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GalCiv II : New Frontiers - New Techmovies!

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GalCiv II : New Frontiers - New Techmovies!

A Community Project

October 29, 2008 3:03 PM from

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A long journey begins!

This year, we will start a project we have long waited for,

a Fan-Expansion Pack for Galactic Civilizations II : Twilight of the Arnor.

It will be a community Mod, so the whole community can participate on the development.

The first stone, a mod containing a lot of content we developed over the last years will be released parallel to the Mod Metaverse and will be the first mod which will be available in the Mod Metaverse. On this mod, we will build up the Expansion pack!

Let me lead you inside the backgroundstory of the Fan-EP:

Sometimes, a small group of the United Planets Member of the milkyway galaxy decided to escape the never ending war by sending out colonyships to a nearby galaxy. Driven by hope to find a new place to live without Conflicts, they settled down and started discovering the Andromeda Galaxy. Noone expected falling directly into a Hornet's Nest...the Andromeda Galaxy was dominated by 2 Races, struggling each other for thousands of years. The old rivals recognized the new galactic players and try to convince them for there sides.
Strong propaganda tear the former UP members apart and each aligned with a side, joining the intergalactic war, again.
The steadfast neutrality of the Terrans, is your destiny, to bring peace to this galaxy...

well from this on, it is left to the community, how it continues, we plan to start one of many Seasons, like in TV, handling of stories and incidents of your imagination!

Here's a little log of what extra-content will come to you:

Ultra galaxymap predefined 4x4 +8 immense maps predefined, each representing a sector, 4 for each quadrant + 8 borderland

New weapon effects and systems, each race gets different weapon/defense advantages.

New models

New spacetextures

New mainmenu

New userinterface

New shiptemplates for each race

2 brand new races, the Asa & Vanir

New modules: energy reactors

New models for shield, armor, point defense, sensors, life support

GalCiv II : New Frontiers will be the never ending(? you decide ) future of Galactic Civilizations II !

Mediapack 4:

watch the new movies here: newtechmoviePPC.wmv

PPC2Attack.wmv

Theres more stuff on www.i-mod-productions.com!

I-Mod gallery: http://www.i-mod-productions.com/photoplog/index.php?c=21

Hey talented guys out there!

We want to hire talented guys in the following categories:

-3D art and animation
-2D Art
-music (Keyboard, ambient/heroic game music)
-storywriting

please contact me if you are interested in joining the core-development team of GC2 : NF

modding

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Reply #26 January 14, 2009 3:40 PM from

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My apologies...I meant expansion.....

Thanks for the info, DSep. Looking forward to see what you guys created.Any idea of when it will actually be released?

Reply #27 January 14, 2009 4:01 PM from

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I thought that this mod was dead until I read what you said.

believe me, the expansion is very much alive!

Quoting CapnWinky, reply 1

Any idea of when it will actually be released?

Like i said, very very soon. there is no official date set, so it's up to Stefan to respond with an actual release date if he wants to.

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Reply #28 January 19, 2009 3:30 AM from

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It's most definitely alive! I haven't actually seen the Vanir tech tree yet, but what I've seen of the other races is well worth the wait.

Reply #29 January 19, 2009 5:06 AM from

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hehe, well I won't make the mistake of giving a release date I can't hold again.

We have a lot of Freelancer working on that project and each of them has there unique life stuff to do, so we are just as fast as the whole team is. But we are working, and the expansion is growing, and what you will see is the ultimate of GalCiv 2, so keep excited!

Reply #30 January 19, 2009 6:27 PM from

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Quoting I-Mod, reply 4

hehe, well I won't make the mistake of giving a release date I can't hold again.

We have a lot of Freelancer working on that project and each of them has there unique life stuff to do, so we are just as fast as the whole team is. But we are working, and the expansion is growing, and what you will see is the ultimate of GalCiv 2, so keep excited!

Hell yeah I am excited!!!!!!

Reply #31 January 23, 2009 12:45 PM from

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We are searching for shipstyles, to integrate them into the Addon.

We invite the creators of the cool shipstyles in the library to contact us and have their styles be part of New Frontiers!

Reply #32 March 24, 2009 2:26 PM from

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We released a little demo of some non-gameplay-changing stuff available in the New Frontiers Expansion pack, new planet and space textures, new weapons and the New Frontiers Soundtrack!

Download it here

Reply #33 March 24, 2009 4:48 PM from

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Looks interesting.

Reply #34 March 25, 2009 2:10 PM from

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Screenshots of the demo mod: Gallery

Reply #35 March 25, 2009 5:11 PM from

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Thank you Stefan. This looks great. The standalone effects mod is something that I have been hoping for.

Reply #36 April 5, 2009 5:32 PM from

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Is there something wrong with the I-mod website? Whenever I try to learn more about this interesting idea, I get a network time-out.

Reply #37 April 5, 2009 5:42 PM from

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One more unlucky web user who's been experiencing I-Mod's ISP connectivity problems.

After some pinging & tracing from Quebec over the last two weeks, it somehow HAS (98% odds, btw) to be a NY state main frame server.

Contact your ISP & give them hell for charging you a service **we** all don't get.

Reply #38 April 5, 2009 8:39 PM from

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I hear AOL.com & MSN.com were partly the culprit.

With that much pings and a few key tricks up our sleeves, they certainly took notice.

Next time around, we won't be sooo tolerant of ISP servers.

I-Mod sites back online and let's hope it stays that way.

Reply #39 April 8, 2009 2:19 AM from

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Offline *again*... now, this means war to the US servers & ISP responsibles who are blocking Canadian communications or more people like Crusadersoft, DSep, Scoutdog...

They don't know what a GC2 community can do to block payments for services they don't receive.

Here's the situation - Bell Sympatico is going to lose a LOT of money from me starting today until they fix this mess.

Just watch me.

Reply #40 May 27, 2009 1:14 PM from

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In June, we will get back active on New Frontiers, myself will model 3 new shipstyles with modules for kitbashing and complete new models for functional modules and weapons.

There's also a little present for some Star Trek fans of you, I will create a Star Trek similar shipstyle for the Terrans, so you can build your own trek ships in New Frontiers. This is my tribute to the lovely Star Trek Universe, I hope you'll like that!

Reply #41 May 30, 2009 10:31 PM from

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Im not able to download the demo. It errors out on me around 51%. Anyone else having this problem?

Reply #42 May 31, 2009 6:47 AM from

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sry as it seems, the file has been corrupted and the material in it is lost. We will upload it again quickly!

Reply #43 May 31, 2009 7:22 AM from

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uploaded again, please redownload the mod and give me feedback.

Reply #44 May 31, 2009 2:55 PM from

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Quoting I-Mod, reply 18

uploaded again, please redownload the mod and give me feedback.

Yep, It's fixed! Thanks for responding so quickly, Stephan! I look forward to seeing the finished product

Reply #45 June 4, 2009 9:19 AM from

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Hi together

Today I finished the basis for all new Turrets in New Frontiers. They will have a similar turretstation but different "Gunpipes"

Here's a preview of what I done so far:

Screenshot

Hope you like it!

Reply #46 June 16, 2009 3:31 AM from

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it seems there is a bug with the new weapon behavior tag and the weapons could look strange in this version, I hope stardock can fix this in the next version or I need to find another solution.

I would have recognized this much earlier if you would give me some feedback on this next time.

There will be a new Trailer and version out in July, showing the new features, we plan to have a solid version including 2 new races and one overhauled in late september.

keep in mind, we still try around and the final version will be high quality!

Reply #47 July 22, 2009 4:49 PM from

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Today we release Mediapack 4 of Galactic Civilizations 2 : New Frontiers.

You can see the first draft of the Techwindow, which will show whole videos of a researched tech now.

Here's a video of how it looks: newtechwindow.wmv

Theres more stuff on www.i-mod-productions.com!

I-Mod gallery: http://www.i-mod-productions.com/photoplog/index.php?c=21

Reply #48 July 22, 2009 5:21 PM from

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OK, now you got my attention.

Very impressive!

Reply #49 July 22, 2009 5:49 PM from

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thanks a lot,

load it again, I added sound (forgot it^^)

Reply #50 July 23, 2009 9:33 AM from

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Wow. Just...... wow. How many of these are there?

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