Post by: Crazy Cow on November 07, 2011, 06:02:06 pm
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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria...
…there came an era when the ideals of friendship gave way to greed, selfishness, paranoia and a jealous reaping of dwindling space
and natural resources. Lands took up arms against their neighbors. The end of the world occurred much as we had predicted --
the world was plunged into an abyss of balefire and dark magic. The details are trivial and pointless. The reasons, as always,
purely our own. The world was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing; a magical spark struck by pony hooves quickly raged
out of control. Megaspells rained from the skies. Entire lands were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans.
Ponykind was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the ambient radiation that blanketed the lands. A quiet darkness
fell across the world...
…But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue for another bloody
chapter in pony history. In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous
underground shelters known as Stables. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them.
Many died; others were broken by the horrors that remained. But some survived, some endured, and some still struggle for survival.Fallout: Equestria
A total conversion mod for Dwarf Fortress, inspired by the story Fallout: Equestria (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-fallout-equestria.html) and its many side stories. Brave the radiated wasteland as some of the few surviving and sane ponies left. You will be challenged by everything you encounter, from raiders to nightmarish monsters to the poisoned land itself. Scrape what you can from the land around you and prepare to fight for civilization and the light... or for your own twisted entertainment.
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NOTE
This is currently in the alpha stages! I have nothing playable as of yet. I do, however, have a document with my plans and progress outlined, and I want a thread where we can discuss ideas for the mod. So, have at it!Spoiler: FO:E (click to show/hide)
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 07, 2011, 06:03:09 pm
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Post by: Pokon on November 07, 2011, 06:48:26 pm
Oh, and just to follow up on what I said in the main thread: Do my ideas sound good, by any chance? I am mostly wondering about implamenting the horrors of canterlot and how you are going to handle the varying resorce issues on the enclaves part, BTW, because I would think they would be some of the most interesting chalanges the world has to offer.
Post by: Krantz86 on November 07, 2011, 07:07:28 pm
if you need help with ideas please tell me i'll gladly cooperate!
Post by: Pokon on November 07, 2011, 07:16:52 pm
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i'm a loooong time fan of the fallout series starting from the understimated fallout 1 and i played at every fallout up to new vegas, i really want to see the a total conversion where you can lead a group of humans/ghouls/SM to survive in the harsh wastelands.
if you need help with ideas please tell me i'll gladly cooperate!
Form my experiance, Deon has a almost-fallout mode you may like. It mimics it well, to some extent.
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 07, 2011, 07:24:24 pm
As for the Enclave, I'm changing my ideas somewhat. There's an issue with flying traders, so the Enclave and Steel Rangers will be the two big late-game enemies.
From what I understand, the main things the pegasi build out of clouds are sky structures and 'electronics' like computer terminals and such. Their ships are made mostly of solid material; Lilpip was able to walk on one, and the Enclave isn't capable of building more. I don't think that their weapons and armor are any different, so just having some kind of metal for them would be fine in my book. I am, however, making metals exclusive to the Steel Rangers and Enclave (and anypony capable of killing them), so your ideas aren't all being tossed out the window.
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 07, 2011, 07:24:50 pm
i'm a loooong time fan of the fallout series starting from the understimated fallout 1 and i played at every fallout up to new vegas, i really want to see the a total conversion where you can lead a group of humans/ghouls/SM to survive in the harsh wastelands.
if you need help with ideas please tell me i'll gladly cooperate!
Wasteland mod is what you want.
Post by: Pokon on November 07, 2011, 07:52:07 pm
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I'm going to shy away from the Canterlot stuff. I won't be able to implement a lot of the things from it properly, and what I can implement is similar enough to what I have planned that it would be more like repetition than anything new.
As for the Enclave, I'm changing my ideas somewhat. There's an issue with flying traders, so the Enclave and Steel Rangers will be the two big late-game enemies.
From what I understand, the main things the pegasi build out of clouds are sky structures and 'electronics' like computer terminals and such. Their ships are made mostly of solid material; Lilpip was able to walk on one, and the Enclave isn't capable of building more. I don't think that their weapons and armor are any different, so just having some kind of metal for them would be fine in my book. I am, however, making metals exclusive to the Steel Rangers and Enclave (and anypony capable of killing them), so your ideas aren't all being tossed out the window.
Ah, okay. I might just make a Canterlot Ghoul and the undead baby dragons later anyway, if you are interested. Necrosprites might just be a bit hard to implement, tho. :)
On Enclave material: I was thinking of a Enclave-exclusive way of using gems as a sort of upgrade on there stuff ex: Take one block of a alloy of steel, use with a few "proccesed gems grade B" and you get one piece of " colonial grade Enclave steel" or something. The steel rangers are most likely running on older-pre war models for alloy making, so them having the recipes to make pre-war stuff is not out of the ordinary. Mostly stuff like genuine energy weapons and heavy guns.
