New "Urban" Era

[pwnzerIV]

I've started making an era that is based on more urban fighting. This era will have multiple "Guilds" and will hopefully be ready to play in a few weeks.

I've done alot of the coding alreay and started making substitute art for the units already.

The gangs all include many different people with some lawful and some chaotic.

There is an Urban Elf gang which include many seperate types of elves made for more close range combat. The few ranged weapons in this era tend to be short-bows that do a lot of damage in few shots. They also have tamed panthers.

There is an "Outcast" guild whcih includes units like Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Drunks, Rouge Dwavrves, and Halfling Theives.

There is a Halfling-based guild which has Halfling Theives aswell, Gnome Inventors and Mages, and Halfling Rouges. They XP into Drug Lords and War Mages.

There is also a Royal Guard, these have Armored units and Cavalry and attempt to quell the rising super-powers in the city. They also have a large amount of leadership units.

There are also two other guilds which are Chaotic and Lawful. They both grab a few units from other factions that would make sense to be on the same size.

Remember all pf these guilds are not supposed to be that different, although there are many differences, multiple factions have Halfling Theives, multiple factions have Street Rangers, multiple factions have Gnome mages - and so on...

I intend to make some Campaigns but at this point im not sure how that will go. I know I will make some Urban maps designed specifically for this era. Some of those mapes will be fought in a large city, and some out of multiple small villages.

As a note this list of factions is not definitive and a couple of factions may end up getting pulled out.

At this point any art that anyone will contribute will be incradibly useful, but i am making substitute art files for now.

[kcits]

Good luck with that, and I look forwad to seing it!

[JW]

When yuo finish it, be sure to put it on the campaign server so others can enjoy playing it.

[pwnzerIV]

If you are interested in helping please - I need art for halflings.

Most of this era will be based on DnD - and Salvatore's books which are based on DnD. If anyone is familiar with Calimport - this is a modified idea on that.

[Maeglin Dubh]

I figured that was the basis when I read the proposal...

Now I have to make a Jarlaxle-based faction to take over your entire era. With an Entreri hero leader.

[pwnzerIV]

In a few days I hope to have finished all the neccessary coding for the faction. The images will take a little longer, and I think the halflings will be difficult to make. Well, I hope it'll work.

[Assasin]

halflings are hairless dwarves, they shouldn't be that hard.

[Maeglin Dubh]

Slaaaag! I am in Forum Curmudgeon heaven! You really have all of this coded already? Slag! This and the Mage faction just made my month.

((Slag is my own form of expletive. Multi-purpose and (usually) non-offensive. In this case used to express delight and astonishment.))

[Flare]

I gather that intelligent newbies are in short supply here?

[turin]

I gather that intelligent newbies are in short supply here?

Where are they not?

BTW, I like the signature.

[pwnzerIV]

Just so you know, I started coding before I posted about it on the forums, I code usually for about an hour while I'm at school - I did all the brainstorming for characters in my free time at school, and do some coding in my "free" period (It's not really "free" but the period is for doing homework and I have access to computers, I usually do all of my homework pretty quickly so i don't really need to worry)

I've spent a few hours a day on coding and am now just finishing off coding characters, (Like OMG there are so f'n many...). There aren't actually that much it just seems like that when coding them.

I hope to have the coding done in a few days but I'm expecting the images to take maybe a few weeks.

And, Halflings aren't really dwarves without heads as dwarves are far too bulky and heavily armored. I'm going to use pictures like the assassin for the halflings for now but that will change as soon as possible.

Any art people would like to submit would be appreciated.

I've just realized I have kind of strayed away from the point of this post - anyway, the coding will be done in a few days, and the substitute art should be done in a couple of weeks.

[pwnzerIV]

My "Urban" Elves are working well, the art should be done soon. If anyone has a Panther file that I can use or a cat file that i could edit - this would be very useful. Probably will be the only Urban Elf image that I'll be missing at the end of today.

[pwnzerIV]

My Elf Warlock

[Tux2B]

These are a little too obvious recolourings. Maybe you should use some older sprites, or some that are unused and on the wikipage so you can recolour them without making it too obvious.

( http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/GraphicLibrary )

Good luck, BTW. This looks like a very good idea.

[pwnzerIV]

yes, i know they're obvious recolourings but a few of them have the structure changed slightly aswell. I'm currently just trying to get this era out as im not very good at these drawings. Anyway I'm finished one of the faction's art completely now. Time to move onto the dwarves and half-orcs.