thanks.

1. I was thinking that I might include sovereign (reaper) as the "superweapon" for his race, but the other troops on his team (geth) wouldn't be as good as their citadel / terminus systems counterparts.

To all the others: Yes, good ideas.

I will post a basic outline of my plans later, but I've got tons of homework to get through now.

Well, you kinda want to avoid superships, because then everyone has to have one otherwise it becomes unbalanced.  And the Council does have the Ascension, which is a supership too.  So the Alliance, Turians, and Salarians need a supership as well.  In the mod, I would have the Council represent just the Asari, and split the Turians and Salarians off into their own factions.  The Turians and Salarians already have established military doctrines and tactics (and the Asari by themselves don't), and besides, the Asari race pretty much rules the Council.

Oh, and I would call the Alliance superdreadnought the Olympus.  Its not just any mountain, but a kickass godly mountain.

Ah man.  Putting us together with the Council?  And here I wanted to show those puffed-up galactic oligarchs how the human race feels about being treated like we're second-class.

Anyways, a nice place to start would be the Turian Hierarchy and the Alliance.  You know they had that border skirmish early on...

I think you'll be forced to do this, as last time I check the information book thing didn't have pictures of all the ships it describes, and their is only so much you can see in the final fleet battle. Also @ SpardaSon, the Asari don't have to dominate the Council after the game is over, which would complicate things if this were ever updated to ME2.

Mass effect was very cool, and a mod on it I would for sure give a try.

Have fun!

ok, so this is the plan so far (but it's open to changes):

Races: Citadel, Terminus Systems & Reapers

We'll need to make (if possible) a new planet type to represent the citadel.

Now, Ships. Should we make it like default game (every race has basically the same ships, with small differences eg. Light frigate, scout, repair ship etc) or should we just start with the ships we're shown and then invent our own based on the style of the race? Basically, should every race get basically the same ships. I think no, but opinions please.

Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if the story / use of such weapon resembled the story in Freespace:

First game: Massive alien supercapital/superweapon

Second game: Humans build their own massive supercapital/superweapon (Colossus), it fights a massive alien ship, only to find that there are countless more massive alien ships. Since direct confrontation with them all is impossible, humans find alternative means of saving themselves.

Hey Darth-me,

A Mod Team for a GC2 Mass Effect Mod has been online in December, but went inactive afterwards. I can help you out with graphics from what we had if you need them.

-MU

Actually we were in the making of one single model, the Normandy, I don't want what happened to the artist who were in charge of that. I deal mostly with 2D Arts, models aren't my style sorry

Mass Effect was so short and ended before it should have.  I remember getting the xbox version first and the frame rates sucked so bad I ended up not playing it for a year and than picking up the PC version and out of anger selling the lame xbox.

Ok everyone.

I have started working on a Geth Dropship model, as my first major modelling attempt. So far it is going well. I'll upload pics soon!

I have decided the roles of some ships. I'll upload a list later, but Geth Dropships are colony frigates combined with weak bombers. They may sound too powerful for the Geth, because Geth/Reapers will specialise in very cheap, very weak ships (+ Sovereign), but (if possible), they can only colonise once OR use their "bombing" ability (drop troops who do a small amount of damage over time) once. I personally don't believe that the ships Sovereign brings at the ending battle (which destroy Citadel Fleet) are dropships, I think they just look similar, as Geth have no imagination at all. I think they are probably frigates with a few cruisers. Even if you disagree, I need to do this so that it fits with the whole "weak but many" aspect of the Geth.

@ SpardaSon:  Does this satisfy your "distinct factions" thing? Thanks about that, otherwise I would have ended up making base game factions that just look different.

This sounds like it could be an interesting mod. Personally I think the Council should be 1 team, Terminus another and Geth/reapers the other. However there is very little info on any Termiinus style ships, and theres not many of the other factions either. I've read both the books,but theres not much on ships. A bit of waiting might be in order or perhaps some research may reveal something. I'll keep an eye out in the mass effect forums, might find something.

Have you thought about putting "mass relays" in. Perhaps the "worm holes" could be modded. Also maybee the travelling between stars could be dissabled, so only relays can be used between solar systems.