Star Trek The Next Generation - 2026 ( Breaking Old Road Blocks )

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Work has started on a highly detailed version of Star Trek Next Generation..........

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Distant Worlds Universe has had modding for over 12 years and today after 12 years of creating mods for this game, I finally worked out how to change the background image of DWU.

This is the official look of how the Main Menu appears in my Distant Worlds Universe mod

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Over the last few days I did a rethink on how the detailed research tree will work in this mod.

Distant Worlds Universe by default states that the first thing you need to build in the mod is a medium or large sized spaceport.
In my mod this is not the first thing that gets built.

Even in the Star Trek Uiniverse, people do not use a transporter beam to beam builders into empty space and somehow begin constructing a starbase. You need somerthing else to get your builders up there.... in other words you need shuttles.

Hwever shuttles don't just suddenly exist....and to build a shuttle in the TNG era you need to research the technology to build that shuttle...and one of the research items is how to make Transparent Aluminum that will be used for the windows of not only the starships but all the starbases in orbit.

A few days ago I tested how AI will help to create the research tree for Distant Worlds Universe.
It was a fairly good result but I did need to make some changes to the AI logic.

Later today I will begin work on the research tree with the first mandatory research item to be researched before anything else : Transparent Aluminum


Below are the steps in order to research and make Transparent Aluminum for shuttles and starbases.

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