lightning, could u edit the pics?

hmm, Chips, just remove them (whoever of u reads it 1st)

i expected something like this when i saw the pics, thats why i posted a link to those at our forums.

sry for the inconveniace,

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

k i just edited them down some more, people can click on the link to see the ship listing.

per there size and quality, they are still not at the top and highest i could use, if you look at the sizes interms of bytes for the pictures on the side of the homepage the 800x600 jpegs take up more space then my 1280 x 1024 jpegs do for a comparison in the jpeg save quality that lancers uses. Problem with jpegs is since they are a lossy format they lose a lot of quality at expense of filesize. Needless to say the ones on this forum weren't saved in paint I saved mine in photoshop after carefully comparing them in the internet optimization window so as to get it small without any really noticable quality loss. But since I couldn't post html code on lancers I couldn't use html to resize them in terms of window length.

sounds like a very fun mod. but 20 players will deflate that fun and password protection is rather a hassle and does not stop modders. perhaps more slots and no password and it would be a perfect server to be a part of. role playing is very fun when there are alot of players.

So let it be written. So let it be done.

WOW 8O THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE COOLEST MOD EVER

(i wasnt up to date or remembered wrong)
server has 32 slots and seems to work smooth.
pwd protection is fine asn we have our own ways to deal with cheaters

without going into detail: you wont hav much fun as a cheater. most probably u wont get on the server at all - and before u ask - no, i wont tell details, not yet (if ever)...

even without that we had no "big" problems with cheaters. the community takes care of those and they get banned fast, so its not even worth to try.

otherwise, tnx for the comments. im pushin the release every day a bit forward. (wanna get into space again, and i only can if this is done )

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

So how far is the release away?



Kabouter, mapping for the Phoenix Mod.
Visit www.phoenixmod.com

u know how release dates are ... they change a lot, get delayed, ...

we have an internal deadline and we try to finish it till then.


maybe a few more notes on the mod:
we give certain things more depth gameplay wise. things will get a bit more complicated, ppl will have to watch out more.
but this also opens new possibilites and makes the game more interesting.

examples for this are the gun and thruster energy balance.
gun energy is also used by shields, both capacity and recharge affect it.
also when you cruise ur power will rebuild slower.
thruster energy is used by thrusters (doh) but also by sliding.

people will find new tactics to get used to that. standard FL is pretty straightforward in many aspects (which isnt nessessarily bad). we try to use various aspects to make the arcade-game style more interesting for experianced players who are looking for new challenges and opportunities.

You may be an expert pilot on standard FL and it will surely help u also on excelcia, but to learn all the nice lil tweaks and opportunities we create here is the true challenge for an ace

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

wow.... *drools for a couple days...* when's it coming out again, and why are you password protecting the server? then nobody can come on it!

-~Ghost~

password protection = password is in the mod readme, this is just to make sure that whoever goes on the server has dled the mod, there isn't some fancy thing you have to do to get the password, just dl the mod and in the mod manager look at the little text box on the left, password will appear in there.

Cool. is the mod ready for download? if it is can you post a link plz?

-~Ghost~

A few words to the pwd:
Excelcia is a very strongly roleplay-oriented FL server. Roleplay takes place on server and on the forums, and there are a few things you do before taking off into space.
One thing is to "create" the character you play and post it on the forums, we have a place for that. you can also look up other players and the stories of their chars up.
after figuring out who you are in space you are good to go

to the release - u wont miss it, dont worry. ill contact one of the moderators/admins here when its done and it will be in the news.

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

All we need is a ballpart range plezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

When is it coming out?

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
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According to radiometric dating I am a lot older than you think

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to the release - u wont miss it, dont worry. ill contact one of the moderators/admins here when its done and it will be in the news.

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anyway - just to give u a lil info where progress is:
im workin several hours a day on it in these days.
95% of the things are already done and work perfectly.
system encounter diffclass adjustments need a abit time, but we have like 4 ppl on that at the moment who are crunching the systems one after another till we have them all.
the additional infocards are missin so far but ill add those in a big dll-fled-hackin session.

latest achievements are the ~150 new shields (these replace all old ones) and the complete overwork of all fighter and freighter classed ship loadouts.
ay, the npcs carry some nice loadouts now - players have to watch out and be a lot more careful out there. not that experianced pilots will need to learn how to run.

the new concepts (guns, ammo, cargo, shields, ship mounts, ...) turned out to work perfectly so far - it will be a slightly different gameplayed on what ppl are used to - more complex but it offers also more possibilities.

we also have a few new additions to our team - the first bugfix patch gonna have some massive ship addons. at least it look like that - we have some very good modellers on several veryvery neat ships.

there might be also a few last miute changes to the mod as there are a lot of things happening in space lately. some established factions doing things that might have impact on the mod.

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer