Stargate Battles, our fan-made Stargate Game!

[Cameron Mitchel]

Just tried the game. Interesting. Really nice! Holding W is OK, as long as there's still a Pause to rest ur fingers. Anyway, the sprites once again are just too big! Not to complain, but also, if those were Alkesh, then they were too small compared to Prommie. But, just shrink the Prommie, and Hatak. Why? well, when you start to get to bigger ships such as Asgard ships, and Ori Warships(or motherships, which are bigger than the former), well, it'll take up alot of RAM (talking about the game).

[Battera]

I'm going to release an 'Odysseus engine' showing of the might of the ship the player gets in the latter part of the game. I'm finally back on the ball with the game.

Sent you a PM, BTW.

[Battera]

Here's the Bios for the weapons the Odysseus has. Tell me what you think:

Well first off, the ship is powered by three ZPM's. Its shields have a regulated value of about 500,000,000 TW (whereas the Iliad's Shields are 100,000). The thing is, the shields don't recharge from Mission to Mission. you have that amount of shield energy to use for the rest of the game.

Iliad's weapons:
Charged Partical Cannons-2500 damage
DREAD Missiles-15,000 damage.

Odysseus's weapons:
Spectral Cannons-10,000 damage.
Re-DREADS-35,000 damage
Distort Beam-84400 damage.

Scientific Analysis:
*The Spectral Cannons utilize plasma rather than charged Ion energy which most human weaponry uses. The plasma globules it fires are directed by magnetic forces located in the weapons' barrel. Each shot would emit over 10 Yottawatts inside an atmosphere like Earth's (about 2% the power of our sun). Since the weapon is basically just a cannon that shoots uber-heated gas at enemy ships, its range it limited outside of an atmosphere and most of the destructive power is used up during the weapons firing, but in orbital bombardment, each shot would equal a 100 Megaton nuclear bomb and is capable of firing 6 shots a second, and can wipe out an entire Earth sized planet from bombardment in less than 11 days.

*Re-D.R.E.A.D.S. are updated DREAD missiles, taking much of their designs from Ancient drones. Designed by Jessica O'Neill, the Re-DREADS each have a 1 Gigaton Nuclear device built in for additional damage to enemy ships. The Odysseus is capable of carrying 648 of these powerful devices. Legyon's ships however have a resistance to the technology, probably because of their inherit design being based off of Drones, and Legyon anticipating the use of Drones against him. It is unknown if Drone weapons are capable of penetrating the Shields of a ship controlled by Legyon, or if they'd do any damage at all.

*The most powerful weapon equipped to the Odysseus is the Distort Beam. It was specifically designed to take out enemy shields. While it inflicts less damage to an exposed hull, and is inefficient for orbital bombardment (unlike the Spectral Cannons, and the Re-DREADS), the Distort Beam is the only weapon in the Odysseus's arsenal capable of inflicting 100% of its power into Legyon's ships. The Weapon requires an unacceptable amount of power to fire, each shot requiring 100,000 Terawatts of stored energy, but thanks to the ZPM's, the power requirements are met.


I ACTUALLY researched the strength of power generators in the USA, and the power of nuclear bombs just so I could make that lengthy post... I should be a scientist not a game designer...

[Cameron Mitchel]

Here's the Bios for the weapons the Odysseus has. Tell me what you think:

Well first off, the ship is powered by three ZPM's. Its shields have a regulated value of about 500,000,000 TW (whereas the Iliad's Shields are 100,000). The thing is, the shields don't recharge from Mission to Mission. you have that amount of shield energy to use for the rest of the game.

Iliad's weapons:
Charged Partical Cannons-2500 damage
DREAD Missiles-15,000 damage.

Odysseus's weapons:
Spectral Cannons-10,000 damage.
Re-DREADS-35,000 damage
Distort Beam-84400 damage.

