Coding Progress

This section will be to keep the team up to date on how far along the code is for POP 4.0

Current Coding tasks and their estimated completion

0-29%
30-49%
50-69%
70%+

updated 5/15/11

1. Snake sect influence ---------------------- 69% ----- Timaaaagh
2. Snake Sect Troop Increase -------------- 80% ----- Timaaagh - Being added into influence
3. Specialty Spawns (overall) --------------- 75% -----Timaaagh
4. Character Background Menus ------------ 85% ---- Timaaagh
5. Balance New items --------------------------- 0%
6. Balance Troop Skills ------------------------ 50% (currently semi-balanced)
7. Balance Troops to items ------------------- 50% (currently semi-balanced)
8. Companions ----------------------------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
9. Companion Dialoges ------------------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
9. Faction Dialogs (major/minor) -------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
10. Knighthood dialogs ------------------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
11. Rumors ---------------------------------------- 0%
12. Enhanced Game Performance --------- .125%? (some audio files have been removed)

Let me know if you need more details on any of those from writing / design stand point. And thanks for the update, I was going to request such a thing but it slipped my mind.

Thanks for the update Mike! let me know hwo thsi goes and if you need any help with Nohseru stuff!

I extended the list. Things are moving along fairly well. There is a desent chance I'll have most of the basics done by Beta (April 11).

Hey Mike for tavern chats for knighthood orders, what do you need exactly? I put up dialog concerning the order and having the player get rid of The New Hayud Insurrection. What more would you like for tavern chats?

Mini Barclay - Take a look at the Conquistadors de Adventura from PoP3. They shouldnt have changed much from that. See also the Barclay Heavy Infantry and Barclay Sappers from tavern mercenaries.

I would suggest having;

Barclay Heavy Infantry (See PoP3)
Barclay Guards (Faster, more damaging Heavy Infantry. Lighter but more protective armour)

Barclay Sapper (See PoP3)
Barclay Besieger (See Guards, but with a crossbow)

Barclay Lancer (Medium cavalry, lance, medium armour, javelins)
Barclay Conquistador (Same as Santara but in Barclay gear / colours)

Also have Imperial Reinforcements for Santara been/ being implemented? They should be Barclay Guards, Barclay Besiegers and Barclay Conquistadors.

Speaking of mercenaries - would it be possible to get Mettenheim and Veccavia as tavern mercenaries? But not Barclay any more, they should be limited to Santaran Imperial Reinforcements.

DubDub: From what I recall knighthood tavern conversations were about the Orders history.

Mordred: Thanks for the info on Mini Barclay; also, is there more info about mini barclay in here that I missed and what should I call Mini Barclay, is just Barclay sufficient?

Just Barclay should do.

What more do you need? There might be some lore around on these forums but it would be under Mettenheim (here). SD never developed their history much, and I never did anything more with them either.

Actually all I think I need is a faction relation, which I should be able to pull together from all the other faction relations.

It had already been done on the relations page;

Minor Barclay (Imperial Barclay)

Notes - The rest of the Barclay Empire, spawns in Santara lands.

MAJOR FACTIONS
1. Snake Sect -3 (Self Defense)
2. Barclay +5 (BFFs)
3. Nohseru 0 (Neutral)
4. Melitine 0 (Neutral)
5. Ashenborn -4 (Want the Baccus gone for good)

MINOR FACTIONS
1. The Jatu -3 (Self defense)
2. Menschenfresser -3 (Self defense)
3. Heretics -4 (Knights of Dawn influence)
4. Snake cult -3 (Self defense)
6. Mettenheim -5 (At war)
7. Veccavia 0 (Neutral)
9. Red Brotherhood -3 (Anti-slavery)

MINOR-MINOR FACTIONS
1. Bandits (Mountain and forest) -3 (lawless)
2. Deserters -4 (dereliction of duty)
3. Adventurers +3 (Admire adventuring spirit)
4. Rogue Knights -2 (Breaking oath)
5. Man Hunters 0 (Don't care)
6. Commoners 0 (No relation)
7. Innocents 0 (No relation)

Sorry just saw that there are no Orders here, you need them too? -Mordred

Awsome, thank you Mordred. It wouldn't hurt to have the order relations.

You can find it here https://prophesyofpendor.forumotion.net/t624p15-faction-relations#13169 I am trying to keep relations in one place.

Do you need any others?

Also I just noticed that the Ashenborn are friendly with Barclay, they shouldn't be (sorry I ought to have caught that earlier). Using the 1 - 10 scale. Barclay want Baccus out of the way so they can conquer the continent.

Change

8. Mini Barclay = 6

to

8. Mini Barclay = 3
3. Order of the Leopard = 3

I don't see Winterberg Search Party minor spawn anywhere. Why's that ?

Exciiiiiiting!

What do you need to still need to know about the Radiant Cross?

I will try to get my dialogues done this weekend. Is there anything else you need from my end?

I believe you mentioned that you changed the weapons of the radiant cross and I just need to know what those changes were or what you had in mind.

That should be all I need ATM, but I'll let you know if I can think of anything else.

A polehammer, big, slow blunt weapon that hits like a tank. I know that the Shadow Wolves also use a polehammer, could that be changed to a Long Hafted Spiked Mace, its a quicker weapon but still very very effective (my character uses it normally).

Just to be sure, Radiant Cross are now very heavy infantry, not cavalry. Solid armour, good helms and the polehammer. Slow moving but deadly to armoured foes.

ok thanks, I'll check over them and make sure they fit that desciption.

The Alpha was released on Apirl 21, but it was an in class only event :/ sorry guys. I'm making changes now and am planning on releasing a Beta for the whole mod team early to mid next week.

Biggest question... was it fun?

Looking forward to getting the beta.

This thread should be reviewed, updated and incorporated to the master sticky list and to the coordination sticky list.

updated the list for current testing and tasks.

Stickified these important topics so we can continue to add features and all that fun stuff.

regards,

MP

MCC Timaaagh wrote:

Current Coding tasks and their estimated completion


8. Companions ----------------------------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
9. Companion Dialoges ------------------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
9. Faction Dialogs (major/minor) -------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?
10. Knighthood dialogs ------------------------- ??? ----- spartanhwt88?

Companions - 75 - 80% done.
Companion Dialogs - Still waiting for all of it to be finished
Knighthood order Dialogs - Maybe 10 dialogs for the knighthood orders have been either emailed to me or sent to me.
Major Faction Dialogs - 1 of these has been sent or pointed out to me.