2/25/2008

Progress continues on the Beta 2 release of the Dragonia II mod.  Here is a summary of recent events:

• A forum to discuss the mod has recently become available at http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=275
• We have added additional team members to the team:

Alexander "ayreos" Makerek - 3D Modeller

Matthew "Graywarden" Ward - Writer and tester

Andrew Ward - Writer

• A short story about Archpaladin Amonadan of the Paladorn has been posted at http://diabolicstudios.net/DragoniaIIAmonadan.aspx

1/22/2008

Patch 1.0.2 for the initial beta release of the Dragonia II mod is now available. If fixes a crash issue in Mercenary Mod when placing a hired merc. You can download the patch from here.

Patch 1.0.1 for the Dragonia II Beta 1 mod has now been released.  You can download the patch from here.

Fixes
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Discovering Dark Seldarine Religion produced a Feywarden instead of an Arachne.
CTD when mouseover on Mercenary icon
Python exceptions related to missing tags (ERA_INDUSTERIAL, TECH_MONOTHIESM)
Seems this would have been related to missing tags issue
Created a settler and received the "First gunpowder unit, first helicopter unit", etc message.
Mercenary Mod balance issues
War script bug fix/tweaking
Change great person units to not use Modern GP graphics
Cause Disease spell not working

Changes
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New process - Idle
Updates to Guilds (More updates to the guilds will be made in Beta 2)
New flavor unit graphics - Airship

1/3/2008

Diabolic Studios has released the first beta release of the Dragonia II mod today.

In this first release, there have been many units buildings, wonders, and more added to Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword to create a rich fantasy environment. Dragonia II has 25 civilizations and 40 leaders to choose from. These civilzations range from the evil Black Orcs to the high elves of Kalagori and the religious Kingdom of Paladorn. The leaders of these civilizations have been given alignments ranging from good to neutral to evil. These aligments will be dynamic, and so can change over time based on choices that the player makes. The leader's alignment will also have an effect on their relationship with other leaders...and so an evilly aligned leader will not be very friendly to a good aligned leader.

Dragonia II also features an updated tech tree featuring about 115 technologies. Most of these advances will be familiar to players of the first Dragonia, but some of the old advances have been removed, and others added. This revised tree gives the player access to the new faiths of Dragonia (Tel'Seldarine, Dark Seldarine, Solanism, Nerullicism, Morndinsamman, Eye of Gruumsh, Heironeanism, and Hextorianism) powerful magics, and strong troops.

The Dragonia II mod is now available for download at Moddb, as well as from Gameflood. This release is an early beta version of the mod, and as such, not all features have been completed, and there will be bugs. Please feel free to contact the Dragonia II modding team at http://www.civfanatics.comto provide feedback and bug reports.

12/24/2007
Diabolic Studios would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas!

We are currently planning on the first beta release of Dragonia II to be available next week. We are currently implementing the final changes for the release and vigorously testing.

12/1/2007

New model by winddelay added to Dragonia today: The Radiant Servant of Pelor:

11/22/2007

An article with interview has been written about the Dragonia II mod at Egames.de

For those of you who don't speak German, you can find the interview in English at http://www.moddb.com/members/39206/darque/news/24516/dragonia-ii-at-egames

The introduction video for the Dragonia II mod is now available for download here.

Progress is rapidly being made on the Dragonia II mod, and we currently expect the first beta be be available by early to mid November.

Here are some of the planned features for Beta 1:

• Revised Civilizations and leaders
• Revised Tech tree
• New Unit lines
• Ethnically Diverse Units
• Revised religions complete with new buildings
• Revised wonders
• New Promotions
• New Citysets
• New Resources (Mithril, Tobacco, and Cotton)
• Basic Spell System

9/24/2007

Time for another monthly update.

In the last month, I have had Rick Rockett join the team as a coder.  Also assisting the team is Hexagonian doing some artwork, and woodelf creating some buildings. 

There has been much progress this month with all the extra assistance:

• A basic spell system has been put into place.
• Many of the religious buildings have been completed and are now awaiting implementation.
• The civilization flags have now been completed.
• Hexagonian has created a new title screen and is now working on new artwork for the leaderheads.
• Civilzation history continues to be written.
• The new tech tree has been created an implemented. Next for the tech tree are the details and graphics.
• New units and unit graphics have been added.
• Work has begun on implementing various city sets

If all goes well, I should be able to have an early beta available sometime in November.

8/30/2007

Its been awhile since an update, so...
I got my copy of BTS this month. Work has restarted on Dragonia 2, this time using BTS. I have decided not to directly use the FFH2 code base. Instead, I will be creating a new codebase for the Dragonia mod, using some of the code changes in FFH2, as well as other modifications.
All the new civilizations are now created, and the new leaders have been created as well. I have added 2 more of the leaders to the Dragonia II Factions and Leaders page. Next is to update the leader traits and some minor modifications.

Also created this week are new icons for each of the religions.  You can view the icons on the Dragonia II Religions page.
If anyone is interested, I can still use more team members for graphics, coding, and general modding. Contact me if you are interested.

7/23/2007

A third download mirror has been added for the Dragonia I mod via Moddb.com. It can be accessed at http://mods.moddb.com/6345/dragonia/downloads/

Progress is continuing forward in writing the online Civipedias for the Dragonia I and Dragonia II mods. New updates are made to them every few days, so come back often to read all the new entries.

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