Scientific Analysis:
*The Spectral Cannons utilize plasma rather than charged Ion energy which most human weaponry uses. The plasma globules it fires are directed by magnetic forces located in the weapons' barrel. Each shot would emit over 10 Yottawatts inside an atmosphere like Earth's (about 2% the power of our sun). Since the weapon is basically just a cannon that shoots uber-heated gas at enemy ships, its range it limited outside of an atmosphere and most of the destructive power is used up during the weapons firing, but in orbital bombardment, each shot would equal a 100 Megaton nuclear bomb and is capable of firing 6 shots a second, and can wipe out an entire Earth sized planet from bombardment in less than 11 days.

*Re-D.R.E.A.D.S. are updated DREAD missiles, taking much of their designs from Ancient drones. Designed by Jessica O'Neill, the Re-DREADS each have a 1 Gigaton Nuclear device built in for additional damage to enemy ships. The Odysseus is capable of carrying 648 of these powerful devices. Legyon's ships however have a resistance to the technology, probably because of their inherit design being based off of Drones, and Legyon anticipating the use of Drones against him. It is unknown if Drone weapons are capable of penetrating the Shields of a ship controlled by Legyon, or if they'd do any damage at all.

*The most powerful weapon equipped to the Odysseus is the Distort Beam. It was specifically designed to take out enemy shields. While it inflicts less damage to an exposed hull, and is inefficient for orbital bombardment (unlike the Spectral Cannons, and the Re-DREADS), the Distort Beam is the only weapon in the Odysseus's arsenal capable of inflicting 100% of its power into Legyon's ships. The Weapon requires an unacceptable amount of power to fire, each shot requiring 100,000 Terawatts of stored energy, but thanks to the ZPM's, the power requirements are met.


I ACTUALLY researched the strength of power generators in the USA, and the power of nuclear bombs just so I could make that lengthy post... I should be a scientist not a game designer...

when will you start redoing the first game?

[Battera]

Well, I've already started programming the 'battles' portion of it. I'm just trying to decide how far back into the show I want to go with the game.

[Vampyr]

*Stares at stats for Oddyseus* Wow. I can just see the ammount of havoc I could wreak with that thing. Though I must ask, will these plasma bolts have tracking capacity? Or will they just be 'dumb' bolts?

In other news, I just downloaded the IV music pack. Nice tip of the hat with 'Destroyers of Society' to 'Escape Ship'. And I like that the music from Beta is in there too.

[Battera]

The Spectral Cannons will be 'dumb', and the Distort beam will be guided.

[Princess Awinita]

I have a small question about the Stargate Battles games,(which rock my socks off)

my question is, what are the very minimum system requirements to run each game, I'm only able to run the first one only, none of the newer ones, for some reason I get a "unexpected error, please see video card control panel for more info" when I try any of the rest(this also happens when I try to go back and play the first Stargate Battles game).

to round it up into a small sum up, when I try to start the game(any of them) I get that error message, then the game closes on its own, oh and I use only a Windows XPPro computer with 256 ram and a AMD Semporn 3200+ CPU in case you need it, and the computer is made by HP as well, I loved the first game and really want to play them all, only my computer and ISP are acting really stupid these days. the computer is only a year old too.

[Cameron Mitchel]

Well, I've already started programming the 'battles' portion of it. I'm just trying to decide how far back into the show I want to go with the game.

Are you redoing the sprites for that one?

[Battera]

Yes, all of the sprites will be re-done.

And Teyilia, I'm sorry but I do not know what the requirements for being able to run the games is. I do know that you need a Div.X video media program installed.

[Cameron Mitchel]

Yes, all of the sprites will be re-done.

And Teyilia, I'm sorry but I do not know what the requirements for being able to run the games is. I do know that you need a Div.X video media program installed.

Good. I'm working on the sprites. But, if you scale them up after, then, won't they not look as good?

[Cameron Mitchel]

Here's the Bios for the weapons the Odysseus has. Tell me what you think:

Well first off, the ship is powered by three ZPM's. Its shields have a regulated value of about 500,000,000 TW (whereas the Iliad's Shields are 100,000). The thing is, the shields don't recharge from Mission to Mission. you have that amount of shield energy to use for the rest of the game.

Iliad's weapons:
Charged Partical Cannons-2500 damage
DREAD Missiles-15,000 damage.

Odysseus's weapons:
Spectral Cannons-10,000 damage.
Re-DREADS-35,000 damage
Distort Beam-84400 damage.

