Minor races for Mercenaries

A little something I thought was missing.

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When I got Mercenaries, one thing I was interested in seeing were the new minor races that would use the new shipsets. This because minor races is something you will deal with very often, and unfortunatly, it doesn't take long before you've seen them all. This makes the universe feel less exciting as you always see the same few less ambitious guys hanging around, while due to the faction editor you can have an extreme diversity in major factions.

Currently, a good solution to this is mods, but mods disallow multiplayer. I think that just adding a few more for flavor wouldn't exactly be hard. I am sure you got some scrapped alien 3d models hanging around that you can insert as new minors, perhaps offshoots of existing ones if there are scrapped Drengin, etc.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I want more minors as well

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'd love to see the minors just have more impact on the game. Weird random things like 'Race of the Ancients' minor race/fallen empire/starts with 3 planets or something and all the game techs. Won't trade much - wants like 10x for everything - destroys everything that tries to fly through or near their space - but doesn't look to expand anymore/has retreated into isolationism.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

If you want more minors I suggest installing Gauntlets Race mod. Its one of the best out there giving more minors and the minors themselves can start with two colony ships (so do Pirates), and most races have their own ship sets. Its a very good mod!

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have Gauntlet's Race Mod, but I feel that Mercenaries should have been released with a bunch of new ones instead on relying on people to mod the game to add a few more. I don't see making new minor races being hard at all, just add a new logo, leader foreground and portrait and then a backstory, penalty, shipstyle and done!

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting TheHordesman, reply 4

I have Gauntlet's Race Mod, but I feel that Mercenaries should have been released with a bunch of new ones instead on relying on people to mod the game to add a few more. I don't see making new minor races being hard at all, just add a new logo, leader foreground and portrait and then a backstory, penalty, shipstyle and done!

 

If you think it is that easy, then go ahead and do it.   You may find it takes more effort to do all that with a certain standard of quality in art and narrative.  Few things offend an artist as much as telling them "That's so easy a five year old could do it".  I am not sure that belittling another person's work effort is the way to convince Stardock, or anyone, that what you want is worth doing.

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Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Which I wasn't, quite clearly. I know there are many unused 3d models which were originally intended for the Iridium, for example. And really, it's the one thing we expected with the expansion that would require the least amount of work. And I wasn't bringing up 5 year olds. I don't like when people put words into my mouth. I usually put things in their mouths. Ghost pepper!

Yes, I can make minor races. With mods. To say that if I want minor races I should solve it with mods, it's sort of like saying that no bugfixes requires fixing because people can make mods. I was expecting them when I bought Mercenaries and was quite let down by their absence.