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Title: MTS?
Post by: Black Wolf on July 20, 2009, 01:48:52 pm

What is it? I'm talking about the "MTS Model descriptions" that appear on a couple of the articles (e.g. the Myrmidon (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTF_Myrmidon)). What does it stand for? We've been puzzling over it in IRC and noone can figure it out :D

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Snail on July 20, 2009, 01:54:28 pm

It happens to stand for "MeTaStream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCreations_Corp.)".

For those of you who used to visit www.freespace2.com, you may remember it. Metastream was a way to view the FreeSpace ships in pseudo-3D without having the model. It was a preview system that was used on the website.

I personally haven't been able to get Metastream working again, but there you go. For some reason or another Wikipedia accuses MetaStream of being adware/malware, but I dunno.


Example: Myrmidon in Metastream (http://web.archive.org/web/20051227034737/www.freespace2.com/shipsmts.cfm?ID=13)

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: The E on July 20, 2009, 02:00:15 pm

Well....How nice of them to use something flash-like that doesn't work anymore....

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Droid803 on July 20, 2009, 02:30:54 pm

Shouldn't the wiki be changed to say "Metastream" instead of "MTS" then?

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Snail on July 20, 2009, 04:28:13 pm

Or we could just have an explanation page.

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Aardwolf on July 20, 2009, 06:57:52 pm

I can't remember ever seeing the abbreviation MTS, so I'm going to have to agree with DroidBot on this one.

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Snail on July 20, 2009, 07:59:11 pm

It was probably a decision made very long ago, or by a single person without other people's consent (unilateral agreements? kind of an oxymoron there).

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 20, 2009, 10:01:14 pm

MTS (http://www.mts.ca/)?

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: TopAce on July 21, 2009, 03:02:30 am

Since acronyms may cause confusion - as you can see here -, I have renamed the "VW Articles" category to "VolitionWatch Articles".

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Snail on July 21, 2009, 06:22:34 am

Quote from: colecampbell666 on July 20, 2009, 10:01:14 pm

MTS (http://www.mts.ca/)?

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Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Snail on August 14, 2009, 09:04:10 am

Buh. All MTS replaced with MetaStream.

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Commander Zane on August 14, 2009, 09:15:28 am

That Myrmidon MTS description is better than the one actually used, more detailed.

Title: Re: MTS?
Post by: Snail on August 14, 2009, 09:21:39 am

Same goes for the Alastor.


EDIT - Added links from all the appropriate articles to a MetaStream article to clear up any confusion. Only a dumbass will get confused now. :nervous: