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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Goober5000 on June 21, 2005, 09:45:07 pm
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Well, not yet. Soon, though. ;) Basically, this thread is to build momentum and support for the actual contest, which will be held during the month of July.
Here's the background: Back in the days of VBB, Ground Freespace, Ross 128, etc. there used to be all kinds of contests. Some of the best FREDders of the day participated in them; see this mission (http://archives.volitionwatch.com/fs2/review/display.php3?MissID=213) in the VWatch archives for example.
And yet, in the 3.5 years since I've been at HLP, I haven't seen one contest of note. The contests that we have had have suffered from poor participation and lack of any tangible prizes. The prizes have usually been in the form of some abstract title or shiny avatar that never gets awarded.
Well, this time will be different. ;) I've been discussing this with various people on and off the staff, and we've put together a decent contest program. The official rules and prizes will be announced at the contest launch (and there WILL be prizes this time ;)) but for now I'd like to see what sorts of categories people will go for.
Thus, this poll. Check off as many or as few categories as you want, and indicate in this thread whether you'll be participating. :)
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I'd have a go at this. :)
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Boo! Boo I say!
I can't FRED.
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I'll be in that. But first...
*Goes to kidnap Kara and hide him in a basement*
*Blaise too*
There, now I might have a chance :D
Anyway, for what it's worth, I'm voting SCP, no mods. There's no point to limiting ourselves to the Vanilla sexps, especially given what can be done nowadays with the SCP, but mods open up a whole new can of worms for compatbility, as well as availability, download size, etc. etc.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that Blaise Russel, karajorma, and I will be judging, so you won't have to worry about any of us submitting missions. ;)
As far as compatibility and downloading are concerned... as long as you provide all required mods and zip it up into one file, I don't think there'll be any restrictions on size. And it doesn't matter if FRED or debug SCP yells at you... as long as we can load it up and play it without crashes, you should be fine. ;)
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I think the poll has been decided before it was posted... ;)
Anyway, I only voted. I would like to participate, but 4 out of 5 games CRASH on my new HD. FreeSpace seems to have problems with the cruisers(general observation that the missions which do not include any cruisers don't crash). Well, missions are empty without cruisers, they are the backbone of the navy.
I will try installing WinXP and see if that will work... but I need a WinXP CD first. :o
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I say, for this first FRED contest, you should have all categories without mods. It'd be a cool way to start - and it wouldn't spread everyone too thin to start. :nod:
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I agree with AWACS. :nod:
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Count me in as well :)
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I will endulge. :nervous:
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I... just might do this. Sounds like a lot of fun. :nod:
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Excellent idea :)
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I'd be interested. :) I've no chance of winning anything, but I'll give it a go....
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
I'd be interested. :) I've no chance of winning anything, but I'll give it a go....
Confidence is a weapon of mass destruction....
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Well in that case I'm sure I can't fail.
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I want to participate!
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Great...time for a timeskip ahead to the Orientalis mission...
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
I'll be in that. But first...
*Goes to kidnap Kara and hide him in a basement*
*Blaise too*
There, now I might have a chance :D
Nicest thing anyone's said about me all week :D
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Sounds like a cool idea.
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Originally posted by karajorma
Nicest thing anyone's said about me all week :D
Does that mean I coud... :nervous:
*takes kara from BW... and[/i] feeds him*
Frankly, I think we should try it without mods, simply for the reasons stated above--it would be more interesting to see what people could do with plain old Freespace 2 (or SCP) ships and weapons rather than having a bunch of flashy new ships to show off, and therefore make the mission seem more impressive.
I'm guessing that the SCP and Vanilla missions would be judged separately? I personally would find that judging Vanilla and SCP missions in the same category would be a little... unbalanced, seeing as how SCP is lightyears ahead of Vanilla, and some people can't support SCP on their comps in the first place.
With that aside, I'm off to get started on an entry. :)
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Ohh, seems neat!
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I voted FS2, no mods
I might participate, time permitting. I'm getting ready to move halway across the country for school in august, I put my whole FS2 campaign on hold. But I might have time for a mission.
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*Hides Black Wolf, hides Blaise, hides Kara*
Yep I'll join in :D
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You don't need to hide Blaise and Kara, you know?
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I think we should make this thread spam-free, too.
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Since all the spam so far has been complementry to myself and Blaise I'm certainly not going to edit it out :p
That said keep it to a dull roar guys :)
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i'm in, but i'm not going to be able to use SCP until I can get my video card reset. :(
*sighs*
Well, at least this'll be a good time to show off my FREDing skills. :drevil:
BTW, what are the prizes? :D
[EDIT]And what's the deadline? :nervous:
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Originally posted by Goober5000
The official rules and prizes will be announced at the contest launch (and there WILL be prizes this time ;)) but for now I'd like to see what sorts of categories people will go for.
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why didn't i see that before?
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I have a guess about that prize.
Avatar?
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Hmm, ive got a couple of old, barely started, missions somewhere? Could i finished and submit those for the competition? And we can only submit one misison, right?
Anyway i voted FS1/FS2 + MODS (heh heh, no SCP), however i think we shouldnt use mods.
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What about a category for those of us who couldn't FRED even if our lives depended on it?
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One is able to do anything to stay alive... even FRED.
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Originally posted by TopAce
One is able to do anything to stay alive... even FRED.
We really, really need to work on your sense of humour.
I mean, badly.
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If you ask me, FREDding is a lot easier than making all those models and textures and greeblewhatzits and stuff. I tried that once, and I gave up after about an hour of getting nowhere.
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
We really, really need to work on your sense of humour.
I mean, badly.
That wasn't meant to be humourous.
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so...........when do we start?
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Hmm, categories......
Defense (base defense, escort, etc..) - Anything where the main objective is protecting something
Offense (base strike, destroyer assualt, etc..) - Anything where the main objective is attacking something
MISC (training, research, exploration, multiple main objectives, i dunno) - anything else?
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Old-school all the way, baby. FS2 without mods.
Hell, even shields should be optional. :D
:headz:
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Bloody hell Zara, where did you pop up from?
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I've temporarily put my FS1 campaign on hold while I work on this.
Already started, with a 3 page mission event tree written out and pages of dialog. heehee.
Will begin the Fredding on the weekend.
The missions name is "Seeing Shivan" and it's FS2 without mods.
I'm excited! :)
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huh, has this thing already started? :confused:
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Who cares I've got an idea for a mission and am working on it anyway, if it doesn't meet the requirements I don't care, I will make it anyway lol.
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That's not necessarily a bad attitude :)
Even if the mission doesn't meet the requirements the worst you've done is limbered up your FREDding muscles a little and got yourself into a FREDing mood :)
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Originally posted by TopAce
I have a guess about that prize.
Avatar?
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Think... bigger.
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Originally posted by Setekh
Think... bigger.
Big avatar?
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:lol:
The official contest announcement will be posted July 1st, but feel free to start before then. :)
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Big avatar?
Maybe it will be an avatar of Admiral Bosch doing the shimmey in his underwear?
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Originally posted by Gai Daigoji
Maybe it will be an avatar of Admiral Bosch doing the shimmey in his underwear?
That's less a prize than a punishment.
I'm thinking free Sekhmets meself...
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Moderating priviledges for the FreeSpace Campaigns forums or any other FreeSpace-related forums?
No, wait, then if an Admin wins, we gets nothing. :)
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Originally posted by Gai Daigoji
Maybe it will be an avatar of Admiral Bosch doing the shimmey in his underwear?
Why, is Japong making it?
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K, I've posted the official contest announcement (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,33629.0.html). Please move all discussion there. :)