[Goober5000]

Ransom, are you ever on IRC? I bet Darius would be interested in talking plot with you. Although you two are stylistically very different, you both produce the most plot-heavy work in the community.

Atmospheric, perhaps.  But I claim the plot title for ST:R!

[General Battuta]

I would happily include ST:R in such a list.

[Goober5000]

Yay!

[FoxtrotTango]

I relished the IRC chat we had, General Battuta. Next time we do it, there needs to be a way to transcript it. I could have sworn that I lost about half of the good parts in translation when I tried to copy it into a Word document.

Don't worry, the ideas are still bright and fresh in my head, I just wish I could have a full concrete copy as well.

[Ransom]

Ransom, are you ever on IRC? I bet Darius would be interested in talking plot with you. Although you two are stylistically very different, you both produce the most plot-heavy work in the community.

I worry that such a conversation would become more of a debate than a discussion. Based on Age of Aquarius and things like 'character passes', I'm not sure we have much common ground. But if Darius wants to organise something I'm happy to oblige.

[General Battuta]

Ransom, are you ever on IRC? I bet Darius would be interested in talking plot with you. Although you two are stylistically very different, you both produce the most plot-heavy work in the community.

I worry that such a conversation would become more of a debate than a discussion. Based on Age of Aquarius and things like 'character passes', I'm not sure we have much common ground. But if Darius wants to organise something I'm happy to oblige.

Well, I want to emphasize that my comment's on Darius' writing are not necessarily actually the way Darius writes - I don't think he's going back through the story and adding character bits in to a preexisting plot. I don't want to give the idea that he's got some kind of rigid technique...'character pass' was just a rhetorical flourish! It should not be the basis for assessment.

Now I feel dumb.  Got a bit too enthusiastic.

In any case, I think anything as formal as this is sounding would probably be a bit awkward, so let's just leave it up to the coincidence of folks stumbling into other folks.

[eliex]

Just to sate my curiosity, from looking at the WiH alpha, can there be any estimates on when WiH can be released?   

[Dilmah G]

Just to sate my curiosity, from looking at the WiH alpha, can there be any estimates on when WiH can be released?  

When it's done

What I meant was that I totally want to sit in on that IRC conversation.

You're not alone My interests may not be far from "Blowing sh*t up" but watching the two greatest campaign writers to date on HLP discuss anything is worth wagging school and the extra homework 

[Fury]

Armor repairs were added so that we could make GTVA fighters more threatening. When six Myrmidons come in to attack your wing, each one of them armed with Balors and Tornadoes, they have the potential to do a ton of damage in very few seconds. We didn't want that to necessarily ruin a player's entire mission if he, say, got hit right off and had to hide from beam cannons.

no pierce shields flag was not an option?

[Dilmah G]

It would've seemed a little double-standard at the least.

[eliex]

When it's done

Classic reply. 

[Knight Templar]

Ransom, are you ever on IRC? I bet Darius would be interested in talking plot with you. Although you two are stylistically very different, you both produce the most plot-heavy work in the community.

Atmospheric, perhaps.  But I claim the plot title for ST:R!

How can you claim something that isn't yours? Don't get me wrong, you filled in some important gaps left by Volition, to make things more coherent. However, the filling wasn't much more than natural conclusion.

[General Battuta]

ST:R had a very heavy 'mainstream' plot in the tradition of FS1 and FS2's design. Transcend and Blue Planet both branched out to do different things, so it's hard to compare them.

[eliex]

Transcend and BP splits from the generic faceless Alpha 1 which I quite enjoyed. Don't get me wrong thinking that I hate generic Alpha 1's but it was good to see that Alpha 1 actually has a story.

[Rhymes]

And in Transcend, it's not even ALPHA 1, it's KAPPA 1 

[Droid803]

Wasn't it Omicron Wing?
Wait no, that's later...
What was Marcel's wing designation after transfer? Omicron 4?

[Rhymes]

Only during operations.  Outside of a cover story, he was Kappa 1 until Omicron 1...leaves.

[eliex]

Only during operations.  Outside of a cover story, he was Kappa 1 until Omicron 1...leaves.

Thanks for summing it up. I was quite confused about that actually as I played the campaign.

[blowfish]

Narayana artillery ship

Is that the ship on the sidebar of the music page on the website, or is that image something not previously mentioned?

[Darius]

It's a sekret!