Well, what do you know? My programming skills, although close to non-existant, were still enough to mod the gamefiles of Afterlight so that I can change the names of the soldiers we can encounter!
I can only do this before starting a game though, as making such changes will invalidate any savegames.
Therefore, I start this thread before I finish my other LP to give you people time enough to sign up for the final adventure, a trip to Mars! Go watch the intro movie to properly get into the mood, and then mull over which character you want to play the role as in my Afterlight LP.
You choose a first and last name, and finally a nickname with a maximum of 15 characters.
This LP will be played on hard difficulty, but I will not be playing pure Ironman. I will try my best to keep people alive, as there's a very limited pool of recruits, in contrast with the earlier games.
So, in this game you can choose to be from one or two of these roles: soldier, technician or scientist. If you want to see action, you need to pick a character that has soldier as one of his/her roles.
Without further ado, here's the list of humans you can pick and choose from. First come, first served! I will below in spoiler tags tell you about the possible aliens that will join the team, should any of you wish one of those as your avatar. If you wish to be a psi-user, you really ought to look underneath the spoiler tags.. If enough people sign up, I will also include the 4 "extra" humans, that normally only join the team under special circumstances:
Soldiers:
Female, original name Ute Heinemann TAKEN
Male, original name Harald Zamyatin TAKEN
Male, original name Diego Ramirez TAKEN
Female, original name Samantha Svensson TAKEN
Soldier/scientists:
Male, original name Hikaru Yoshimori TAKEN
Male, original name Tadeusz Yoshimori TAKEN
Female, original name Gene Lawrence TAKEN
Male, original name Mark Wells TAKEN
Soldier/technician:
Female, original name Pauline Lasalle TAKEN
Male, original name Benat Haradze TAKEN
Male, original name Oliver Svensson TAKEN
Female, original name Vera Schrooten TAKEN
Scientist:
Male, original name Fernando Ramirez TAKEN
Title: Research director
Female, original name Inge Heinemann
Title: Human resources manager
Female, original name Agnieszka Yoshimori
Title: Librarian
Technician:
Female, original name Jacqueline Wells
Title: Production manager
Female, original name Mary Osakwe
Title: Communications officer
Male, original name Edgar Barker TAKEN
Title: Storekeeper
Scientist/technician:
Male, original name Willhelm Schrooten
Title: Commander-in-Chief
Note: for shits and giggles, this man will assume my persona, unless one of you makes a persuasive argument.
Male, original name Neil Barker TAKEN
Title: Home base steward
Alright people. That's 20 options to choose from. If we include those under the spoiler tag, we're up to 26. If we further include the humans that only join under certain circumstances, but that are possible to mod in as easily as I change the names, we come to a grand total of 30. I don't expect that many to show interest, to be perfectly honest, but I hope enough will chime in to at least give proper names to the soldiers (with or without a second profession) on the team.
I'm doing my part. Are you ready to do your part too?
As per JoKa's request, here are the 4 additional humans. Only Rita will show up in my game, IIRC, unless I mod it so the others turn up. I have an irrational hatred towards the twins though, so if someone wants to be one of those, beware that I won't be doing following the semi-ironman rules for them, and if they die, they stay very dead indeed.
Soldier/scientist:
Female, original name Rita Lawrence TAKEN
Soldier:
Male, original name Claude Lasalle
Male, original name Pierre Lasalle
Female, original name Olga Zamyatina TAKEN
I can only do this before starting a game though, as making such changes will invalidate any savegames.
Therefore, I start this thread before I finish my other LP to give you people time enough to sign up for the final adventure, a trip to Mars! Go watch the intro movie to properly get into the mood, and then mull over which character you want to play the role as in my Afterlight LP.
You choose a first and last name, and finally a nickname with a maximum of 15 characters.
This LP will be played on hard difficulty, but I will not be playing pure Ironman. I will try my best to keep people alive, as there's a very limited pool of recruits, in contrast with the earlier games.
So, in this game you can choose to be from one or two of these roles: soldier, technician or scientist. If you want to see action, you need to pick a character that has soldier as one of his/her roles.
Without further ado, here's the list of humans you can pick and choose from. First come, first served! I will below in spoiler tags tell you about the possible aliens that will join the team, should any of you wish one of those as your avatar. If you wish to be a psi-user, you really ought to look underneath the spoiler tags.. If enough people sign up, I will also include the 4 "extra" humans, that normally only join the team under special circumstances:
Soldiers:
Female, original name Ute Heinemann TAKEN
Male, original name Harald Zamyatin TAKEN
Male, original name Diego Ramirez TAKEN
Female, original name Samantha Svensson TAKEN
Soldier/scientists:
Male, original name Hikaru Yoshimori TAKEN
Male, original name Tadeusz Yoshimori TAKEN
Female, original name Gene Lawrence TAKEN
Male, original name Mark Wells TAKEN
Soldier/technician:
Female, original name Pauline Lasalle TAKEN
Male, original name Benat Haradze TAKEN
Male, original name Oliver Svensson TAKEN
Female, original name Vera Schrooten TAKEN
Scientist:
Male, original name Fernando Ramirez TAKEN
Title: Research director
Female, original name Inge Heinemann
Title: Human resources manager
Female, original name Agnieszka Yoshimori
Title: Librarian
Technician:
Female, original name Jacqueline Wells
Title: Production manager
Female, original name Mary Osakwe
Title: Communications officer
Male, original name Edgar Barker TAKEN
Title: Storekeeper
Scientist/technician:
Male, original name Willhelm Schrooten
Title: Commander-in-Chief
Note: for shits and giggles, this man will assume my persona, unless one of you makes a persuasive argument.
Male, original name Neil Barker TAKEN
Title: Home base steward
Here comes the aliens, first the grays. I will be allying with the Expedition (will be explained once the game begins proper. There are three. Only grays can be psionics and use psionic weaponry!
Soldier: Bilakhi'na'mosse TAKEN
Soldier/scientist: Prakhti'm'tklami TAKEN
Scientist: Zatr'la'tchkhol
Then the greens, also three.
Soldier: J!nai*e TAKEN
Soldier/scientist: Shoo*m!
Soldier/scientist: Cai*m!
Soldier: Bilakhi'na'mosse TAKEN
Soldier/scientist: Prakhti'm'tklami TAKEN
Scientist: Zatr'la'tchkhol
Then the greens, also three.
Soldier: J!nai*e TAKEN
Soldier/scientist: Shoo*m!
Soldier/scientist: Cai*m!
Alright people. That's 20 options to choose from. If we include those under the spoiler tag, we're up to 26. If we further include the humans that only join under certain circumstances, but that are possible to mod in as easily as I change the names, we come to a grand total of 30. I don't expect that many to show interest, to be perfectly honest, but I hope enough will chime in to at least give proper names to the soldiers (with or without a second profession) on the team.
I'm doing my part. Are you ready to do your part too?
As per JoKa's request, here are the 4 additional humans. Only Rita will show up in my game, IIRC, unless I mod it so the others turn up. I have an irrational hatred towards the twins though, so if someone wants to be one of those, beware that I won't be doing following the semi-ironman rules for them, and if they die, they stay very dead indeed.
Soldier/scientist:
Female, original name Rita Lawrence TAKEN
Soldier:
Male, original name Claude Lasalle
Male, original name Pierre Lasalle
Female, original name Olga Zamyatina TAKEN
I tested it out with Ute given the name "juggernaut", and there were no problems. It displayed as it should. I think the upper limit might be around 15 characters then, I just assumed, that since none of the original cast had nicks longer than 8, that that was the limit.
