[TopAce]

Which is the most boring part of designing a misison?

[Goober5000]

Background, definitely.  I've never done my own background for a mission I've released - it's just too cumbersome.  Copy and paste.

Bug fixing is annoying, but not boring.

[Knight Templar]

I still consider myself pretty new to fredding, so I have trouble with some stuff still, and trouble = boring to me. So it depends on how well i'm doing, but I must say making Message Sexps and Breifings and Debreifings I find are the most boring.

[diamondgeezer]

Writing millions of trivial but still neccessary messages are annoying (I refuse to use the built-in ones), but it's the testing and bug-fixing that does my head in. Playing the same ****ing mission over and over, to test a feature that's at the very end... aaarg

[Woolie Wool]

Events and directives. *snore*

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Writing millions of trivial but still neccessary messages are annoying (I refuse to use the built-in ones), but it's the testing and bug-fixing that does my head in. Playing the same ****ing mission over and over, to test a feature that's at the very end... aaarg

Testing it is the fun part, unless DirectX blows up and forces you to restart your computer.

[Assassin]

Testing and bugfixing.. with everything else there is a much greater creative element... how can I tweak the background to suit the ambience of the mission? How can I set the mood with briefings and in-game messages? What nifty things can I do with events?

Bugfixing, however, normally involves playing through the mission again and again, normally for a problem at the end.

[diamondgeezer]

Woolie, you seem to have the whole lot backwards. Testing the same mission over and over is mind-numbing, where as directives and events are where you do the clever, creative stuff.

Unless you're winding me up. Which I doubt.

[Woolie Wool]

Maybe because my soon-to-be released mission, the only decent one I've ever made so far (probably because it's the only one I've really put a lot of effort into--it took 20 days to make), is fun for me to play even after the 1000000th time. Either that or I've got a warped sense of fun (maybe I do since I'm such a big fan of the game Blood). Or both.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

OK, who vote-bumped it?

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Woolie, you seem to have the whole lot backwards. Testing the same mission over and over is mind-numbing, where as directives and events are where you do the clever, creative stuff.

Unless you're winding me up. Which I doubt.

The clever, creative stuff is a ***** to make with all those damned sexps (my mission is a relatively simple furball and it must have 15-20 events)

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
OK, who vote-bumped it?

Why would ask such a question about a thread that's only a few hours old at most?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
OK, who vote-bumped it?

No one. It just looks exactly the same as the previous topic

[Petrarch of the VBB]

That'll be it, then, I thought from the date that it was from the 2nd of Feb, but I'd forgotten that Americans like their dates backwards.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
The clever, creative stuff is a ***** to make with all those damned sexps (my mission is a relatively simple furball and it must have 15-20 events)

Oh, I see. You're not an ambitious FREDder, then. My mistake. I, er, look forward to playing your mission.

[TopAce]

Sometimes I find something interesting while FREDing, this is always changing day by day, sometimes, I am in the Background editor all day , sometimes, I would want to edit the background ... I press SHIFT, but has no force and mood to press I, too.

I hate doing complicated SEXPs, especially in the debriefing, testing it is even more nervous killer when it is not working than playing bearbaiting on Insane, when at the start I send all my wingmen home. (Who doesn't want to go home, I shoot 'im down, that's another topic)

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Oh, I see. You're not an ambitious FREDder, then. My mistake. I, er, look forward to playing your mission.

I still put in lots of events because I need them to make a good mission. I don't understand what exactly you mean by "ambitious". I do put in events, I just don't particulary enjoy it, because it is slow and tedious work. And don't make judgements on my mission before you play it.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
That'll be it, then, I thought from the date that it was from the 2nd of Feb, but I'd forgotten that Americans like their dates backwards.

I think it is you who have your dates backwards. Then again, we're talking about the same country who pronounces the E in "coupe" with a horrible-sounding French acute accent (It's 'coop', not 'coo-pay').

[Solatar]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


I think it is you who have your dates backwards. Then again, we're talking about the same country who pronounces the E in "coupe" with a horrible-sounding French acute accent (It's 'coop', not 'coo-pay').

Watch it, you're gonna get flamed...even by an American such as myself.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


I think it is you who have your dates backwards. Then again, we're talking about the same country who pronounces the E in "coupe" with a horrible-sounding French acute accent (It's 'coop', not 'coo-pay').

shut the fuck up already. Everyone knows australia is the backward country, so stop being an idiot.