The Monstrous Mod V2.0

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This is one of the best "official" mods available in my opinion! Well done to it's creators! I love those things as ships... of course they are slightly modified in cost and strength to suite my tastes and game play balance among my other mods. Again: "Well Done" :)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks for the praise and the feedback. Most of the real work was done by turgotZ, without him this would not have been possible. I'm still tinkering with the bigger Monster, 'cause up to now the Leviathan is either built in masses or not at all by the AI. Thanks again for the feedback, i got next to none when i asked for it some time ago, so i thought the mod is not very popular.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The Monstrous Mod is one of the few mods that I always have loaded. No feedback is usually good news when it comes to mods. Its been my observation that most feedback is usually when something goes wrong. ;) Thanks to you and turgotZ for your work. :CONGRAT:

BTW turgotZ, if you read this, drop by Neotechgaming and say hi.:)

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Now that I know how to do the ship MDL files and make new ship graphics, I'm thinking of giving the Leviathans white noses so that I can tell them apart from the Monsters ships. :)

Monsters and Leviathans... couldn't the AI be coaxed to making them more often by increasing the AI value (in both the tech tree and imp)?

The Monster Mod is one of the only true functioning self-contain MDL ship mods I know of at this site.... I wish there were others that are mostly "stand-alone..." Or did I miss some?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Please tell me when you got the new monster-gfx ready. Unfortunately i do not have the time or the skill to do my own mdl-files. A friend of mine already suggested striped or spotted monsters, or even another animated shape altogether, but i don't know how to do this. This is why turgotZ was so essential in creating the mod. I wanted to breed my own space-sharks, but it was not possible to assign the correct model via GalCiv-Writer. So i asked in the forum if anyone could unlock the model for me. TurgotZ replied the call and created the mdl-file for me( thanks again).

The AI does most of the time research the techs, but building behaviour is still cryptic to me. With the St.Warfare PAckage and a few of my other(personal) mods, i could balance this via production and upkeep cost, but with the Leviathan i still don't get it right.

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Perhaps the AI looks for balance in Attack and Defense and since the Monsters have a low defense, it may not be so "willing" to make them? They don't make the Phoenix or Antimatter missile much either, which are also ships with a low defense.

It'll be some time with the Leviathans, as my time is limited (my job keeps me pretty busy), but it is my next project when I finish tinkering with my Borg cube color improvements. That's available if you want to see it (there a readme file and it works with any existing mods you may have installed). Down-load from my ftp:

http://users.rcn.com/aulonacara/Galatic%20Civ/