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Title: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 08, 2008, 06:05:59 pm: Begining Transmission Edit...

To visit out website and/or our forums, and to see updates, you can go to our website that's hosted on SectorGame. (http://www.sectorgame.com). Thank's to Hunter for granting us hosting there. :)

Get to the website HERE (http://www.sectorgame.com/ASW)

Also, this thread will serve as a place for future transmissions with updates from the ASW team.

Thank you for your attention :)

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Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: dragonsniper on November 08, 2008, 06:08:05 pm: It's a nice site. :D
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 08, 2008, 06:20:29 pm: I'm in love.

How did I not know about this before?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Droid803 on November 08, 2008, 06:26:27 pm: Quote from: nuclear1 on November 08, 2008, 06:20:29 pm
I'm in love.

How did I not know about this before?

Thread's here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,53686.0.html :nod:
It's a bit buried.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Rick James on November 08, 2008, 06:33:53 pm: Tell me, will that Juggernaut-class Ancient vessel be equipped with that massive wtfpwnage forward cannon?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Droid803 on November 08, 2008, 06:35:17 pm: The carrier? Oh yes. ;7
But its not OPed.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 09, 2008, 11:00:42 am: Depends on what cannon you're thinking of.

The website has been updated: news update, team page update and link to the new forums added.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Mobius on November 09, 2008, 11:27:28 am: Err, you're going to use the Akrotiri as Juggernaut(like in PI)? Why not the Androgeos?!? :confused:
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 09, 2008, 11:39:56 am: Akrotiri is a carrier. More of a superdestroyer. The Androgeos is the juggernaut. Don't worry ;)
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Droid803 on November 09, 2008, 11:40:36 am: We are using the Androgeos as a juggernaut.
We're using the Akrotiri as a Carrier. But it does have a big gun.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Mobius on November 09, 2008, 11:42:28 am: No problem, I thought you were using the same convention seen in PI.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Snail on November 09, 2008, 11:59:12 am: Nice to see another project on SG. Woot.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: DarthWang on November 09, 2008, 08:42:46 pm: How are the Shivans going to counter Juggernauts?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Droid803 on November 09, 2008, 09:22:50 pm: Quote from: DarthWang on November 09, 2008, 08:42:46 pm
How are the Shivans going to counter Juggernauts?

They're Shivans.
They just do.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: eliex on November 09, 2008, 10:17:21 pm: No. They just magically build an even bigger ship than the one the Ancients destroyed.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 09, 2008, 10:48:09 pm: Yea, something like that.

I thought that this thread was about the site and forums though, not a F.A.Q. ?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: Mongoose on November 09, 2008, 11:15:55 pm: Quote from: DarthWang on November 09, 2008, 08:42:46 pm
How are the Shivans going to counter Juggernauts?
No one said that these juggernauts would be able to punch through the Lucifer's shields... :nervous:
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War website is ONLINE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 10, 2008, 12:48:16 am: They could punch through Lucy shields, if they had beams.
Title: 5665BC-01-07 UPDATE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 07, 2009, 10:48:19 am: Beginning transmission

5665BC-01-07 UPDATE

The Ancient-Shivan War has updates. Like a new Eyecandy thread started, and the recruitment thread. Visit our forums, which can be found HERE (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=54), to see the updates.

Also, though the site wasn't updated yet, I'd like everyone to welcome Esarai to the ASW team. He will be working as a modeler.

Thank you for your attention.

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Title: 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 19, 2009, 01:44:02 pm: Beginning transmission

5665BC-01-19 UPDATE

The ASW mystery thread has been started. Click here (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3732) and be mystified.

Also, we have an IRC channel. Click here (http://irc://irc.esper.net/AncientShivanWar) and you might even find some of us on there :)

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Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: General Battuta on January 19, 2009, 03:59:03 pm: The mystery thread seems a little...off. Didn't the Ancients subjugate a great many species before the Shivans arrived? Not just one?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 19, 2009, 04:10:28 pm: Take a close look at the picture again :P
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: General Battuta on January 19, 2009, 04:12:01 pm: Okay, gotcha. Jumped to conclusions.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 19, 2009, 04:41:17 pm: I thought the ASW team had other news to make public. :P :D

*cough* *cough*
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 19, 2009, 05:21:17 pm: Oh yes, those news are comming up :D
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 20, 2009, 05:39:54 pm: Am I wrong or that mystery thread says that there was another species in the system where the Ancients evolved?

That's a bit weird because the Ancient speaker in FS1 clearly stated that they did not meet any advanced forms of lives at the beginning. They encountered other species only later.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 05:48:36 pm: No.

Hint: the speakers in the mystery thread are not the ancients.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Aurora Paradox on January 20, 2009, 06:41:38 pm: Quote from: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 05:48:36 pm
No.

Hint: the speakers in the mystery thread are not the ancients.

I assume you mean the cut scenes in Freespace 1. If the speaker isn't an ancient which does not make sense. Who else would remember how the Ancients were destroyed. If the speaker is not an ancient than who or what is it?

