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Well, I won't go into the details of the story I've crafted and the plans I'm laboriously laying out for each race, but I'll give an overview of Atrea's Children, which is, as stated above, my new project. It seemed like a good idea to go here while it's still conceptual/alpha and go to Showcase when I go beta. I figure that one race completely modded will be good enough for a first beta, so it won't be all that long.

--No resource harvesting. That's right. None whatsoever. All mineral fields and geysers will be killed at the start of the game. Minerals are automatically generated as a function of how many of a certain building you have (approximately following the function 42*log(x)(x<=10)+42(x>10) [log base ten, that is,] in case you had any interest. ) Gas is combat experience and is used to upgrades, abilities, and a few units.

--Fewer units and higher supply overheads. Yeah, it'll be a bit like Warcraft in that massing won't work that well (it's hard to mass when your good units all cost at least 3 pop.) Each race will also only have about 7 units.

--Completely redesigned tech trees. But of course.

--Everything has an ability! Well, practically everything. Most of them, at any rate.

These are just the bare bones, and the actual stuff will be much more interesting than what's listed above. So wait eagerly while I write tech trees, draw graphics, and mod the living @#$%& out of SC.

PS: The three races are the Xel'Naga, the Atrean Imperium, and the Riven; Atrea is the name of the Imperium's home planet. The first person to correctly guess the significance of the name "Atrea(n)" gets 15 mins

Looking forward to this... are you still doing Father Chronos? Or is this the same project renamed, or a side-project, etc...

Same one, renamed.

Good Luck, it looks like it's going to be a blast, and a future mod night.

YAY COMBAT EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!1

I'm looking forward to seeing this EM was good, and I'm expecting great things from you.

No one's tried to guess the name yet? I thought you all knew your stuff...

Atrea IV from Star Trek?

Never thought of that, actually. An unintentional connection, but still a connection. Their Atrea and my Atrea probably draw their names from the same source, though. Or they made it up, but I specifically chose mine for a reason.

I'm increasing the bounty to 25 minerals. Still not much, but it's just for fun.

HINT: Think about my username.

Wikipedia has nothing on Atrea. This obviously means it doesn't exist!

Read the above hint.

Anyway, I was working on a the .grp for the unit that will replace the Corsair: The Atrean Crusader. Here's the upward-facing frame (The downward one will look better, I'm pretty sure) :

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The Crusader is a flying unit that consists of an Atrean with a mechanical armor-type-thing. It will fire off shots of icy energy from that sweet-looking cannon on its right arm.

Something from Greek mythology?

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Agamemnon's father?

So close...just a bit further and you'll be there...

EDIT: BINGBINGBING!! Pie_Sniper wins 25 mins for correctly guessing that the Atrean Imperium is named after the father of Agamemnon, Atreus! Well done Pie!

Now what do you think of that picture?

It's pretty cool. It looks like a High Templar with Arbiter wings and some sort of resized mini corsair to the upper-right?

It is Well looked. The Corsair is a cannon.

I have been recruited to this no doubtly awesome project as a .GRP artist

Just to let everyone know.

Sweet....

All right, we're almost at a beta version. Once the graphics for the Atreans are done, I'll release beta. I'm also thinking about doing a private alpha for certain members of the community even before the graphics are done so that they can see what it's going to be like.

I'm a private tester member

So, aren't you supposed to keep that private ?

Well, it doesn't really matter any more. In case anyone wants to know, the testers were KK, WoAHorde, CaptainCrunch, Voy, SubFocus, and Pie. Deepest, deepest apologies to Corbo for forgetting him. This will be remedied shortly

Here's the newest version of the alpha for anyone who wants it:
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Anyway, the only thing standing between me, SubFocus, and a DLDB-worthy beta is the fact that we haven't finished the Atrean graphics yet. We're working on it, though, and once they're done we're going fully public.

I feel so special.

Hey, can I use the fact that I'm helping with this mod to get me into clan MM?

Well, if you're doing something besides GRPs... otherwise I'd prefer to see SubFocus Craft.

Side Note- I wasn't able to test much because I went campign this weeked. Although I loved the alpha.

This is shaping up to be an excellent mod. I love the Droneswarms and the Atreans have an interesting style. I can't wait to see the rest of it completed.