[brandx0]

I'd prefer to forget about gungans entirely.  Being as we're looking mostly at the Galactic Civil War timeline, well, the Empire rounded up most alien races and put them into slavery, and maybe the Gungans just "accidentally" got shipped off to the Maw and "accidentally" fell into a black hole and "accidentally" had a real painful death.

Meesa thinks a dis gonna be real bombad time for da gungans

[chief1983]

Meesa thinks a dis gonna be real bombad time for da gungans

Oh man, reading that while getting over a cold is almost lethal.  Damn near coughed up a lung from laughing so hard.

[starlord]

and what about later in the star wars timeline?

Wouldn't it be good to try to recreate for instance the 2nd rise of the emperor, with the world devastators and the eclipse super star destroyer? This would be great!

And later still, why not depict the yusaan wong war? etc...

Full of ideas there.

[maje]

There are no plans to do the Vong War, let alone create ships from the NJO era.  Not currently sure about the Dark Empire saga, though it may be a possibility.

[Mobius]

I don't know if the following questions have been asked before, but...

Are you going to create a soft demo(that requires FS2 to run, of course) with only a few models, textures and tables?

Are you going to complete all models of all eras before releasing the Conversion or you will divide it in episodes, chapters or something like that?

[chief1983]

I hope to have a small demo released, and depending on how much file replacement we get done it may or may not require an FS2 install.

[Mobius]

What about the other question? Will you complete of models of all eras first? Are you going to divide the mod in parts?

[chief1983]

As soon as we have enough stuff done for an initial release, we'll have it out, so it will likely only have ships done that are needed for that release.  If we do a fighter combat release, we will likely only have fighters done first.  If we get some of the campaign done, we will have what's needed for the campaign as well.  Other ships from other eras are currently a lower priority than the stuff from the time our campaign is going to focus on.

[Mobius]

Something like the Demo of BtRL: a handful of models...that's what I had in mind.

[chief1983]

Well, hopefully we have a few more.  I'd like for there to be enough to really allow the community to have something to play with.  Ideally, I'd like to have two to three times the ship count they had, even if it means not getting it to the point of being a standalone release.

[Mobius]

Are you going to create multiplayer missions for it?

[chief1983]

Multiplayer is one of the things I'm most concerned with.  If nothing else I plan on creating a simple melee pack myself

I have an even larger interest in this now, because my old squadron over at The Rebel Alliance was recently shut down, and integrated into other squads.  So, if we do this right I hope to get it added as a supported game with TRA, and hopefully revive interest in them, enough so to warrant reopening my squadron.  It was sad news when I heard about it being closed, so now I have even more drive to help get this out the door.

[jr2]

Something like the Demo of BtRL: a handful of models...that's what I had in mind.

Umm... AFAIK, BtRL had quite a few models, but only 3 or 4 were used in the campaign.  ...Right?

[chief1983]

Uhm, not that they've released in the demo yet I don't think.  It was pretty much just the ships they used in the campaign.  2 vipers, a drone, a raider (w/ 2 skins I think) and the miner.

[jr2]

Hmm... seems you're right.    What was I thinking of?  Maybe the WCS Prologue?  IDK

[P_Alvomane]

I serverly doubt if this possible, but can one make planet surface battles? i quite enjoyed the x-wing books, and fly arond coursant would be fun.

[chief1983]

It's something we still hope to entertain at one point, probably once we get someone with planet modeling experience.  SoL has been working on it for quite some time, and I don't want to delay the whole project for that long just for that feature, considering it's not the main focus.

[maje]

I know that I want to include planetary bases and such, though I'm not sure what kind of coding would be involved to animate Walkers, let alone make sure they stay on the surface and have their movements restricted.

[jr2]

The FPS coding that Goober is doing in 3.7.0 coupled with razorjack's coding that he is attempting (if he ever gets any help; ) should make that possible.

[archangel35757]

I know that I want to include planetary bases and such, though I'm not sure what kind of coding would be involved to animate Walkers, let alone make sure they stay on the surface and have their movements restricted.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Descent 3 was both a space and planet-side game, where you controlled vehicles on the ground.  The Descent 3 code is all released... perhaps if the SCP coders took a look at that they would gain insight into adding your wish.