we are currently looking into the possibility of making a kind of "ultimate" X collectors edition. This would be a single box with all games, no copyprotection and most importantly: As much additional material as possible.
To filter through all the fan made material and later help us create an installer that makes it possible to install mods, scripts, custom savegames etc. as conveniently as possible, we are looking for your help.
Everybody could help us to collect this material and one person could actually turn this into a little job for a month or two and help create the installer.
The goal would be to have a full DVD just with bonus content. This DVD would probably be seperated into "official" material and fan made stuff. The person to look after this installer would have to try out all the fan made material, filter for what is appropriate for this DVD and develop an easy to use installer for it.
Anybody interested in helping us collect the material, should get in touch with Owen (Owen at egosoft.com). If you are interested in this job please get in touch with me (Bernd at egosoft.com). If you fail to figure out how to turn this into an email adress you are not fit for the job
Looking forward to the "ultimate" X box!
Belisarius wrote in X-SUPERBOX: What is this all about and what should it contain?
Thread for Merge Mod (collection of mods merged together for the SuperBox)First of all I should explain that "Superbox" is more of a working title for this unofficial project than a fixed name. We haven't decided yet what name we will give it; as soon as we have made a decision you will be the first to know!
As you probably know, the 10-year story of the X-series came to a conclusion with X3: Terran Conflict. Over the years many fans of the series have come to these forums and many are still here in the community. They are sure to remember the humble beginnings of this story with Kyle William Brennan and his ship, the X-perimental. In X-Beyond the Frontier he lost contact with Earth as a result of a terrible accident involving his jumpdrive and had to fight against massive threats. In X-Tension he recovered a lost prototype ship belonging to the Paranid. In X2: The Threat and X3: Reunion his son, Julian Brennan, followed his footsteps and fought against more dangerous threats than his father could have ever done. In doing so he rescued millions of people in Omicron Lyrae and even made it possible to reconnect the X-Universe with the Sol system. In X3: Terran Conflict you had to maintain peace while the Kha'ak and the Xenon, the descendants of the Terraformers, continued to threaten not only the people of the X-Universe, but also the humans of the Sol system and of course you! This was the only way to grant both sides a peaceful future together.
All the games mentioned above will be in this special box, that much is for sure! But the games of the X-series also motivated many people to create expansions, write scripts, fan-fiction and many other things. To make this superbox worthy of the name, we are calling upon our trusted community to make suggestions of possible fan-made content to go into the box. The potential variety of the content is huge, so don't be hesitant when making your suggestions. This box shouldn't just be something from EGOSOFT for fans, but by fans for fans. You wrote many useful guides, tutorials and HowTo's that we'd also like to add to the content of the superbox. Tell us what you want to see in this box and we'll do our best to add it.
To keep an overview of the collected content we've decided to separate this request into five threads. The content we want is so huge that it would be easy to lose track if we collected it all in one thread.
So, we are separating the subject areas into the following categories:
As you can see the box is turning into a really big project. EGOSOFT isn't just going to ask you for content, but will also be adding its own materials that will definitely throw you out of your pilot's seat! We want this superbox to be as big as possible so we are asking for your help in collecting good, helpful materials, and are looking forward to your suggestions.
- X3: Terran Conflict - Scripts & Modding Forum
Here we will collect the following things:
Please note that any scripts you suggest need to have an interface, so that they don't need to be executed via the Script Editor.
- Scripts
Mods
Scripting and Modding tutorials
AL-Plug-ins
MD-Missions
MD-Tutorials
Plug-ins & Tools
Ships (need to be installable with Cycrow's Ship Installer)- X-Universe
Here we are going to collect:
- Tutorials, Guides, Tips, Tricks, HowTo's
Sector maps
Savegames
Screenshots (i.e. as loadscreens)
We will look through all of this content and decide which to put into the box. We ask you to always post a link to the content you want us to include so that we don't have to spend too much time searching for it.- X3: Reunion - Scripts & Modding Forum
Here we are collecting:
Please note that any scripts you suggest need to have an interface, so that they don't need to be executed via the Script Editor.
- Scripts
Mods
Scripting and Modding tutorials
AL-Plug-ins
MD-Missions
MD-Tutorials
Plug-ins & Tools
Ships (need to be installable with Cycrow's Ship Installer)- X2: The Threat - Scripts & Modding Forum
Here we will collect:
Please note that any scripts you suggest need to have an interface, so that they don't need to be executed via the Script Editor.
- Scripts
Mods
Scripting and Modding tutorials
Plug-ins & Tools
AL-Plug-ins- Creative Universe
Here we are collecting:
Regarding music titles, these must be fan-made rather than commercially released tracks that require licensing, and must also not already have been used in any of the games. Wallpapers should have X as a theme and not your favourite cars; the same goes for fan-fiction. Since we know your creativity knows no limits, anything not listed here is also allowed as long as it relates to X.
- Fan-fiction
Wallpapers
Music
Enjoy!
Thread for Mod/Script suggestions and compatability info