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Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: ARothers on April 19, 2004, 01:27:21 pm
I got this while on the FreeSpace Universal Reference project reading about the Unification war an I thought what if there was a campaign about it?  I thought it would be a good idea but I can't do it right now what with my campaign and the fact that it needs lots of modelling and I can't actually model in Belnder or Truespace.  But if anyone's run out of ideas for a new project.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on April 19, 2004, 01:51:27 pm
*cough* Terran Vasudan War Project *cough*

:welcome:
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Goober5000 on April 19, 2004, 05:34:51 pm
It's in progress.  You should be able to play it this summer. :)
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Turambar on April 19, 2004, 05:42:46 pm
Make sure you have a good plot, where the good guys aren't really the good guys and the bad guys are worse, so you join with some rebel faction and beat down everyone (singlehandedly of course, gotta keep with the Freespace mood) and then everyone gets owned by shivans and you run away and blow something important up to stop the shivans
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 19, 2004, 05:54:10 pm
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Originally posted by Goober5000
It's in progress.  You should be able to play it this summer. :)


NEVER EVER set a date like this. Now something's bound to happen that slows us down in mid-work. Will it be a spontaneous heart attack? a harddrive crash? who knows.

But every time i've heard things like 'it will be out in XXXX' the project has fallen inactive and was ever since never heard of again :D

Don't tempt murphy's law :rolleyes:
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 19, 2004, 05:55:22 pm
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Originally posted by Turambar
and then everyone gets owned by shivans and you run away and blow something important up to stop the shivans


Unification war - Vasudans not discovered - pre GTA - shivans ?

RRRRIIIIIGGGHHHHT.

There will be absolutely no shivans. :)
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Goober5000 on April 19, 2004, 06:58:13 pm
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Originally posted by Lightspeed
NEVER EVER set a date like this. Now something's bound to happen that slows us down in mid-work. Will it be a spontaneous heart attack? a harddrive crash? who knows.
What about optimistic goals? :)

I guess I shouldn't set dates, but summer seems pretty reasonable. :p
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on April 19, 2004, 09:48:29 pm
Dont set dates, because look what happened to Half Life 2 and Duke Nukem Forever!!!
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 20, 2004, 05:45:06 am
Yes, but those games are/were made by complete morons, whereas TVWPs 'moron-staff' count is pretty low.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: ARothers on April 20, 2004, 07:41:20 am
What I was originally thinking of was pre-GTA etc.  Earth would obviously not be united.  As for factions I have a few ideas, stuff like: European Alliance, Eastern Coalition, South American Co-operation etc
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Turambar on April 20, 2004, 07:49:46 am
You honestly think that South America will ever be able to afford a space program?

Have Europe win and become the GTA
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: kasperl on April 20, 2004, 08:02:08 am
that would explain some command stupidity......


Help, the Sathanas is coming in.

erm, we are only authorized to send in a destroyer and a few fighters to do the task, 6 wings is all i am allowed to use according to budget program 34C subsection 6 paragraph 3. More force would require a direct warrant from a full commision.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Goober5000 on April 20, 2004, 09:06:19 am
In our campaign, Earth has a single government - just to make things simpler.  The 158th is doing something similar to this, though, with separate Earth factions - you may want to check them out. :)
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 20, 2004, 10:40:45 am
We are pre-GTA but at the very end of the pre-GTA 'empire'. The people will have formed up to several factions (Earth + Earths former colonies).

Trust me when I say our setting is a very solid, and good base.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Turambar on April 20, 2004, 01:35:12 pm
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(Earth + Earths former colonies).


*cough* Gundam *cough cough*
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 20, 2004, 01:42:01 pm
no.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: jdjtcagle on April 20, 2004, 06:43:42 pm
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Originally posted by Lightspeed
no.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: ARothers on April 21, 2004, 01:31:16 pm
It's just an idea, you know random seemingly great ideas that pop in your head.  And those were FACTIONS, I didn't say SPACE-FARING FACTIONS.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 21, 2004, 02:17:08 pm
Just have a watch for TVWP Chapter 1: The Unification War. It will be a pretty nice surprise for you all when it's gonna be released ;)
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: ARothers on April 21, 2004, 02:26:56 pm
Really?

Anyway, I expect the weapons should be either projectile weapons accelerated at a high speed from a gas explosion (i.e guns) or what I like to call 'true lasers' as in proper laser weapons as in the intense focused ray of coloured light (think fighter beams).
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 21, 2004, 02:42:21 pm
Just wait and see - we aren't stupid either you know. Everything's been though of, and we're approaching a possible release rapidly. There wont be anything much we will change on our concept anymore anyway. So - no need to think twice about the problems :)

Of course, if you're interested and have some FS2 skills (FREDding, modelling, something else) you could always join us ;)
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on April 22, 2004, 01:20:58 pm
AR Seems to think we have forgotten everything about Freespace and just stupidly threw together something that relates to the Unification War...
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 22, 2004, 05:21:26 pm
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Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
AR Seems to think we have forgotten everything about Freespace and just stupidly threw together something that relates to the Unification War...


Which, in your case, is closer to the truth than he could imagine.
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: ARothers on April 23, 2004, 07:28:05 am
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Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
AR Seems to think we have forgotten everything about Freespace and just stupidly threw together something that relates to the Unification War...


How did you get my real life intials?
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: kasperl on April 23, 2004, 07:49:32 am
by simply taking the first 2 letter of your nick? it's a common way of shortingen peoples names 'round here
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: ARothers on April 23, 2004, 07:50:57 am
I see...
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Setekh on April 25, 2004, 07:27:15 pm
:lol: :D

Anyway ARothers, it's such a good idea, someone's already thought of it. Go pay the TVWP forum a visit. :)

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=67
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 26, 2004, 07:34:00 am
The public forum is a graveyard, tho :p
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Taristin on April 26, 2004, 09:03:06 am
Well, there is the FAQ. :doubt:
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Unknown Target on April 26, 2004, 11:06:54 am
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Originally posted by ARothers
I see...


:lol: lmfao :lol:
Someone's a tad new :D :p
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Janos on April 26, 2004, 12:57:08 pm
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Well, there is the FAQ. :doubt:


Ya, but the public forum's practically the only thing keeping non-insiders aware what's happening, as the website is more obsolete than a Syrian T-34/85 facing Merkava Mk.4s in Golan Heights and as dead also.

Tell us what's going on! :(
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Goober5000 on April 26, 2004, 01:49:53 pm
Ask and you shall receive. :)

Incidentally, the public forum is actually quite busier than many of the other mods' public forums.  There are several pages of threads if you set the display to "since the beginning" rather than "the past 30 days".
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Turambar on April 26, 2004, 01:53:00 pm
Hey, anyone feel like making me some inferno test missions?
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Lightspeed on April 26, 2004, 02:11:17 pm
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Originally posted by Janos

Tell us what's going on! :(


Just know that TVWP > *.*

;7
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: Flipside on April 26, 2004, 02:25:45 pm
Looks like Elton John in a dark room ;)
Title: New Campaign idea!
Post by: jdjtcagle on April 26, 2004, 07:25:14 pm
:lol: