What about aliens?

[Ironfoot]

Instead of the new French faction or maybe for .86 even I think it would be a better idea to bring in a new alien race and it's empire of systems as opposed to creating new earth races.

The race could have been totally unknown until a jumpgate inadvertantly connected to their empire, anyone got any ideas on this?

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[Zelot]

I am pretty sure they are known as the Nomads.

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[Guest]

The thing is that it only means a LOT of balancing for the new species and in general a LOT of work. To be honest, there have been MANY ideas about new species and, sadly, all of them are declined, for the better or worse, i cannot say, but we first need to deal with what we already have to add something else.

[Ironfoot]

I am pretty sure they are known as the Nomads.

Well obviously, but what about another race with a whole heap of systems and technology and not just the kind that beam in and destroy everything mindlessly?

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[tazuras]

We have another race in addition to the nomads known as phantoms, if the devs feel we need to add aliens I'm sure they'd prefer to expand on one of these instead of start a new one, at least I would feel that way, and lets not even start talking about the harvesters (they could be expanded upon too).

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[retnuh]

i would like to see new alien systems, species, and ships too but as the mod isn't a commercial endevour, all the work would have to be done in people's spare time, it's quite a sacrifice. (personally i don't have the skills to design new ships etc but i might learn soon because i love the game and wouldn't mind giving somthing back to the community)

[Jihadjoe]

This would be a vast amount of work, in terms of balance, writing, modding itself...

I doubt this is really on the cards, especialy not for the upcoming mod.

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[Cellulanus]

How about no...


How would they exist in the Sirius sector for 800 years without someone stumbling on them?

And before you say, Liberty was literally sitting on a library full of nomad technology (I've even seen an ingame rumour in Rheinland that supports this) so they were hardly completely unknown, and the French were taking careful steps to avoid detection.

[Ironwatsas]

I don't think we'll be seeing any alien races anytime soon. Atleast in the form of NPC factions and whatnot. We already have the Nomads, Phantoms, and Harvesters as major ones, and a few other minor 'aliens' running around. We have the Nayaheya, Cylons, Martians, and by technicallity the Consortium although they are loosely related to the Phantoms, and the ones in Sirius are all Human based Cyborgs or Robots.

It can be RPed, and there's no reason not to. However, any other alien races would need a lot of RP, and good RP at that before they are majorly accepted into the overall storyline.

There almost certianly would be lots of undiscovered alien Civilisations about, but do remember that space is BIG. And the human colonies in Sirius would probably not even register on the radar of most Alien races. Some undoubtedly would show up to investigate, leaving doors open for RP oppurtunities for such things as UFO sightings and random encounters.

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All that begins must end.

[Zelot]

It would be an intense amount of work, aside from that it would probably interfere with the long term story line that Igiss has in mind for Disco.

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