[karajorma]

So I'm not going to back down from saying it as many times as necessary. Joining multiple projects (or at least more than two) in almost all cases is idiotic.

There are a few exceptions but I tend to agree that you should not join another project unless you're making a significant contribution to the one you're working on AND still have some free time left. The realisation that I couldn't work on so many things at one time is why I've scaled back my involvement with anything except Diaspora (including the SCP sadly). Once Diaspora is out I intend to add some projects back in if I have time.

There are exceptions of course. If you have a speciality that means you aren't often needed you might be able to work on several projects.

[Ypoknons]

Heck, you guys are lucky if you're in your 20s and still have an hour a night left to mod.

[QuantumDelta]

Heck, you guys are lucky if you're in your 20s and still have an hour a night left to mod.

o_O
You make time.

[Spoon]

Heck, you guys are lucky if you're in your 20s and still have an hour a night left to mod.

Meh, imho you are doing something horribly wrong with your life if you can't make time for things you enjoy.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Meh, imho you are doing something horribly wrong with your life if you can't make time for things you enjoy.

I agree with you on that, which is why I'm pretty happy these days.

[RandomTiger2]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-12-retrospective-freespace-2-article

Well done, its good to see this is still going.
Sad my name isnt in the coder credits though

[Mobius]

Why aren't you using the other account, RT? About the article -  advertising is always appreciated. One thing, though:

The brilliance comes in how the game treats objectives. They're not win conditions, and they're basically treated as best-case scenarios. You're going to get screwed over out there, in the nothingness of space, and quite often it's not going to be your fault. Given a convoy of five ships, you'll be lucky to make it to your destination with even half intact. Suffering no losses is going to get you a medal, not just the ability to go on to the next level. It's about acceptable losses. So instead of getting frustrated each time you fail to protect a capital ship because it means you have to start again, the blow of that loss is suddenly felt, purely because you can continue. You let that ship down, and it's not coming back.

We all understand what the author was trying to mean, but things don't tend to be like this all the time. If the Aquitaine is lost in any of the missions it appears, the player is forced to replay them for obvious reasons.

[General Battuta]

Topics merged.

[RandomTiger2]

Why aren't you using the other account, RT?

What 'RandomTiger'?
Its been a very long time since I've been here.
My account seems to be attached to an email address I don't have anymore.

[General Battuta]

You coded the launcher!

[RandomTiger2]

You coded the launcher!

And a host of other things too, though I gather most of them have / are being depreciated like directx etc.
Still I definitely contributed

Does anyone make use of the voice control at all?
My cvs login was deleted before I could commit a bunch of fixes and then I drifted away.
When the voice control works its a pretty nice addition to the game.

[General Battuta]

Voice control was definitely used for a while, but I think it started causing crashes and got disabled sometime around 3.6.12. I'm sure you'd be welcome back if you wanted to touch it up; the SCP has really improved.

[RandomTiger]

Voice control was definitely used for a while, but I think it started causing crashes and got disabled sometime around 3.6.12. I'm sure you'd be welcome back if you wanted to touch it up; the SCP has really improved.

Yey, I remembered by password for my original account.
Feel free to delete RandomTiger2 as a user.

[Mongoose]

I've used voice control once or twice, and I keep meaning to try it again, since it was a lot of fun.  I think I wound up copying most of your original post about how it worked over to the wiki ages ago.