New Race: The Zeta Reticuli

[Andrés]

http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/races/zetareticuli/

[geoschmo]

Hey! Finally a real life race beside the Terrans for SEIV. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Baron Munchausen]

Zeta Reticuli is the name of the system that the Greys are supposed to come from, but I have never heard anyone use it as their name.

It is a surprisingly cool looking shipset, though. Very nice textures. The fighters having a 'glow' around them is also nice. More shipsets ought to have a noticable flame/exhaust for fighters. The crop circle glyphs in the shields are clever, but the weapon platforms are odd. Where does the missile launcher fit in a Nazca plains drawing?

[ June 20, 2002, 16:29: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Jmenschenfresser]

Love the base pics!

Good work.

[Atrocities]

They look like the little gray guys from Stargate SG1. Forget what they are called.

Nice work though. Very nice work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Andrés]

I found them referred as the Zeta Reticuli, and shortened to just Zeta in some UFO page. Many races take their name from their home planet, so I don’t see anything wrong with that.

Deathstalker if you’re reading this, I gave them the AI you had made for the SW-EMP3 (now discontinued) with little changes.
Some changes such as the low reproduction and physical strength are for roleplaying reasons, though probably shouldn’t need to be so extreme, but feel free to revise and keep tweaking the AI files.

[Taera]

Hey now thats one fine racestyle out there!

Great work! another addition to my racial directory

[Deathstalker]

"Deathstalker if you’re reading this, I gave them the AI you had made for the SW-EMP3 (now discontinued) with little changes.
Some changes such as the low reproduction and physical strength are for roleplaying reasons, though probably shouldn’t need to be so extreme, but feel free to revise and keep tweaking the AI files."

Hey, no prob. VERY nice by the way. Love the shields pics and Battlestation! As to AI updating I have bEEEn twEEEking various sets rEEEcently..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

In other words I have been upgrading the EEEvil Empire, the Red Gauntlets (adding Drones) and the Sw-Emp1. Mainly the research.txt and ship design. That and one day I must finish the speech file for the EEEvil as well as come up with a better shipnames.txt.

Have to play a game with the 'greys' this weekend http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Edit: Question: Andres, are you going to have a pre-Empire Star Wars shipset (ie, use the ships in Phantom Menace and Clones?? Those proto-star destroyers are mega cool!) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[ June 20, 2002, 23:44: Message edited by: Deathstalker ]

[Gryphin]

Nice, very nice.

Edit: My sweatheart wants to use them in our next game.

[ June 21, 2002, 00:30: Message edited by: The High Gryphin ]

[Rollo]

I really like the race description http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . Good job, Andrés. I'll put them in my next game.

Rollo

edit: typo

[ June 21, 2002, 23:00: Message edited by: Rollo ]

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
They look like the little gray guys from Stargate SG1. Forget what they are called.

Nice work though. Very nice work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In Stargate they're called 'The Asgard' which is a theft from Nose mythology. Asgard was the home of the Norse gods. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif