Community Faction

[titi]

Do you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance ?
But I think when you talk about religion wars you probably mean this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade

or this ( But thats not good for a glest mod, its too complicated! ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Year_War

[Omega]

Bingo titi! My memory is way off!
I played this online game before (age of war) that had a renassance age, and that's what I was thinking of. You should try playing it.
http://www.maxgames.com/play/age-of-war.html
it has some good ideas for units. Also, cavemen ideas.

[modman]

Crusaiders would go great with Persian!

[John.d.h]

I never would have guessed in a million years that you were talking about the Renaissance.  That's kinda what Tech is supposed to be, though -- like the Renaissance would have been if all the big thinkers' (Da Vinci et al.) ideas would have come to fruition.

[titi]

what do you think?
is it time to create a vote for the new faction?

What should be in the vote?

- japanese/ninjas
- aliens
- robots
- religion ( but I still didn't get what this faction is ! )
- insects

Did I forget something that someone really wants to create ( as its first vote!)?
In this vote should be only faction ideas which we ( the developers ) are willing to do. It should NOT be any kind of "good" idea collection!
We should vote in 2 steps.

The first voting is for the top 3.
It's followed by the final voting .

[wciow]

I agree with everything you said Titi. Finally getting this thread organized 

Heres my idea to come up with a list.

Anyone who wants to can post ONE idea for a faction. Once everyone who wants to has posted we can start the new poll.

Then everybody votes.

Then we create an awesome Glest faction 

 

[modman]

My idea: aliens.  I think it's really too bad that Tucho made his faction and then stopped, but it really it doesn't make it untouchable.  I think that aliens would be fun to play, has great opportunities for expansion, and could have really cool looking models (kind of what Tucho was getting into).

Aliens wouldn't be for Magitech, though.  If we're doing a Magitech faction, then it would be nice just to extend Magitech before making any new factions.

Link to discussion

Sorry for having multiple ideas, though.  If you want my number 1 wish, though, it would be extending Magitech.

[titi]

Ok modman does the start, he wants aliens.
I want robots(but aliens are my second vote)

[charlieg]

It is disappointing that you guys wish to create yet another frivolous faction instead of clubbing together to enhance Glest by driving storyline, campaign, and content development.  You could be designing the maps, creating the artwork, enhancing existing factions, and writing backstory which - with the appropriate developer support - would make Glest a great single player experience.

Alas, community is as community does.  We are all free people.  I just wish you'd see that another faction (especially something silly like aliens or robots) adds very little to the Glest experience.  A storyline and campaigns bring a lot more to the table.

[titi]

1. we have no real active (source)development yet! ( the only active part is daniel who is deep down in the network code )
2. A factions is much more work than a history ( in my opinion )
3. For the things we have now, we( my son and I ) will build something beside this faction ( scripted scenarios, tutorials for norsemen / indian /persian for example )
  But we don't do anything which is technically not possible yet.
4. if you think there is such a big need for a background story, please go for it and do it 

[@kukac@]

2. A factions is much more work than a history ( in my opinion )

Making some lousy story is really easy, you are right in it. But making a really interesting story is quite hard. I haven't write anything yet (however, I have some ideas), but I used to (and still doing) critizing new stories. It's really hard to make an interesting story, especially for strategy games, since you can't use the most detailed parts (it's no use to make every unit an own personality, yet, it could make more interesting, seeing what are their intentions in a war.). Strategy's story are usually about battles/wars between 2 or more sides, yet, the intentions behind them can be deeper (conquering new lands? Maybe. Destroying other countries/religions/etc.? Maybe. Or maybe, they want to avenge a certain persons death [who was assasinated, etc.].). Also, many times it isn't clear why do people follow their leaders (they might have their own intentions, like getting money, advance into the nobility, or just using some intrigue.). And make it sound like it could really happen. This is the hardest (not because the fantasy, but making the people look not stupid [the most generic fault...].).

But if you have something interesting, I'm happy to hear 

(Maybe we should ask Johndh, he has some talent it seems.)

Other:

A new faction? Once I made one that had 1 unit, and it could buy upgrades to itself (a demon giant/behemoth model), but it was quite unbalanced, since I could kill the computer every time (I thought it gets stronger if it kills more, while the other players gather more armies over time, but it didn't really succeeded...)

[gameboy]

I'm voting for Japan.
It won't be so hard to get a story, and if you study you can get description for each and every unit.

[modman]

Like I said, improve Magic and Tech!
That is my submission, not aliens.

[John.d.h]

I nominate finishing the mods that are already in progress.  Modman has been asking for help with Dark Magic for quite some time and I'm sure there are some others out there who could use some help.  Having one mod that's finished is worth way more than having five dozen that are halfway-done.

[modman]

I have to agree with you on that one.  I think it's a characteristic of my age group especially (which, by the way, is what a large portion of the modding community is) to not finish the mods they start.

[gameboy]

Then I am not in that category. I am going to finish the elf faction if its the last thing I do (i hope its not last thing I do).

[John.d.h]

I have to agree with you on that one.  I think it's a characteristic of my age group especially (which, by the way, is what a large portion of the modding community is) to not finish the mods they start.

Heh... the novels I started to write... the guitar I started learning to play... the jujistu that I gave up at yellow belt status... Yeah, it happened to me at that age too.

[Omega]

I admit, that happens a lot. Not to me though. I am currently working on a novel called OMEGA. Chapter five and counting. I work slowly on military too, while learning c++. Basically, I am not going to give up, but things will be slow since I got to get a job!!!

[huntermeca V.2]

I don't think it is a good name religion.Why not "Inqusition" or "Inqusistor"?

Japanese or chinese: China Dragon, Samouraï,Ronin, Arquebuse (a sort of china gun with a lance)

It is oonly an idea.

Excuse me for my english