Originally posted by Blitzerland
I didn't mean for my post to be taken this way. All I meant was Ransom's extreme talent shouldn't be spent copying a campaign over to SCP. This is just my humble opinion, and you don't have to listen to me, at all, if you don't want to. Come to think of it, it really is his choice, I suppose.
Although you put it rather tactlessly I actually agree with you in part. If you're going to make an SCP campaign you should try to design it from ground up as one because that will enable you to use persistant variables to interconnect the storyline and you can design missions with features in mind that aren't available in retail.
If you've made a mission for retail then by all means you can upgrade it to SCP by adding nameplates, nicer backgrounds etc but I do see very little in that which needs a FREDder of RA's caliber to it. There's not much point in touching the mission logic if you're upgrading the campaign to SCP (unless you decide to attach some bells and whistles you couldn't do in retail).
However it sounds like RA is actually FREDding retail missions for the campaign not just simply converting them in which case he isn't wasting his time. There is no one better placed to convert a mission than the FREDder who wrote it originally.
(I know that Cobra can't run FS2_Open so I can't really blame him for not making a campaign he can't play himself though
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Blitz : If you're often having your comments taken the wrong way then it's a sign that you need to learn some tact. If a comment can easily be misinterpreted you need to take a few extra seconds to explain in a little more detail what you actually mean.
Notice how I've basically said what you were trying to say above but (hopefully
) no one should take it as me bashing Cobra's campaign because I took the time to explain what I meant.
Anyway lets end the discussion on Blitz comment here. I don't want to have to close this thread because of the fallout from one tactless comment.
