Items texts are far smoother
> The Diplomacy texts are far smoother
> The Diplomacy is Warmongers, Peacekeepers
> War, Peace, Alliance, are ALL possible FOR ALL
> 4 Difficulty Levels, Easy, Middle, Heavy, Brutal
You need 4 free workers for the ShipYard, and 16 free workers for the Orbital Docks.
I really tried hard, to accomplish some kind of quality play for Ascendancy, and I call it Ascendancy Delyxe, or,
Ascendelyxe 2.2. DOWNLOAD:
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EDIT Feb2026: Would REALLY like to hear if all of this is actually a good, or a bad idea!
