[BtS] "Mars, Now!"

[The_J]

ThE_J is an admin now

Only moderator .
But thanks .

okay b2t i have another stupid idea

you can build a building: request ______ from earth
_____= ressources, which you can settle down manually.
The building itself won't be of ANY value, however you'll be be able to build the ressources from then on. More importantly these ressources have to be organic, it can't be uranium or anything like it. The building itself is specialized only one of a kind can be build in a city and it will allow you only to request one ressource (of a kind but (!) more than once.

Personally i think the wonders you created are great but i think the are way to powerfull.

Imho this now would be too powerful, because you could spread them indefinitly, which would destroy the look of the landscape and would dramatically increase the output of the tiles.
Also it would decrease the worth of the land. You should have to think about where to settle .



About the progress:
Looked at the unit from Charle88 today, i've fiddled around 2 hours, without really knowing what i was doing, and it resulted in the mesh being attached to the tail bone of the lion skeleton o_O.
I guess i'll not be able to solve that until tuesday, so i'll look afterwards further in the graphics stuff.

 

[essi2]

Congrats on becoming a Moderator

Also patiently waiting for the next release of Mars, Now!, it's an amazing mod you've gor going here

 

[The_J]

"Mars, Now!" v04 has been uploaded.
Attention: The mod has grown up to 603 Megabytes in the installer, around 1 GB hdd space is needed for installation.
v03 has been removed after 9460 downloads, thanks to everyone .

Tried to set up an alternate download mirror at Megaupload (the space at Rapidshare is not enough), but i have some problems with it, because i don't use my own computer at the moment.
Will follow hopefully in the next days.

Forgot to make a screenshot of the new graphics .

Changelog for v04:
- CAR mod added to speed up the turns
- fixed disappearing improvements/no improvements buildable after building eden project
- fixed the bug, that water tiles could not be worked without roads
- Fixed bug that units could move on water plots after water roads have been pillaged
- Fixed a bug in terraforming
- fixed flag for private space explorers
- fixed greeting from mehmed ibn farud
- fixed buttons richard kennedy + robert jobs
- fixed missing eyeshadow.dds
- fixed bug that spawning civs do not start with their starting techs
- fixed some not appearing effects (battle tank, laser infantry)
- fixed one missing event text
- Added civilopedia texts by BuggSuperstar and gyrobot, translated in german by Edu
- changed graphics for mohindar singh (by techaton)
- changed spy graphics (saibothlieh)
- changed great spy graphics (lord tirian)
- changed graphics for pablo morales (by ekmek)
- changed graphics for mortar (by snafusmith)
- changed graphics for kufi anana (by Igor)
- changend fusion plant to fission plant, moved in tech tree, changed graphics (by lord tirian)
- added female great engineer graphics (saibotlieh)
- unmanned combat vehicle now upgrades to marauder
- hover tank now also upgrades to battle tank
- mechanized infantry now upgrades to battle tank
- added partially ethnic alien art (charle88, deliverator, The_Coyote)
- Locust +1 movement, -1 strength
- Battle mech -1 movement
- various new buttons (by Civ3 artists Leaven, blue monkey, george stow, theta, storm grunt, deth mc bones, samez and some by myself)
- added great person names
- added partially ethnic alien city art (thanks to Planetfall )
- added promotion force shield
- changed wind channel to Shield Generator, now gives promotion force shield
- slightly reworked civics
- added mapscript perfect world 2
- around 160 mb new music, all free available under the Creative Commons License (will add links to the music later)
- changed Plants&Animals 24 to Umbrella corporation
- changed blackwater interplanetar to OCP
- New Tech-Quotes
- various small things

 

[Vortilex]

I'll download it when I get home, right after my history exam

 

[donschmiddy]

harharhar well i am done with exams for almost 2 weeks now

 

[DavidB1111]

Yeah! A brand new version! I'm happy!

Thank you for realizing in advance that some people can't download from Atomicgamer.
You probably forgot about me.

Also, congrats on your promotion.
Now you can give people more than dirty looks when they say bad things.

Hey, didn't you say at one point you were going to change the nuclear Reactor to not give unhappiness?
Or at least you could have it give happiness with Hydrogen. You know, for Fusion?
So much safer than Fission.

I'm not trying to annoy you over it, it's still your mod.
Also, adding the Martian face would be kind of funny.
Make it an event, perhaps?
"We found a face! Oh, wait, never mind."

 

[The_J]

I hope everyone's exam has resulted in a good mark .

Congrats on becoming a Moderator

Also patiently waiting for the next release of Mars, Now!, it's an amazing mod you've gor going here

Oh, didn't see that post, thanks .

