[Shard]

1 A screen of FOC in its early stages showed boba fett on the consortiums side, What happened to this idea?
Answered by Torpid post 8 ~Kelathin
2 Who was Tani Ab'yla?
Answered by Torpid post 8 ~Kelathin
3 Who decided on the voice actor for tyber? Whoever did, my hats off to you <3....
Answered by Frank Klepacki~Kelathin
4 Why did you take out the scavenger droid?
Answered by Torpid post 8 ~Kelathin
5 The consortium feels...empty...As in building defenses wise, Was there stuff you guys took out from the consortium?
Answered by Torpid post 8 ~Kelathin
6 Who made the concept art for the mandalorians? I LOVE IT!
Answered by Torpid post 8 and Phlakaton~Kelathin
7 Why exactly did you guys not give the rebels kyle katarn? He was an essential part of the dark trooper story :\ A few of you said the rebels was made up of important people and not neccessarily units, Then why not him? Sad face...
Answered by Torpid post 8 ~Kelathin
All i can think of now.

[Kelathin]

7 Why exactly did you guys not give the rebels kyle katarn? He was an essential part of the dark trooper story :\ A few of you said the rebels was made up of important people and not neccessarily units, Then why not him? Sad face...

He is there for rebels in skirmish....
They even gave his ship landing animations now!

5 The consortium feels...empty...As in building defenses wise, Was there stuff you guys took out from the consortium?
They aren't meant to be able to fortify bases, they are a group of thugs, not empire or rebellion

[Shard]

He should have been in GC imo :\.

But i would have liked the idea of a different kind of defense system but i see what you mean.

[Nevets]

Shard, on Nov 10 2006, 07:24 PM, said:

1 A screen of FOC in its early stages showed boba fett on the consortiums side, What happened to this idea?

He was never intended to be in the consortium, I think they said it was just a placeholder for the defilers.

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He should have been in GC imo :\.

IMO, everything that is in the game, should be in GC, it should be everything goes. Atleast there are a lot of quality mods that do this for us.

[Tony (Knightcrawler)]

It would be fun if the Consortium and Galactic Empire had to big on bounty hunters. Of course, then it would be useful to have bounty hunters, like Dengar with the Punishing One, and 4-LOM and Zuckus (do they have a known ship?).

I haven't used Kyle Katarn much in FoC, but I know when I used him in EaW he seemed really bad. He's like an Infiltrator that can run. He's not that tough, not that powerful, his bombs aren't that great (what, like 1/8 an AT-AT's health), and there's only one of him (compared with the 2 Infiltrators you get; that means 2 bombs, btw. :-P). Maybe he was strengthened for FoC, though, I dunno. It'd be nice if you could use him in space.

[Frank Klepacki-PG]

Shard, on Nov 10 2006, 04:24 PM, said:

3 Who decided on the voice actor for tyber? Whoever did, my hats off to you <3....

Thanks! I pretty much chose him, the voice director at Lucas did a great job of narrowing down the right type of auditions for me to make the choice. Tyber was the hardest to cast because a lot of reads were the typical raspy bad-ass voice, and seeing as how many of the consortium units have gruff voices because they are criminals, I decided to make Tyber a more flexible voice that could be both tough, sarcastic and arrogant. Seeing as how he's heard alot in the game, it was important to choose a voice you won't get sick of hearing that often. Glad you enjoyed him!

[Shard]

Kyle has a disruptor if im not wrong, and when i heard one of the voices for tyber, That pompos voice, I felt dissapointed..Good thing we have this one <3....And kyles moldy crow would basicly have been anti fighter if petro included it, It was exceedingly fast.

[Torpid-PG]

Shard, on Nov 10 2006, 04:24 PM, said:

1 A screen of FOC in its early stages showed boba fett on the consortiums side, What happened to this idea?

As was mentioned below, that was a placeholder icon - we used boba's face for a lot of icons until the correct ones were finished.

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2 Who was Tani Ab'yla?

Tani was a character we created for the original game as the person who did the spying and tech theft for the Rebels. She was a member of the Bothan SpyNet assigned to Mon Mothma. She had a complete background and was originally part of the story, but it was decided by a few people that she just didn't fit, so she was cut and replaced by the droids.

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4 Why did you take out the scavenger droid?

This is one of those unfortunate cases where there just wasn't enough time to complete it. We had a choice between doing the Canderous Tank or the Scavenger droid, and we chose the tank.

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5 The consortium feels...empty...As in building defenses wise, Was there stuff you guys took out from the consortium?

That was really intentional. The Consortium is really not about building bases and heavy factories. They are light and quick and don't really put down roots - conquering planets is not nearly as important to the Consortium as it is to the other two sides. As I remember there was only one other structure that the Consortium was going to get, and it was actually a supplementary structure to the Droid Works. We cut it due to the coding time it was going to take to get it in, and realistically it likely would have unbalanced the Consortium by quite a bit.

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6 Who made the concept art for the mandalorians? I LOVE IT!

If you mean the indigenous Mandalorian units, they were made based on previous official materials, mostly based on Boba Fett's armor with some color changes.

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7 Why exactly did you guys not give the rebels kyle katarn? He was an essential part of the dark trooper story :\ A few of you said the rebels was made up of important people and not neccessarily units, Then why not him? Sad face...

The story campaign in FoC is about Tyber and the Consortium, so there really wasn't any reason to add Kyle into the works. However, Kyle (and Mara Jade for that matter) are both fully functional heroes, and it would take modders little effort to add them into the galactic conquest campaigns if they so wished.

