[Krackers87]

anyone heard of or play TA? I think we should get a TA to FS thing goin. And i know most of the stuff in TA are walkers, but why not add a little gundam to it? And some stuff (pelican in its amphibious mode or the ships) would make good looking Capships/Fighters (albeit strange ones.) Plus theres all the stuff that people modded into that game which we could mod into this one. We also could always change the look of some units and call them MKII's.

What do you think?

[TopAce]

I have played with it. I liked it, but somehow I couldn't play with that more than a month.

[Stryke 9]

Yeah, I know of it. Great game. No, they're not gonna let you add it.

[Thor]

Isn't even older than FS1?  Or at the least the same age.  If we want to start supporting yet another game, how about something a little newer.  And besides, as good as TA was, Starcraft was more fun IMHO.

[Stryke 9]

I think if you're gonna be talking up Starcraft as a great strategy game, you need to take the "H" out of that last abbreviation. It was to gaming what Basket Weaving 101 is to education- and that's saying a lot, since most games are pretty intellectually lightweight as it is.

[CP5670]

I somehow never liked Starcraft much, but thought that TA was simply amazing for its time (and still is to some extent).

[Knight Templar]

I have it, haven't played it in ages though. Sandwich is also a big fan and still plays IIRC.

But if you are going to bring up some big, monstrousterous modding project, why not put FS into TA via a TC?

fear my abbreviations...

[Thor]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I think if you're gonna be talking up Starcraft as a great strategy game...

No I'm not.  I like it better than TA though.

It was to gaming what Basket Weaving 101 is to education- and that's saying a lot, since most games are pretty intellectually lightweight as it is. [/B]

Agreed

[Falcon X]

There are rumors the TA2 is being developed.

[TopAce]

I really don't want to get anybody's mood away from the Total Annihilation -- FS2 Convention, just keep that in mind that how old the Star Wars convention is, for example, or the 158th, and where they are standing now. As I know SW has most of the most popular ships done, and FREDing, voicing, testing etc. are still not an option.

Anybody from SWC? Am I right or you are standing better than I think?

[Sandwich]

KT: Correction - I would still be playing it if I had my darn discs!

Anyway, TA had zero story-line, so methinks that the most anyone could reasonably do is to take some of the unit models and plug them into Freespace. Since TA uses Rhino (which, incidentally, is how I got started on Rhino), you can use the Rhino -> FS2 tutorial (link in siggy) to help you out.

Anyway, the most I see coming out of this is a unit pack, really. It's nigh on impossible to take a planet-based unit set and project the designs into space ships.

[Dr.Zer0]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

I had the same idea with Drako about making a TA to FS mod!!... but no one mentioned it since

and oddly enough Iv just learned how to mod units, I just reacently took the quake units and gave them realer names and weapons

but I would help on what I can for a FreeSpace mod if some1 just models and crap for me, and I'll be willing to do the sounds and UFO packing too

[Krackers87]

Originally posted by Sandwich

Anyway, TA had zero story-line, [/B]

There was a story, you just had to dig a little deep, and who says we cantmake one up?

Originally posted by Sandwich

It's nigh on impossible to take a planet-based unit set and project the designs into space ships. [/B]

Oh yeah? Watch me.


TA was one hell of a game and it is older than FS1 but its community is still larger than FS2 and SC. I hated the SC campaign ( to much base building) TA has of base builkding but somehow its more fun.

Also TA was cutting edge and still is. Only game with realistic fighter physics, Shooting physics (like the way tanks could futily try to shoot airborne targets even though they were meanbt to shoot ground ones, Futile but they COULD) and terrain physics.

i know some games have done the fighter and terrain but none have come close to its amazing shooting physics.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Sandwich
KT: Correction - I would still be playing it if I had my darn discs!

Anyway, TA had zero story-line, so methinks that the most anyone could reasonably do is to take some of the unit models and plug them into Freespace. Since TA uses Rhino (which, incidentally, is how I got started on Rhino), you can use the Rhino -> FS2 tutorial (link in siggy) to help you out.

Anyway, the most I see coming out of this is a unit pack, really. It's nigh on impossible to take a planet-based unit set and project the designs into space ships.

Or just convert the airplanes... some of them were actually pretty cool

[Dr.Zer0]

bah, lets look at some of the classics that had no story line... DooM is a great example, only story to me was just killing a bunch of demons and zombies, and pac man for another example, hell screw the stroy line on that, lets od on power pills :devil:

so really, who cares about story, all the classics dont have one :yes:

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
....I had the same idea with Drako about making a TA to FS mod!!... but no one mentioned it since

And I had the same with Imperium Galactica 2. That's really a space game. But it would be difficult to model the ships, because there are so many of them.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I think if you're gonna be talking up Starcraft as a great strategy game, you need to take the "H" out of that last abbreviation. It was to gaming what Basket Weaving 101 is to education- and that's saying a lot, since most games are pretty intellectually lightweight as it is.

good old stryke, always rambling on the same things
should call you strykegeezer

[Stryke 9]

Funny how you never have anything worth saying to say, just garbage about other people you make up on the spot. It's depressing to think that your posts make up a huge percentage of the board, while the content makes up nearly none.

[Windrunner]

Originally posted by Venom


good old stryke, always rambling on the same things
should call you strykegeezer

allright stop this nonsense at once. i don't want see these kind of things around here. if want to throw pies at eachother do it somewhere else.

[Makil Heru]

Total Annihilation is one of the best strategy games I have ever played.  The bets thing to do is stick to the air units because if we follow a gundam idea it will run into some problems.  If some of the crafts could be redesigned then you could have a sporting chance into making a campain on this sort of thing.  Best of luck;)