(if you dont have time to read all this scan down to the numbers the rest is just a mess of anecdotal stuff )
Hello.
My name is Victor. I am new here on the boards. I have been a fan of Escape velocity since I ever saw the first one. I never registered that one but ended up registering the others and love the game
Anyway, I had not a clue what the point to plug-ins was. I thought they were just cheats so I avoided them. Later I realized that they could be cool additions to the game. So I had my mind set on EV Nova ever since I registered override and got all the way to the funny looking yellow warship without cheating So I thought I was done and I bought Nova.
Since Ive had it I read the manual and saw the plug in section and said cool I wonder if I could do that So I read it and it pointed to the EV Nova Bible and I was like oook, this is way to confusing. So I let it set and the next day I read it again and went to the site and downloaded ResEdit and tried to mess around with that I was still utterly confused so I went on line and downloaded a tutorial and about a dozen other resources.
I went through the Tutorial and learned about spobs and systs and resources and all that kind of stuff and go confused after reading the bible over and over. I had trouble with the initial mission and I read the misn section in the bible a dozen times. I let it set for 24 hours and read the section another dozen times and looked at all other possibilities. I was about to ask on the board till I read the FAQ and the answer was in there.
So I had trouble understanding the flags thing but found that too Now all I have to learn about bits but Im confident that Ill figure it out
I messed around with the system and two planets and wrote a mission and I was like hey I could do something kinda cool with this Even though Im no good with graphics but they are all there to mix and match so if I got a good story that would work. So I did it backwards and worked the story in my head and the story was getting too complex So I started to outline the planets and systems and governments and bars and characters and story plots and mission ideas and so forth.
It was still too confusing so I realized that I had to write down each story of the plot and then proceed. Any way I got this really cool plot least I think, I dont want to give it away but I started writing and realized that I had a lot of ideas that were running around in my head before that really just can come out using the Game as the palette for the story.
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So I have this guy, Named the Teacher he does space work for a while and decides after learning that what everything he was looking for in life could be found on the home planet teaching others about their history. The history is the plot for the plug in. Its going to be an intermix of politics intertwined with a basis of cant we all just get along
So I started writing the first chapter is of this Teacher from the night before till about 1200 hours. And I was patient and let the story flow and it turned out to be 5 pages long. That is the first chapter. And this is just the teacher Based on this the whole thing is going to be like 200 pages or so.
Now my writing is pretty decent. Id put the story up to about what you might consider a 14 years old interest Though it comes into some depth the vocabulary is basic and its not all that prolific
The plug-in will be 1 Government 12 systems and 24 plus planets A few junks because that is what the whole story is based on the commodity and how people fight over it. A modified carrier that needs a specific license that will be one of the already designed ships but modified. Probably so that it is more shielded, less weapons if not none and a smaller cargo bay But super fast well at least 300 anyway. Thing is the commodity will be illegal less you have this ship to move it. And a couple of mission strings
Now, Im not worried about weather or not I can complete this or not. I either will or wont. If I do finish it will probably take about 6 months since Im young and do not have many other commitments. Im really picky though so if it gets done it gets done right
My question is, what do I do with the story Its going to be more like a book than a story So what do I do with it?
Oh by the way some of the ideas being pumped into this have been ones Ive been thinking about since I was fourteen so prepare to see alot of human experiance if you ever read it...
By the way I have about 8 pages of the story completed... One section needs to be revised but that is only 2. Developement is another 5 pages but I dont count that its not part of the story...
Any comments you may have will be accepted generously with thanks. Victor .
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Yeah, I'm crazy. Really crazy. But, Im the nicest crazy guy you'll ever meet.
But I can see why you might think that. Im not writing the story to be the plug in. Im writing the story to be the story.... The work I want to do for the plugin if I can do it should be extremely good for the player...