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[Zyraen]

Just to keep everyone informed / and also to keep myself on track ^^;; sometimes so much to do its easy to get confused...

Engine Progress
- New Engine has been tested, spawns work fine and AI works fine without implementing their Squad AI.
- Selection and Spawning of the right squads work fine, just takes a while.
- CRE generation has been totally completed, except Dragons - still trying to work out what Stats for them would be good

- Now trying to get the Navigation of the Squad Markers to work properly with the spawning. Navigation works on its own but not yet fully together.
- Once that is done we're all set for the update to Sylmar Battlefields
- Once that is done work will start on Silmarillion Battlefields, the 6 scenarios that should be suitable for Multiplayer, and can be replayed

- To also implement "Squadless" Spawns, just groups of 2-10 troops that spawn in and wander about the battlefield looking for enemies. They are basically there to provide "support", for cutscenes, and to essentially make it look like a War, especially at like the beginning of each map where relatively few squads have been spawned

AI / Enemy Progress
- Kit and HLA Abilities work fine
- Thief AI and Ranger AI works fine
- Balrog AI still requires some testing

- Difficulty Adjustments : yet to be implemented <== will be included in Sylmar Battlefield Update
- Commander "Potion" AI : yet to be implemented <== will be included in Sylmar Battlefield Update
- AI for Dragons : yet to be implemented
- Arcane / Divine Spells for Commanders : yet to be implemented
- Morale : yet to be implemented

Item Progress
- To implement Instant "Item Swap for Gold" when you pick up Items off the (many) bodies in the map <== will be included in Sylmar Battlefield Update
- Drops %tages have yet to be planned
- Upgrades and Pricing yet to be done

Map Progress
- 1 New Map completed, many more to come

NPC Progress
- 1 NPC more or less finished, awaiting final edits

Storyline Progress
- Introduction to the main story is 80% written
- Support NPCs (shopkeepers, etc) are 60% completed
- Coding is about 15% done

Edited by Zyraen, 04 June 2008 - 06:01 PM.

[Irbis]

is this still alive?

[Zyraen]

nope.

[Eric P.]

The abandonment of this project is absolutely the worst and heaviest blow to IE modding ever. The mod has such wonderful potential, and a lot of work went into it. What happened to all the interest that people expressed in the past? (OK, I dropped the ball on what was to be my contribution long ago, but that's only because I can't get myself to write decent dialogue, and that's holding up my own mod as well, but what's *your* excuse?)

I can only hope that this moves to the mod ideas forum, and/or that someone else decides to carry on with it, complete it, and release it. I'd volunteer to head up the project, but I'm vastly lacking in needed modding experience.

Devastating news...

[Zyraen]

There just doesn't seem to be interest. This forum has always been very silent.

Unlike my smaller projects, that don't require a lot of effort, no sound from there is still ok. But on this one, its too much effort to put in for the amount of interest.

Edited by Zyraen, 20 October 2011 - 06:46 AM.

[Irbis]

this saddens me greatly

[Bloodtitan]

problem nr.1: total conversion. total conversions that are not finished cannot be subject of fluent and continuous discussion. megamods are what everyone plays, total conversions rarely get played.
problem nr.2: content so far and mod title are not the same, at least not what i think the majority expects. the sylmar battlefield as a teaser is a bit disappointing regarding a true story mod of silmarillion. it's simply not part of the book... i can name my npcs jesus and maria but if that's all i adopt from the bible, it's not the book.
problem nr.3: the hidden development forum gives us no overview of the work done behind the scene. we do not know how close you are to a real silmarillion mod. and an adopted story of the silmarillion is what everyone expects if the mod has this title.

[Zyraen]

Bloodtitan :
Its great someone understands the quandary.
1) Agreed
2) Agreed. Silmarillion in its "complete" form cannot be done without a huge effort on the maps and even the NPCs, and that is time and capability (I'm not good at maps) I don't have. Any other form will simply be a tactical game using a level-sensitive engine using some names from Silmarillion and calling it the Silmarillion.
3) This isn't really a biggie, I've posted up updates along the way at times, including screenshots of engine, almost-full shopkeeper NPC dialogues. There just generally wasn't interest though. Of course recently there's really no updates.