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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: neoterran on May 11, 2006, 06:16:51 pm
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From what I can see, quite a lot of work in upgrading various effects and background graphics was done by a character named Lightspeed who is "no longer available"
Why is Lightspeed no longer around and what happened to him ?
Also, why does it seem like many projects lost steam around the 2005 time period ? Did alot of people lose interest in the SCP or something ? It still seems like it is ever evolving to me.
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The honeymoon is over, repeat, the honeymoon is over.
Lightspeed drifts about at times.
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2005 being a huge window in the life of the SCP. You can go back and find similar periods of inactivity all the way back to 99, if you know where to look. Also remember that a couple of incidents in 2005 (both here and in real life) sent a number of long-time members packing and to an extent that void has not been properly filled. Lightspeed left due to RL issues and really hasn't been back since (though he still keeps in touch with a select few members, he doesn't do it here) and he's not the only very high profile dissapearance we've gone through. Many of the projects that lost steam and were closed had already lost steam, there was just a culling of many of them around that time, and just as many more have cropped up in their place so it just seems more like a cyclic thing to me.
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yup, LS is gone it seems
looks like youre stuck with me and dabrain, although we mostly are working on mods now
you find something you want a new texture for, request it i guess.
anything in mind?
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LS won't be coming back ever. Pretty much all there is to it. Move along.
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Yeah it just really seems like there is this "blue wall of silence" about it, like people never give an actual reason other than "RL" and then they discourage talk about it. It sure seems like there was an arguement or something bad happened.
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Shhhhh...
*becons neoterran out of room*
Sounds like one of those things where you don't want to say ANYTHING
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I think the stagnation really started around the beginning of February this year. The SCP for one was very active until about that point. As Stratcomm said, the community has gone through these cycles several times before. Things will pick up again eventually. Maybe I'll even get my own project finished at some point. :p
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I think the stagnation really started around the beginning of February this year. The SCP for one was very active until about that point. As Stratcomm said, the community has gone through these cycles several times before. Things will pick up again eventually.
Most likely when we complete the teaser version of BTRL.
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Lightspeed isn't here anymore because he went straight to Ludicrous Speed and hasn't been seen since. :lol:
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Yeah it just really seems like there is this "blue wall of silence" about it, like people never give an actual reason other than "RL" and then they discourage talk about it. It sure seems like there was an arguement or something bad happened.
Sometimes the reasons, other than "RL" just aren't anyone's business. LS' reasons are more than valid, but still nobodies business.
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Most likely when we complete the teaser version of BTRL.
Uh oh, things are going to stay slow for quite a while then :p
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Lightspeed was killed during my last run through the Main Campaign. Died aboard the Iceni.
He's a Shivan, you see...
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Most likely when we complete the teaser version of BTRL.
Uh oh, things are going to stay slow for quite a while then :p
Yep. :p
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LS will come back when FS:FPS is finished.
*runs*
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Remember, a lot of people hit exams etc last year, many were moving away to college. Black Wolf, for example isn't around as much because he is at college etc. It's a natural cycle of things, some Modders will die down for a while, like me or Raa, others will rise to fill the gap, like Scooby Doo, and you'll always have people like Vasudan Admiral lurking in the background and making some of the most incredible 3D models I've ever seen outside of commercial movies.
It's not so much that the project has slowed, but the focus moves around, the WCS and Babylon 5 projects have been pretty productive of late, that means that any other mods being worked on by members of those teams is going to suffer a drop in activity :)
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BTRL is going to be the absolute best mod ever, and thats the way its going to be.
nothing will come close, there will be no way to challenge its sheer awesomeness.
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BTRL, Need site link..... Please :D
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www.game-warden.com/bsg
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Mucho Thanko, V good cdc inter-art.
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check out the Beauty Shots thread in the forum over there
and click on an ad for us too while your at it :D
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How do you mean a BSG banner in a sig? all done, Do you get a penny for that? ;7
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Speaking of things being cyclic, I've seen the same thing time and again over at Lancers Reactor and TA Universe, other sites that I'm involved in.
There's always something that brings somebody back though.
As for me, I'm glad to be right here. Something new, new directions to go into......and plenty of small models that nobody's HTL'd yet. ;)
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Speaking of things being cyclic, I've seen the same thing time and again over at Lancers Reactor and TA Universe, other sites that I'm involved in.
There's always something that brings somebody back though.
As for me, I'm glad to be right here. Something new, new directions to go into......and plenty of small models that nobody's HTL'd yet. ;)
dude
dive straight in
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It's a natural cycle of things, some Modders will die down for a while, like me or Raa, others will rise to fill the gap, like Scooby Doo, and you'll always have people like Vasudan Admiral lurking in the background and making some of the most incredible 3D models I've ever seen outside of commercial movies.
Mm. Dont expect anything from me, n'more. I havent even opened 3dmax in a year.
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I see there is a thread about my question...
Lightspeed was GREAT at what he did and made this game alot better. Whatever happened doesn't matter but I'll always remember his contributions and boy did he ever contribute! :D
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hehehe Yeah, I liked him, a bit of a pixel-nazi, but then, we needed a perfectionist else the re-textures wouldn't have been nearly as good :)
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It must have been really bad the way it's shunned to talk about it..
i hope it didn't involve bum raping or animals or something...
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I'll say what I said in the art forum. He left because he had other things in his life that were more important. About a year ago, I had to make a choice between working on TI or something else, and it wasn't really a choice in reality, that's why TI is on hold-ish atm. There was no drama or anything about it.
He simply had better/more important things to do than make textures for a 5-year old game, I respect that and hope that he's enjoying whatever he's doing these days :)