Captain Kwok's Space Empires Depot!

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings!

I put together a little website this afternoon to act as my Online homebase for any projects I'll be doing in the future. It'll be dedicated to the Space Empires franchise and be updated on a regular basis. It's a little blank at the moment, but I promise more content before the next redesign. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Anyways, let me know what you think and feel free to suggest items that I could add to the site in the future.

[ July 13, 2003, 02:00: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[tesco samoa]

i think i will wait for the 9th revision.

In honour of the white album

[Atrocities]

You do realize that you are being given credit for your work on the Star Trek Mod? Without you the mod that is now in testing could not have been done.

Granted it is not what you had invisioned, but it is a great start to getting there.

Perhaps you could host the full Version once it is ready? Hopefully by August 1st the mod will be available for all to use and enjoy. You have invested so much time into the project to let it go to waste.

And Nice site, may I add it to my soon to becoming links page?

[ July 13, 2003, 09:15: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[David E. Gervais]

Kwok, your web site is clean, simple, uncluttered, well balanced and looks great. It's refreshing to see people put the 'K.I.S.S.' philosophy to good use.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

And much, much, much better looking than mine, I should add.

[tesco samoa]

sj he feels the pressure from the coffee shop talk.... Now he must build or forever be branded as a coffee shop talker... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Fyron]

Coffee shop talk? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

KISS is highly overrated.

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Coffee shop talk? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I believe that would be an inside joke.

Atrocities:

I would host the mod, but I have a low transfer limit since it's webspace from my ISP. Perhaps in the future, I'll secure my own domain...

[Phoenix-D]

Why is KISS overated? Especially for web pages; it can speed download and loading time.

I hit Kwok's website, it loads frigging near instantly. I hit Fyron's web site and have to watch as it loads..then notice the actual content is squished into a much smaller square by the border, which has no links or anything funtional in it.

[Fyron]

The border is an insignificant portion of the screen unless you are loading the site in a small window or very low resolution (such as 640x480). KISS is actually not taking over for web sites, as they are already generally designed really simplistically (and have been for ever). There is nothing to take over. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Also, with the broadband resolution, more and more people are getting on fast internet connections and the extra load time is not that significant for them.

Also, the border only loads once when you first go to the site. If you stick around and spend more than ten seconds looking at it, that extra load time in the beginning is quite insignificant. Do you complain about the extra time you have to wait when starting up a computer game? I would certainly hope not. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Phoenix-D]

No, because the extra wait gennerally does something. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif I'm on cable Fyron. And we have different definitions of insignificant, apparently.

[tesco samoa]

pssst... this is kwoks thread for his website not a thread on the concept of kiss

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
pssst... this is kwoks thread for his website not a thread on the concept of kiss<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nor double Posts like this one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

The site is mostly simple atm since I just threw it together quickly and I didn't feel like using frames.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:

The site is mostly simple atm since I just threw it together quickly and I didn't feel like using frames.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I hope you don't use frames. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Frames are evil, IMHO. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

But anyways, nice site and I look forward to when its more completed.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
No, because the extra wait gennerally does something. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif I'm on cable Fyron. And we have different definitions of insignificant, apparently.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, it makes the site look better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

I am on what is probably the slowest possible cable modem out there. I just loaded up the Kazharii Imperium web site, and it took a total of 18.95 seconds to load. To me, that is not anything to be worried about. And no, nothing of it was in my browser Cache.

[ July 14, 2003, 02:26: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Taera]

the site is very neat, very good. i like the simplicity, it is a good thing for a depot.

[tesco samoa]

what double post ?????

I agree with frames.... horrible...

[Fyron]

Frames are wonderful devices. They prevent having to reload static portions of the site over and over again, and can significantly speed up browsing a site.

[tesco samoa]

hit the back button

[Fyron]

Yes, it goes back to the Last page you loaded. Using the back button has always worked well for me on sites using frames.

[Captain Kwok]

Don't get me wrong, I usually prefer to use some sort of framing - but I always seem to use the same sort of look and I wanted this site to look different from the former STmod site and any future project website. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Anyways, I was supposed to be working on the planet tutorial today but I fell asleep and wasting most of my available time. Aargh!

