Sorry I haven't been around all too much guys. This new job has a crazy backlog over a half of a year backlog, and having to fly back in forth from So. Florida to Kansas City, Mo. is not fun. I may be landing some free time in the next week or two, so I'll see if I can't get back to some artwork

~Val

Thanks for checking in Val. Hang in there and we will leave a light on for you.

It's not as if we're working to a deadline Val, so take all the time you need. You'll get some free time one day, and you know where to find us.

Starfleet.command, we plan to eventually replace all graphics that have been taken from BOTF. I personally particularly like the tech graphics though, and there's no real rush at the moment to remove them. We want to remove them because of the risk of copyright etc, but after the collapse of Microprose, it being 10 years since the game was released, the lack of a sequal and the ambiguous ownership of the game rights, and our usage of the graphics without exchanging money means it's unlikely a legal challenge of any kind would be made about it. And if that happens, we'll just completely remove whatever needs to be removed and refocus our efforts on making replacement images.

If you want to change your own images though, all you need to do is replace the image files. As long as the new files are identically named to the originals, then they will work. The tech images are located in your Supremacy\Resources\Images\Research\Fields folder, so just replace those files with whatever you want. I have to warn you that the auto-updater incorrectly identifies mods as outdated files though and will attempt to replace any changes you make with those held on the game server, so you will have to put up with receiving an update notification every time you load up the game if you do this, or you'll have to turn the updater off. But if you turn it off, you might also miss out on legitimate updates in future.

Hello, it's just a personal point of view of the random events pictures

Embezzlement & Donation are the same pictures!!
Lab Explosion: the image is blurred
Scientific Breakthrough: i like the 1rst picture
Encounter the Cytherians: the Cytherian face is burred
Catastrophic Mining Accident: to modify
Positive Foreign Government Change: the Cardassian logo is missing and the Federation logo in at center is of excess (there is already Starfleet logo)
Negative Foreign Government Change: same thing the Federation logo in at center is of excess (there is already Starfleet phaser rifle)
Weather system breakdown: image to review

There is a slight color difference (Embezzlement & the picture Donation.) That could be enough to tell them apart until we have time to replace images.

It would be necessary to think also of replacing the technology fields pictures (Biotech, Energy, Computers, Propulsion, Construction, Weapons). What do you think?

We do plan to replace these images if possible. We've not had any submissions for them yet though.

As an update to them though, i've applied transparencies to the tech image files as this makes them look better in-game.

New Embezzlement Images

it's good,i like it. Congratulations!!!!!

MOE Please set up a list of images we want to consider redoing I will see what can be done.

Looks great as usual. It was worth the wait.

Ooh a new image!

...You already made an embezzlement one though, Val. And the new image has a $ symbol on the bag; technically $'s don't exist in the future. The bag also contains coins, whilst the old one had Latinum bars; we've got Latinum bars in the Donation image as well, so sorry if i'm being overly pedantic, but that's an inconsistency between the images. Of course, you could argue that Trek is all about inconsistencies.



If you want to redo the images, then here's a list of images that could possibly be improved. It isn't necessary to make the changes though. I'm going to continue being pedantic but it's completely up to you if you want to make the changes I suggest.


Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: Green and blue stars look cool, but there's no such thing as green stars, or at least not to human eyes for stars near to Sol. Blue stars are rare as well. "Normal" coloured stars could make for a better image.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific planets. A generic Terran planet might make for a better image.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific planets. A generic Terran planet might make for a better image.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.
NOTE: we already have an alternative image though.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.
NOTE: we already have an alternative image though.

Reason: Climate change can mean increasing temperatures as well as freezing. Could fire be added to the bottom of the image so both fire and ice are on there?

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific insignias, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: Normally I would say ships shouldn't be race-specific, but things are a bit different with this image. Perhaps it would be easier if ships of more races were added to this image, or perhaps the empire ships were replaced with those of random minor races.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This is a great image, but it only works if you're playing as the Federation. It also suggests that ONLY Klingons betray their empire. I'm not really sure how this image could be fixed without having race-specific images though. :(

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: the PADD is very Federation-specific. It's up to you if you want to make the computer less Federation-y down or not.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.
NOTE: We already have an alternative image.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship icons, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship icons, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship icons, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship icons, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: Images of the Omega Particle should be available online. If it were possible to incorporate the actual Omega Particle or a recreation of it, the image would look even better.

