FIRST!! Please note that I just put in everything I thought to be cool. I plan to balance things by taking stuff out over time.
A long time ago I played this online game called Shadowbane. Actually, I formed a guild about two years before the game was released and me and my 40 closest online buddies eagerly waited for the game to come out some time within the next 4 months... for two years. We had a lot of free time before the game came out, and we spent most of that time fleshing out exactly what we wanted to do and be in that game.
It was sea elves. We were gonna be sea elves. Eventually the game did come out, we built a 13 city and 1,500 player empire, and accomplished all we ever set out to do. Eventually the game itself beat us. How does a game beat you? Well, server lag, bad graphics, and the non-profitability of the game itself caused our entire empire's citizens to not log on, and eventually our server was taken offline.
Nevertheless I still have gigabytes of information that we built up around the game, and after I saw Fall from Heaven II I wanted to include a hybrid version of the fake empire we had made in this game.
In the spirit of using old norse for the elven names in the game, such as Ljosalfar and Svartalfar, I translated sea elves into whatever old norse I could scrounge up online and came up with the name Saevalfar.
The Saevalfar use the Ljosalfar unit set. The Saevalfar palace includes Dimensional, Water and Enchantment mana. It increases the building of ships by 12%, half of what the Lanun palace does at 25%. It also increases the recruitment of adventurers by 1, half of what the Grigori palace does at 2. They start with Seafaring like the Lanun. Their leader, Vorgen (me!) is Agnostic, although he does have a firm belief in another pantheon of gods. He is also Philosophical and a Defender. The civilization can build Grigori Taverns, Monuments, and Trebuchets. Vorgen used a whole lot of trebuchets in Shadowbane, so he definitely knows how to build them.
Oh, I also made a new cityset for them. Its Oceanic Egyptians. (Also, i think it would be relatively easy to put line drawings of Cthulhu on the side of the buildings instead of the egyptian people, and make a cool new Octopus Overlords cityset. If anybody's interested I'll see if I can do it. I don't use Octopus Overlords myself)
The cityset is a re-colored version of the Egyptian set from EthnicArtStyles from the graphics mod forum. The leaderhead is a piece of art done for my own character by one of my friends during Shadowbane anticipation time.
A long time ago I played this online game called Shadowbane. Actually, I formed a guild about two years before the game was released and me and my 40 closest online buddies eagerly waited for the game to come out some time within the next 4 months... for two years. We had a lot of free time before the game came out, and we spent most of that time fleshing out exactly what we wanted to do and be in that game.
It was sea elves. We were gonna be sea elves. Eventually the game did come out, we built a 13 city and 1,500 player empire, and accomplished all we ever set out to do. Eventually the game itself beat us. How does a game beat you? Well, server lag, bad graphics, and the non-profitability of the game itself caused our entire empire's citizens to not log on, and eventually our server was taken offline.
Nevertheless I still have gigabytes of information that we built up around the game, and after I saw Fall from Heaven II I wanted to include a hybrid version of the fake empire we had made in this game.
In the spirit of using old norse for the elven names in the game, such as Ljosalfar and Svartalfar, I translated sea elves into whatever old norse I could scrounge up online and came up with the name Saevalfar.
The Saevalfar use the Ljosalfar unit set. The Saevalfar palace includes Dimensional, Water and Enchantment mana. It increases the building of ships by 12%, half of what the Lanun palace does at 25%. It also increases the recruitment of adventurers by 1, half of what the Grigori palace does at 2. They start with Seafaring like the Lanun. Their leader, Vorgen (me!) is Agnostic, although he does have a firm belief in another pantheon of gods. He is also Philosophical and a Defender. The civilization can build Grigori Taverns, Monuments, and Trebuchets. Vorgen used a whole lot of trebuchets in Shadowbane, so he definitely knows how to build them.
Oh, I also made a new cityset for them. Its Oceanic Egyptians. (Also, i think it would be relatively easy to put line drawings of Cthulhu on the side of the buildings instead of the egyptian people, and make a cool new Octopus Overlords cityset. If anybody's interested I'll see if I can do it. I don't use Octopus Overlords myself)
The cityset is a re-colored version of the Egyptian set from EthnicArtStyles from the graphics mod forum. The leaderhead is a piece of art done for my own character by one of my friends during Shadowbane anticipation time.