How is this not a metathread.

Gradually.
See for yourself.
http://tgchaptermaster.freeforums.org/

>>16932995
Because I'm asking about the progress of a /tg/ related game that originated from /tg/ threads?

Hurr?

>>16933005
Thanks! I will store this in my bookmarks.

>>16932995
It would be a meta thread if we were discussing the Chapter Master QUEST instead of the Chapter Master Game.

>>16932995
How is this not a squid?

I mean really, so what if it is a "metathread"...what's your point?

>Playing Black Templars successor
>Only get up to about 300 Marine before I'm called out on crusade
>Fighting Tau all my Devastators and Tac Marines getting picked off by snipers and sealth suits
>Switch entire chapter over to Assault Marines
>Melta bomb/gun the shit out of Tau Vehicles and battlesuits
>Templars gift chapter more melta weapons upon end of campaign
>Start using Land Speeders more
>Recover back up to 500 Marines
>Called on crusade again, its a Necron Tomb world
>Entire Chapter caught on surface when world's defenses go active
>It's a fucking World Engine
>Chapter fleet destroyed, survivors fight in world interior trying to map generators
>Last Marine falls disabling planet killer gun

Hey guys, I'm a graphics/UI man on the team. Ask away. I've been working on methods of displaying subsectors in a tactical manner, will up some screenshots in a couple of mins if you guys like.

>>16937553
MAKE IT SO, ENSIGN. THE EMPERORS HOLY INQUISITION DEMANDS IT BE MADE SO.

ALSO I CANT FIND THE VOLUME SETTING FOR THIS VOX CASTER. CAN SOMEBODY FIND ME A TECHPRIEST?

>>16937553
Any more tasty teasers of backgrounds, menus and reports?

I must say, you guys are making this game like an early 90's English studio, and I for one love you for it.

>you guys are making this game like an early 90's English studio
Tight-lipped and intermittently?

>>16937589
Please don't bad mouth one of the few groups on here at the moment getting shit done.

>>16937592
I'm one of them. I'm a writemarine. It was self-deprecating humor.

Here you go chaps. Any suggestions?

I know I fell off the radar for a few weeks, but at least I finally got my screenshot I wanted.

I made this yesterday (two days ago?) before the DDoS. I am rather proud.

>>16937592
While I agree that getting shit done is good, the overall low bar that's set isn't really an exemption from criticism. Being good doesn't mean they can't be better.

If anyone wants to come out with an overview of where the project sits right now, that would be nice. I've idled in the IRC and not seen discussion for a long time.

>>16937674
Are those nodelines for Warp travel?

>>16937934
Yes, effectively. It's similar to the Battlefleet Gothic campaign maps.

>>16937674
What do the sizes and colors of the systems represent? The letters?

It looks good and functional enough to me.

>>16938547
Nothing, yet. I set the size of the systems to be varied as it looked a little dull before.

The colours there show the selected node, in blue, and all connected nodes.

To show the numbers of marine/whatever within a node I was thinking perhaps a second circle around the system with, say, 6 segments, with 1 being visible if there were few marines, and 6 being visible if there were "steel rain" numbers. What do you guys think? Any other ideas?

>>16937702
The guy who used to post the big updates is having some IRL problems.

What's going on at the moment is basically that we've discussed the shit out of what features we want, and now it comes down to the long slow part of making things that we can put together. For the time being, the coders are coding, the artists are arting (pic related), and so on.

I think we all agree that more discussion would be good, but we went over basically all the game features at least once and usually twice or more in our old all-night discussions, and I think from here on out, we mainly need to discuss what to do when someone is unsure just how to proceed. Now, this doesn't mean "stop logging into the IRC," it means, "feel free to tune out, but check every once in a while to make sure nobody has a question that requires input".
For example, when I was getting ready to do this painting, I posted a list of all the segmentum battlefleet colors (I kind of didn't want to do classic blue) for people to pick from. They chose Tempestus (surprise, classic blue).

Vbcoder, that's amazing, holy shit. Pleeaase post it on the forums.
The idea of having a sort of magnitude scale for Marine presence seems like it would be good.
Maybe divide the rings down the middle, and have one half show enemy presence, and one half show chapter presence?

Anon_scribe, I lol'd.

>>16938890
That method of showing enemy presence would be insufficient if there's multiple enemies present. It could be an okay overview as long as more detailed info is elsewhere I guess, though.

>>16938897
Well, also there might be more than one Imperial army there.
Going full pie-chart mode for the 'enemies' half could look cool.

