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[Phoenix Rising]

The AI is currently building some heroes, mostly land.

[8492nd]

boy i'm lost.
so in this system, if I have Alderaan and build Leia, then the Empire conquer Alderaan, and Leia get kiled in action somewhere else, I will not be able to have her again until I conquer Alderaan?

Edited by 8492nd, 04 October 2007 - 02:13 PM.

[Phoenix Rising]

Yeah, that's how it would work, except I've decided not to limit heroes to their homeworlds, but instead do it on a campaign-by-campaign basis. So for the Thrawn Campaign, Leia might be buildable from either Kashyyyk or Honoghr.

[Pred the Penguin]

That can get... confusing.

[slornie]

But its better than not having certain heroes available because their spawning planet isnt in the campaign..

[Phoenix Rising]

Yeah, I'll have to write it somewhere that can be referenced. Eventually, players will just know where they are and it won't be so much of an issue.

[8492nd]

will this do?



place the cursor on a planet and see if any heros are available.

[Phoenix Rising]

That would work, but I don't know of a way to do it with EaW...

[jdk002]

couldn't you just add it on the planet descriptions? no need for a picture.

[Phoenix Rising]

There's still no way to make it vary by campaign though .

[jdk002]

guess youre just going to have to put it in the readme then and were gonna have to whip out some index cards

[Phoenix Rising]

Right, or the website after I get a chance to overhaul it.

[sideshow_bob]

waitfor that overhaul, we shall

[Dr-Ludvig]

heroes changing sides? hmm, interesting, if it could be coded?

[Dane Kiet]

I just realized a hero pheonix rising forgot to add......... Corran Horn, one of the most bad ass jedi in the galaxy. Are you adding him, or is that a no?

[Corran Horn]

Haha, that's a really cool picture just to prove your point and canonically, that is how it should go. But there are a few problems for gameplay reasons. For one, going from the Admonitor to the Grey Wolf doesn't really get you anything tangible in return, just a new name. The second issue is that each unique ship can appear only once, so if possible, I have to choose other heroes to command those vessels in cases like Thrawn, where he has three Imperial-class Star Destroyers to pick from. So I've given Thrawn the Admonitor and I'm saving the Chimaera for Pellaeon.

I think the point about the Guardian is interesting though, but I'm not sure I would give him that ship specifically, since it was badly damaged and possibly captured before Thrawn's return from the Unknown Regions. Also it was in warlord hands while Thrawn remained loyal to the Empire.

So we know that most of the dreadnoughts left in the Empire seem to have been recalled to Byss for Operation Shadow Hand, which leaves Thrawn to command from an Imperial II. What's always bothered me though, is that Kuat fell just six months before Thrawn started his campaign - inevitably while he was messing around on Tatooine. Certainly there would have been some dreadnoughts left behind from Shadow Hand to protect Kuat, one of which Thrawn could have acquired for a command ship.

In fact, had Zsinj not attacked it, the Razor's Kiss would have been rolling off the lines right around the time Thrawn would have needed it... and since it was new, Kuat wouldn't have lost anything from its defense fleet. Staffing would have been no problem; Thrawn had clones for that. 178 Dreadnaughts sans slave-rigging would have required a crew total of 2,885,380... which just happens to be in-line with the approximated crew count for a 19-kilometer Executor-class at 3,300,000. And since the Kiss was never actually commissioned, it really isn't associated with anyone else and never will be. So I think it's a pretty safe bet to assume that Thrawn could have acquired it and put it into service; I mean, it just makes too much sense. I'll give that to him as his final upgrade.

How do you know all this??? Can I please know your sources?

Thanks!

[AzakVencor]

Wookiepedia I suppose.....