[Luga]

I love how people from Petroglyph takes time to answer theese things, it's so nice to feel cared for in such way by simple things as just popping in to say "Hi" or something. I take my hats off to you! Sorta off topic but I think you deserved the credit

[Phlakaton-PG]

Shard, on Nov 10 2006, 04:24 PM, said:

1 A screen of FOC in its early stages showed boba fett on the consortiums side, What happened to this idea?

2 Who was Tani Ab'yla?

3 Who decided on the voice actor for tyber? Whoever did, my hats off to you <3....
Answered by Frank Klepacki~Kelathin
4 Why did you take out the scavenger droid?

5 The consortium feels...empty...As in building defenses wise, Was there stuff you guys took out from the consortium?

6 Who made the concept art for the mandalorians? I LOVE IT!

7 Why exactly did you guys not give the rebels kyle katarn? He was an essential part of the dark trooper story :\ A few of you said the rebels was made up of important people and not neccessarily units, Then why not him? Sad face...

All i can think of now.

#6 -- the guys you see on the land maps and the load screens? That would be me and I did it on the fly in photoshop since licensing was not happy with the similarities with Jango and Boba. THanks for the kind words!

[DragonShadow]

Phlakaton-PG, on Nov 13 2006, 04:38 PM, said:

#6 -- the guys you see on the land maps and the load screens? That would be me and I did it on the fly in photoshop since licensing was not happy with the similarities with Jango and Boba. THanks for the kind words!

Ooooh...sweet. Those are some of my favorite guys in FoC, they look so awesome. Great job!

[HissingNewt]

I haven't even seen the mandalorians yet.

[Darth Sleep]

Torpid-PG, on Nov 13 2006, 12:02 PM, said:

The story campaign in FoC is about Tyber and the Consortium, so there really wasn't any reason to add Kyle into the works. However, Kyle (and Mara Jade for that matter) are both fully functional heroes, and it would take modders little effort to add them into the galactic conquest campaigns if they so wished.

Torpid. This was the exact topic I wanted to post a thread about. I am glad I found a thread that was already discussing it.

I guess the main premise is would it be possible for you to make a patch that includes Kyle katarn and Mara Jade into the GC games. I really don't add mods to the game as you suggested, and I certainly can't mod the thing myself, not that I even want to. It would be great if they were both a land and space character. They were both supposed to be pretty good pilots. Before I get to far though, thank you for adding Thrawn to FOC, he is a great character and I really think you did his character justice in FOC. Back to Mara and Kyle, I guess the real concern now, if you added mara and Kyle would be that adding another hero to Rebs and Imps could throw off the balance for the ZC.

So I thought of an option for that. You could either add already known Bounty Hunters or simply make up another one. Luckily, the Star Wars universe is pretty broad and adding a Bounty Hunter would be pretty easy (to the universe, I have know idea how hard it is to add to a game). However, I do have a suggestion for the Bounty Hunter heroes of the ZC and Boba from the Imps (actually, I thought of it during the campaign where I think Petro touched on the idea with Bossk). If you turn on the random events. The Bounty Hunters, at random times, would leave to collect a bounty. In game terms it would be easy, it would be the same if they died in a battle. Perhaps you could make the "Bounty Hunter Call" a random clock. sometimes 1:00 minute sometimes 3:00 minutes, or whatever. To balance this out for the Rebs, you could have Han and Chewie disappear trying to duck a bounty hunter or two, or perhaps have Luke leave to do some Jedi training. He wouldn't have to get any better, but he had to just go somewhere and contemplate something.

[Torpid-PG]

Darth Sleep, on Nov 29 2006, 08:49 AM, said:

I guess the main premise is would it be possible for you to make a patch that includes Kyle katarn and Mara Jade into the GC games. I really don't add mods to the game as you suggested, and I certainly can't mod the thing myself, not that I even want to. It would be great if they were both a land and space character. They were both supposed to be pretty good pilots. Before I get to far though, thank you for adding Thrawn to FOC, he is a great character and I really think you did his character justice in FOC. Back to Mara and Kyle, I guess the real concern now, if you added mara and Kyle would be that adding another hero to Rebs and Imps could throw off the balance for the ZC.

I'm not sure if there's enough time to get a fix like this into the patch, but it's really trivial to do. Both Mara and Kyle are already set up for space and land combat (Kyle has the Moldy Crow, Mara has a modified Z-95 Headhunter). I'm sure the space portion hasn't been properly balanced, but all it would take is adding their teams to the spawn list for the galactic conquest games. I would suggest writing a private message to Delphi-PG and see if it's something we can do.

[Darth Sleep]

Torpid

I have to agree with Luga from above. Anyone who says Petro doesn't listen is out of their mind. Thanks again for the advice.

[Scud-PG]

I miss Tani... I thought we really had something together.

[Kelathin]

Some people added her back in mind giving us a clear concept of what's suppose to do?

[Torpid-PG]

Kelathin, on Nov 29 2006, 05:14 PM, said:

Some people added her back in mind giving us a clear concept of what's suppose to do?

Tani was the original tech thief for the Rebellion. She was replaced with the droids when she was found to be "not compatible with the Star Wars universe".

[Whitewashed]

Kelathin, on Nov 30 2006, 03:14 AM, said:

Some people added her back in mind giving us a clear concept of what's suppose to do?

say what?

[Foshjedi2004]

Tani was added back into the base EAW Game by some modders.

Kelathin was wondering if we could get some background for her.