Heads up, whoever's still paying attention to SFC-OP! I'm currently working on an OP+ 4.1.
BackgroundI've been busy these last 5 years since the OP+ 4.0 release. I'll admit it bluntly, I dropped playing or doing anything for SFC completely. I was addicted to a large Korean MMO called Lineage 2 for a while (3 years?), then went through a huge life change when I (and my family) moved from Ottawa, Canada to Palo Alto, California in 2007 (I accepted a Sysadmin position for IMVU, located in the Bay Area aka Silicon Valley). I stopped playing Lineage in 2008 or so, but got hooked into other games. (ie: Dragon Age).
I recently (July) found myself looking for something to do.. so I looked up what was new in the SFB world. I found that 2 modules have been released: X1-R and R11. I ordered these modules from ADB (I think my brain was somewhat overloaded from dopamine from the anticipation when I received the packages). .. There are rules in X1-R to refit just about ANY SHIP to partial X technology.
ScopeTo give you an idea of what these few pages of rules mean to SFC players, this is a new refit for
virtually all ships that exist in late era. These ships would be able to function better in 'later' Late era and Advanced era against the Advanced Technology already in SFC.
I've been working on a OP+ 4.1 since July. I'm a bit beyond 1/2 way to the completion of the project. I am currently recreating ALL the pirates (crazy work, that) to both correct all the misshapen BPVs and to make them more accurate and interesting. They too will be getting the Partial X Refits.
PlaytestingI recently played coopace with old Ottawa buddies of mine, 5 of us with an "alpha release" of OP+ 4.1: all the primary races' ships have received a partial X refit. The plan was for a couple of hours of SFC-OP and then they would move on to StarCraft 2 or whatever.
We ended up saying "screw StarCraft 2" and played SFC for 10 hours straight ... and we didn't run out of material.
The point of this postI'm very likely to complete this mod revision. This isn't about SFC, this is about me having fun creating something again. I'd probably still be doing this even if I didn't have other people to play with, but it's WAY more fun if I do get to play it with others.
However, the 'LAN party' was a huge and complete success. Therefore, I decided to let people know. I want to get in touch with SFC-OP players who are curious enough to try this out. I use Facebook and MSN. I want more people I can tap for feedback and playtime, maybe privately bounce ideas on them and see what they think.
Let me know.
-- FireSoul
PS. The work is so documented that it might give you headaches if you try to absorb it all.
Wiki:
http://pet.dhs.org/mediawiki/index.php/OPPlus_4.1_project_wikiBlog part of wiki:
http://pet.dhs.org/mediawiki/index.php/OPPLus_Project_Blog