[CP5670]

Thing is, and I don't know how to say this without causing offence, but most campaigns are not up to the standard I expect. I'm mainly talking about voices here - a campaign without voices just seems half-arsed. Breaks in the action to allow for messages? Whatever...

I played Derelict about six months ago. The first time I played it, I was appropriately wowed. It seemed incredible that the community had produced such a thing. Not so the second time, now that I was clued with FRED and such. No offence to the guys as made it, but it was so riddled with bugs and difficulty spikes that I left it half way through. Still, it was far more professional than Silent Threat

Unfortunately, I mostly agree with you here. Although I don't care too much about voices, most campaigns I have played so far do indeed fall quite short of my expectations, mainly in terms of gameplay balance and to a lesser extent, storyline plausiblity and spelling/grammar. That will not stop me from playing the new ones coming out anyway, but I will admit to being somewhat dissappointed in most of the cases I have seen so far. I expect at the very least Volition-quality missions when playing a campaign, preferably with a bit more polish.

UBER rigorous beta testing

This is precisely why PI only has 15 missions but is taking so long to complete.

[Stryke 9]

Derelict wasn't bad. It had some novel ideas for gameplay, and a plot better than some. The only thing that bothered me about it was that the missions were either insanely slow and dull or next to impossible. Or both at the same time- the whole "kill 500 Lokis trying to blow up one half-dead freighter" thing got REALLY tiresome. But you know what I liked best about it? It actually got DONE. And it didn't SUCK. Two things which immediately put it in the elite of campaigns.

I think it's high time for some honesty here. Most of us have some skill or another. Few of us know a little of everything. We don't have incompetent modelers heading TCs. Why do we have people who can't write half-decent sci-fi coming up with our plots?

Once again, I think it's time to face facts and just get rid of the really sucky ones. Yeah, sure, everyone wants their name in the head credits of a campaign, but it ain't gonna be much good if people don't at least apprentice at another campaign first. It's like writing your first short story, having never written before, and wanting it to be a bestseller. Or expecting, having never directed or touched a movie camera, to make a blockbuster film. Dream on.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by vadar_1

HLP isn't doing too bad, it seems some of the old projects are just "dying off [...] Third Twilight

actually Third Twilight's actually coming along better than (most) other campaigns!  It just got an internal forum, and progress seems to have jumped from a near standstill to a very fast pace since the release of the "soundtrack".

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Well seeing as how you're all on about the projects now, I feel it appropriate to mention that, as noe of the few tappers still posting, we are getting nowhere! All our staff is disappearing, USS Alex, Thorn, all away somewhere.

[CODEDOG ND]

I'm still figuring out how to texture and almost got the hang of it, so I might be of use soon.  Only thing on POF data i can't do now is docking paths.  Some of the new tutorials have helped .