[fastcasters]

OK - I'll start with an admission:

I spend most gaming time playing hard core racing sims, both on-line and offline (started with GPL/Grand Prix Championship and now nkpro on line league)) and never really got into the space sims but Freespace 2 was THE exception. I loved the game and payed it avidly but then lent it to a mate and kinda forgot about it - then like somebody else mentioned here, started thinking about it a week or so ago and started to look for the game.  E-launder had a few copies but then I came across HLP - awesome job guys

Took me a while to figure it all out and there was much cursing into the early hours while trying and failing to get it all running. But then after properly reading the FAQs/WIKI, these boards and much trial and error it all started to work (thats half the fun of this type of thing - I mean its just plain dull loading up a CD/DVD and running the game after 5 mins)

As I said I spend a lot of time on racing sims and their various mods, the majority of which are high quality - the quality of the FS2/FS1mods and associated installer is easily equal to that. The good lady of the house is now quite distressed to think that there is another PC sim that will absorb me that comes with shedloads of quality MODS.

Keep it up guys - great work

[Centrixo]

I have just retired from online racing 1 week ago, i am also 3 time world champion on 2 different leagues. (under different alias) i have raced many online racing games.

Yeah.. the lure of freespace is hard to resist! . How i found myself on hl scp forums is through another space game called freelancer.

[Excalibur]

I want to know when I can beam someone.

[neoterran]

if you have to ask when, you fail

[jr2]

I want to know when I can beam someone.

As soon as you make your own Welcome speech?

Took me a while to figure it all out and there was much cursing into the early hours while trying and failing to get it all running. But then after properly reading the FAQs/WIKI, these boards and much trial and error it all started to work (thats half the fun of this type of thing - I mean its just plain dull loading up a CD/DVD and running the game after 5 mins)

As I said I spend a lot of time on racing sims and their various mods, the majority of which are high quality - the quality of the FS2/FS1mods and associated installer is easily equal to that. The good lady of the house is now quite distressed to think that there is another PC sim that will absorb me that comes with shedloads of quality MODS.

Keep it up guys - great work

See?  This is why we need a New User Guide linky: (Click to see the poll:)

[Killfrenzy]

Oh come on, welcome him properly:

All batteries........ target fastcasters. Open fire!



Welcome to the HLP Station. Exits are located to the right, left, up, down, and 4th-dimensionally. However all of them are blocked, except the 4-d one, and no one's yet figured how to reach it. In the event of a landing of any kind, you can and will be used as a flotation device. Do not feed the resident Shivan Carl (or me for that matter...) as he will become voracious and chew your leg off. You can find him in the ventilation duct. Throw him your lunch and he'll leave you alone (usually). Flamethrowers can be found under your seat but due to financial constraints have been re-filled with holy water. Plasma rifles can be found in storage lockers. To prevent act of n00b, however, these can only be opened by Moderators, Volition, GOD or a hyperintelligent shade of BluE. Please remember that any attempt to use the ASCII characters 0046h, 0053h, and 0033h in sequential order will result in you being trampled by FreeSpace fan boys. If you go in the Vasudan section of the station and find a box labelled “Headz”, please don’t open it. Thank you and enjoy your stay!


As you were, gentlemen.

[Mobius]

<do you know that only the kill goes to the first member that welcomes a newbie?>

Welcome to the HLPBB, fastcasters. I joined the community exactly one year ago!

[Snail]

I will have been on HLP next Monday!

MY grand-entrance was the happy little 'Inferno SCP Storyline Gripes' thread. THE ONLY ONE WITH THE GARGANT SCREENSHOTS!!! So

[fastcasters]

hehe 

Thanks guys

[achtung]

Yeah, they can go a little overboard with the welcome thing.

[Black Wolf]

<do you know that only the kill goes to the first member that welcomes a newbie?>

Oh God. See that sentence right there? That's encapsulates exactly what pisses me off about the welcome speech these days. FFS, it was funny five or six years ago, when you knew what all the jokes meant. But you don't, and you never did, and now you're keeping count. Just stop. Seriously. Nobody cares. It's nice for the newbies maybe, but it's not a competition. ****ing hell.

Anyway, new guy. We're not normally ranty *****es like I've just been. We solve problems and mod a little and... stuff. We're... nice.

[karajorma]

I've already said I'm banning anyone who starts keeping count over on Game Warden.

[Col. Fishguts]

I wholeheartedly agree with BW. The weclome speech/ritual has become a horribly mutilated shadow of its former self.

[Colonol Dekker]

Oh poop, a welcome that i missed, Kudos for the good taste in SCS by the way.

[jr2]

See, here I thought the welcome beam / speech was just, you know, to, umm... welcome people 

[Wobble73]

It's the beam/speech thing that makes this community so welcoming, sure there are in-jokes in the speech, but if you are here long enough, you get to learn these in-jokes. It also evolves over time as another newb takes up the mantle to welcome other newer newbs and more community in jokes are added. the gods, Carl and hyper intelligent shade of blue are all part of the tradition, the newer the newb, the younger the community in joke is!

[Unknown Target]

Do any of you who use the Welcome speech actually know any of the references behind it? Like Carl, for instance?

[Snail]

Carl once said he owned some Shivan-related domain or something...


Meh... No.

[Turey]

Do any of you who use the Welcome speech actually know any of the references behind it? Like Carl, for instance?

Yes. I've actually talked to the real Carl.

I don't use the welcome beam anymore. I post enough already.

[Killfrenzy]

I know all about Carl.

However, I was the one that once set up the Official Shivan Fan Club.

Go figure.