Golden Eclipse BETA

Kevin Arisa · #1 November 14th, 2006, 12:35 AM

Golden Eclipse BETA v1.0 for Space Empires 5 is now available.

This version includes many changes. Here are just a few:

New Components
New Tech Tree
Beta Planet Pack
New Music and Sound

This version does NOT include a functional AI. In fact, any assistance in that regard would be greatly appreciated. The file is sizeable due to the large amount of new content. Dialup users beware!

Size and Format: 196MB - RAR
Download from my site: www.isacommand.homeip.net
SE.net mirror coming soon!

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 November 14th, 2006, 01:57 AM

What's the mod about?

shinigami · #3 November 14th, 2006, 02:25 AM

Almost 200 megs? That's a lot of new content!

I'll echo narf, what's it about?

Atrocities · #4 November 14th, 2006, 03:01 AM

My God! How long have you been working on this?

President_Elect_Shang · #5 November 14th, 2006, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Kevin Arisa said:
Size and Format: 196MB - RAR

Me thinks this can wait till morn!

Dizzy · #6 November 14th, 2006, 04:11 AM

Ok, Kevin. Before you go and offer a 200mb sev mod, we are gonna want more info and stuff on what it includes...

If you have done a lot of work, no one will be interested unless you sell it. So sell it to us. Why would we D/L your mod?

Kevin Arisa · #7 November 14th, 2006, 09:35 AM

I cut the new music out of the download, so it is now 135MB.

This is a direct evolution of Eclipse Mod for SE4. Many of the same technologies have returned. Era based tech tree(Fission, Fusion, etc). There are new weapon graphics and sounds. New explosions. New planet images(WIP) with atmosphere glows. Weapons and Shields are now seperated into 3 classes. Weapons are Matter, Energy, or Hybrid. Shields are Molecular, Energy, or Phased. Armor plating placed in armor slots, and Armor Mesh placed in outer slots.

I can't think of anything else on the spot, but i've been working on this since i started beta testing.

President_Elect_Shang · #8 November 14th, 2006, 10:05 AM

I�m having problems downloading it. I went to your sight which was opening very slowly. I clicked the link to start the download and it was 26.3kbs which ground down to a complete stop. The second and third time I started the download it did the same thing and now I�m on my fourth try which is saying 5.0kbs with 7:53:21 time remaining. It is 07:02 my time in CST and I have high speed internet.

shinigami · #9 November 14th, 2006, 10:06 AM

That still seems high. You didn't accidently include the stock images, did you?

Phoenix-D · #10 November 14th, 2006, 12:04 PM

Nope, I checked. 57 MB of that is new sounds, some over a MB in size, plus 260 planet models (half of which seem to be .jpg duplicates of the .bmps..) and other data.

Lots of stuff.