Stargate: total war

**Meelis13** · January 26, 2011, 04:46 PM

Hi everyone.
im butting together a stargate fan team (well, at least im hoping to), to make a decent stargate mod! 1st of all: wich of the total war games would suit best for this mod in your opinion?
now anyone, who is interested is welcome to join.
Ok, you all think probably, that "Stargate mod in total war game? thats not possible! lmao, what have you been smokin?", but this is not a joke and i never smoke or drink so you may believe what i say.
This mod is planned to be released as total conversion and as 2 parts (both act as independent mod): 1 part for land skirmishes and 2nd part for space battles. Every modder type is accepted.
since i dont expect you to join team without knowing, what i have planned, im going to tell you basic idea-
mod land skirmishes would take place alternate reality, where earth is invaded by many powers: goa'uld have re-conquered mediterrenian, asgards have come to aid humans with tok'ra and they have established their foothold in north-europe: Asgards in norway and the tok'ra have made themselves nice little island in north sea using their crystals. to make things worse, Ori have taken entire south-america and wraith have established themselves in australia. Genii have secretly gained power in mid-asia and they are rather neutral party. to even the odds, earthlings (aka Tau'ri) face, they have bought city of Atlantis into pacific ocean near san fransisco (yes, pretty much like in "the enemy at the gate"). Contact with Japan is also lost, replicators are suspected (faction combined with milkiway and pegasus replicators) Tau'ri also found a way to shield the planet from outer-space, so spaceships cant fire from orbit and for some reason, this shield has neutralized all air travel capabilities, so gliders, alkesh, etc wont be in land campaigns.
plan is to strip down all unit desigs and make them (well, at least a bit) smaller.
for space battles i tought making map for Milkiway, Pegasus galaxy and SGU planets as star map. cities will be planets (battle for planets take place in the orbit of course). in space battles i tought to use ancients as well, as they have many starships appearing through franchise. BTW support units, as gliders, F-302-s, etc will be as independent units.
now, be honhest, what you guys think of it and if you like it, why dont you join the team

hope to see you all on the team!

seems like i have to ask someone to take this mod under his control...
by the way, reason i dont want to do active skinning, coding and stuff like that, is that about 4 months ago i had this mod almost complete (both land and space campaigns), sadly i dont have any other proofs beside my word, because my computer had infected with some virus and i had to do total cleanup without any chanche of removing any files on harddrive including mod files. Beta testing was only 2 weeks away at top.... you cant imagine, how painful it was for me to do it, i wish i would have made at least some copies on DVD-s of work done.... overall progress was estimately around 85-90 percent i believe. i was working to make this mod over 2 painfully hard years (since 2008)..... this mod would have blown your minds off, i swear: hell, i even found a tweak, that allowed to make trip-through-stargate battles (yes, i had like 3 planets at least) (if i remember this correctly, i used reinforcements feature). unfortunately i have waited all too long for announcing that: i found this tweak by pure co-incidence and it was like year ago or so... seriously guys and gals, you have no idea, how depressing it was for me to delete all hard work i have done... im still depressed about that, thats why i said, that im not good with modding.
reason i didnt posted previews anywhere, was because i wasnt sure, if im able to complete the mod+ i wanted to suprise positively all stargate fans AND i didnt want to reveal a mod, that may get many hopes up and than dies...
so excususe me, but i dont make any skinning, coding or otherwise modding (besides beta testing and advising, some history research on historical mods as well) whatsoever at least 2 years. if you want a stargate mod, than you have to assamble team yourselves, if you want advising, than i will help ofc, but like i said i wont do any other modding.
To end this: im sorry i lied, that i havent decided, wich game i will mod (it was M2TW mod from beginning), i only hoped to draw in some crew, please forgive me.
This was my 1st big project and i blew it

**wlesmana** · January 27, 2011, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Meelis13

most ambitious total war mod to date!

Originally Posted by Meelis13

But since i aint good with modding, ....

