Are you bored with all those übership plug-ins and cheats? :mad: Then Advance is the plug-in for you.

Advance is intended to bring some new ships into the game to enrichen it. First and foremost, they're meant to be REALISTIC, to suit their governments well, and to keep the game balance and style intact.

Some of you might remember the earlier, incomplete version of the Advance plug-in... it has reached a provisionary state of completeness which may or may not be augmented in further versions.

The plug-in comprises but is not limited to:

- The Miranu Windrider, a quicker and more practical cousin of the Miranu Courier, with good defenses but very limited weaponry.
- The Zidagar Arada. Two phased beams and additional fuel tanks: The perfect complements for an Arada hull.
- The Zachira, a capital ship tailored to the needs and preferences of the Zachit: Built from a swift yet deadly Lazira hull, realistically upgraded and fitted with a Zachit Fighter Bay. Though significantly less shielded, it can face a Renegade Warship head-on.
- The Baby Blob. A small yet sturdy space amoeba that fires globs of cytoplasma at you.
- The Giant Blob. The classical huge horrible gelatinous blob that spawns baby blobs.
- The Mother of all Blobs. new! Even more gargantuan, the MoaB spawns giant blobs.

Here are a few pictures to give you a taste of Advance:

More images can be found at (url="http://"http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/advance/")http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/advance/(/url) . I'm not disclosing the Mother of all Blobs though, you'll have to download the plug-in to see it.

Advance 1.1 is now available in the Plug-Ins section. Here's a direct link:
(url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/advance.sit.hqx?path=evo/plugins&file;=advance.sit.hqx")http://www.ambrosias...l/advance.sit.h qx?path=evo/plugins&file;=advance.sit.hqx://http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/v...advance.sit.hqx://http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/v...advance.sit.hqx(/url)

-- Cinga

My, you guys are a responsive crowd. :frown:

Anyway, the first one to rate Advance 1.1 in the plug-ins section gave it a 1 out of 5. Even now, after more people have voted, the score remains low.

I'd like the people who gave it a low rating to tell me what they didn't like. There is always room for improvement. It will help Advance 1.2 become better and more enjoyable.

Unless, of course, those people were just disappointed because Advance doesn't make the game easier, but rather opens up new (balanced!) possibilities. In this case, they shouldn't have d/led the plug in the first place. The description states its intentions clearly enough. It goes without saying that I won't make any concessions in at the cost of realism in further version of Advance either.

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Cinga, Slayer of Name Manglers
Check out my realistically balanced mini-plug Advance 1.1...
(url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/advance.sit.hqx?path=evo/plugins&file;=advance.sit.hqx") Download it! (/url)

I like it.

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I downloaded it and it's pretty good, although it needs more stuff (the Emalgha carrier you posted earlier is a good start). Also, creating some ships the player can actually purchase (yes, there are good reasons for the Zidagar Arada and the Zachira being unpurchaseable, but you need to add some ships other than the Windrider that ARE purchaseable after missions or just by default).

Also, where do I actually encounter any blobs in the game? I haven't seen any.

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Are you bored with all those übership plug-ins and cheats?

Well said.

I like the idea...It looks nice, too. After all, I always go for expanding things in games. And I am assuming that this will expand the EVO gameplay even if not the galaxy.

Keep up the good work, and if you want, I can do some graphical work for you.

-Lequis

lequis.netfirms.com

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Computers are simply not toys, they are for those who know how to use them.

The Zidagar Arada and the Zachira are not available for sale because they can be built from run-off-the-mill Aradas and Laziras with regular upgrades. Advance 1.2 includes shipyard pictures and thumbnails for those who want to make them purchaseable.

Anyway, I've now made the next beta version of Advance available on my own webspace. I'm not going to place it in the add-ons section since it's likely to be replaced soon by an even newer version.

This beta adds the Emalgha Fighter Carrier, tweaks the Blob family a bit, and squishes the unfortunate Zidara bug. When I edited the Zidara in the ShipWrite editor, it created empty resources for dëscs and spďns that overrode the original Zidara dëscs and spďns. As a result, the Zidara was displayed at half its true size, and had blank description texts in the game. I deleted those rogue resources now.

The link is in my sig.

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Cinga, Slayer of Name Manglers
Check out my realistically balanced mini-plug (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/advance.sit.hqx?path=evo/plugins&file;=advance.sit.hqx") Advance 1.1 (/url)...
Or test the most recent beta-version (url="http://"http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/advance/advance1.2.sit.hqx") Advance 1.2 (/url)!

(This message has been edited by Cinga (edited 01-19-2002).)

cool ideas
that little blob thing moves quite realisticly

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