[Marcov]

Okay, I'm doing just this just out of curiosity, so I've got a few questions to ask the community;

1)In all of Hard Light Productions forums, which is the largest thread ever produced (most replies)?

2)Who's the member who has the most number of posts in HLP?

3)Most experienced FreeSpace community member you know?

4)Oldest community member?

5)Community member with the longest-lasting membership?

6)Most contributive community member ever (in your opinon)? What has he/she done?  (you don't have to be too specific).

7)Most skilled FreeSpace pilot ever, in the community? Name some feats that said pilot did, if you know of any.

8)Most skilled FreeSpace pilot ever to live? Name some feats that said pilot did, if you know of any.

9)Best FREDder to grace the Earth (In your opinion)? Why do you say so?

10)Most decent FreeSpace user-made campaign to exist (in your opinion)? Why?

11)Oldest FreeSpace modpack produced?

12)Worst Freespace campaign to be released (in your opinion)? Why?

13)Grandest Freespace modpack produced (in terms of #of ships, #of missions in the campaign, #of new addons, #of team members, and other quantities that define its size)? If you can, give in the details of why it's so friggin' HUGE.

14)Freespace user-made campaign with the most missions?

15)Biggest ever Freespace mission to be released (in terms of #of ships, #of mission objectives, #of wingmen, #of messages, other quantities that define said mission's size)? Try to give quantitative details.


Thanks.
 

Note: Many of the above questions are based on your opinion, so there's no definite answer to some of them.

[Luis Dias]

Correction, most of those questions have definitive rigorous answers, and I don't think many people have the time to work those things out for you.

[Nuclear1]

Okay, I'm doing just this just out of curiosity, so I've got a few questions to ask the community;

1)In all of Hard Light Productions forums, which is the largest thread ever produced (most replies)?

That's probably WHIYL.  795 pages and over 15,000 replies.  But it's a combination of several threads too. 

The old OT-Religion thread grew pretty quickly too.

2)Who's the member who has the most number of posts in HLP?

No idea...

3)Most experienced FreeSpace community member you know?

Depends on the experience...

4)Oldest community member?

Kalfireth and Setekh are the founders, and I think Kalfireth still drops by every now and then.

5)Community member with the longest-lasting membership?

People come and go.  I can't really think of anyone that's been here without hiatus since the beginning.

6)Most contributive community member ever (in your opinon)? What has he/she done?  (you don't have to be too specific).

That's a tough question.  People contribute in different ways.  Productive FREDers aren't the same as productive coders or texturers. 

9)Best FREDder to grace the Earth (In your opinion)? Why do you say so?

Every FREDer has different styles.  I think Ransom's the best when it comes to spooky campaigns, the BP team is the best when it comes to innovative FREDing, Blaise Russel was great for productivity....it's impossible to name one.

10)Most decent FreeSpace user-made campaign to exist (in your opinion)? Why?

Can't pick one.

14)Freespace user-made campaign with the most missions?

Revenge:  Final Conflict.  Over 90 missions IIRC.

15)Biggest ever Freespace mission to be released (in terms of #of ships, #of mission objectives, #of wingmen, #of messages, other quantities that define said mission's size)? Try to give quantitative details.

I tend to avoid BoE missions like the plague.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=stats

[Grizzly]

^ What he said. Except for this:

10)Most decent FreeSpace user-made campaign to exist (in your opinion)? Why?

That would probably vary between ST:R and Derelict. They are just... solid.

edit: mistaken in name.

[Marcov]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=stats

That pretty much answered many of my questions.
Thanks.

[Grizzly]

So why are you so curious?

[Nuke]

these are questions that should neither be asked nor answered

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Fury didn't want to reply, so I thought I'd do it for him.

[Flipside]

I think I might be the oldest active member, as far as age goes, but I'm pretty certain there are a couple older than me, just not sure if they are active still.

[Kosh]

12)Worst Freespace campaign to be released (in your opinion)? Why?

Second Great War. Why? Because it was such a b movie in every way: bad dialogue, poorly done BOE missions, incoherent storyline, multiple missions that crashed the game (I think someone fixed it eventually). If only we had an MST3k for FS2 campaigns.........

[Mongoose]

I dunno what you were playing, but SGWP2 was fairly bug-free.

[Kosh]

Because someone fixed it. It was one of the first mods I played after I discovered FS2 way back in 2003. Back then half the missions were so buggy they would CTD.

