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Title: What is TBP?
Post by: Black Wolf on October 29, 2005, 01:56:03 pm

Is it a TC for Freespace 2, or a game that utilizes the FS2Open engine?

I've been wondering about this a lot since the BSG mod was referred to as such (i.e. as a game) by a guy on the scifi.com boards a few days ago. At what oint does the crossover occur? Has it happened for TBP?

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: redmenace on October 29, 2005, 02:02:12 pm

It is either. They package it as a Standalone.
But many like me just use it as a TC

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: stithe2000 on October 29, 2005, 03:15:47 pm

A total conversion from old code to the new refined code... With all new toys to boot! :)

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on October 29, 2005, 04:03:08 pm

A total conversion usually needs the original game to run, so I'd say TBP is either a standalone mod or a game using FSOpen engine.

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: RavenTS on October 29, 2005, 05:36:10 pm

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Originally posted by Lt.Cannonfodder
A total conversion usually needs the original game to run...

Sure? I always thought this would be a important fact of TCs (that they just use the engine, not more) and here they use the FS2-Engine, not really more...and as the FS2-Engine is Opensource, everybody could download it...

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: StratComm on October 29, 2005, 05:49:14 pm

I would not consider TBP to be a unique game.  It is still FS2 in mechanics, and last I checked there was not a TBP-specific branch of the engine either, so regardless of how it is distributed it is still a TC of another game.  Whether people actually need the original game or not is somewhat pointless.  However, in advertising this, it is not a TC because you distribute the engine along with the content.  It's a TC for an open-source engine, which is a bit of a different animal.

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: Sigma957 on October 30, 2005, 09:22:26 pm

It was originally a TC of the old engine but since the evolution of scp,it has become a whole new ball game.;)

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 30, 2005, 10:16:55 pm

Wouldn't "Stand-alone TC" work best as it implies that it combines both concepts?

Title: What is TBP?
Post by: Sigma957 on October 30, 2005, 11:32:32 pm

Sounds good to me.:D