Mass Effect Total Conversion for TA

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Hi all,

I LOVE this game. Ever since I first played it all I could think about was a Halo mod. Since then I've done just a small face lift with my current game. I have made the major races in the Mass Effect Universe.Adding the rest of the minor Council races would just be done in time...

 

  • System Alliance (Human)
  • Turian Hierarchy (Turians)
  • The Migrant Fleet (Quarrians)
  • The Geth (Geth)
  • The Salarian Union (Salarians)
  • The Hedgmony (Batarians)
  • The Asari Republics (Asari)

Those are all I have so far. I know there are more races but all I have done is create the races, and add custom logos/race portraits. Honestly that has been good enough for my inner fanboy, but I realized there is a ton of talent here that could help me add a custom map, and some models for ships.

Another idea I had with TA.

Possible to make the Reapers replace the Dread Lords? Arnor with Protheans?

I want to do tech, too. But for me the aesthetics are enough for now.

 

Thanks for reading!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

ive got a near completed mod would you like to help with it

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Possible to make the Reapers replace the Dread Lords? Arnor with Protheans?

The Dread Lords cannot be modded.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thanks for the tip. It would've been sweet if it could...hint hint Stardock.

I will take a look fox.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting qrtxian, reply 2
The Dread Lords cannot be modded.

Not entirely correct. While they are mostly hardcoded, some parts can be changed, like their tech tree (and therefore planetary improvements and weapons/defenses), their race entry (AIP, ability bonuses, starting techs, etc.), and the Arnorian ships. No idea, if they can be renamed. I never tried that.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thanks for the speedy reply Gaunathor.  I wanted to change the type of mine output so that I could derive benefit from the asteroid mining when I was doing an all labs game. To speak more clearly, currently in an all labs game I can see no benefits coming in from the mines.  I checked if it benefited ship building, social projects or research and it did not - (because I do all my ship and social projects using research focus).

I had hoped that it would be possible to change the xml file to adjust the output from the mines from pure industrial to (industrial/research).  It's no huge deal, but I just hate to have something built into the game be unusable (and the mines look good on the screen).

Since I have your attention for a second, I noticed that you referenced the file in the DA folder. I am playing TofA (Ultimate Edition) and playing TofA.  Does your reply indicate that many of the base game files used in a TofA game are actually located in the DA folder?  This seems a bit strange to me, but correct me if I am wrong but did Stardock do a tiering system where the game backwards looks at mods/tofa/DA/DL when selecting what to load?

 

 

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Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Sxandy, could you explain to me why you are copy-pasting Purdypog's reply from this thread?