Unfortunately, most modders cringe seeing those sentences in a proposal.

Too bad, since I'm a fan of Stargate and its lore. Why not start by making a standard Jaffa with a staff weapon? They would look pretty neat.

**Spartan198** · January 27, 2011, 12:10 AM

^That notwithstanding, I'm a bit skeptical about how a space battle could be simulated on the Total War engine.

**Meelis13** · January 27, 2011, 07:34 AM

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**Meelis13** · January 27, 2011, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by wlesmana

Unfortunately, most modders cringe seeing those sentences in a proposal.

Too bad, since I'm a fan of Stargate and its lore. Why not start by making a standard Jaffa with a staff weapon? They would look pretty neat.

i have decided FINALLY to make this mod as M2TW mod (there is still possibility i will change my mind towards Rome: total war).
anyways, lets focus currently on earth campaign- i need someone to make basic map for the world- cities and regions will be determined later. since this is my 1st mod as mod leader (wich i probably will be, actually more like coordinator, advisor and beta tester, if it should go this far) i just want everything to go 1 step at a time. just to make things clear: i have modded before, but i dont consider myself good modder.
ok, please lets start over:
i can mod, but i have too little time cuz of the school, so it may take at least year until i can make simplest thing done, i also have pretty unstable period going on.
right now this is only recruitement topic, focused on earth campaign.
theres need for all catecories: skinners, coders, mappers, etc.
i really hope, that i can count on some of you, so this mod can get started, i can also resign completely from my position as mod "leader" to stay only as advisor.
PS! if at least world map or jaffa staff soldier skin is made and/or at least 1 person joins the mod, i give you guys a little suprise of mod (nothing to do with modding for this mod unfortunately, well at least not directly). i guarantee you, you guys want to hear what i have to say after this.

**Meelis13** · January 27, 2011, 07:21 AM

trust me: i have pretty decent idea, how to make space battles in RTW engine AND without too many difficulties (well, i have some ideas for it, otherwise i wouldnt had suggsested it).
in fact, at least according to my idea space battles wont be more (well, if than maybe a little) difficult than making other mod battles.

**Meelis13** · January 28, 2011, 06:05 PM

seems like i have to ask someone to take this mod under his control...
by the way, reason i dont want to do active skinning, coding and stuff like that, is that about 4 months ago i had this mod almost complete (both land and space campaigns), sadly i dont have any other proofs beside my word, because my computer had infected with some virus and i had to do total cleanup without any chanche of removing any files on harddrive including mod files. Beta testing was only 2 weeks away at top.... you cant imagine, how painful it was for me to do it, i wish i would have made at least some copies on DVD-s of work done.... overall progress was estimately around 85-90 percent i believe. i was working to make this mod over 2 painfully hard years (since 2008)..... this mod would have blown your minds off, i swear: hell, i even found a tweak, that allowed to make trip-through-stargate battles (yes, i had like 3 planets at least) (if i remember this correctly, i used reinforcements feature). unfortunately i have waited all too long for announcing that: i found this tweak by pure co-incidence and it was like year ago or so... seriously guys and gals, you have no idea, how depressing it was for me to delete all hard work i have done... im still depressed about that, thats why i said, that im not good with modding.
reason i didnt posted previews anywhere, was because i wasnt sure, if im able to complete the mod+ i wanted to suprise positively all stargate fans AND i didnt want to reveal a mod, that may get many hopes up and than dies...
so excususe me, but i dont make any skinning, coding or otherwise modding (besides beta testing and advising, some history research on historical mods as well) whatsoever at least 2 years. if you want a stargate mod, than you have to assamble team yourselves, if you want advising, than i will help ofc, but like i said i wont do any other modding.
To end this: im sorry i lied, that i havent decided, wich game i will mod (it was M2TW mod from beginning), i only hoped to draw in some crew, please forgive me.
This was my 1st big project and i blew it