Hi Volodia,

As you know, the Russians were on the Coalition side and have not escaped to the Sirius. So no other Slavic nations here. We are the Bad Guys, you know. There is a nice mod (Earth system) which has a RusSubre ship and a shkval torpedo, and also some bases with russian names. Have you seen a ship infocard in cyrylic? The only way to try the earth mod is the Massive Addon compilation, since the originall lacks some files and will not work for you.

Tygrys

Hi, folks.

Volodia has scored a hit. And why should we always be presented as Bad Guys? We know our nations all to well, so it's more than sure, that there were numerous Poles and Russians fighting against the Coalition! What happened to them? Maybe there is time for a slavic mod? I'm not a modder myself, so I can't lend any technical help, but it will be a great pleasure to kick some rheinland posteriors with "Yak" fighter or "Elk" bomber
Tygrys - you seem to be quite involved in modding, so what do you think about it? I'm sure it's possible to find some russian or our own potential modders to do the job!

Interesting.

I see some problems with names translations, just some our leters are unspeekable in english. But idea is nice. Send some names considering above and we can try making some Poland or Russians systems. Any other nation is welcome. I can arrange some planets and bases to this. Maybe there is an artist to build the Bar backgrounds or planet surfaces? Even PKiN on the Warsaw planet

Tygrys

it shouldn't be that hard to get names for bases and ships.
there should be a russian-english dictionary on the net,
or you could also look around in other games/movies.

i shall have a look, and then return with some names.

privjet volodja, kak dela ?

being half-russian myself, i d like to see russian factions come back in force as Old Enemy

it would be only logical that in 800 years, the coalition found its way to Sirius

Battleship Potemkin !

Our letters are no problem - look for the polish and russian names written in english, there is a lot of ways to circumvent missing signs and unspeakable language forms. Most of our regional and city names also are present in english transcyption (Warsaw, Moscow, Prague etc.). It is also possible to use latin names - Moscovia, Varsovia (or New Moscow, New Warsaw). Much more important is to make those systems and factions remarkable in a special way - new ships, new missions, new politics and foreign relations (strong feelings against Rheinland?).
I'll ask some people about graphics for backgrounds - just get me some info about sizes and formats for them.

PKiN again?! Noooo!!!

lol - battleship Potemkin. Why not cruiser Aurora?

Thats right, but we have to set some standard here.
What will be the best:
Cracov, Cracovia, Krakow or Kraków? and what about Lodz? or Szczebrzeszyn?

On the other hand setting some planets with good names will not make this mod anything different from other mods to be found here. We will need philosophy or a story to tell about us. Any ideas?

I like Cruiser Aurora

Tygrys

I see two possibilities:
1) AFAIK, Sol system was destroyed by Nomads. So, after long 800 years, decimated remnants of former Coalition reached Sirius and established small colony with strong desire to be left alone...
2) Some of eastern european countries fought against the Coalition and so did the White Russians. Some members of this contingent managed to slip aboard sleeper ships and so they arrived into Sirius Sector. Now they together form small isloated fraction bound together by their slavic origins. And Rheinlad is trying to get them under "protection"...

That's for the beginning - any other ideas?

Tygrys --> "Cracovia" sounds most "international"

3) since Polonia has been strong represented in the US, there was a lot of people with polish roots on aboard the Liberty. After landing they isolated themselfes from the main society (as we frequently do) and build their own, forgoten by others world.

Tygrys.

Edited by - Tygrys on 29-07-2003 12:51:45

Well, 3) can be easily combined with 1) to accomodate Russians. All in all, it seems that new system should be quite isolated and apart from the main stream of sector politics - kind of "no more foreign powers playing with us in their games". Close to US isolationism of interwar period, maybe with slight touch of nationalism - more friendly with Liberty, and almost hostile toward Rheinland. But how to include a new faction into FL?

Tygrys --> Could you help me to get in touch with modding? If so, please contact me by mail after 18:00, or by GG (whole day) - 2045138.

Can help.

Start from LR tutorials from the tutorial forum. If you give me the good question you will have the good answer. This week I'm little bit off-line, so it may take a while.

Tygrys