[TopAce]

Even if I haven't posted since I-don't-know-when, I'm still around and keep noticing that while some years ago, campaign release threads were flooded with responses, there are hardly any campaigns that attracted a whole lot of attention. At least not many post feedback here.

Why is that? Are you guys getting bored of FS, too?

[TrashMan]

I?m not.. I usualyl post my comments on the campaing once I played it..

but I have noticed the trend of lesser-advertised campaignes getting far less love and attention...

[Game_Master64]

it's because there getting more complex, and they take longer. people lose intrest when campaigns take several years in dev

[TrashMan]

How so? There are planety of shorter (and even campaigns of good duration) areound that got only a handfull of replies and downloads.

and seriously, I don't see what most people see in Derilict. It's good, but it's no better then many other campaigns I've seen around here.

[Snail]

Derelict is known as the best because it came out early (?) in FreeSpace 2 modding, and people liked it. People still like it.

[Game_Master64]

some campaigns are nothing special, they don't do anything new, you almost always end up fighting the HoL, then the shivans show up and things go from there, it's getting to repeative. To be original, they need mods, which legenthens dev time, making people lose intrest. it's a never ending spiral into oblivion.

[Snail]

Apparently, there WILL be collapsing nodes in Inferno, but not to end the campaign.

[Game_Master64]

there was a campaign i played a while back, i dont remember which one, that had a really long mission where you had to collapse 2 or 3 nodes that were something like 20k apart, fighting off shivans the whole way, so you couldn't use time compression. it was hard, but fun as hell, i got over 100 kills on that mission.

[Snail]

Really? Where'd you get it?

(though it would be impossible for the nodes to be 20k apart as that would exit the game area)

[Game_Master64]

i was guessing on the distance, as well as the other points, i havent played it in a while. i believe it was in ...um, i think it was second front, not sure though. i'll attach it for ya, but dont blame me if i was wrong.

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[Rand al Thor]

Don't have freespace installed at the minute, and it's been a while since I played it. I'm procrastinating a bit because I'm waiting for the new Media VPs.

[Dark Hunter]

I would like more campaigns that went deeper into Shivan space and added new backgrounds in Shivan space or more that have the player go beyond Knossos 3.

Your wish shall be granted when Dreamcatcher is released! 

[Dark Hunter]

I plan to at some point. I wrote a very detailed tech room description of it for Dreamcatcher. I'd like to get Dreamcatcher done first though...

[karajorma]

(though it would be impossible for the nodes to be 20k apart as that would exit the game area)

Even in retail FS2 the play area was bigger than that.

[Mustang19]

FS1 wouldn't let you go more than 70,000m from the center of the game area, but the AI could go as far out as it wanted. AFAIK FS2 doesn't have that stupid restriction.

[Snail]

(though it would be impossible for the nodes to be 20k apart as that would exit the game area)

Even in retail FS2 the play area was bigger than that.

I thought the game area was 40k?

[TrashMan]

Nah, it as 60 klicks.

[Snail]

Oh, ok.

BTW, have any of you flown to the SJD Saths in the last missions of FS2 or the Earth model in the penultimate mission if INFR1?

[Deepstar]

BTW, have any of you flown to the SJD Saths in the last missions of FS2

Yes, i did it a long time ago. But only with time compression. After a few klicks you get a message from command that you shouldn't leave the mission area. A few klicks later you see the SJD Sath containers.



I'm still interested in new campaigns, of course. But when i see the Release Thread i don't have the time to play then. For example i have downloaded "Shivans" a few months ago... but haven't found the time to play it, yet

[jr2]

FS1 wouldn't let you go more than 70,000m from the center of the game area, but the AI could go as far out as it wanted. AFAIK FS2 doesn't have that stupid restriction.

...Not true, in the mission in FS2 where you see the 80 Saths around the sun, after everyone left, I set the time compression to 64x (or whatever the highest FS2 will go), maxed the engines, and afterburned for quite a while, (I wanted to see the Saths up close, maybe take one out, who knows ) then Command told me not to leave the combat area, I'd get court-martialed, blah, blah... I kept going and it force-warped me out.