[Mars]

Male to Female Ratio:51.2:1

lol

[Polpolion]

Okay, I'm doing just this just out of curiosity, so I've got a few questions to ask the community;
5)Community member with the longest-lasting membership?
AFAIK many admins and global mods have been here since the beginnign
6)Most contributive community member ever (in your opinon)? What has he/she done?  (you don't have to be too specific).
Anyone that works for the SCP or FSU. Don't really care more specific than that.
10)Most decent FreeSpace user-made campaign to exist (in your opinion)? Why?
VD is probably my favorite
11)Oldest FreeSpace modpack produced?
Inferno is pretty old if you mean more than just a standard campagin by modpack
12)Worst Freespace campaign to be released (in your opinion)? Why?
Campaign? I'm not even going to give my opinion. Mission? I actually made an HLP mission that had a bunch of the members flying around in it and it was pretty awful, but it's probably gone forever.
13)Grandest Freespace modpack produced (in terms of #of ships, #of missions in the campaign, #of new addons, #of team members, and other quantities that define its size)? If you can, give in the details of why it's so friggin' HUGE.
There are plenty of total conversions lying around, hell I even had one planned. It was only ~ 27 mission so it probably wouldn't've even been the longest if it had been released, but oh well. If I had to pick one, TBP is pretty big last time I checked.
14)Freespace user-made campaign with the most missions?
RFC was nearly 90 missions IIRC.
15)Biggest ever Freespace mission to be released (in terms of #of ships, #of mission objectives, #of wingmen, #of messages, other quantities that define said mission's size)? Try to give quantitative details.
biggest as in BOE, I'm sure everyone has made a BOE just for funsies while learning FRED, it's no big deal. There are a few "good" ones in RFC, IIRC

Thanks.
 

Note: Many of the above questions are based on your opinion, so there's no definite answer to some of them.

I just took out the ones I didn't know.

[Rodo]

I'll replay to your "personal opinion" questions, since I know no facts about nº of posts, threads and all that stuff.

3)Most experienced FreeSpace community member you know?

mm...probably karajorma, goober or sandwich.

6)Most contribute community member ever (in your opinion)? What has he/she done?  (you don't have to be too specific).

hard one, I guess there are tons of members that contributed a lot while being in the underground, the hole community is quite collaborative.

9)Best FREDder to grace the Earth (In your opinion)? Why do you say so?

Goob, I'm still shocked... after opening one of the missions in the last special release of JAD dammit I meant DEM, he had all those frikking sexps in alphabetic order from top to bottom in the event list.

10)Most decent FreeSpace user-made campaign to exist (in your opinion)? Why?

decent?, well there is...BP, ST:R, Transcend, WoD and Vasago's Dirge.
BP: nice atmosphere, story immersion and excellent extra content on background stories and the likes.
ST:R: nice freding and old favourite redone = win.
Transcend: I honestly think this one shows for real what can be done with some knowledge in fredding.
WoD: With all things anime fans love and those excellent "give the pilot something to do != than blowing things up" missions.
Vasago's Dirge: as with BP, excellent atmosphere, story immersion AND extra stuff that makes you want to play it again, and again... and again.

12)Worst Freespace campaign to be released (in your opinion)? Why?

Well there are lots of bad campaigns, I'm surely forgeting someone one, so I'll just go with the first one that pops up (and the one I've most recently played), UW.

Thanks.

You are welcome.

[Snail]

12)Worst Freespace campaign to be released (in your opinion)? Why?

Second Great War. Why? Because it was such a b movie in every way: bad dialogue, poorly done BOE missions, incoherent storyline, multiple missions that crashed the game (I think someone fixed it eventually). If only we had an MST3k for FS2 campaigns.........

NO NO NO SGWP2 was awesome.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Zane thinks Relentless is worse.

[Herra Tohtori]

15)Biggest ever Freespace mission to be released (in terms of #of ships, #of mission objectives, #of wingmen, #of messages, other quantities that define said mission's size)? Try to give quantitative details.

Massive Battle from BP might fit the bill at least for the most performance intensive scenario in FS2_Open engine.

But it's a benchmark, rather than an actual mission.

[Marcov]

I'm not particularly fond of snails, which is why I may not like SGWP2, either.

SGWP2 is awful in some missions, such as taking out a crapton of turrets on 3 Juggernauts, but otherwise it's pretty exciting to take out dozens of fighters in a single mission.

SGWP2 is a bad campaign, but not that bad...I'd probably give it 6/10.