[ZeroCooL]

i am here Recently..
I love the game
With this forum i Practice some english ( Is good to mee!! ooh yea )
I Love Sci-fi
I Love Freespace (my first game was with 10 years old, in Ancient FS1 ^^

[IronBeer]

1. Freespace is still the best space Flight/ Shoot-em-up I've ever run across.
2. Modding. Even without the SCP, I'd probably still be playing FS.

On the other hand...

I have no ****ing idea, every hour I put into this place could be moving my career forward instead

...modding and forum shenanigans won't help me with my Bachelor's or with getting into med school. 

[Colonol Dekker]

i am here Recently..
I love the game
With this forum i Practice some english ( Is good to mee!! ooh yea )
I Love Sci-fi
I Love Freespace (my first game was with 10 years old, in Ancient FS1 ^^

The first game i played, at ten years old, was FS1?

Here to help improve your English if you want? Non-hostile intent stated beforehand

[Zacam]

Community. This is perhaps the biggest reason for me. I've been through the modding and playing scene for a wide variety of games. NWN, Morrowind/Oblivion, KotOR, NFS, Total Annihilation, Freelancer.

None of them quite have the same feel to them in terms of community. Either from a coding sense (as none of them actually have source for anything) or a community modding project sense (everybody has their own isolated modding "Teams" always trying to one-up or argue with each other) or a wide and vast array of independent "fluff" mods of no substance.

Because of the community and the projects and goals, I've been involved at Hard-Light significantly longer than any other site/group/project, and probably more so than any of them combined. It's been only 5 years already, and I quite look forward to another 5, 10 or even 15...however long it keeps going.

[Snail]

I dunno why but that made me feel all warm and fuzzy

HLP rawks

[LoneKnight]

It's an odd obsession. Don't know why...

[Fury]

I guess I stay around out of habit and not having found any better places to waste time in. Sometimes this community is awesome, but too often for my liking my head and desk are on a crash course. I don't play FS at all anymore unless it's to test modifications. Only exceptions in recent history were AoA, WiH R1, FSPort and ST:R. Never finished any of the recent(-ish) campaigns no matter how good they were. Even time spent on modding has dropped significantly over time and I don't currently even have FS installed anywhere. WiH R1 probably shall remain my last major involvement in FS modding.

If it wasn't for FSO, I'm quite certain FS community would have died off. But since you can now create TC's like Diaspora, TBP, FotG, WCS and SF, I doubt the community is going to die off anytime soon. Especially if those TC's other than TBP ever gets released. If anything, they should bring FSO out to wider audience and draw in more coders, modders and of course average joes.

Meanwhile FSO is going to a natural direction of evolution where creating mods utilizing full capabilities of FSO is going to require more and more skills. We have gone from simple table editing to crapload of tbl features, shaders, scripting and whathaveyou. With material system and other new features in the horizon, regular modders become even more alienated from top of the cream, widening quality gap of mods. It's sad but I'm guessing it is inevitable evolution of FSO as part of modernizing the engine. In any case, cheers to people willing to add such features and another to people willing learn new skills in modding. Me though, I just don't have the kind of enthusiasm for it like I used to. I owe it to Darius for making AoA so interesting to play that I wanted to get involved once more in modding. But these sparks only last so long.

[Droid803]

because i'm awesome

[Spoon]

I'm here for modding. I wish I could say I was also here for the playing but there hasn't been a quality release for a while now. And I'm already involved in beta testing most quality campaigns that are in the pipeline!

If it wasn't for FSO, I'm quite certain FS community would have died off. But since you can now create TC's like Diaspora, TBP, FotG, WCS, SF and WoD I doubt the community is going to die off anytime soon. Especially if those TC's other than TBP and WoD ever gets released. If anything, they should bring FSO out to wider audience and draw in more coders, modders and of course average joes.

Fixed.
Come on Fury, are you doing that on purpose?

[Jeff Vader]

I hate everyone.

[Dragon]

I'm here for mods and TCs, when I first played, FS2 seemed medicore to me (though FS1 was great, but also not the best one I played). Wing Commander had character interactions and a character driven story, which FS2 was missing. XWA had a lot more missions, more craft and while story focused less on characters, they were present. Compared to them, FS2 seemed generic with it's generic head anis used all over the place and only a few real characters (Bosh being the most memorable, I wasn't good enough to play throught the 2nd SOC loop then). Voice acting was rather bad, this being Polish version of FS and the story ended in a big "to be continued". I've seen better games.
But then, I looked for mods for FS2, and found Inferno. After playing thought it, I decided to take a look at modding myself, and with help of Kara's FS FAQ, I've started messing with Inferno tables. Then I looked for more mods, and found HLP. Now I'm: contributing to a lot of projects, being officially a member of 11 (ones I have HLP badges from, plus ASW, End War and ToTA on Sectorgame), following SCP developement and testing new features they add, and playing various mods and campaigns on Insane difficulty. 

[Mongoose]

I wandered in here one day lost and confused and no one ever showed me the way out.  Someone send food!

[Fury]

Fixed.
Come on Fury, are you doing that on purpose?

Well aren't you touchy. So I forgot about WoD in one post where I just so happened to list some TC's, sue me.

[Anjelus]

Voice acting was rather bad, this being Polish version of FS...

That's too bad. The English version uses some very great actors and has amazing voice acting. I can always close my ears and hear Robert Loggia as Admiral Petrarch in my head. What a pro.

[Dragon]

Indeed, when I played english version, I found what I've been missing. Polish VA was bad, translation was even worse. Neither actors nor translators really played the game, nor even knew what was happening.

[Kolgena]

Combination of community and nostalgia when playing the game.

Back when I was a wee kid, I got to lieutenant commander on the OEM Act 1 only version (ends after feint parry riposte) exclusively on Very Easy. Yeah.

[Angelus]

Wasn't aware that, when one TC is mentioned, all TCs have to be mentioned.

[General Battuta]

Wasn't aware that, when one TC is mentioned, all TCs have to be mentioned.

When we've only got two TCs and one of them is underexposed I think it's a fair point to make.

[NGTM-1R]

When we've only got two TCs and one of them is underexposed I think it's a fair point to make.

Technically we've got three, but nobody loves Inferno anymore.

[Angelus]

Shadows of Lylat doesn't get enough love too.