I was assuming that we'd be able to click the system and pop up a more detailed summary. A while back one of the coders made/was making a system description generator that included the various Adeptus presences, terrain, and so on.

>>16938900
I agree with this. Simply having an indicator that there is a company there is enough. Clicking on a system would tell you how many.

Also, as I mentioned on IRC, my issue with having set warp paths is determining travel time. Would the distance between any given system be the same? Or did you plan for shorter lines to take less time?

>>16937682
Post-DDoS (?) bump.

>>16939158
Holy shit it survived. Fine work, Bumper.

>>16939158
Indeed. Now then, for anyone who doesn't know, a new update of the combat system has been added to the forums.

Next I'm going to be doing a painting of an Administratum Prefect.
I'd like to model the face on a real one, for a change, to get some practice with that.
So tell me, whose face would look good in this uniform?

>>16939313
They would look better in that last pic you posted, which I did not get to see before you deleted the post.

>>16939313
>I originally just google searched "man," which ended up leading me to consider using this face for reference.

>>16939325
>which led to some quick sketching...

>>16939335
Huh...

Who knew Tony Stark makes such a good bureaucratic underling?

>>16939393
I do like the idea of the Administratum character having a really aggressive expression. The angry get-back-in-line-I-don't-care-if-you're-a-space-marine bureaucrat instead of the timid sort.

But I'm not fixed on having tony stark be the model.

>playing Inquisitor expansion
>investigating creepy tombs
>Necrons show up, natch
>big fight
>see blinged-out lord, must be the leader
>blast him with my graviton pistol
>another blingcron
>is identical, lolwut?
>stab him
>another identical blingcron
>NNNOPE.avi

>>16940733
>graviton pistol
You made him so heavy that he phased out?

>>16939393
Robert Downey Jr makes a good anything.

>>16941318
Crushed him to a little speck.

I thought that's what it did, but apparently he came back.

BUMP

>>16937682
Not enough people are looking at my image.

>>16941471
>Crushed him to a little speck.
Yeah he deffinitely phased out.

>playing Ork expansion again
>Decide to make clan with Lootas and Kommandos
>Attack Bad Moons
>Kommandos kill off the Blood Axes bodyguards hired on
>Entire clan storms their camp
>Kommandos accidentially blew up the best stuff
>Lootas have looted a Big Mek!
>wtf? You can loot Orks? MFW
>Start looting all day erryday
>Kommandos kill off as many Snakebites as possible
>Meks keep building better vehicles
>Hire on remaining Blood Axes
>Krump some local Nobs trying to become warbosses
>Realised my warboss is the biggest on the continent
>WAAAGH!

>playing the Deathwatch Expansion
>first year running Watch Fortress Enoch
>recruitment going well, getting neat start-up equipment
>then
>NECRONS
>ALL THE NECRONS
>throw everybody at the problem crusade-style
>hope for the best
4 years later, Enoch is still a conveyor belt taking new Deathwatch members down to the front to die while the Imperium lives on. Feels futile as hell, but at least the Fortress Renown keeps climbing up as invasion after invasion is pre-emptively squashed.

>>16943167
I saved it if it makes you happy.

>>16932995

Bump just because you're a fuckin fag.

>>16932977

What parts went into this? It is beautiful.

>>16943461
It LOOKS like Lictor talons, minus all the spikes.

Maybe Hive Tyrant bits? I am very unfamiliar with 'nid models.

>>16943518

Yeah I figured it had to be nid stuff, but I'm pretty unfamiliar with them as well. I'll go look at their minis on the GW site and see what I come up with.

>>16943565
Plastic warrior scything talons.

So, /tg/, what sorts of effects would you want the chapter's founding Legion to have on its performance?

Bump.

In terms of travel time between nodes, I was thinking a set amount of nodes per turn, perhaps.

>>16948603
set for each unit that is, perhaps pending upgrades or something.

>>16945472

I would hope that it would be influenced by other things.

Taking Rites of Battle Chapter Generator as an example, there were options varying between being utterly independent and a new generation to being so damn close you might as well be one.

In Chapter Master, it should be the same. Allow us to actually have a choice, though, when we manually create a Chapter.

>>16948645
I was thinking we could have the option of adopting the primogenitor's organization, codex (or codex +- a company or two) organization, crusade organization, and Wolves/Iron Hands- like clan organization.

If you picked Crusade or Clan organization, you would probably be a small part of the chapter, rather than an entire chapter, and be operating on a smaller scale. The sort of "lone squad of marines saves planet" scale, instead of "whole company of marines saves planet".