[Eviscerator]

My friend, it is unlikely that any game is finished in this industry these days. Out of a hundred projects that get past concept and go into production, only fifeteen will hit store shelves.

As far as the storyline goes, for the most part it has not been decided yet, except for X-Box release. VU is pressuring the team to go with the new-spin garbage, something that all of us are fighting tooth-and-nail, but their position is understandable since they are producing this new snooze-series on Sci-Fi.

The biggest twist is that they changed the origins of the Cylon Mechanicals. Instead of being created by the Cylon race, they are now created by humans. Like Starsiege in space. I hate the idea, and not just because I wrote for Earthsiege/Starsiege and feel that our ideas are being ripped off.

[Star Dragon]

They already have the boxes with artwork posted "comming soon" for both PS2 and Xbox. They are doing the mini-series..

So for a change I would like to see some type of game that pays homage to the opriginal series... Especially if you can start at teh beginning of the story (the cylon surprise attack), all the way through the tv series, to the Richard hatch 20 year script...

   Any chance of your crew contacting Richard hatch to make a deal??? Sinc ehe has MANY of the original surviving cast members willing to do a new series, I am sure they would LOVE to have voice roles in a origianal based game!!!! SHEBA WE LOVE YOU!!!
LOL, but I also love Athena as well ...

Hey it's an Enlightened society right? If Starbuck was too cowardly to say "hey I want two women...Deal with it", then he deserved to get caught cheating all teh time..

[IPAndrews]

Richard Hatch would probably voice act for an excellent BSG mod. Hell he'd probably write the campaign for you, but only if the quality is there.

[karajorma]

Maybe we should point him at TBP and say "Want to see us do the same for BSG?"

BTW I am semi-serious about that

[Killfrenzy]

Originally posted by IPAndrews
Richard Hatch would probably voice act for an excellent BSG mod. Hell he'd probably write the campaign for you, but only if the quality is there.

Y'know, that thought had crossed my tiny!:D

But I'm not sure what the minimum quality level would be before he'd say 'sure, I'll help you a little.'

But of course, the guy is as BSG nuts as you and I am so maybe he'd be interested anyway......*shrugs*

Oh, and Star Dragon? The Cylon war was going for 1000 years (Ian, can you confirm this or am I talking rubbish? ) before the destruction of the Battlestar fleet near to Cimtar in 'Saga of a Star World.'

So, unless we have an immortal player, a campaign going through the entire time period would be.........difficult!

[IPAndrews]

Originally posted by Killfrenzy

Oh, and Star Dragon? The Cylon war was going for 1000 years (Ian, can you confirm this or am I talking rubbish?

I think it was a thosand yahren

[Killfrenzy]

Oh stop it! The answer you were looking for is 'YES!'

Oh, and Karajorma, I'd LOVE to do a BSG mod on the same quality level as TBP, but there's one tiny flaw in that plan. I'm on my own with some help from Ian! The team would need to be expanded for that sort of quality level!

[Star Dragon]

I meant the start of the series not the actual back story. Unless you can play a rouge advisor cylon who see's the potential in humantity (ie an imaginiation for example, and teh ability to throw logic out the window) After all That's why the Vulcans like us, they can act superior and evolved all they want, but most of them can't imagine themselves out of a paper bag!

   Remember Lucifer and Specter (the advisor class?), I loved the political in-fighting and backstabbing. At least they learned SOMETHNG from humanity!

  OOoo! I had a thought (amazing huh?), How about a "special" mission branch you can unlock. This is how you find out about the Pegasus being alive and fly deep strike, salvage, and sabotage missions for Commander Kane!!!!

Thoughts???

[Killfrenzy]

Hmm.......the special mission branch sounds interesting, but runs into problems wrt the 'canon' storyline. The only people who knew about the Pegasus having survived were the Pegasus' crew and the Cylons who got smacked as a result. None of the other Colonials knew that the Pegasus had survived until they ran into each other in 'The Living Legend.'