[Captain Kwok]

A minor site update with the addition of the Captain Kwok's Skool of Planet design tutorial - or at least the first part. As mentioned in other threads, I'll be adding the other components later this week.

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings.

I'll be working on my fan-fiction section for SE4 - so if you've been writing a story, send me it in either word, html, or text format and I will post it on my website for the next update.

...and yes I will get around to finishing off the planet tutorial too.

[tesco samoa]

include works wonders

and no frames...

[Fyron]

Frames are awesome.

[Suicide Junkie]

When that news page popped up, I was suddenly struck by the ghost of the lurk report...

[Ruatha]

Hi there.
I've sent you the NGC2 story, hopefully there will be some draven updates soon.
Don't miss this story as it was voted THE BEST story ever in one of the polls some time ago: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Best story poll (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=007662#000002)

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Hi there.
I've sent you the NGC2 story, hopefully there will be some draven updates soon.
Best story poll (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=007662#000002)<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks. It's really big! I'm going to break it up into the three parts and post it under the header of NGC2 if that is alright. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Just a request...if you send me a story please check your spelling!

[Captain Kwok]

Ok...ok...

I've learned that Fyron is going to have a fan fiction section at his new site, http://www.spaceempires.net, so I'll let him worry about collecting the stories and posting them. I'll provide a link from my website in that case. I just don't have the time to format the stories if they're going to be available at another site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ August 06, 2003, 01:32: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Atrocities]

Great site CK

[tesco samoa]

I heard that everything on your site is over there... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
I heard that everything on your site is over there... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's ok. Most of my site will contain my personal projects for the series, and a few promotional materials - rather than space empires downloads and such...I'll leave it to you guys who have lots of bandwidth to share. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ August 07, 2003, 17:13: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Captain Kwok]

A minor website update including some new stuff in the mods section and some download links to common SE4 resources...

Edit: "new Stuff" in bold for emphasis...

[ August 09, 2003, 16:25: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[General Woundwort]

Space Food Empires?!?!?!

I have to assume the Lima Beans are the evil empire out to destroy all other vegetable life...

Celery, Broccoli, gotta be...

[Captain Kwok]

The mod is actually based on a series I made back when I was younger, so I've had no shortage of ideas and plans for the details. I'm currently working on a website for the mod, but here is a little more information:

There are ten major empires:
Banana Star Republic
Broccoli Collective
Carrot Imperium
Corn Confederacy
Fruit Federation
Meat Empire
Potato Alliance
Pumpkin Patch
Tomato Union
Vegetable Dominion

Each race is created to play differently. Once I make available the race descriptions it will become more obvious.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
Meat Empire
Potato Alliance<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Natural allies, I assume (this is where built-in racial biases ala MOO1 would really come in handy...)
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ August 10, 2003, 11:13: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Captain Kwok]

I'm afraid not...the Meat Empire and Potato Alliance are at odds with one another.

[Captain Kwok]

Time to resurrect a long dead thread!

If you haven't checked out my little website recently you might have missed the re-launch of Captain Kwok's planet factory. All my new planets are being developed in the "Kwok noveau style". Follow the link in my signature to see the early results!

For comparison, planets made in the "Kwok old-skool style" can still be viewed at the old Star Trek mod site in the graphics > planet images section here: Old Star Trek Mod Site (http://members.rogers.com/stmod/).

Some of you may have pondered the fate of the Space Food Empires mod. It is not dead! Work has been slow but continuous and results are coming shortly. As the school year winds down for me, more free time lies ahead! More free time should translate to more mod-related production.

You can find a partially functional/updated test website here: Space Food Empires Partially Completed Site (http://members.rogers.com/spacefoodempires/main.html).

The website site does have a mostly updated common components list that may be of interest.

[ March 31, 2004, 00:21: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I get a 'forbidden' on the space food empires site.

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
I get a 'forbidden' on the space food empires site. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ah, you must have tried right before I edited the link. Try again!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Got it.

