[Starts] EJ's Mod-for-a-Mod XTC Gamestarts - V1 Tomorrow

[EmperorJon]

EJ's Mod-for-a-Mod XTC Gamestarts

Compatible only with the Xtended mod.

Adding this mod to Vanilla TC will cause !!CHAOS!!.

Key:
Done
In Prog.
Not Started

(There's a few more starts which I'm keeping quiet about )
Starts will include:
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Sneaky Smuggler - Teladi - X-Treme
For the past few wozuras you've successfully smuggled 'luxury commodities' between the new and old sectors. If the Terrans knew you were using their gate...
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Humble Merchant - Argon - Not all that hard
Herron's Nebula wasn't as profitable as you hoped, and now you turn to the new world...
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Yaki General - Boron Yaki - Hard
Peaceful!? You didn't get where you were today through peace. You are the shadows, you have claimed many lives. Now time to claim a few more.
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Solaran Soldier - Aldran - Hard
All your life there has only been Solara. Then the Terran's came back... now you find your space filled with disgusting alien races!
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Trapped Priest - Paranid - VHard (This is the damaged ship no SETA one!)Unholy pirates tried to steal these holy relics! You fought bravely, but your ship is highly damaged. If you survive, His Holiness will surely reward you greatly!
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Serious Split - Split - Average/Easy
The expansion region is ripe with economic opportunities... Split say, get trading!
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Neutral Argon - Argon - Average
Unknown to the universe, a star begins to rise. You need not worry about enemies at this stage, nobody's ever heard of you.
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Silly ones:
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Bleep! - Xenon - X-Treme
The Xenon's greatest fear was that a union of races would begin to fight back. These sectors are overrun with fresh new life, and the Xenon are concerned. They've made a strategical retreat for now... and you've been left behind in busy space! Oh *BLEEP*!
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Shivan - Shivan Dragoness - Just For The Lulz™
As a great aged Shivan Dragoness you must lead your pack to new hunting grounds!
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Other Info:

Any suggestions for more, please post here! Or any other requests. Or feedback, etc.


I'm working on some other ideas too, as you can see many here are xtreme or a bit of a joke... There'll be more average ones! I think with the standard XTC ones too most areas will be covered.

I added Humble Trader due to popular request... one person demanding it.


Download:
(later)

[EmperorJon]

Changelog and reserved,

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

Nice post, why will it cause chaos?

[EmperorJon]

Because it uses data from XTC and scripts for XTC and is made for XTC and it will cause Chaos.

[CraterFace]

Yay a Xenon start! :D *BEEEEP*

[EmperorJon]

I feel I must make a note that although it says TODAY! it may not be out today, or in fact tomorrow. I've realised due to the shift in ships in general I may have to get a better feeling of what would be right to start with. This is also combined with not quite knowing what relations I should use for different starts, and as a buffer before release for any suggestions.

I hope you understand.

[Sartorie]

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Shivan - Shivan Dragoness - Just For The Lulz™
As a great aged Shivan Dragoness you must lead your pack to new hunting grounds!

now thats one we never considered I like it ^^

[Killjaeden]

with minimal equipment:
Slow M5 -> very hard
Fast M5 (Split Jaguar for example) ->not so hard


With M5 you cant really trade something, except e-cells
Fast M5 can fight and make personal transports, slow are not really good for that

slow M4 -> medium
slow m4+ -> not hard
fast m4 -> easy

With M4 you can already trade L1 food, some L2 food and some Tech wares, Fast M4 and M4+ can fight too. Slow can't fight in the beginning in missions because they cant catch the fast M5

m3 and bigger: easy

[EmperorJon]

Yeah it's quite hard to keep everything in balance.


@Sartorie You honour me!

[lordmuck]

with minimal equipment:
Slow M5 -> very hard
Fast M5 (Split Jaguar for example) ->not so hard


With M5 you cant really trade something, except e-cells
Fast M5 can fight and make personal transports, slow are not really good for that

slow M4 -> medium
slow m4+ -> not hard
fast m4 -> easy

With M4 you can already trade L1 food, some L2 food and some Tech wares, Fast M4 and M4+ can fight too. Slow can't fight in the beginning in missions because they cant catch the fast M5

m3 and bigger: easy

dont agree with the m3 being easier... even M6 starting out in a game like that and the pesky m5's at 300ms = swear fest and they will run from you..missiles i hear u scream....... easily shot down by them.

but back on topic u may want to add starting ship type and make, also starting creds to your 1st post more info for down-loaders is nice

[EmperorJon]

None of those things are actually decided yet.

[Sorkvild]

That's really awesome idea - custom starts for XTC.

I'd like to see something equivalent to X2 Extreme: Disco with 75 of max speed (damaged hull), no weapons, no equipment, no seta, with 50 Cr, starting in a long distant sector

Making monies for SEta by selling 4-5 ecells or 1 piece of beef for a long period of time would revive many good memories from X2 Just think about it

[EmperorJon]

I'll consider a SETA free start.

[EmperorJon]

Release may be delayed again... will check V1.1 changes for anything which may matter.

Also will add a Seta free start due to it seeming a popular request, and a few more starts with basic fighter craft for some other races, including an Aldran start.

[EmperorJon]

Just realised I never released this, and I really want to now. Trying to find the files, will be back shortly!

[CuriosityKillsTheMADCat]

"Just realised I never released this, and I really want to now. Trying to find the files, will be back shortly! "



MFG

CKTMC

[EmperorJon]

Hehe, found the files too! There's some work to be done on them, I'm afraid, but they should be up tomorrow! (Honest)

[EmperorJon]

Updated first page. Got bored and started doing some tests, can confirm that Serious Split, for example, is not only fun trading but still challenging, requires exploration and good thinking, isn't as easy as say Humble Merchant in v. TC, etc.

[EmperorJon]

There will be a release of 10 or more gamestarts within the next 24 hours everyone

[EmperorJon]

Forgot about the clock change meaning I've actually got until an hour before I posted that.

The bad news is, there's some issues which seem to make no sense at the moment.

The good news is, I can remove them until further notice, and almost all the gamestarts will then work successfully.

Please feel free to post more ideas and such! I need more ideas!

EDIT: Hit some other setback, eurgh. Expect to release tomorrow. Trying to solve a problem that has no obvious cause.
Actually, scratch that, trying to solve 2 problems which have no obvious cause. Fun.

If you're actually thinking of giving this a go, please post suggestions, or just to say that you will be, so I can get an idea of how speedily I need to get this version out.