This is a discussion/development area for the Ptaloid race (but since priority goes to S.A.D. iteslf, you won't find, say, one update every two days or so).  You'll find out in the manual and story-setting information that the humans and Ptaloids are complete allies around the time of S.A.D.

The Ptaloids are big on cloaking technology.  Of course, this means they have the Balkstone (which was their invention), but a few of their buildings and many of their units can cloak as well.

Ptaloid ships and buildings heal themselves over time.  In addition, all buildings can increase their HP for a price, and culmulitivly.  The strategy here is that you can upgrade buildings in strategic areas, but you lose money if you do it incorrectly when your opponent chooses to attack something else.

Most Ptaloid ships have relatively light armor and weak weapons.  There are about 3 that are able to stand by themselves against other ships, but most require "swarming" in an unofficial sense of the word.  The Ptaloids are the only race where one can add many of the same unit--and only the same unit--together in a group.  These units are joined together, combining weapons and armor.  This means that you're really fighting "one" unit rather than a bunch. All in all, the player can make his group of ships as powerful/expensive or as weak/cheap as he wants.  Balkstones and 2 other units are not capable of this.

Ptaloid buildings must be placed next to each other.  If a ptaloid building is left by itself, with the exception of defense and "Operation" Centers, it will not operate.  Power generators are also required to be next to a least one of these "chained" buildings.

There is going to be at least one new race in S.A.D., possibly more.  I am putting topics up for discussion and development of these races

aargh why are all the cool projects unfinished  have you seen digitan's robo wars! that's just like this one, one of the best games ever developed (or in development)...

I think that one is still going

Nice! Altough honestly said I expected that there would be a bar filling up. well never mind though this is just as good.

I might be able to do that, we'll have to see

So, I guess is there anything you'd like me to do?

Yes, when the campaign designer and map designer come out, you can do some work with those  Otherwise, keep testing those alpha builds!

Oh, that's what the map looks like.  Here's an image I did as a sample.  Like I said, it's up to the designer to make his own 48 x 48 image.

Speaking of appvars... do you have any "example" maps and tile sets which i can use for testing?

Well, I can give you the map and tileset that I used for the test map we have, though unfortunately you'd have to re-make the map yourself   Let me know if this works for you, and I will post those files here no later than tonight

I guess I can't stop you compiling to appvars, eager beaver   You have the general idea, but I'll tell you exactly what goes on with an appvar sometime next week, maybe as soon as monday