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[quote who="LeoncitoGB" reply="10" id="3555359"] I've scoured the internet - mostly Pinterest - to get alien images with some success but I was hoping someone knew of a simple way to make ones own images from scratch. [/quote] I think what you're refering to is called "drawing" :D Or one could always use photoshop to put together something from different pieces. Depending on what your goal is. As I said - I made those pics in 2 minutes just for the sake of ex

[quote who="LeoncitoGB" reply="7" id="3555214"] I can't helo on the modding front, I'm in the same boat as you I'm afraid. But something you said caught my attention - you can make your own race portraits and backgrounds - how do you do that and is it easy to learn? [/quote] When I first started the game I immediately went to creating a new race to see what can I do with it. And I saw that you can choose portraits and backgrounds for your race and that

[quote who="Lightbanee" reply="5" id="3555191"] If you want penalties it shouldn't be too hard to do that, just change the default values for this civilization like maybe replace the standard production with penalties and replace the specific aquatic technology with technology to deal with normal worlds. It would make it very difficult unless you spawned extra extreme worlds but that would have a poor effect on all other AI as they need those worlds. [/quote] Yeah,

[quote who="Lightbanee" reply="2" id="3555163"] Yes very easy, the mods have provided dead planets, so it would be easy to just give the faction the extreme colonization technology and the aquatic world specialization tech. [/quote] If someone could do it (and as a traidoff make some penalties for this civilization in other colonization options), I would be really happy! I don't want to push it thought if it's time consuming or anyt

I have no idea about modding, but I was curious - is it even possible in GalCiv3 to make an ocean planet a homeworld for a custom civilization? It would be cool to play as an amphibian creatures who has oceanic homeworld and can colonize ocean planets from the begining with no penalties from extreme colonization and instead has slight penalties for colonizing standard habitable worlds until some technology is researched.