The Lands of Arda

Gupps · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 485

Okay Im still alive Wink

been working hard on the next update and heres what I have planned/ half finished.

Reskin of elementals to look more like elementals.
Complete revamp graphically and statistically of all summoned creatures - The mummy is overpowered but i dont nessesarily want to nerf it. What I do want is to make druids/rangers and summoning aligned classes actually have summons that work and are worthy of the points invested to get them.

As it stands a battle cleric can have a pocket tank in the form of an indestructable mummy for free, whilst a lv 40 druid gets an elder elemental that have 12AC, a +1 weapon, and a whopping 200Hit points.

Summons that take a high level in a class to get will be worth it.

Finally im sick of arda having none standard .2da, it means adding new content or making content work is a pain in the arse. I will, starting with the creature pallette be trying to standardise the .2da files of arda the best that is possible. This is a massive job there are 6000 lines of 'code' in the creature pallette alone that need to be moved around and changed.

Basically as of the last patch you all have many new models for creatures ready to go however if you imagine a long list that NWN reads that tells it where the models for the creatures exist and behave.

Ardas list says -- here is where the model and everything for a horse is. However the standard list says at the same line here is where everything for a dragon is. we have to use ardas list as all our horses become dragons. However it means if someone revamps a dragon we cant use it or it will replace all our horses with revamped dragons. If i can standardise ardas 'list' to look more like the standard one we are well on the way to doing a lot of fancy stuff, including dare I say it, fancy mounts.

anyhow theres the update im working on