Also, what about the occasinal drone, such as the ones often guarding importent structures? Not only are they currantly feasable, they could prove to be very powerful advisorys in adventure mode, being metaly and stuff. Naturaly, some old chunks of pre-war stuff might drop off them, and of course they would range from fun-sized to wheeled engines of pure death, with varied capiablity to hold stuff.
Post by: Deon on November 07, 2011, 08:14:34 pm
My mod is based on fallout in most aspects, but it has some side "expansions", although it's mostly about Vault Dwellers, Supermutants, Wastelanders, Raiders and Ghouls. But it will take some time for me to update that after I patch my Genesis graphical version.Quotei'm a loooong time fan of the fallout series starting from the understimated fallout 1 and i played at every fallout up to new vegas, i really want to see the a total conversion where you can lead a group of humans/ghouls/SM to survive in the harsh wastelands.
if you need help with ideas please tell me i'll gladly cooperate!
Form my experiance, Deon has a almost-fallout mode you may like. It mimics it well, to some extent.
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 09, 2011, 10:19:30 am
Enclave metal (ebonsteel for now) is already high-tier metal, on par with the Steel Ranger's power metal, and making even more powerful materials would be a bit overkill :p
Drones, though, certainly. I think they'll show up as semi-megabeasts, tough to kill and using an 'acid' attack. Not very cannon, but I can't give laser-like attacks to them, so acid guns will have to do for now.
I'm working on all the scavenging reactions at the moment, and I'll have some more code up sometime today.
Post by: Roses on November 10, 2011, 02:56:43 pm
@Pokon
Enclave metal (ebonsteel for now) is already high-tier metal, on par with the Steel Ranger's power metal, and making even more powerful materials would be a bit overkill :p
Drones, though, certainly. I think they'll show up as semi-megabeasts, tough to kill and using an 'acid' attack. Not very cannon, but I can't give laser-like attacks to them, so acid guns will have to do for now.
I'm working on all the scavenging reactions at the moment, and I'll have some more code up sometime today.
Fireball attack might be more lazery than acid. Although that's debatable.
Post by: Zangi on November 10, 2011, 03:01:01 pm
Fireballs are more rocket launcher-like.
Post by: Roses on November 10, 2011, 03:04:19 pm
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 10, 2011, 05:31:43 pm
\A high-temp material attached to a material breath attack would be much more deadly, and is what I'm currently experementing with.
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Post by: Pokon on November 11, 2011, 10:16:28 am
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Post by: Valikdu on November 12, 2011, 03:48:22 pm
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 12, 2011, 03:58:15 pm
Picking my way through all the custom reactions at the moment. You won't be able to make things like armor at the usual workshops, but instead at one central one using whatever bits and pieces you've scraped together.
Post by: kerlc on November 13, 2011, 12:08:47 pm
Post by: Crazy Cow on November 13, 2011, 03:02:40 pm
Post by: Pokon on November 27, 2011, 03:38:48 am
Post by: flieroflight on December 09, 2011, 02:55:04 am
Post by: Deon on December 10, 2011, 06:57:36 am
Post by: 612DwarfAvenue on December 10, 2011, 08:07:19 pm
They're a four-legged PLAGUE!
Post by: kerlc on December 11, 2011, 02:30:03 am
Post by: Necro910 on December 11, 2011, 02:47:38 am
Goddamn, these Ponies are invading everywhere.THE END IS NEIGH
They're a four-legged PLAGUE!
PREPARE YOUR EMUS
Post by: Putnam on December 11, 2011, 02:58:05 am
Psycho is for damage output, so possibly some strength/agility boost... You make med-x to reduce pain.
Yes, Med-x could just add no pain.
[I_EFFECT:MED_X]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
[SYNDROME]
[CE_ADD_TAG:NO_PAIN]
I guess that would be permanent; I'd like to know how to make terminating interactions sooner rather than later :P
Post by: Necro910 on December 11, 2011, 03:15:47 am
For now you could just use numbness. ;DPsycho is for damage output, so possibly some strength/agility boost... You make med-x to reduce pain.
Yes, Med-x could just add no pain.
[I_EFFECT:MED_X]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
[SYNDROME]
[CE_ADD_TAG:NO_PAIN]
I guess that would be permanent; I'd like to know how to make terminating interactions sooner rather than later :P
Temporary+Don't have to wait for next update!
