[foolfromhell]

People will strill ask how to add ships to fred no doubt....

Oh ****.

I remember when I did that!

[Blue Lion]

Back to topic?

[ShadowGorrath]

I dunno why, but I think that HLP community will become nearly non-existant in 5-10 years. But FS2 SCP will look awesome, have a lot of great mods released, and etc. But that the community went their own ways, because of new space-sims or something ( holographic PCs for example ).

[Vretsu]

Videogames are silly. Back on topic.

Tomdonia is now filling cabinet positions, if anyone is interested.

The following position(s) are now seeking qualified applicants:

• Chief Overseer of Government Pork Management
• Chief Overseer of the Chief Overseer of Government Pork Management
• Chief Overseer of the Chief Overseer of the Chief Overseer of Government Pork Management

• Guy that holds the drink tray
• Assistant Vice Chief Overseer of Government Pork Management

[Droid803]

I call "Guy that holds the drink tray"!

[Jeff Vader]

I call "Guy that drinks". (surely this wasn't the topic?)

[Snail]

I'm Vice President!!!!

[ShadowGorrath]

It's too good to call this even the opposite of the topic. 

[Vretsu]

I call "Guy that drinks". (surely this wasn't the topic?)

An unspoken prerequisite for any government work (har har).

In all seriousness, a bit of diversity is needed here, folks. We've got 316,121 'guys that hold drink trays' and only 3 cabinet ministers. It is damaging to national prestige.

[Titan]

can i be vice war advisor to the president? or maybe a commander? i've spent more time studying world war II and such than i have sleeping and eating combined.

[Jeff Vader]

I just got this huge deja vu. I think I should get some sleep...

[Flipside]

Not being funny, but I certainly hope, for the sake of the coders, that this is all tied up and a finished project by then, at least as far as the SCP is concerned.

As for the site, it will probably still exist, but I see the format changing after the release of the final SCP engine, with FS2 taking a back-seat role and the Engine itself taking the main role, quite possibly as a generic development tool for space-based games.

FS2 will fade, I suspect, before the SCP does, since the engine itself can be put to a host of uses, not just Freespace campaigns.

[Vretsu]

I think that's likely.

BtRL, TBP, and WC are the harbingers of change.

[Titan]

frankly, i don't ever want SCP to stop getting updated. with out the engine updates, this all would wither and die. Besides, i like you guys. You treat me a lot better than people in RL.

[Vretsu]

You treat me a lot better than people in RL.

Get out more and learn to properly interact with your own species, you thundering bore.

I'll wait here. After you prove that it can be done, I'll follow.

[Jeff Vader]

Besides, i like you guys. You treat me a lot better than people in RL.

Quiet, you.

It would be wonderful if the game engine continued to exist in various forms, even if FS2 dies away. But who knows what will happen. Only time will tell, hmm.

[Titan]

Besides, i like you guys. You treat me a lot better than people in RL.

Quiet, you.

*snip*

no, it's just people don't like me because of my A.D.D... and my friends, unlike me, actually have OTHER friends, and are in boyscouts and stuff...

[Vretsu]

Whenever I try to sleep, I worry about all the other things in the world in different timezones and whatnot that are not sleeping. This profound lack of order keeps me up all night. The lack of sleep makes me crazy, which makes me paranoid, which makes me unable to sleep.

But I like this place, because it is more or less constant. If a project actually released something, I'd leave.

[Droid803]

It kinda feels like this place is locked in Stasis or Limbo...its gonna drop out sooner or later though... though later would be preferable to sooner.

[admiral_wolf]

The Future's not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves

If we are to take this teaching by J. Connor literally, then we are the driving force behind FreeSpace and the HLP.  I personally think that as long as there are people dedicated to this game as they have been in the last 10 years or so, then the game will forever flourish.  New campaigns will be added, new craft designed, and in 2335, I get blown to smithereens...