[aldo_14]

(http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Reconstruction-era_campaign_ideas)
Why do we have this?  Surely it's exactly the sort of thing to be put in the main forums?

EDIT; see bottom of http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/User-made_Campaigns

I don't think this is really something we should have.  I mean, it's not useful reference material, the chance of it being needed are minimal, and moreso it's far, far, far better to put this in the forums where it'll be more actively contributed to, discussed, and seen.

[S-99]

That'd be a fun campaign to play. The unkown battle for earth by earth discovering a node that goes to the shivan nebula. I'd imagine it would end with sealing up that node after failed attempts to get in touch with the gta or the pvn. Afterall at that time the knossos wasn't powered up.
But, yeah why is it there?
I think a posting of this link in the campaign forum would be intelligent.

[NGTM-1R]

Someone made this in the campaign forum...I think it was unintelligently transferred.

[S-99]

Yeah it was untintelligently transferred. I at least provided a link back to this thread

[aldo_14]

Well, does anyone have any objection to it being deleted?  It appears to have the sole purpose of being somones rather poorly worded wishlist.

[WMCoolmon]

* WMCoolmon doesn't object, strangely enough.

[aldo_14]

(at this point I'd like to note I have precisely bugger all clue how to delete a section of the wiki)

[Mars]

Does this apply to the Post-Capella-era campagin ideas?

[aldo_14]

Does this apply to the Post-Capella-era campagin ideas?

Surely it applies to all of them?  I mean, it's basically an extension of 'make me this ship' type threads we used to see in the Modding subforum (usually requesting a 100 beamed juggernaut with the fighterbay removed for 'balance').

[Colonol Dekker]

[obvious joke] Ooooh, make me one, Please Please Pleease, PLeeaaaaaaasse !! [/obvious joke]

Spoiler:

my tags surely exempt me from retribution.

[NGTM-1R]

Surely it applies to all of them?  I mean, it's basically an extension of 'make me this ship' type threads we used to see in the Modding subforum (usually requesting a 100 beamed juggernaut with the fighterbay removed for 'balance').

When was the last time we had one of those? 'Cuz I seriously cannot remember it ever happening. I think the last ship request was my asking for a destroyer when I was a wee n00b; and my specification was that it look as if it were a joint T-V design.

Closest to that kind of thing you mention are Alpha One's threads in GenFS.

I say let it be. It'll attract bad crap, of course. (Though I would note that, while some are mediocre, it hasn't attracted any true crap yet) But it will also bring in a few worthwhile ideas. If nothing else FRED Academy might want them.

[Mars]

But that's for the Forum to do, not the wiki

[NGTM-1R]

What is? Why?

[aldo_14]

What is? Why?

Because the forum is an interactive discussion group for positing ideas (particularly the campaigns subforum....), and the wiki is a reference source for informing those ideas.

At least, my impression was that the wiki was intended as an encyclopedic reference source of useful 'factual' (within FS context) information, not another discussion place for random ideas.

I mean;

Earth: The Ongoing Fury

Description: The GTVA thought that Earth was lost to subspace; they were wrong: Basically, the idea is that Sol is accessible to the GTVA via the Shivan Nebula; the newly-formed Terranovan Confederation must defend Earth at all costs. The Campaign is a prelude to Reconuqest of Earth in the Post-Capella ideas.

Exactly what purpose does this serve?  What person, capable of making a campaign, will go with someone elses idea and concept rather than their?  Be influenced by an idea, perhaps, but following it exactly....I can't see it happening.  This strikes me as a rather pointless wishlist rather than useful.

[Mefustae]

This strikes me as a rather pointless wishlist rather than useful.

Seconded.