Post by: flieroflight on December 11, 2011, 06:50:58 am
on topic, hydra could boost recouperation and jet could, hmm jet gives ap for vats so what? skill boost?
for plasma rifles, make them shoot a unique bolt that is only made of a metal tht gives a rotting contact syndrome as there is no elt syndrome as i know of. for lasers, the same could apply but with high temperature metal
Post by: kerlc on December 11, 2011, 08:14:47 am
Post by: Trapezohedron on December 11, 2011, 08:22:11 am
Post by: Putnam on December 11, 2011, 10:35:58 am
i was half expecting your comment to begin with m and rhyme with ragma.
on topic, hydra could boost recouperation and jet could, hmm jet gives ap for vats so what? skill boost?
for plasma rifles, make them shoot a unique bolt that is only made of a metal tht gives a rotting contact syndrome as there is no elt syndrome as i know of. for lasers, the same could apply but with high temperature metal
In FO2, Jet gave 2 AP, so it would probably make you go...
*sunglasses*
20% faster.
Also, bolts can't be only made of a certain metal. Trust me, I wanted to make plasma rifles and laser rifles, but there was no way.
Also, Jet had a 50% chance of addiction. Perhaps that 50% chance of withdrawal could be shown? IIRC, the withdrawal effects were the loss of 1 or 2 AP until you got the addiction cure from Myron or wherever else you could get them.
Post by: Necro910 on December 11, 2011, 12:48:59 pm
i was half expecting your comment to begin with m and rhyme with ragma.Toady One told me to cut it out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf43IBWQPxM)
Post by: flieroflight on December 12, 2011, 03:11:14 am
Post by: kerlc on December 12, 2011, 07:52:29 am
if this isn't understandable please say so, and i'll explain it better.
Post by: Putnam on December 12, 2011, 10:07:17 am
actually, if you can make a special reaction that requires a SPECIFIC metal, and probably another reagent (example: any metal bar + plasma bar) and make extracting plasmium difficult (like instead of getting it from 'raw plasma' you have to get it via a reaction from a gem. (example: gem + a workshop=plasma bar)) and then make plasma weapons use a specific ammo (marked as 'foreign', of course) that can be obtained via a complex reaction (plasma bar+any metal bar+science/magic workshop= plasma charge). that should cover it. i think.
if this isn't understandable please say so, and i'll explain it better.
Yeah, I've done that, but it seems that foreign ammo can't be used.
That may just be on my end, though.
Post by: Deon on December 12, 2011, 10:09:42 am
Hmm, are you sure it's true? It can explain Revocane's oddities in his let's play.actually, if you can make a special reaction that requires a SPECIFIC metal, and probably another reagent (example: any metal bar + plasma bar) and make extracting plasmium difficult (like instead of getting it from 'raw plasma' you have to get it via a reaction from a gem. (example: gem + a workshop=plasma bar)) and then make plasma weapons use a specific ammo (marked as 'foreign', of course) that can be obtained via a complex reaction (plasma bar+any metal bar+science/magic workshop= plasma charge). that should cover it. i think.
if this isn't understandable please say so, and i'll explain it better.
Yeah, I've done that, but it seems that foreign ammo can't be used.
That may just be on my end, though.
Post by: kerlc on December 12, 2011, 01:25:26 pm
Post by: flieroflight on December 12, 2011, 03:49:44 pm
Post by: Necro910 on December 12, 2011, 08:08:15 pm
the only problem with lasium or plasmetite would be with either high temperatures or contact syndromes, making sure your ponies dont touch it. with the enclave or rangers, possibly making their metals have a fixed temp should avert a squad of enclve pegasi entering and plunging to their death as their ammo has melted their wingsContact syndromes do not work while solid, so it'd have to have a melting point at body temperature. That would solve the Dead Ranger problem.
A heated bolt would still be tricky...
Post by: flieroflight on December 13, 2011, 03:02:39 am
Post by: Putnam on December 13, 2011, 10:08:05 am
I tried it when I made the Enclave for wasteland (it was pretty much 100% personal use, but I released regardless), and I came up with this:
- I found out Plasteel was already armor-only, so I changed it so that it's ADJ was "advanced" instead of "plasteel", making such things come up as "advanced combat vest" and "advanced power armor" (which is used by the Enclave)
- I made a copy of stainless steel, renamed it to simply "steel", and made it weapons/digger/everything but ammo only.
- I made depleted uranium their only source of ammo.
That's what I did. You could do similar, except you could also make their only source of ammo some of that plasma shit, like so:
- Make a plasma material. My favorite one is here. It causes syndromes! (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69205.0)
- Make that plasma material the ONLY ammo material available to the Enclave.
- Plasma rifles that shoot plasma :D
Post by: kerlc on December 13, 2011, 11:20:24 am
i wrote a FOE fanfic, the thread is here. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=97539.0) please read and comment.
and now back on topic: i think CrazyCow abandoned this project. but i know not. thank you for the plasma suggestion, Putnam!