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Topic: The People's Races! (Read 27617 times)
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Valaggar
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Agreed with Elerium, but a similar sort of looping drums would fit them - of course, their volume would better be lower.
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Gaeamil
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Fascinating how a thread like this can turn into a full-up creation of a race.
But, still, a topic's a topic, so here's mine:
The Darana
A race of "meta-mollusks" like the Spathi, but not nearly as cowardly. The defining point of their species (again similar to the Spathi, their cowardice this time) is that almost every member of their race has a high degree of ADD, meaning that no one Darana can stay focused on anything for more than a couple minutes. As a result, they are an ancient race, but are very new to space travel, having just discovered HyperSpace travel. In any conversation with a Darana, one must be prepared to change to a conversation to another without warning, as Darana are very prone to getting bored and leaving. Fortunately, their comm consoles print a transcript of the entire conversation, so the next Darana to pick up will not be in the dark.
Any Darana is usually concerned with matters of personal safety and comfort, but they will still fight without too much worry. For instance, a Darana will save any money they come across, but are prone to splurge a saved amount on a nice thing that interests them at that moment. They also are incorrigible packrats, rarely willing to through the slightest bit of waste away. This resulted in their creating Fabricator technology very quickly, so an object could be deconstructed with a minimum of waste.
Ship: Zephyr
Speed: High
Turning: Med-high
Accel: High
Energy regen: Medium
Crew: 12
Battery: 15
Primary weapon: simple, forward-firing machine gun, much like the Yehat's weapons, but only one. 1 battery tick per shot
Secondary: A boost that projects the Zephyr far forward very quickly. Like the Umgah's reverse gear, but forward and farther, and with a slow reuse timer. Also, ship restores momentum from before the boost. 5 battery ticks per use.
These ships were designed with the credo "You can't kill what you can't hit" in mind. They look similar to the Shofixti Scout and Mmrnmhrm X-Form Y-Wing.
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Valaggar
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Gaeamil: Isn't the ship a bit TimeWarp-ish and the race a bit a-few-post-ago-ish? 
Neonlare: This is better, yep, but it's only piano. Also, don't forget to remove the silence at the end.
Add a wailing guitar too, it will be much more Medieval.
Some heavy, periodic drums would also reflect the Fjorn's "heaviness".
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Valaggar
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Well done, this sounds perfect. No need for drums anymore.
However, it's too long - 14.5 seconds. Ditties only have up to 4, 5 seconds. You need to reduce it to only the essential part (take out/merge with the other parts similar parts of the ditty, make it so that it's feeling constantly changes).
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Valaggar
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It still need to be shorter, it's 8 seconds, while the others are, as I said, only up to 4, 5 seconds. Simply remove some of the transitional steps, I think.
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Valaggar
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Well, I thought so too, but you'll grow bored with having to wait so much between battles. Maybe have the delay last for only 4 seconds, as usual, and the ditty continues in the ship selection box? This seems well.
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Valaggar
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But I don't know what TimeWarp is It is a Melee clone, still in development. They intend to add an adventure portion to it, but I personally don't think that they will ever finish it. It can be downloaded here.
There are lots of such ships there, it seems that they are very popular.
Well, I get the a-few-post-ago-ish-ness Oops. That race wasn't from this thread, it was from somewhere (not on this forum) but I can't recall from where. It was a race of microscopic organisms with a very short lifespan and, thus, a very fast history. So that during a single conversation with them, their entire social structure changed multiple times.
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