Aurora Paradox
Clan Smoke Jaguar
Alpha Star
Star Colonel
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 06:50:09 pm: You assume wrongly.
I never mentioned anything about FS1.
I've only stated that in this HERE (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3732&sid=5ca2b37874bae5aecadc78b8eee837fe) thread, the narrator is not the Ancients.

If I say any more, it wouldn't be a mystery, would it?

The verdict: the speech is still too much like the Ancients from the FS1 cutscenes... :ick:
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on January 20, 2009, 08:46:16 pm: Just a little request.

If you guys are going to use the Akrotiri, please don't destroy its main gun too early. Both PI and BP were a bit frustrating because that main gun at the bottom of the carrier always gets destroyed before the player can really see it in action.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 21, 2009, 09:30:12 am: We'll see :P
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 21, 2009, 02:51:13 pm: Quote from: Androgeos Exeunt on January 20, 2009, 08:46:16 pm
If you guys are going to use the Akrotiri, please don't destroy its main gun too early. Both PI and BP were a bit frustrating because that main gun at the bottom of the carrier always gets destroyed before the player can really see it in action.

Wrong.
Spoiler:
In PI, the Akrotiri fires its main gun and takes down the Sekham.
[/mobius]

Quote from: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 06:50:09 pm
I never mentioned anything about FS1.

Unfortunately, FS1 is the main source of info regarding the Ancients.

(I say unfortunately because many FS1-related things have been retconned in FS2 and we will never know how the plans for the Ancients evolved)

Quote from: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 06:50:09 pm
I've only stated that in this HERE (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3732&sid=5ca2b37874bae5aecadc78b8eee837fe) thread, the narrator is not the Ancients.

If I say any more, it wouldn't be a mystery, would it?

Then it's about a couple of species who where battling each other and then the Ancients arrived to crush them all?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: General Battuta on January 21, 2009, 02:54:49 pm: Mobius, please stop jumping all over people regarding the slightest canonical nitpick. He said 'before we really get to see it in action.' The PI incident could easily qualify as 'not really seeing it in action'.

His intent was clear.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Snail on January 21, 2009, 02:59:34 pm: It fired once!!!
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 21, 2009, 03:07:23 pm: I don't get it.

Spoiler:
The Akrotiri fired its beam in the cutscene. That's much better than watching the beam fire from the cockpit, really.
[/mobius]
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 21, 2009, 03:07:57 pm: Let's keep the PI discussion to the PI topics, right?

In-between that, you're on the right track though...
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Snail on January 21, 2009, 03:14:10 pm: Quote from: Mobius on January 21, 2009, 02:51:13 pm
Then it's about a couple of species who where battling each other and then the Ancients arrived to crush them all?
IMO the most likely solution said so far.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 21, 2009, 03:23:20 pm: Yeah, that's what I was about to say.

At this point, I ask if there are any new species to see ingame or if there will be references in the plot, only.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 21, 2009, 03:34:02 pm: ;7

Actually, Sectorgame might hold the answer...
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 21, 2009, 03:47:01 pm: Really?

Where did you get the modellers? ;7
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Droid803 on January 21, 2009, 05:27:29 pm: We didn't get modellers, not for the new species anyway. Modeldumps ftw. ;7
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 22, 2009, 04:20:46 am: And others things... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Mobius on January 23, 2009, 01:30:26 pm: In other words you're using Terran and Vasudan ships and pretend to use them for new species?

You're also using Nightmare ships?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: General Battuta on January 23, 2009, 01:40:42 pm: Quote from: Mobius on January 23, 2009, 01:30:26 pm
In other words you're using Terran and Vasudan ships and pretend to use them for new species?

You're also using Nightmare ships?

Why so serious?
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 24, 2009, 02:23:58 am: Quote from: Mobius on January 23, 2009, 01:30:26 pm
In other words you're using Terran and Vasudan ships and pretend to use them for new species?

You're also using Nightmare ships?
Wait and see :P
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Snail on January 24, 2009, 09:10:22 am: Nightmare ships? Meh.
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on November 29, 2009, 11:43:55 am: Bumpity. We're hiring beta testers! Apply here (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=61959#61959).

(http://www.sectorgame.com/ASW/classified-pictures/ASW1_001.png)
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on November 30, 2009, 06:30:55 am: Quote from: FreeSpaceFreak on November 29, 2009, 11:43:55 am
Bumpity. We're hiring beta testers! Apply here (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=61959#61959).

(http://www.sectorgame.com/ASW/classified-pictures/ASW1_001.png)

Oh yes.

OHHHH YESSSS. :yes2::nod::yes:
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on November 30, 2009, 03:07:34 pm: Hmm, this is probably a good place to strategically link to more eyecandy (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3718).
Title: Re: Ancient-Shivan War Updates; 5665BC-01-19 UPDATE
Post by: Solatar on December 01, 2009, 11:21:36 am: I'm a big fan of that HTL Kato, I must say.

While I wouldn't delay a release for HTL models, you should redo some of the ancient ships sometime (their fairly old models).

Looks great, can't wait to play it!