Playable Ares View Mod
This mod allows you to play as a member of the Ares Orthodoxy. You start in a system halfway through the game, with any of the Ares ships available as your starting vessel. Ares stations are dockable and act as vendors. You have very few allies - just Ares, independent traders, the Black Market, and a few others. It's a tough start, but finally you can make war on the Commonwealth and turn the tide in the Orthodoxy's favor!
Categories Developers Vault
Author TheLastBrunnenG
Rating 0   0
Added (Last modified) 30.01.2010 (10.02.2010)
Game Version 1.0 RC5
Filesize 25.66 KB
Downloads 1831
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TheLastBrunnenG 30.01.2010 05:39

I made all Ares ships playable in my "all ships playable" mod, but this is different. It tries to simulate being a member of the Ares Orthodoxy, not just flying one of their ships.

TheLastBrunnenG 30.01.2010 06:32

Re-uploaded at 3 downloads. Added an Ares Mapper so you have at least half a chance to survive. Otherwise you run out of fuel almost every time.

Darth Saber 30.01.2010 18:34

YYYEEESSS!!!!

digdug 30.01.2010 18:38

TheLastBrunnenG, I believe that a mod like this has a better chance to be an adventure extension. In any case, it's a very good mod :D

Azar Wolf 30.01.2010 20:58

Very creative!

I think it would make a good adventure extension.

Curudan 31.01.2010 00:40

Good work! I'm having a lot of fun playing so far, but it was nearly unplayable before I changed the playedships to start with a targetting rom, military ID, and black market ID. It seems especially strange to me that you need a commonwealth military ID before the Ares will install military items.

TheLastBrunnenG 31.01.2010 02:10

That's a good idea, recode the Ares stations to ignore military ID, or create an Ares Military ID. Let me read up on creating adventure extensions too!

Branden 01.02.2010 22:34

Hehe this thing sure is fun; however im' playing this slightly modified; I fixed the thing so you dont need a military id and dont need a black market id, because well your an ares; the black market should know your not a commonwealth official.. :P other than those slight modifications I did, its a fun mod! :D

TheLastBrunnenG 10.02.2010 04:57

UPDATE 9-FEB-2010, 74 downloads: fixed docking so Ares stations don't check Military ID, added Ares Map ROM to all Ares playerships.

Portions of the standard game overwritten: Black Market, standard topology, Ares stations, ships, sovereign, and encounters. Note that the standard Wolfen, EI500, and Sapphire are not available as starting ships when using this mod.

Avalon4 15.02.2010 03:13

What I want to know, is why this mod over-writes TRANSCENDENCE.XML ?

'Cause now all the characters I create are immediately attacked by whatever is docked at the Sisters of Domina station in Eridani. I bet they think I'm an Ares, even though I am not.

15.02.2010 03:54

Update: Successfully located the edited portion of Transcendence.XML causing this problem (Soverigns). Next time, please use a seperate XML to apply this change (remember, "MOD" means module, not modification!)

28.06.2010 11:44

Hey i just want to say its impossible to get past Heretic because your not friendly with the research outposts. Also the Ares research outpost tells you to go away. Hope that helps. Great job by the way.

Kurandra 28.06.2010 11:45

oops wasnt logged in on last post :P

TheLastBrunnenG 11.06.2012 20:44

Moved to Developer's Vault. I'm not happy with how this is written and I don't have time to fix it. It needs to be an Adventure Extension and needs more work to make the Ares truly playable.

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