[beatspete]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
It's kinda hard for language to be extreme in that way nowadays, anyhow. I mean, short of racial slurs, what really shocks people anymore? I tell you; it's rough being a public nuisance.

Racial slurs dont really insult me.  They shouldnt be used, but still.  The only thing i can remember being truly offended by are boybands.

pete

[_argv[-1]]

Originally posted by beatspete


Racial slurs dont really insult me.  They shouldnt be used, but still.  The only thing i can remember being truly offended by are boybands.

pete

Just out of curiosity, what race are you? Vasudan?

[runes]

i loved Derelict, and can't wait for this. i am... imensely happy.

[Shiva Archon]

Originally posted by killadonuts

I agree, if they want to make a Derelict sequel I think it should be done by Agatheron and Kellan. The creators of the original Derelict.

Probably true, but they're just a tiny bit busy with BWO now I'm sure.  Maybe they'd be available for a little consulting here and there, but I doubt they'd have time to take part in another big project.  

Anyway, that would just make BWO go even SLOWER than it is already

[Gloriano]

derelict 2 is vey bad idea look the orginal derelict story
in was  derelict SSD Lucifer class ship in tahat campaing
this was reason for name

[Nuclear1]

You're right about that...... but that quickly changed. The Nyarlathotep became active a little early in the campaign and it wasn't a derelict anymore.

What I'd really like to see is what would happen to the Auriga...... That little bugger....

[killadonuts]

I just don't think it's right to sequel a campaign that you diddn't even do.
I would be kind of pissed if someone made a sequel to a campaign I made.
But that's just me

[Thor]

Well, I also like Derelict, and didn't see anything so rediculusly impossible that it didn't make sense.  And sure, make a campaign, but don't call it Derelict!!!!  My campaign ITHOV uses Derelict as history, and some of the events/characters/places are being revisited, but it is a seprate story that could stand on its own.  I just liked the idea of trying to create a continuity between the campaigns.  That's one reason why I feel Derelict, Warzon and BWO are/will be great, because they seem like the next step in the FS story.

by the way, Mackie is comic genius!

[Bobboau]

and for the record BWO is, in fact, Derelict 2, made by the origonal creators (even if only one of them is still active)
it is also Warzone 2, made by the origonal creator

[diamondgeezer]

Long campaigns struggle to maintain... I suppose intensity is the word I'm looking for. Short campaigns, say 4 - 10 missions, with all the bells and whistles are the way forward, as I shall prove oh so soon...

[CP5670]

Isn't this thread pretty old?

Short campaigns, say 4 - 10 missions, with all the bells and whistles are the way forward, as I shall prove oh so soon...

I quite agree there, but does 15 count (10 of them being already finished)?

[Knight Templar]

how is Derelict 2 coming along anyways? did it start? where is it?  am i lost, or am I lost?

[Bobboau]

BWO is comeing along nicely, thank you

[Knight Templar]

*Duely noted*

And!

Excellence

[NeoHunter]

I'm looking forward to it.

You got a web site?

[Fry_Day]

Pulling this conversation waaaay back, I really liked the tons of chatter in-game, but it's hard to reaed everything while paying attention to the game, and it also causes me to occasionally miss messages. Go voice acting in BWO!
the only problem, AFAIK, is that no compression can be used on speech, so the filesize could get nasty, couldn't it?

[_argv[-1]]

Originally posted by Fry_Day
Pulling this conversation waaaay back, I really liked the tons of chatter in-game, but it's hard to reaed everything while paying attention to the game, and it also causes me to occasionally miss messages. Go voice acting in BWO!
the only problem, AFAIK, is that no compression can be used on speech, so the filesize could get nasty, couldn't it?

First, I believe the FS2 audio files (*.wav) are compressed with ADPCM. Second, if that's not good enough, there is always the option of decompressing the files (eg, decoding Ogg or FLAC or some such) on the user's machine after downloading, using an external program (an installation program, perhaps).

[Fry_Day]

Only Music files are compressed. All the sfx/speech I looked at weren't.
Lossless compression doesn't compress nearly as good as lossy, especially speech (Since speech is mostly lower frequency, almost nothing is lost (Since lossy compression methods loose the most info in high frequencies (Which is why in you can usually see compression errors in shades of blue in video/still images (for example, the FS2 intro), and not in other colors, and why lowering the highest frequency bar in the WinAMP equalizer will not make any difference to your ear when playing MP3s)), and I wanna see you doing an installer that decompresses OGGs into wavs. It's probably not that complicated, but every coder probably has better stuff to spend his time on.

Edit: My, My. Didn't I get a bit off-topic there

[karajorma]

Why not just get the SCP to put in support for mp3 and ogg and be done with it
 It's something that will probably be done at some point anyway

[_argv[-1]]

Originally posted by karajorma
Why not just get the SCP to put in support for mp3 and ogg and be done with it
 It's something that will probably be done at some point anyway

I wouldn't recommend putting in MP3 support. You now have to pay money for decoders too, so if you do, don't be surprised to have Thompson come knocking...