Any Machaka love?

BandarLover · #1 April 18th, 2009, 07:36 AM

I noticed DaveCG seems to be off and running on an Early Age mod of Machaka, but does anyone know if there are any mods out there for the vanilla Machaka? It seems such a shame that they don't have any nation specific summons or spells, and I have not heard if KO had any plans to update them in any future patches so I thought I'd check with the mod community to see if anyone had tried modding them.

Aezeal · #2 April 18th, 2009, 08:04 AM

Well I'm working on Machaka for Dom 3 K

(spider walkers, spiders and spider spaceships

) but it's not released yet except for an alpha version in the dom 3 K thread.

And I seem to recall someone made a spider god pretender for them something with an A. It's in the signature of one of the more regular posters here, possibly endoperez.

Can't remember much else.. have you tried a forum search?

DaveCG · #3 April 18th, 2009, 09:20 AM

You know, I was half thinking about rejazzing up MA Machaka alittle! :P

More on topic, I don't think I've seen anything for MA Machaka other than endoperez god spider pretender, which is totally awesome.

DrP did a EA Machaka before me and he's done a LA one too, which I must admit gave me the idea to make my own, hopefully KO which get round to it after he's finished with yomi/jomon's dragon stuff and I think he said something about do Tcchi-china stuff after that if I remember right, oh well, maybe something will come out the wood work.

Endoperez · #4 April 19th, 2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveCG

More on topic, I don't think I've seen anything for MA Machaka other than endoperez god spider pretender, which is totally awesome.

Thanks, although I'm not so sure about the awesome, what it with being a very early proof-of-concept.

Our best bet would probably be to get Kristoffer to play the EA Machaka mod, and then get inspired to play little MA Machaka, and then decide that they're due for an update. That, or kidnap him and send him to Africa for his summer holiday. Without sun protectors and with a laptop, so that he'll get burned and will have to stay indoors. We might also have to give him few hints, such as making Indian gurus ride into town on giant, mind-controlled spiders that eat the people and his breakfast, so that he gets that Enslaved black spiders are Not Good.

DaveCG · #5 April 19th, 2009, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Endoperez

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Originally Posted by DaveCG

More on topic, I don't think I've seen anything for MA Machaka other than endoperez god spider pretender, which is totally awesome.

Thanks, although I'm not so sure about the awesome, what it with being a very early proof-of-concept.

Our best bet would probably be to get Kristoffer to play the EA Machaka mod, and then get inspired to play little MA Machaka, and then decide that they're due for an update. That, or kidnap him and send him to Africa for his summer holiday. Without sun protectors and with a laptop, so that he'll get burned and will have to stay indoors. We might also have to give him few hints, such as making Indian gurus ride into town on giant, mind-controlled spiders that eat the people and his breakfast, so that he gets that Enslaved black spiders are Not Good.

This, one thousand times this for sure, I've got some money saved, and I'm only over in the uk, hmm, properly not wise to talk about kidnapping KO on his forum, quickly, to the hidden forum!
-dun dun dun dun dun daaa daaaaaaa-
On less silly note it is a shame Machaka seem to have been forgotten, mind you I have no idea why I care, it not like I even like them that much, I hate spiders for a start, it's just you know, support the underdog and all that

personally I'm just biding my time until I make some MA welsh druids, mwuahah-etc.

Thanks for the reading suggestion Lurker, I'll be sure to look at it, I'm basically looking to made the EA mod have at least something that doesn't come off as "And this is a lion, and this is a lion and hey, guess what? that's a lion too." although I'm going into the starting roots of the cult with ther...hang on, I'll stop being lazy and try to get the .dm finished by wednesday and you'll see, it'll need balance and spell checking and suggestions galore but at least it'll be out there, and it has to be wednesday for after that I get my mindless giant robot fighting fix, oh the joy of gundam...

Hey Aezeal how'd you feel about a gundam nation for dom3000

ahhh, there goes the rest of my free time.

Foodstamp · #6 April 18th, 2009, 04:55 PM

Don't forget there is a reserved nation slot for EA Machaka. My guess is that when EA Machaka is being built, MA Machaka will receive some love at the same time

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BandarLover · #7 April 18th, 2009, 04:58 PM

thank you guys for the replies. I did try a search in the forums but didn't find anything specific to MA MAchaka. Suppose I'll just wait patiently for the devs to get to it when they get to it.

Lurker_at_Threshold · #8 April 18th, 2009, 07:16 PM

Personally I think it would be cool to have Early Age Machaka be able to summon a litany of lesser gods, cumulating in with size 6 giant spiders and the lion headed titan pretenders which broader selection magic. Of course the problem with these lesser deities is that they often compete with the pretender for the affection of followers and would be saddled with varying levels of heresy depending on their power.

For late age, as a change of pace, it would be interesting to see Machaka as one of the few uncorrupted nations. I'd imagine that it would be historically based off of Mali and Songhai. The backstory could center around the Pretender vanquishing the Black Sorcerers from the god mountain and founding the great city of Timbuktu a haven for alchemists and philosophers. Tuareg light infantry would form the core of the nations military, its capital heroes would come preequiped with golden bracers of protection, and magic wise death would largely be replaced with astral.

DaveCG · #9 April 18th, 2009, 08:21 PM

I suppose this is as good a place as any to ask, but what myths would you say inspired Machaka, I know in the book it says...er...can't remember atm, but it did say something about the phatom comics as well, I was hoping someone could point me towards a good book or site or something, being as everything for the EA mod I've done has been completely pulled out of the void that is my mind, and based around the two words "Lion Kings" in EA Machakas nation slot, not much to really go on...and I'd like to tie some real world myths in, could be fun.

Lurker_at_Threshold · #10 April 19th, 2009, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveCG

I suppose this is as good a place as any to ask, but what myths would you say inspired Machaka, I know in the book it says...er...can't remember atm, but it did say something about the phatom comics as well, I was hoping someone could point me towards a good book or site or something, being as everything for the EA mod I've done has been completely pulled out of the void that is my mind, and based around the two words "Lion Kings" in EA Machakas nation slot, not much to really go on...and I'd like to tie some real world myths in, could be fun.

The epic of Sundiata would probably be your best bet. Historical king but with much legend thrown in, in terms of magic and such. I did however read an excellent hellboy story, Makoma, that had an african setting. Not sure if its based on solid mythology but it would be quite workable in game terms (Hellboy relives the exploits of a legendary hero, who overcomes and befriends the giants of the forest, mountain and river, defeats a fire demon, and a powerful necromancer before he is forced to fight an apocalyptic dragon and leave the world reborn in the wake of the combat.