Reason: A Green star looks cool, but there's no such thing as green stars, or at least not to human eyes for stars near to Sol. "Normal" coloured stars could make for a better image.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship/station designs and blueprints, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship/station designs and blueprints, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship/station designs and blueprints, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: The Federation AND Starfleet are represented in the image, but the Cardassians are not.

Reason: The Federation AND Starfleet are represented in the image, but the Cardassians are not.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific ship designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: random events can affect any race. This might make images a bit more boring or make it harder to come up with suitable ideas, but images should avoid having race-specific station designs, unless we go down the path of personalised images for every empire. That might be a cool idea, but it's a hell of a lot of work, it means people need to download a lot more images, and Mike would still need to program it so the game could load race-specific images based on the race you're playing as.

Reason: The Federation and Klingons are represented, but the Romulans, Cardassians, and Dominion are not.

Reason: We've got two images. The one on the right has the bio-hazard symbol but no background, the one on the left has a background but the hazard warning looks more like a radiation hazard sign. Could you give the one on the right a background image?



As I said, it's up to you whether you want to make the suggested changes.You know that i've got an eye for detail and i'm intentionally being pedantic so we get the best images we can. Please do not take this as an insult for any of the work you have done because I am perfectly happy with what we already have. But better images would make me even happier.

I have an idea for the embezzlement picture, just keep Latinum and reworking the color of the triangle in red and add 2 flash of lightning to show the trouble or simply keep the same image both for the embezzlement and the donation, only the text and the name of the event will be different. What do you think about?

Manned Station Lost: add each empire starbase & their Destruction

Alien Shipyard: see Enterprise epsiode "Dead Stop" and add each kind of empire ship goes in his direction (same thing for Caretaker Array)

Enemy Leader Assassinated: add a picture of the leader of each empire and keep the idea of the targeting. Keep the same picture both for the Relations Worsen & Improve

Officer Exchange Program: add each logos as Positive Foreign Government Change and keep the idea of the circle of rotation and grade (the Cardassian logo placed between the Klingon & Romulan logos)

Negative Foreign Government Change: rework it to add a picture of the leader or logo of each empire

Fuel Leak: add a ship of each empire with a gas trail left behind each ship and keep the idea of the fuel level

Scientific Breakthrough: in the second picture add scope and molecular chain

Warp Core Breach: add a picture of each kind empire ship with at the center, a picture of the warp core with smoke or fire

...And that's why I said it's your choice whether to do them or not. You're not our slave, afterall....

...Yet.

Replacement Alien Shipyard:

Replacement Plague:

Wow, those are spectacular!

Wow, great images Val! I've added them to my Supremacy Random Events folder and Sharepointed them.

Finals next week then I have two weeks of free time finally... going to try to pump out the rest of the needed "random events" stuff... (maybe)

Science fields images are excellent there is no reason to waste our time in creating new ones.
Good job Val though dollar sign on bag looks strange (New Embezzlement Image), and cardassian monac shipyard as alien shipyard isn't rihgt choice.

This is what the minor race shipyard model looks like if you want to use that.

Yes, Latinum would be a more ST form of monetary exchange than the US dollar.

It was mentioned in DS9 that Latinum could come in bars, as it is shown in the image above, or in smaller, lower-value strips. I just did a google to see if I could find what the smaller strips looked like, but the only image I could find was this one:



The money bag does look cooler, but I don't think it would look right with the two. I would assume that Latinum has an official money symbol that is equivalent to $, £, or whatever as well, but I wasn't able to find one. you might need to make one up.

Ferengi writing looks much like a flowchart, with many 60 degree angles. Text radiates from the center outward, which would indicate the direction of writing as well. Ferengi text can be written with or without a central hexagon, radiating from one side of an hexagon only and in single horizontal lines on signs and short notes. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi"; DS9: "Body Parts").

Keiko O'Brien's classroom featured a chart depicting the English, the Bajoran, the Cardassian, and the Ferengi alphabet. The chart listed some sixty plus Ferengi language symbols (DS9: "The Nagus", "Cardassians")

I will look up The Nagus or Cardassian episodes when I get a chance. In the mean time, if it is to be a Ferengi symbol, the hexagon is a likely choice.

Bars, Strips and Slips , not being pedantic

Regards Wolfe

redo of redo automatic drydock station

Lol thanks for the update of the updated image Val. Matress likes it.