[StarGunner]

Will there be a 3rd race option added into FS2Open? or is it there alreddy?

If it is are there any bugs with it?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Do you mean 4th race? There are 3 already.

[karajorma]

How do you mean 4th race? FS2 can already handle up to 4 races at one time all fighting each other (more if races like the Vasudans and Terrans work together).

If you mean another team I'm right behind you though. I'd like to see that too (especially if we could define who hates who via a table rather than having it hard coded).

Apart from that the only race specific thing I can think of is thruster and glow colour.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by karajorma

If you mean another team I'm right behind you though.

That is what I mean, yes. so that the Ancients could be independant.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by karajorma
Apart from that the only race specific thing I can think of is thruster and glow colour.

Briefing Icons too.

*Adds his support*

I Know it'd probably be quite tough, but it'd be cool - Inferno has their ancients, Aldo has his nightmares, we at TI have a new race aswell (Not a pipedream I swear Two fighters and a Corvette are already done ) - as the community gets better at moddibng, and the skills are more evenly disseminated, projects and ideas are getting bigger - support for this (campaign expansion) should IMHO be a SCP priority.[/color]

[Petrarch of the VBB]

And TAP will have many races.
Taiidan Imperials
Taiidan Repbublic
Kushan
Kadeshi
Turanic
Beast
Bentusi

and so on. Many races are needed.

[elorran]

True.

[TrashMan]

I propoesd this ages ago. No one listened.
Good to see a good topic again. I'm all for it.
It fas better to have hostile1, hostile2 and hostile3 teams...
Or name it however you like.

Anyway it would be cool!

[vyper]

[mikhael]

consider looking at the Independence War faction system. There's like 40 factions, and the only thing that it effects is the attitude between groups and the EFF ID string (And the hostile/neutral/friendly color on the HUD).

The IWar2 system also doesn't couple things like thrusters to races.

[Nico]

Originally posted by karajorma
Apart from that the only race specific thing I can think of is thruster and glow colour.

support ships. shivans can't even have one
and that's annoying if you ask me.

[karajorma]

But unless you're doing a mission where the player flies for three different races that really shouldn't matter since you can get around it with some creative tabling.

As for shivan support ships they rarely survive long enough to need one

That said it would be nice to see the shivans call in a support ship

[Nico]

yeah. anyway, I think that the availability of more than 3 species is among the most popular requests, so I keep wondering why this one is always ignored .

[karajorma]

Maybe it's not easy to do

[diamondgeezer]

Engine sounds - each species gets one fighter and one bomber engine sound and flyby. Us Reci guys would like another set of sounds for the you-know-who

[Tiara]

Engine sounds are like... unimportant. At least so it would seem to me. Who cares if you here WOOSH! or WOOOOOOSH!

Do more important things first.

[Nico]

w/o their "Weeeeeeeeeh!!!!", the tie fighters wouldn't be as cool, Tiara

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Venom
w/o their "Weeeeeeeeeh!!!!", the tie fighters wouldn't be as cool, Tiara

Still, I think engine sound is a very low priority compared to other things. Its cool, but not important.

[Sobek]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Engine sounds - each species gets one fighter and one bomber engine sound and flyby. Us Reci guys would like another set of sounds for the you-know-who

Could this include engine/thruster glows? combined with sounds, it would really make it unique experience for each race, instead of using terran, vasudan or shivan as a template all the time, especially if it' like B5 and u have a ton of races.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Tiara

Still, I think engine sound is a very low priority compared to other things. Its cool, but not important.

all in all, I agree, but they're bound to species, so bringing the possibility to create new species would just bring that along