Thank you for realizing in advance that some people can't download from Atomicgamer.
You probably forgot about me.

You're the only person who i think of at that point .
-> Download from Megaupload.

Hey, didn't you say at one point you were going to change the nuclear Reactor to not give unhappiness?
Or at least you could have it give happiness with Hydrogen. You know, for Fusion?
So much safer than Fission.

Changed the fusion power plant to fission power plant and modified it .

I'm not trying to annoy you over it, it's still your mod.
Also, adding the Martian face would be kind of funny.
Make it an event, perhaps?
"We found a face! Oh, wait, never mind."

good idea.
But still, the graphics .

 

[DavidB1111]

It's up to you. I just think it would be funny to see the Martian Face.

Also, you changed the fusion to fission? Okay.
Fusion is less dangerous though. Zero chance of a meltdown.

Also, thanks for thinking of me still. I can be kind of annoying.

 

[Vortilex]

The new release is awesome! I really like the new soundtrack. The old one was kind of depressing. I also like the other new features keep up the good work

 

[The_Coyote]

good idea.
But still, the graphics .

spend a bit time - atm i added it as feature to the mars grassland

128*128 texture, ~ 120 polys

 

[keldath]

wow the coyote!

thats awesome!

 

[The_J]

Edit: Ah, a crossposter .

Also, thanks for thinking of me still. I can be kind of annoying.

You are not .
A second mirror is something which everybody should have, just in case one of them goes down, so it's not really an annoyance .

The new release is awesome! I really like the new soundtrack. The old one was kind of depressing. I also like the other new features keep up the good work

Oh, depressing, really?
Could you maybe go to Assets\Sound\Soundtrack\Modern and hear shortly through the files and tell me which of them you think are to sad?
I myself can't find anything depressing on the soundtrack, but i have plenty of music here, so i can easily substitute some of the files.

spend a bit time - atm i added it as feature to the mars grassland

128*128 texture, ~ 120 polys

thanks man, awesome.

...waaahh....no time for the next update .
Semester is soon over...mmhh... will have to find some time.

 

[mechaerik]

I hope everyone's exam has resulted in a good mark .

Yes. My finals saved me, and I'm actually going to graduate from high school later today.

 

[Tssha]

spend a bit time - atm i added it as feature to the mars grassland

128*128 texture, ~ 120 polys

Optimus?!?!?

 

[gyrobot]

A minor problem was that I intended for some of the unit info to be part of the Background info

 

[Vortilex]

Oh, depressing, really?
Could you maybe go to Assets\Sound\Soundtrack\Modern and hear shortly through the files and tell me which of them you think are to sad?
I myself can't find anything depressing on the soundtrack, but i have plenty of music here, so i can easily substitute some of the files.

No, the current soundtrack's fine. The vanilla BtS one and the one used before the current release of Mars Now! was kind of depressing. This new one is great Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Deon]

My finals are over so I finally can enjoy this mod. Thank you for it!

 

[The_J]

Then happy playing to everyone .

A minor problem was that I intended for some of the unit info to be part of the Background info

Sorry, i'm not sure if i understand what you mean, please rephrase it.

No, the current soundtrack's fine. The vanilla BtS one and the one used before the current release of Mars Now! was kind of depressing. This new one is great Sorry for the confusion.

The old soundpack is still used, but not as excessive as before.
Maybe you just haven't heard the mentioned tracks .

 

[Jennvare]

Hey J,

In comparison to the older version, how many more computer resources does this version use up? With the older version, I could play Huge Maps with no real performance issues. However, with this version, I've been trying to play standard size maps and I'm getting crashes fairly often. It acts like the normal mysterious crash even vanilla Civ gets at times and it's not something predictible (I've tried).

If worse comes to worse and this new version is unplayable on my system, could you put the older version back up for a short time so i can DL it again?

 

[DavidB1111]

That's odd, my computer is hardly the best thing ever, and the only problem I have with this mod is out of control Terraforming. This is on Standard sized maps too.

Yeah, The_J, I love the mod, but the Terraforming seems to turn my land into ocean 95% of the time.
Can I please request other options? Because it's hard to have a decent city when the land disappears rapidly. Did I melt the ice caps?
Also, did you know the average surface temperature on Mars ranges from -75 F (on the night side) to a little over 250 F during the day. Also, did you know the wind on Mars hits around 300 miles per hour!

We found ice, but still, there's a lot less ice on Mars in Real life then in this mod. It's also the type of ice you don't want to put in a drink. I.e. It's not all water.