[Ed Kolis]

Hmm, the new planets are nice looking, but they just look oddly misshapen... like the clouds are too thick above the surface or something and making them asymmetrical... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Captain Kwok]

It's really from the fact that the clouds are actually above the surface of the planet, and because of the SE:IV portrait size, the atmospheric haze (which is nicely present in larger renders) is lost. The effect for some planets with clouds at either N-S or E-W poles is the appearance of a slight elongation - I can fix it with a little editing to show more atmosphere...

[Kamog]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Those are some humorous empire names! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
"Broccoli Collective", sounds good.

[Captain Kwok]

I've added another 40 oxygen planets to the mix. You can visit my website to see some larger images, but here are mini portraits for the first batch of 60 O2-rock planets:

http://members.rogers.com/capt-kwok/images/planet-sampleo2.png

Next up are 80 more O2 planets split evenly between ice and gas giant. I plan on making 500-600 new planets (approximately 100-120 for each SE:IV planet type) over the next few months.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:

Next up are 80 more O2 planets split evenly between ice and gas giant. I plan on making 500-600 new planets (approximately 100-120 for each SE:IV planet type) over the next few months. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, someone's trying to beat Atrocities. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Bump.

Check two Posts below. I've updated and upgraded the planets I've made so far. You can see some bigger images at the website.

I do have another 30 or so O2 Ice planets, but their still waiting for some "enhancement".

[Atrocities]

Now those are very cool.

Captain Kwok, the Planet Maker. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[TerranC]

Nice work on those planets. Only 4 more atmosphere types to go, eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Bump for Atrocities to fix on the links page he maintains here.

And yes - will eventually update the site again soon... :P

[Captain Kwok]

Frames are awesome.



Ah, the things we say and now regret. :P

[Fyron]

No regrets. I still think frames are awesome. I just wish IE wasn't such a POS and supported CSS standards, so I could use CSS to create pseudo-frames with all the benefits of frames, but none of the drawbacks...

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings.

I've updated the Space Empires Depot and added a new section summarizing the features expected in Space Empires V as mentioned during yesterday's chat session with Aaron Hall and his previous Posts here at Shrapnel and the Yahoo site. :P

It's not an official list or anything, just thought it might be something that is of interest here. :P

[Aiken]

You may add this to your list:
+ spinning and orbiting planets in system window to Galaxy section.
+ colonies on space stations and worldships

[Captain Kwok]

aiken said:
You may add this to your list:
+ spinning and orbiting planets in system window to Galaxy section.
+ colonies on space stations and worldships



Updated. Thanks!

[Captain Kwok]

Just in case you missed Aaron Hall's two chat sessions (and have a phobia of se.net and related portal sites in which case you cannot access the official transcripts for yourself) and my previous post here, I'm keeping a list of features that are likely to be in SE:V. Check it out at my Space Empires Depot site in another shameless plug so I can overtake a certain poster's highly regarded, but less colourful website. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Fyron]

The #se4 site is not a portal site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Captain Kwok said:
Just in case you missed Aaron Hall's two chat sessions (and have a phobia of se.net and related portal sites in which case you cannot access the official transcripts for yourself) and my previous post here, I'm keeping a list of features that are likely to be in SE:V. Check it out at my Space Empires Depot site in another shameless plug so I can overtake a certain poster's highly regarded, but less colourful website. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif




Research similar to SE:III - can set spending on a pre tech area basis



I think you meant per. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

So, when is DEG's list coming back?

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings!

Just in case you don't visit my website on a regular basis, which you should be doing by the way, I've made a major overhaul to the site - at least on the coding level of things - cleaning up all the sloppy html code and adding style sheets.

I've added a new area in the Race Styles section called the "Ship Graveyard". It features a number of images that I came across while cleaning up my webspace, images I thought were lost in my hard drive crash Last year.

Drop by the site and read the latest news item to see the "Ship Graveyard" along with some descriptions I've added for them. I'll be adding some of the Trek ship images I have and other scrap ship models that I can find lying around.

