Topic: Need Help (Read 1544 times)

JohnOBX · « **on:** March 17, 2004, 10:27:25 am »

Hello All,

I have been away from the the SFC games for awhile and have enjoyed reading up on some of the comments and helpful suggestions in these forums. I always found the members of this forum--as well as the moderators--very helpful for technical or other issues, and hope some will be able to point the way for me on this particular issue:

I have recently purchased SFC: Orion Pirates and am looking for some mods to make the game more interesting. When I was playing SFC II there were a few people rewriting the mission scripts, etc. to make changes in the game. One of the ones I really enjoyed was a "General War" mod that took you outside the missions of the regular game and let you just play an ongoing game to conquer the universe. (Never could figure out if you actually could "win" this or if you just got to the point where you felt like you'd had enough. Seems to me there could have been some way for the game to judge when your empire had conqured enough territory and the other groups surrendered).

Anyway, I have done the regular search and done a little poking for the needle in the haystack and can't find anything like a "General War" for Orion Pirates. If anyone would like to point me to the right direction, I would certainly appreciate it. I'd also take any suggestions for other mods outside of "General War" that others have found interesting.

Sirgod · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2004, 10:34:01 am »

One thing that you might like to try is Pestalences Huge Mega pack. It will actually allow you to play The EAW Sp campaign using more ships, More missions, etc.

I'll try and find the link for the GW , But I believe It's just a simple Map switch IIRC, and understand your question right.

Otherwise, Just play as the race of your choice, and Conquer the Galaxy. Might want to reduce the # of ai though.

stephen

JohnOBX · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2004, 10:56:16 am »

I'll try to find that Mega Pack also, but if you find it (or anyone finds it) and wants to add a link here it might help others.

While browsing around I did see this massive effort by the players of this game to create a "Galaxy at Wars" Mod. I can't find any indication that this is finished, but there were a few references to beta versions of this effort. Looks awesome. Wish I could help in some way but I'm just a simple player. Does moral support count?

Thanks for your quick reply. I'll get on checking for that Mega Pack.

Pestalence · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:00:42 am »

Well there is a lot of stuff.. usually posted in the Dynaverse 2 forum on this board.

let see...

there is Firesoul's OP +v3.2 shiplist..

this adds close to 5000 ships total to the game across all the races

he has 2 installer packs available.. both are comaptible with the other.. however 1 pack contains models, the other no models.

Mission scripts.. then Nuclear Wessels has the Evil Dave mission pack (NWMissionTest.zip) which is over 100 missions for OP plus Single Player campaign set ups.. be sure to read the readme file in this package...

then there is Karnak's Evil El Karnak Mission scripts (EEK Missions) which is a good collection of scripts for use in single player and Dynaverse... this package contains the MCT single player campaign setups as well as a customized shiplist.

then ther eis Tracey G's patrol scripts.. there is no Single Player Campaign set ups, but it is easy enough to open up a *.mct file in notepad and edit the file to add the missions in...

then there is Firesoul's Fests + Multiplayer Skirmish pack.. I think that is self explanitory

then there is Mangunman's Multiplayer Skirmish Secotr Assault script which has a configuration utility to customise the script...

then there is the Firesoul edited Co-Op Ace Script which is a Multiplayer Skirmish script where you go against an enemy fleet... this is also customizable with a built in utility...

then there is a pack where I combined all of these together into 1 installer.... I call it the OP Enhancement package..

If you have time to Dl a big package and yor machine is tough.. such as a good graphics card and fast CPU and at lease 512 megs system memory.. then my big full package would be good.. however you would have to intall the package on a Clean install of OP....

my big package contains

the OP Bonus Missions as released by Taldren,

SFC OP Patch 2500-2552

Co-OP Ace Scripts

NW Nission pack

Karnak's EK Mission pack

Tracey G's Mission pack

over 90 Single player campaign setups

Firesoul's EAW to OP Mission Script conversions (takes EAW's Storyline scripts to OP)

Firesoul's EAW Sulu Bonus Mission Conversion to OP

Firesoul's OP + v3.2 shiplist with models

Pneumatic 81 and Atrahasis Dynaverse 2 model package (high resolution replacements of Fed and Klink and Rom models)

Magnum Man's Sector Assault

Shipedit and Shipedit OP for modding your shiplist for custom useage

Firesoul's Fest's + scripts

Firesoul's Model testing script (to make sure all your models work correctly)

This package is 165 MB large..

This is to be used on Out OF Box version only, do not use any patches with this package as it already contains the latest game patch. Install time.. approx 10 to 15 min.

you can Download it at :

http://www.sfcx.org/downloads/mirrors/Pestalence/OP_Enhancement_Pack_v1.04_High_Res_OPPLUS_Model.exe

I have smaller packs of varying size with similar content, but not all the content listed above.. you would have to read the posting on it I made in these forums...

alternatively you can Download each part separately by searching these boards for the components.. but the single player setups that are in my package are setups that I made or altered to try to incorporate several things together...

you can examine the posting and get links to the smaller packs fron this posting thread.. these packs you will need to patch to v2552 separately, then install this package.

http://forums.taldren.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=287104&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

anyhow I hope that this helps.

Pestalence · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:01:53 am »

Quote:

I'll try to find that Mega Pack also, but if you find it (or anyone finds it) and wants to add a link here it might help others.

While browsing around I did see this massive effort by the players of this game to create a "Galaxy at Wars" Mod. I can't find any indication that this is finished, but there were a few references to beta versions of this effort. Looks awesome. Wish I could help in some way but I'm just a simple player. Does moral support count?

Thanks for your quick reply. I'll get on checking for that Mega Pack.

check the stickied post in the Modelers forum

JohnOBX · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:12:15 am »

As I mentioned in the orginal post, I really think it is cool how helpful folks in this forum are...

Thanks. You've given me enough to keep me quite busy for the next few hours...nay, I should say days, weeks and months! I will keep your identities safe from my wife, who will likely be about as mad as Klingon in room full of rocking Tribbles...

Sirgod · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:13:14 am »

I need to make a copy of your link Pesty, and have It on hand for post's just like this. anyway, thanks for helping John out there Bro.

Stephen

JohnOBX · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2004, 10:27:25 am »

Hello All,

I have been away from the the SFC games for awhile and have enjoyed reading up on some of the comments and helpful suggestions in these forums. I always found the members of this forum--as well as the moderators--very helpful for technical or other issues, and hope some will be able to point the way for me on this particular issue:

I have recently purchased SFC: Orion Pirates and am looking for some mods to make the game more interesting. When I was playing SFC II there were a few people rewriting the mission scripts, etc. to make changes in the game. One of the ones I really enjoyed was a "General War" mod that took you outside the missions of the regular game and let you just play an ongoing game to conquer the universe. (Never could figure out if you actually could "win" this or if you just got to the point where you felt like you'd had enough. Seems to me there could have been some way for the game to judge when your empire had conqured enough territory and the other groups surrendered).

Anyway, I have done the regular search and done a little poking for the needle in the haystack and can't find anything like a "General War" for Orion Pirates. If anyone would like to point me to the right direction, I would certainly appreciate it. I'd also take any suggestions for other mods outside of "General War" that others have found interesting.

Sirgod · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2004, 10:34:01 am »

One thing that you might like to try is Pestalences Huge Mega pack. It will actually allow you to play The EAW Sp campaign using more ships, More missions, etc.

I'll try and find the link for the GW , But I believe It's just a simple Map switch IIRC, and understand your question right.

Otherwise, Just play as the race of your choice, and Conquer the Galaxy. Might want to reduce the # of ai though.

stephen

JohnOBX · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2004, 10:56:16 am »

I'll try to find that Mega Pack also, but if you find it (or anyone finds it) and wants to add a link here it might help others.

