[Mad Bomber]

I'll see if I can dig up some of the old campaigns I have on my other compy, like Beyond the Cause and Operation Crucible.

In retrospect, we probably should have started doing this when FS Watch first stopped updating. But oh well.

[Macfie]

I have all the FS1 and FS2 campaigns that were in the FS watch Archives.  Most of the FS1 campaigns I've ported and the FS2 campaigns are compatible with FSO 3.6.9.  Some of the campaigns still have their original bugs but I've tried to get them all to work.  I'll start posting them to the Hades Combine as I get a chance.

[Goober5000]

In retrospect, we probably should have started doing this when FS Watch first stopped updating.

Some of us did.  Several of us have a whole bunch of FS Watch stuff languishing in our archives.

[CP5670]

The only older ones I have are Warzone and Pandora's Box, but I think those are still fairly easy to find.

[karajorma]

Okay. What I think we should do next is have a campaign of the week. We let everyone play and see what bugs we find. Then anyone who is willing to can fix the bug. Table bugs should be the easiest ones to fix I'm sure.

Might also be nice if we take a leaf out of Admiral Nelson's book and add nameplates while we're at it but I wouldn't want to make that a requirement.

Anyone got an idea on what we should work on first?

[MP-Ryan]

Why not start with the oldest and most prominent?

Either that or start a poll - what campaigns would people like to see brought up to date for SCP?

[karajorma]

Ah but what is the most prominent?

What we need to do is find a good campaign with a few minor problems that people would enjoy to play to start the ball rolling. Lightning Marshal is probably a very good choice for that as there are problems with it but people seemed to like it a lot. But before I arbitrarily decided on it I was wondering if anyone else had suggestions. 

[Admiral Nelson]

I have lightning marshal 1 and 2 done with lightspeed nebulae and nameplates.  It needs bugfixes to be really playable, though.

[jr2]

How 'bout we do TLM 1-4 for the first 4 weeks?  I dunno, just a suggestion.  I've got TLM 1-4, BTW.
Oh, BTW, where are we uploading fixed campaigns?  Hades Combine, FileFront, both?
EDIT: As we get them fixed, you want me to add them to a thread listing all the campaigns, right?
If so, what do you think that thread should be called?
EDIT2: I went to create an account with Hades Combine... who's the admin over there?  He's still running it, right?  'Cause it said it e-mailed him to activate my account (you can prolly guess the username I picked).

[Nuclear1]

Ah but what is the most prominent?

What we need to do is find a good campaign with a few minor problems that people would enjoy to play to start the ball rolling. Lightning Marshal is probably a very good choice for that as there are problems with it but people seemed to like it a lot. But before I arbitrarily decided on it I was wondering if anyone else had suggestions. 

I'll second LM.  Especially if Admiral has a headstart on them as he says.

I don't know how many have it, but I have the incomplete, yet still excellent Titan Rebellion floating around on my comp.  It's essentially bugfree, and I think it's due for an upgrade to SCP glory.  Note: incomplete means the story was never finished, but all of the missions are playable, at almost at original FS2 quality.

[Goober5000]

Umm... Titan Rebellion was completed as far as I know.  At least, I played something called Titan Rebellion.  It was basically Silent Threat for FS2, with all of the mediocrity and bad mission design of the original.

[Admiral Nelson]

Titan Rebellion was never completed.  It is missing the last three missions.  I've been doing "some" work with it:









I will post what I have for LM 1  and 2 shortly.

[Goober5000]

Titan Rebellion was never completed.  It is missing the last three missions.

Oh right, I forgot about that.

[MP-Ryan]

Think it's possible to set up some sort of FTP or file center for the in-progress work?

I've never played Lightning Marshall.  Guess now's as good a time as any

I'd also vote for bringing Homesick and Sol: A History up to SCP standards.  Homesick's crashing has been resolved by Taylor's fix for the red alert bug (Mantis report 1255, IIRC), but maybe something can be done with the missions design itself to ensure problems are eliminated.  Other red alert missions seem to work fine.

I'm getting really good at finding bugs... not so good at fixing them.  I'm getting decent at filling out bug reports though

[Admiral Nelson]

The attraction of overhauling Lightning Marshal, for me anyways, was that LM3 is fully voice acted, and there aren't very many of those floating around.  Anyone know of other voice acted campaigns that should be put in the queue?

[jr2]

EDIT2: I went to create an account with Hades Combine... who's the admin over there?  He's still running it, right?  'Cause it said it e-mailed him to activate my account (you can prolly guess the username I picked).

... Still not even a peep.  Is this normal?

EDIT: The admin actually has to manually create my account?  Usually, you just get an automated e-mail.

[Gloriano]

I been trying to find pandora's box and Allied forces(like it for some reason) myself for a quite some time haven't been able to find so far.

it's nice to see that at least some old Campaings are getting face lift good job on that

[Admiral Nelson]

Alright, here is my WIP Lightning Marshal folder:

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For the LM1 and LM2 missions I added Lightspeed backgrounds and nameplates.  There are bugs in these missions that need to be fixed before they are playable.  You will also note the LM prequel campaign "Sirius" in the folder; I have not yet touched this campaign as it too has bugs.  We'd need to go thru all of the LM1 and 2 missions and crush any bugs along the way.

Other things I have:

Titan Rebellion:

I reworked all of the 13 existing missions with nameplates, backgrounds, heavily rewritten dialogue and new models.  As you see in the images above, I used Vengeance's fantastic Titan model to replace the Titan originally found in the campaign.  Titan Rebellion would need its last three missions FREDed to be ready for release, plus testing to make sure I didn't screw up anything in the first 13.  I ran into trouble in that I intended to use Nico's Vampire in the last few missions but this model has geometry issues with its cockpit.

Warzone:

Created all needed nameplates, and did backgrounds for all the canon systems in the campaign.  There are three non canon systems in the campaign for which new backgrounds are needed.  Warzone also uses custom planets, which are terribly low rez these days and should be replaced.  The GTE Vidar model used isn't bad looking, but its textures are incredibly low rez and lack shine / glow maps.  There are a very few issues with some missions to fix.

[Nuclear1]

Titan Rebellion would need its last three missions FREDed to be ready for release, plus testing to make sure I didn't screw up anything in the first 13.

While ordinarily I'm too busy to commit to anything, I can do one or two of those three missions.  Especially for Titan.

[Admiral Nelson]

Wonderful!!

Here is the WIP SCP Titan Rebellion

Give it a spin, and give any feedback.  I have ideas about what the last three missions should be, but now that we have a community project going, we can open it up for discussion.

Alpha 1 needs your help!!