[willy_principal]

Year Balance (AKA, what happened this year, good and bad things?)

What things happened this year in the FS Community...
What major Campaigns and Mods appeared...
There are more fans than before, or less???
tell me, i'm relatively new in this forum...(and in the FS Community)
Even more, we could discuss which were the best Campaign/MOD made in this year....or we could elect them by category:
Best Story-telling (mine? Sync...)
Best Plot (mine? Sync, again...)
Most Challenging missions
others (you tell me)

[Taristin]

2004... year of the n00b.

[Night Hammer]

no November/December were when these morons showed up

[ShadowWolf_IH]

The Summer of Derek spawned a whole lot of work in HLP.  Not sure why really.  I think that most people were just angry and decided to make freespace 2 the best game....period.   The entire community got together and alothough we couldn't actually agree on what to do, we all agreed on one thing.  The whole community agreeing on something i think is unheard of.  All in all i can say that it was a good year for MT.   got accomplished.   i plan to have a few more things accomplished in there by year's end.

[Singh]

Well, quite a few things actually.

The beggining of the year was quite,  not much going on

Then there was 3.5, 3.6. We got a hell of a lot of new hi-poly models (especially bob's herc) and a lot of other stuff. Campaign release wise, nothing much came through the year, except towards the end starting with Homesick, and the recent flurry of campaigns we can see.

[story mode]
But in the middle of year, a great evil loomed over HLP. An evil that revolted almost everyone in the forum, something which reviled not only FS fans, but those of the rival WC forums. That evil's name shall not be said, for saying it shall only summon it. but the evil disappeared as the forces of HLP came together to fight it, along with re-enforcements from elsewhere. The evil was vanquished before it could breach the walls of Interplay and steal the holy grail of the copyright. The community  came off better after this, with release after release after release. Reders were now challenged by screenshots, and this was taken a notch higher when the great shiney-mage Lightspeed releaseth his many shine and glow maps.

Ah, much rejoicing is there in the lands of HLP. With 3.6.5 on it's way, much rejoicing shall follow.

[/story mode]

[willy_principal]

Well...yes i have been trolling around a little...
But Cobra and Pecenickity(Whatever) wins me in the Troll contest...

i promise i will change...

[Night Hammer]

nah yall are all equally moronic n00bs, i find percenpik the most annoying though

[Kosh]

We were all moronic n00bs at one point. Just some are more moronic than others.

[WMCoolmon]

Something really, really good happened today...y'all will find out when 3.6.5 is released.

[willy_principal]

it's already released...or not???
i downloaded the latest FRED_OPEN and is UBERCOOL...
all 3D rendering problems are gone...
it even has a Voice Acting Manager!!!

still can't figure out what's the gravity-affected thingy...i see no changes...
and what about the primitive-sensors thingy...not tested it yet, but.....what are those supposed to be?

[willy_principal]

Originally posted by Singh
Well, quite a few things actually.

The beggining of the year was quite,  not much going on

Then there was 3.5, 3.6. We got a hell of a lot of new hi-poly models (especially bob's herc) and a lot of other stuff. Campaign release wise, nothing much came through the year, except towards the end starting with Homesick, and the recent flurry of campaigns we can see.

[story mode]
But in the middle of year, a great evil loomed over HLP. An evil that revolted almost everyone in the forum, something which reviled not only FS fans, but those of the rival WC forums. That evil's name shall not be said, for saying it shall only summon it. but the evil disappeared as the forces of HLP came together to fight it, along with re-enforcements from elsewhere. The evil was vanquished before it could breach the walls of Interplay and steal the holy grail of the copyright. The community  came off better after this, with release after release after release. Reders were now challenged by screenshots, and this was taken a notch higher when the great shiney-mage Lightspeed releaseth his many shine and glow maps.

Ah, much rejoicing is there in the lands of HLP. With 3.6.5 on it's way, much rejoicing shall follow.

[/story mode]

This is the kind of reply i expected...and wanted to receive...

[pecenipicek]

why thank you all for talking behind my back
and for the probably not the last time im not a n00b...
moronic maybe sometimes but not a n00b

[WMCoolmon]

You only become a non-n00b when everyone forgets you're a n00b.

[story-mode]And so that year of 2004, Steak returned. And there was much rejoicing. Long had the people awaited their savior, crying out in loud voices for salvation from their times of peril and hardship. Long they endured the cold grasp of death moving ever more closer. And so upon the return they quickly prepared their hot ovens and their butcher knives, and that year they had themselves a feast.

The great Setekh also returned that year. But that is another story...[/story-mode]

[pecenipicek]

we want more stories grandpa

[Unknown Target]

Pec, you're a n00b, and an asshole dumbass one at that. If it was up to me, you would've been banned long ago.

Pros of this year:
High Poly models
3.5 + 3.6
Updated effects
Inferno

Cons:
DS
Dumbass n00bs


So all an iall it was a pretty good year

[wolfdog]

The Death of PXO and The Rise of Fs2net.......

[karajorma]

Surprised someone didn't mention that one before.

[Gloriano]

Pros
-BWO is just around corner
-Whole MT staff worked hard and we did get lot things done.
-good amount FS campaings was released (STL is one of those
-SCP have done amazing work to old FS engine.

Cons:

-Derek smart (gotta admit i did good laugh.
 -some stupid trolls and n00bs [November/December

[Deepstar]

Pro
- SCP
- Many good Campaigns
- Amazing Screenshots/Artworks
- Many Mods were nearly complete and other Mods are now in Development

Cons:
- Derek Smart


It was a good Year for the Freespace Community.

[castor]

Originally posted by wolfdog
The Death of PXO and The Rise of Fs2net.......

Hmm.. what an interesting, intermingled combination of good & bad