The idea I had was to start the campaign a year or two before the betrayal at Cimtar and take it up to the end of Saga of a Star World, with the player being transferred to the Galactica shortly before the Cimtar mission.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Killfrenzy
Oh, and Karajorma, I'd LOVE to do a BSG mod on the same quality level as TBP, but there's one tiny flaw in that plan. I'm on my own with some help from Ian! The team would need to be expanded for that sort of quality level!

Get him on board by pointing at TBP and saying that's not even the level of quailty we can do now that we have HTL. Once he's on board go to Galactica boards, point at the gamespy FS2 download and say that you're making a BSG mod for that game and that Richard Hatch is onboard and you need models for it.
 Duck as they throw models at you

If you can get him onboard you'd have almost every purist who could model joining the team Hell even if you didn't get together a team lots of people would at least look at Freespace

[Raptor]

Heck, I'd start modelling the Colonial 'Tiger' Destroyer, if I didn't have so much else to do ATM..

But do you guys realise that if we try to recreate the Battlestar correctly, we are going to have to bug the SCP coders again and again and again until they give in to get mutli-part turrets that do not fire though the ships own hull?

Oh IPAndrews, mind putting in a link to your site with your models?  My search engines are on the blink, and I'd like to have a closer looksee....

Must admit, I looked over the designs at http://www.shipschematics.net/ and I did not like some of those at all.  The Helios being one of them:ick

We really ought to setup a full project mod thingy....

[Killfrenzy]

Well, I quite like the Helios because it, along with the Tiger, gives the Colonials some punch.

I guess I ought to contact Richard Hatch and try and get his input, but I've no idea what to say!

Anyways, who here is on board? I know you're interested Raptor!

[Star Dragon]

Sci-Fi and fantasy are my two biggest hobbies but I am still a noob when it comes to modding.. I'd love to be onboard but as a Beta Tester, or TV series Info Geek (However I am in denial that galactica 80 series- the travesty with the kids on earth - ever happened. It never existed in MY universe!)

  Also what about the people who use only retail version of FS2?

l8tr...

PS Forgot about VOICE ACTING!!! Put my name in if you are thinking of having it...

[Eviscerator]

I believe the idea of courting Richard Hatch is a very good one. Even if he says "no" at first, you could still improve your product and then try to convince him again.

[Killfrenzy]

Yes, but what do I say to him in an email? It's all very well saying 'hey Richard, look at this (insert url of uploaded screenies here) would you consider helping us?'

I think something a little more formal would be better!

That, and actually getting some stuff to 'show off' would be good....I'll have a go, although I'm up to my eyes in coursework so I don't know when I'll have a 'presentable' version ready....

[IPAndrews]

Originally posted by Killfrenzy
'hey Richard, look at this (insert url of uploaded screenies here) would you consider helping us?'

Actually I think that pretty much covers it.

[Killfrenzy]

What? Those EXACT words?

[karajorma]

As well as your BSG stuff I'd definately point him at TBP as an example of what can be done with FS2.

[Killfrenzy]

Naturally! It's the benchmark by which I personally measure my skills.

Hell, if a BSG mod can be thrown together that's at least on par with TBP then we'll be laughing!

[Eviscerator]

Dear Sir,

I send you greetings and hope this letter finds you in good health.

My name is [insert name here] and I am the lead developer of a computer software project who's goal is a total conversion modification of the PC game Freespace 2 to Battlestar Galactica:[insert title here].

For many years, as you are no doubt aware, space combat gamers have wished to fly against the Cylons as your character did in the fabulous television series that captivated a generation. Out goal is to make that a reality.

The purpose of this letter is to hopefully gain your support and expertise that would no doubt make this project a reality.
Accompanying this letter are some examples of work we have done so far. This link [link here] will take you to The Babylon Project, a total modification we did for the television show Babylon 5. This is just an example of what we can do, and we hope to far exceed the quality of even this ground breaking total conversion.

We hope to hear from you soon and thank you for your attention and your consideration of our request.

Sincerly

[your name]

It's not that hard really. Just be respectful, appeal to his vanity a wee bit and support your work. Oh, if you decide to use that^^^^ go ahead, but run it though the spell checker first since I did not.