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I'm not planning to switch The Corinthian over to ToE, but I only have about 2 1/3 games left before I reach my 50-game goal with him and his Korath posse. I'd feel sad completey abandoning the HCH after helping it climb from nothing all the way to the top. After The Corinthian is done, I'm planning to switch over and play primarily as my ToE character with the Evil Altarians; while playing League games with my Gerontocracy character.




Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.

I encourage it, neilo. I'm not sure what's going on over there, but it'll probably come out in the wash. Adding your other character to TOE would put us pretty close to or over the top 10. Not a bad idea, IMO.   



Understandable, MarshallONeil. I have a slightly different view though. I feel like my contribution to HCH was valid and still stands. I'll always be a part of them and will feel welcome there, regardless of my empire affiliation.



And excellent plan!

Double post. Hmm...

I meant "An excellent plan" up there.   

To that end, here's the logo I've been working on for the Evil Altarians:



I feel like it's almost there, it just needs a certain... more evil... something... Is it lacking something, or am I overthinking it?

That looks good, MarshallONeil!   

The only thing I'd suggest is a black background to make the head seem to float in the abyss.

Real good job. I wouldn't change anything else. (Although the Drew one looks evil and somewhat tasty at the same time).

Oh, that's the character portrait, it's not going away - I'm talking about the race logo here, the one that floats over your planets on the galactic map and shows up in your diplomacy window. I can't fire up the game at work even when I'm bored, so I tend to work on peripheral stuff and forum banners instead...




Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.

Yea, well you're gonna lose. Wait. I am part of the EVIL. We rule.

Marshall, that looks awesome. What prog do you use to do this stuff with and is it easy to use. I really want to make a evil fembot yor looking character.

I think it could do with some black, something to make th skull stand out a bit, but then again the black might not be good as it will have a black background anyway once it is in use.

@PlayJeff Getting a bit confused with who to taunt mate? Remember it's us evil ones vs the rest of the world.....Though i am loving the taunting and team banter going on in the league. It's what i thought was needed between empires myself. Either way the league is off to a good start (spoken fast and under breath) Go the Blade Runners! (cough cough, clears throat). Nothing, nothing.......hehe



/Bad Muther Fraker\

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Ha, you took my idea! I want a evil yor looking character! On the Altarian thing, I think A very dark blue or purple backround would work equally well.

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Fembots, yes, I like to see women of that... caliber

The skull logo isn't for my Metaverse character, it's for use as a logo in the game. The logos that come with the game have transparent backgrounds, too, because you get a big ugly black box around your planets if you fill in the whole thing.

I made that logo in Photoshop, but Paintshop Pro is just as good for this kind of stuff and much cheaper. I just took the original DL Altarian logo, selected the blue parts, made a new layer of them, and inverted their color to that nice shade of orange/red. Then I selected the outline of the pyramid that's under the red parts, filled it in with a blue gradient, and moved that under the red parts. Then I took the skull from an older logo I had worked up, dropped that on top, put some Altarian markings on it for effect, and gave all three layers an outer glow of 4px.

I get really, really bored at work sometimes...




Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.

I have photoshop and imageready too, (is paintshop good?) I need to learn how to use them... There are just... SO MANY BUTTONS! It makes me the crazy!

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The very instant you show your weakness, your downfall will begin!

Hehe...Evirul to the core!   

I've been posting some minor strat secrets in the new MV League private Core underground bat cave password protected place. I'd be much more comfortable posting strategies and secrets in a private Empire site.

[shameless plug] Oh, if only someone with hosting abilities would join us and host such a forum. Someone like Macmatt, for instance. [/shameless plug]   

The Galactic Core hosts sites for several other empires. Secret ones, even. I bet Mumble would help us get one set up, or could at least point us to the right person for the job.

Darth, there are bazilions of tutorials out there for Photoshop. Just Google something like "photoshop tutorial" plus whatever you want to create. Generic type stuff like "buttons" will give plenty of tutorials for new users. Paintshop is just about as good for creating Web illustrations - and it's much cheaper, too!




Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.

I don't really have the attentions span for one of those tutorils  . A special ToE site would be awesome, we should also see about setting up a post in the core for our empire too, they don't even have one! It disgusts me!