Check it out! Help make the Space Empires Depot the number 5 site in all of Space Empires! /threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif

[Captain Kwok]

I've updated the "Graveyard" portion of my site so you might as well stop by and waste some time.

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings.

The Space Empires Depot has moved. I've shelled out a few dollars and now you can visit http://www.captainkwok.net! I'll be moving my other sites over and updating them as well.

Look out se.net!

[Atrocities]

One word AWSOME

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

You forgot to name the Sergetti in the races that would be returning... you can see a pic of their ships at Malfador's site.

[Captain Kwok]

I did some work on the Space Empires site today and laid the groundwork for a couple new sections. One of them is called Reviews, where I'll look over different mods or fan sites. Also, I'm going to create an award to be bestowed upon a different individual each month for distinguished service to the Space Empires Community.

If you haven't visited in a while, perhaps now would be a good time to drop by. The next few days should be eventful as I take advantage of the new facilities I have available. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

I did some pre-work for inclusion of the Space Food Empires site as a subdomain. The current site is rather out of date compared to the current state of the data files, so I'll post the new one when I add the new components data.

[Captain Kwok]

I've added a new section at the site, dedicated to the Space Empires community - including the first distribution of Captain Kwok's distinguished Community Service Award.

I hope to give one out each month - although I think the first five are already decided.

Follow the link below in my signature to see who was awarded the one for March!

[Suicide Junkie]

Three cheers for Fyron and his shiny new medal!

[Combat Wombat]

Can we nominate people? and no I don't want to nominate myself.

[Atrocities]

Nice site feature you thought up Kwok, and congrats to Fyron. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Combat Wombat said:
Can we nominate people? and no I don't want to nominate myself.

Of course! I'll add that suggestion to my community page!

[Azselendor]

Will people be able to win the award twice? Hopefully not!

[Captain Kwok]

Of course not! One award is certainly enough. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I nominate Geoschmo and Atrocities.

[RudyHuxtable]

I second those nominations!

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings!

I have updated the site to use .php, which will be most helpful for future updates as I will no longer have to update 30 pages to add just another button to my menu. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Besides that, I'll be announcing a new winner for the Community Service Award for April - so if you've got someone you want to see recieve this honour then be sure to PM or e-mail me.

Lastly, I'm creating a new area in the community section that will feature real-life images (i.e. headshots) of us geeks. I thought it might be nice to have some idea of what we're really like versus what we might have imagined each other to look like. Of course, it is absolutely voluntary! If you've got a pic of yourself you would like to have put up, please e-mail as an attachment to me.

[Atrocities]

Nice work CK. How did you update it to PHP and could you help me with doing the same for the STM site?

[Captain Kwok]

Sure. It wasn't difficult at all.

[Combat Wombat]

Soon everyone will use php muhahahahaha

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings!

A minor site update (after what, a month or so of neglect?), but I did give out two Captain Kwok Community Service awards to Geoschmo for the month of April, and one to Atrocities for May. June's recipient has already been chosen and will be posted, well, in June.

I'll also post an updated feature list for SE:V pending approval from Malfador Machinations for all you non-betas. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Captain Kwok]

I've handed out another Kwok medallion for June, this time to our favourite bearded modder, Suicide Junkie. Check out the SE: Depot's community page to find the write up.

And I will get to updating the SE:V list...

[Suicide Junkie]

Oh...
I shaved it all off so I wouldn't get harrassed in customs on my trip to Europe this month.

[Ed Kolis]

Heh, didn't know they'd confuse you with a terrorist... good thing they don't know your screen name! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Ed Kolis said:
Heh, didn't know they'd confuse you with a terrorist... good thing they don't know your screen name! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Yeah, Tesco and I both agreed that SJ could easily become a una-bomber type if pushed far enough. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings.

I'm looking to do some upgrading at my Space Empires Depot website including handing out another Community Service Award - so I'm looking for some nominations for an outstanding community member who has yet to receive one my 'prestigious' awards. You can PM or E-mail me with your suggestions.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

mlmbd?

Only person I could think of.