Without naming company names, I'm currently a software engineer working on the Service & Repair application that deals with repairing or exchanging damaged devices. It's a web based application written in Java primarily.

Learning to code this game can be incredibly simple to incredibly complicated. The easiest things to do are balancing changes as they usually entail modifying set stats in the entity files. The more complex comes into setting up ability/buff files as well as wiring all of it together including textures/icons and strings.

If you want to play around with any of the files, feel free to do so. I'm not married to any of the current stats and would be willing to change things up for balance so long as the change is meant to support or enhance a races play style.

Yup, editing stats is easy, used to do it a year or two ago. If i come up with some ideas that could make the factions stand out better i might give it a shot, and see how it works out.

How abouth this song for one of hypercorps tracks Zombie?

Its music related to the resident evil movies, who revolves around an evil megacorp and its research - if you dont know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrnR0XQrD40&feature=related

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKkwYVX4J8

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbGaBm09hM&feature=related

I find the music fitting in itself and also its the symbolism offcource, Umbrella Corporation would make a mean hypercorp.

Zombie besides converting the audio file into OGG placing it in the mods music directory and editing gameinfo/soundmusic with a new line and a new count, what do i need to do to say get a new music track playing for hypercorp? Is there anything i havent understood here, maybe the error lies in the name of the files. Could you just type in what i need to do if its not too much work.

Im thinking the problem may lie in what i name the file, or a reference somewhere that need to be edited. /shrugs

No need to edit anything new. The way I setup the races is to template in the existing sound entries so everything is already pre-wired in the correct sounddata and entity files.

The files that can be overridden currently are:

Hyp 1.ogg (Misc)
Hyp 2.ogg (Misc)
Hyp 3.ogg (Misc)
Hyp 4.ogg (Misc)

Hyp Announcement.ogg

Hyp Opening.ogg

Hyp Quiet.ogg

Hyp Theme.ogg

I'm currently using generic sounds for battle, trouble and scare themes but wouldn't mind replacing those out too.

Which theme of music does your sound file fit into?

Strange i didnt get the music then hmm. Must have slipped up somewhere, what you just said i allready did pretty much. Ill get it to work, prob just slipped up somewhere.

Good, so we can use this for hypercorp then? I have the music files allready in ogg format but im looking for something that is maybe a little longer, meaning: extended versions or something to last longer than 2 minutes. 

As for which theme, ehrr like generic music playing while there is not combat going on i reckon. hehe. I think the descriptions are pretty self explenatory.

edit: you want me to tinker with it and upload it to you IF i manage to work it out or you just want me to send you the music files so you can do it?

Good stuff, ill give it a go then. Might add some other sound stuff if i manage anything decent. Will let you know!

Nice stuff. Yeah i agree, it should require a specialist team, and since sins dont support that i reckon limiting it to colony ships will do instead of every joe out there beeing able to do so.

Hey, if we are are doing requests for music, can we have Running Wilds Under Jolly Roger as battle music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUN6-JwwMA&feature=related

Also, we all need AIM or similar, totally so I can spam you *eyeroll*. Nah, more seriously, looking forward to trying out moons and such when I get the time. Just a question though, with the Arch and Alliance races in 'place.' Those completely don't work do they?

Not without changing how many starbases are allowed in a gravity well. For example look in PlanetTerranHome.entity at the following line.

maxStarBaseCountPerPlayer 1

I wish it was max count and type per player which would open up more modding possibilities to differentiate races.

There's mood settings I haven't fully figured out that control when certain music is played during the game.

The announcement is explicitly set so it's more of a guarantee I would assume.

If you look in the music sounddata file you'll see these entries:

    actionLevel 0.4
    actionRange 0.4
    emotionLevel 0.2
    emotionRange 0.8

if you look in the PlayerHyp.entity you'll see these entries:

musicThemeData
    musicThemeCount 7
    musicTheme "MUSIC_HYP_THEME_1"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_HYP_QUIET_1"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_HYP_MISC_1"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_HYP_MISC_2"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_BATTLE_7"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_BATTLE_13"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_TROUBLE_4"
    scareThemeCount 2
    musicTheme "MUSIC_BATTLE_7"
    musicTheme "MUSIC_BATTLE_13"
    announcementCount 1
    musicTheme "MUSIC_HYP_ANNOUNCEMENT"

Cool, will be checking these out today.

I'll put my string template that I use to generate the string info's in the dropbox.

It's a simple format using bar delimited format to keep the name and description easily edited. For example:

Ability|Hyp||NanoSwarm|Nano Swarm|A description about nano swarm.

This gets converted into two String Info entries that look like

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_ABILITY_HYP_NANOSWARM_NAME"
    Value "Nano Swarm"
StringInfo
    ID "IDS_ABILITY_HYP_NANOSWARM_DESCRIPTION"
    Value "A description about nano swarm."

No offense but i think that song is not very fitting for background music for a mod. I for one would get a headache listening to it, and now i dont mind turning off the music if i dont like a song but i think that a more instrumental, calmer kind of music do alot better in this role. The guy screams out the text and even though the text is somewhat piratish i dont feel the music is. This is just my oppinion offcource. If Zombie likes it then by all means go ahead, but it is somewhat reminding of the good ol 9000 that catered some attention.

Well the good thing is that i now know how to edit music atleast, and im guessing editing sounds is pretty similiar so i can atleast help with that. I just wish i knew why i didnt get the music at first, its so annoying not knowing the factors. Ill start on the descriptions next, and once i got a draft ill send it over to you zombie so you can take a look at it. By the way if you put the music in, let me know how it worked out for you and what files you replaced exactly. I would like to develop hehe.

Good to see my sly attempt at humour was well received!

By the way Zombie, the nano adaption cap ship ability gives 15% damage reduction, 25% phase missile block lasts for 20 sec with a cooldown of 45 and its a lvl 6 ability. Do this ability have hidden effects or is it really underpowered?

Also ill be done with my 1 rudimentary attempt at descriptions in 20 mins would be nice if you could look em over real quick and let me know if im on the right path, there will offcource be changes, better sentences/grammar. Something i will entirely replace prob etc.

Ill put it in the dropbox folder. for now it will just be in wordpad format, as i wont put it in til im finished.

Okay 1 draft is out, now this was done in 10 mins lol. But all in all it didnt work out so bad, i just need feedback on if my way of seeing it walk hand in hand alongside yours of if one chases the other around with a broom. If you think its okay ill draft some more ideas and add it to the file you posted by tomorrow.