While browsing around I did see this massive effort by the players of this game to create a "Galaxy at Wars" Mod. I can't find any indication that this is finished, but there were a few references to beta versions of this effort. Looks awesome. Wish I could help in some way but I'm just a simple player. Does moral support count?

Thanks for your quick reply. I'll get on checking for that Mega Pack.

Pestalence · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:00:42 am »

Well there is a lot of stuff.. usually posted in the Dynaverse 2 forum on this board.

let see...

there is Firesoul's OP +v3.2 shiplist..

this adds close to 5000 ships total to the game across all the races

he has 2 installer packs available.. both are comaptible with the other.. however 1 pack contains models, the other no models.

Mission scripts.. then Nuclear Wessels has the Evil Dave mission pack (NWMissionTest.zip) which is over 100 missions for OP plus Single Player campaign set ups.. be sure to read the readme file in this package...

then there is Karnak's Evil El Karnak Mission scripts (EEK Missions) which is a good collection of scripts for use in single player and Dynaverse... this package contains the MCT single player campaign setups as well as a customized shiplist.

then ther eis Tracey G's patrol scripts.. there is no Single Player Campaign set ups, but it is easy enough to open up a *.mct file in notepad and edit the file to add the missions in...

then there is Firesoul's Fests + Multiplayer Skirmish pack.. I think that is self explanitory

then there is Mangunman's Multiplayer Skirmish Secotr Assault script which has a configuration utility to customise the script...

then there is the Firesoul edited Co-Op Ace Script which is a Multiplayer Skirmish script where you go against an enemy fleet... this is also customizable with a built in utility...

then there is a pack where I combined all of these together into 1 installer.... I call it the OP Enhancement package..

If you have time to Dl a big package and yor machine is tough.. such as a good graphics card and fast CPU and at lease 512 megs system memory.. then my big full package would be good.. however you would have to intall the package on a Clean install of OP....

my big package contains

the OP Bonus Missions as released by Taldren,

SFC OP Patch 2500-2552

Co-OP Ace Scripts

NW Nission pack

Karnak's EK Mission pack

Tracey G's Mission pack

over 90 Single player campaign setups

Firesoul's EAW to OP Mission Script conversions (takes EAW's Storyline scripts to OP)

Firesoul's EAW Sulu Bonus Mission Conversion to OP

Firesoul's OP + v3.2 shiplist with models

Pneumatic 81 and Atrahasis Dynaverse 2 model package (high resolution replacements of Fed and Klink and Rom models)

Magnum Man's Sector Assault

Shipedit and Shipedit OP for modding your shiplist for custom useage

Firesoul's Fest's + scripts

Firesoul's Model testing script (to make sure all your models work correctly)

This package is 165 MB large..

This is to be used on Out OF Box version only, do not use any patches with this package as it already contains the latest game patch. Install time.. approx 10 to 15 min.

you can Download it at :

http://www.sfcx.org/downloads/mirrors/Pestalence/OP_Enhancement_Pack_v1.04_High_Res_OPPLUS_Model.exe

I have smaller packs of varying size with similar content, but not all the content listed above.. you would have to read the posting on it I made in these forums...

alternatively you can Download each part separately by searching these boards for the components.. but the single player setups that are in my package are setups that I made or altered to try to incorporate several things together...

you can examine the posting and get links to the smaller packs fron this posting thread.. these packs you will need to patch to v2552 separately, then install this package.

http://forums.taldren.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=287104&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

anyhow I hope that this helps.

JohnOBX · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:12:15 am »

As I mentioned in the orginal post, I really think it is cool how helpful folks in this forum are...

Thanks. You've given me enough to keep me quite busy for the next few hours...nay, I should say days, weeks and months! I will keep your identities safe from my wife, who will likely be about as mad as Klingon in room full of rocking Tribbles...

Sirgod · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:13:14 am »

I need to make a copy of your link Pesty, and have It on hand for post's just like this. anyway, thanks for helping John out there Bro.

Stephen

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