Scientific Analysis:
*The Spectral Cannons utilize plasma rather than charged Ion energy which most human weaponry uses. The plasma globules it fires are directed by magnetic forces located in the weapons' barrel. Each shot would emit over 10 Yottawatts inside an atmosphere like Earth's (about 2% the power of our sun). Since the weapon is basically just a cannon that shoots uber-heated gas at enemy ships, its range it limited outside of an atmosphere and most of the destructive power is used up during the weapons firing, but in orbital bombardment, each shot would equal a 100 Megaton nuclear bomb and is capable of firing 6 shots a second, and can wipe out an entire Earth sized planet from bombardment in less than 11 days.

*Re-D.R.E.A.D.S. are updated DREAD missiles, taking much of their designs from Ancient drones. Designed by Jessica O'Neill, the Re-DREADS each have a 1 Gigaton Nuclear device built in for additional damage to enemy ships. The Odysseus is capable of carrying 648 of these powerful devices. Legyon's ships however have a resistance to the technology, probably because of their inherit design being based off of Drones, and Legyon anticipating the use of Drones against him. It is unknown if Drone weapons are capable of penetrating the Shields of a ship controlled by Legyon, or if they'd do any damage at all.

*The most powerful weapon equipped to the Odysseus is the Distort Beam. It was specifically designed to take out enemy shields. While it inflicts less damage to an exposed hull, and is inefficient for orbital bombardment (unlike the Spectral Cannons, and the Re-DREADS), the Distort Beam is the only weapon in the Odysseus's arsenal capable of inflicting 100% of its power into Legyon's ships. The Weapon requires an unacceptable amount of power to fire, each shot requiring 100,000 Terawatts of stored energy, but thanks to the ZPM's, the power requirements are met.


I ACTUALLY researched the strength of power generators in the USA, and the power of nuclear bombs just so I could make that lengthy post... I should be a scientist not a game designer...

Also, what time period is this game from. You mentioned the SG-1 episodes, the last one (not really episode) being Ark of Truth, but wouldn't this have to be beyond AoT, since there's this new ship called Odysseus that has Jessica O'neill's Re-Dread weapons? Also, is this game gonna be just episode based, or could it possibly have some of the cannon missions along with other non cannon missions (it make the game more interesting)?

[Battera]

...the Odysseus is in SGB IV.

And the sprites wouldn't look too bad depending on how large you make them. If you make them large enough into a certain margin (of which, I don't know), then when scaled up using the ever-powerful GIMP program, they won't loose much, if any quality.
I mean, I've been using it to scale ships since game#2, and did you see any sprites in those that were seriously of bad quality? I think not! Well, I hope not...
and just episode based, although the order may be changed, and the continuity modified to be usable in a game, like I did in the very first game with the Prometheus defeating the Ethon, and being destroyed in the supergate mission rather than Vala's Teltac.

And did anyone else notice that in ALL of the games, you start out with one ship, but switch to a stronger one later on? I don't think that was an intentional theme (Prometheus/Odyssey, Iliad/ZPM-powered Iliad, Epimetheus/Iliad again, Iliad/Odysseus). In future games, I'll stray from that.

[Battera]

I have an idea for a new feature in the Stargate: Omega game, and I'd like some opinions on it.

Rather than using the mouse-scroll button to speed up or slow down, it will allow you to move up or down. Now please notice I don't mean forward or backward (as in what W and S do with the WASD controls.) I mean UP and DOWN as if to seem three dimensional. It would allow you to fly above, or under ships to avoid slamming into them.

[zer0_1]

I have an idea for a new feature in the Stargate: Omega game, and I'd like some opinions on it.

Rather than using the mouse-scroll button to speed up or slow down, it will allow you to move up or down. Now please notice I don't mean forward or backward (as in what W and S do with the WASD controls.) I mean UP and DOWN as if to seem three dimensional. It would allow you to fly above, or under ships to avoid slamming into them.

i kinda like that i dea, but could you also do it for a couple of buttons on the keypad? i have a laptop and obviously dont have a scroller

use say PgUp and PgDn