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Thanks for the information. I'll look into it.

I've updated the Planets thread on the NeoTech website, however I need suggests or information to replace the planet names with.

If you don't want to signup for NeoTech at least place the information here, and make reference to the thread that you wish updated.

Ok. I'll revise and extend this:

Conversion for races:

Arceans > Narn
Drengin > Drakh
Korx > Centari
Altarians > Mimbari
Drath > Poc'morah
Torians > Drazi
Iconians > SoulCatchers
Thalan > Gaim
Yor > Strieb
Terran > Earth Alliance

Dread Lords (1) > Vorlons
Dread Lords (2) > Shadows

United Planets > The Interstellar Alliance
Minor Races > League of Non-Allied Worlds

As a side note:
If you are going to include the Shadows, you have to include the Vorlons, too. From my read of the series the Vorlons were at least as powerful as the Shadows. (I got the impression that they were slightly more advanced, which the Shadows countered with slightly greater numbers)

@Rripperr:
Please spell race names correctly... Minbari, Centauri, Pak'ma'ra, Streib, and Soul Hunters (though I'm not sure which of these should actually be included; the Streib and Soul Hunters seem more like minor races to me).

UP is more like Babylon 5 than the ISA, though I'm not sure if you can rename that at all.

Minor races being League races is a nice idea, but you listed Pak'ma'ra and Drazi as main races... should perhaps be one or the other.

Agreed with the side note: Shadows and Vorlons should be of (more or less) equal status in the game. They're pretty much on the same level with each other.

@hut101:
Homeworld names (the League race ones are pretty much "unofficial"):

EA - Earth
Minbari - Minbar
Narn - Narn
Centauri - Centauri Prime
Vorlon - ???
Shadow - Z'Ha'Dum
Drakh - ??? I don't think they have a true homeworld in the series, actually...
Drazi - Zagros (not entirely sure about this one)
Brakiri - Brakir
Abbai - Abba
Vree - Vreetan
Pak'ma'ra, Gaim, Grome, Hyach - same as race name

And, well, this seems like a good opportunity to shamelessly plug my map...

Link (dialup warning: it's over 3MB)

It's based on a fan-made B5 space sim game, and is thus about as far away from canon as possible. Nonetheless, at the very least, you can get star name ideas from there.

I'm just keeping an eye out for someone to create a new trade good items ( like the frictionless clothing). You can't have a truelly B5 Modded game without having a SPOO Farm and Breen. And I am sure that someone is trying to figure out a good tech tree branch for Telepaths so that Earth can build the PSI Corps and the ships can have telepaths probaby as a modular attachment on the ship to go against the Shadow Ships. Hmm pictures a voice of the Resistance homage at some point hehehe..

Starlost...

I'm working on a post for a new thread on file naming conventions. I've noticed that many of the files in the Library are too generic. When folks download them it is almost impossible to figure out without a lot of work what is what. I will post a link to the thread once I have worked out some naming conventions for ship and mod files.

It seemed to me after watching the series a dozen times (I've got Seasons 2-4 on DVD, the best of the seasons), that the leading four races of the Non-Aligned worlds would be the Drazi, Brakiri, Gaim and Vree. They are the ones you see the most frequently (though you never really see a Gaim ship in the series, do you).

Terrans: Earth Alliance
Thalians: Gaim
Altarians: Minbari
Korx: Narn
Drengin: Drakh
Yor: Centauri
Iconians: Brakiri
Drath: Vree
Arceans: Drazi

I'm not sure that the League of Non-Aligned Worlds should be one Civ that replaces the I-Leauge, but rather, the most prominate LoNAW races should have their own Civs (Drazi, Brakiri, Gaim and Vree are the ones you see the most in the series, at least the most with important speaking parts).

What timeframe is being looked at here? Before Shadow War, During, or After?

minor civs cant colonize though, also you will have a hard time finding more than 2 ships per NA race, and quality is more important than quantity imo ^^

hey folks (muhaha my first post) I found an interesting site :
http://jeam.tag.free.fr/CELESTIAhtml/CelestiaAddons-SF-Babylon5-11.htm for addional ships, maybe coplan or vorlone could realize these models

second link:
http://www.sf3dmodels.boom.ru/ for 3D models

First Idea of Random Events (or result of destablitzation should it be implemented):
Our Leader's stock of Brevari(sp?) was poisoned. Luckily we found out before someone had a sip of it. What should we do about it?
Good: We have enough money. Go get some on the black market (-x bc).
Neutral: Tell the richer houses to donate money to get new supplies.
Evil: Get new supplies but get the people to make a froced doiation to the cuase of "upholding the regent's good mood"(+500bc, -5% approval).

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The ritual of forgot the name is due but someone stole the last G'Quan Eth plant. What shall we do now?
Good: Get one somewhere no matter what the cost (-x bc).
Neutral: There is nothing we can do. Skip the ritual this year (-5% approval).
Evil: Find out where to get one and get it. We don't care how (+5% approval).

Oh and Vorlons just NEED to be in it. I mean why waste all those great ship models we already have for them?

Adding the Vorlons, or Shadows for that matter, would be tricky, as they'd be at least dreadlord level compared to the other races.

Adding the Vorlons, or Shadows for that matter, would be tricky, as they'd be at least dreadlord level compared to the other races.

Cant you just give them uber stats or something?

@kkFaTaL: those are Lightwave Models. I didnt succeed in the past to get those imported into Max or Blender. Most of the models never appeared in the show anyway and are pure fan-creations. doesnt mean we shouldnt add them, but means we should at least know who did them and if we are allowed to use them.

@Coplann: thats right look @german modder forum... i know that most of them are only fan fiction but professional fan fiction additonal models in the game, would be cool
From Vorlons and Shadows were only a few models been showen, these mighty races have both only 3 ship models?
C'mon ....

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How about a Tech that costs a lot but unlocks a new Wight star class ship.
also if stardock gets a cairrer module then make all the engines really big so for junmppoint engins.
then make jumpgates. I don't know how to mod but I can try to help.

well in B5 most races only really had a state of the art capital ship and fighter. all the other ships basically only were older versions that were not yet replaced.

thats why you dont see any Tinashi's after the Minbari replaced all of them with Sharlin's. and thats why both Vorlons and Shadows only have their main capital ships, fighters and weapons of mass destruction (VPK and shadow cloud). they reached their technological and biological peak. after that there was no reason to build other ships. ^^

i reckon there are plenty of canon ships to choose from, still heaps that are just begging to be imported

there is a b5 test mod in another thread that i am downloading now, looks like he has only been concentrating on getting the hulls right so my question was... what b5 modding is currently underway? are there separate projects for the techtree and other text description type things?