But by your definition it is not a bomber then. I envision a Bomber as something that will never be built at planets. It would only come with Carriers and would launch a bomb like thing. Your design makes a great heavy fighter but it's no Bomber.

I might have a collection of sounds somewhere. I'll have to dig it up. It was some group of Cds that had lots of varied sounds.

Are you going to make the briefing text pictures to go with each ship?

Are we planing to remake the original Ares missions and add the new ships and graphics or just stick to the past? I think one long plug telling the past retelling the present with better graphics and into the short term future would be cool.

How are you beating that mission in that amount of time? I can't do it even if I cheat and build Cruisers.

One last thing. Are there going to be any destruction animations for the larger ships?

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We will make new levels, but the explosion graphics will be the same for the forseeable future.

If I say it's a bomber, then it's a bomber. Don't argue with me :).

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Hah! Unlikely!

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Surely you have more to say about AE than that.

okay, let's say we want a destruction animation of 6 frames. Now, we'll need one for every angle the ship is facing (we don't want a ship to suddenly jolt around while being destroyed and face the same direction each time, do we?), so that's 6 x 20. That's 120 frames of destruction animation for EACH ship. That makes Ares require a massive amount of memory just for a quick 6-frame animation. Not quite worth it, is it?

As for ships, I've finished the cruiser and fighter for the Gaitori Empire:

The fighter: (full-sized image (url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/img/g_int.jpeg")here(/url))
The cruiser: (url="http://"http://www.slugsoft.f2s.com/cruiser_spin.mov")http://www.slugsoft....ruiser_spin.mov(/url) (.mov should work now)

Keep in mind, the Gaitori Empire back then was about as powerfull as the Elejee are during Ares.

as far as plot is, I've emailed the good Count.

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Your design is pretty cool, I really have no objection to having totally new Gaitori sprites if you want them. I think Brookeview meant a generalised explosion like the normal one but different from Ares.

Thanks for the storyline... reading... Hmm.

You didn't mention the Ishies, were they very seperate from the mainstream events of the time? In any case, Cantharan seems to be the logical choice for the player's viewpoint. I wonder if anyone else would like to join the AE project for purposes of graphics?

Do you know anything special about the technological stats of the races? The Audemedon it seems would be at the top of the technological pecking order, if not the political influence one.

No I meant the ships blowing up like slug said. We should have a destroy action for the largers ships that makes them sizzle before the final big explosion.

I would also like a copy of the long lost plot of Ares. Send it to brookeview2@mac.com

Nice pic slug. You should enter it in the Graphics contest.

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Do you know anything special about the technological stats of the races? The Audemedon it seems would be at the top of the technological pecking order, if not the political influence one.

At the time, the Gaitori were what the Elejee are during Ares. They could easily have beaten the Audemedons if they applied themselves.

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I've just finished the Ishiman Schooner, it should be available for download, as well as another arcade plug, tomorrow.

That's good. I look forward to seeing it.

Whoops I finally remembered that we sold the CD with all of the sounds on it about a year ago.

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