[haloboy100]

Is it hard-coded that the player must be in Alpha, Beta, or Gamma wing? It seems whenever I put the player in a wing that isn't one of those, the ship doesn't appear in the loadout screen.
I like the Freespace naming convention and all. But I'm getting a little tired of it and want something new.

[General Battuta]

You can set those names to anything you like as long as you make the same change to the other wing fields in Mission Specs.

[General Battuta]

If you'd played Wings of Dawn you'd know this!

[haloboy100]

AH. Another act of obvlivion on my part. Sorry. 

Nope. Never played Wings of Dawn.

[General Battuta]

Everybody picking up FRED should be required to play BP2, Wings of Dawn, Vassago's Dirge and The Antagonist just to get a sense of how powerful the editor can be these days.

[haloboy100]

Funny. I've never played any of them.
Didn't even hear of the last two.

[Droid803]

Well get to it

[haloboy100]

Nah. I'd rather make my own stuff.

[wistler]

Then you're sadly depriving yourself of a wealth of inspiration.

[General Battuta]

God knows if everybody on this website played by haloboy's rules literally nobody would play any campaigns except ones they'd made.

We can look forward to mocking 20 minute missions without checkpoints though

e: I should probably add Dimensional Eclipse to that list!

e2: and JAD 2.22 holy ****

[Angelus]

cough*Diaspora*cough

[Spoon]

We have such a long list of cool things to play that Battuta can't even remember them all!
And haloboy is choosing by his own will to miss out on all of this! What madness am I being witness of here?! What could possible drive a person to do this?

[haloboy100]

Then you're sadly depriving yourself of a wealth of inspiration.

I have all the inspiration I need. Got two novels in the pipe and if life conditions allows I'll have a campaign started. It doesn't have to come from sources made by Freespace fans.

And haloboy is choosing by his own will to miss out on all of this! What madness am I being witness of here?! What could possible drive a person to do this?

Lack of interest and certain alienation in things made by other fans of something I like. I despise indulging in fanfiction. I instead plan to create it.

[General Battuta]

Huh, cool. What publishers picked up your novels?

e: or do you mean 'in the pipe' in a different sense?

[haloboy100]

As I understand, "in the pipe" means "being worked on".

About 30,000 or so words across 9 or so chapters for the first one. So it's not really started. But one day it will happen. I'm being patient. But persistant.
The point is, I know what I'm doing.

[Spoon]

Well good luck with that then. You just managed to alienate me from ever showing interest in whatever it is you are going to create though 

[General Battuta]

Yeah, I despise indulging in fanfiction so I won't be playing or reading anything you make.

If you want any advice on getting published as a real author though feel free to PM me! Peace

[haloboy100]

Fine by me. That's how I feel about the majority of work on HLP. But I still appreciate it, and I still love you guys.

In the end, I don't care if anybody likes my work or even sees it. I just care that I complete it. Then I will have my sole purpose in life fulfilled.

[Droid803]

So, let me get this straight, you're a hypocritical narcissistic being who indulges in the paradox of despising (and ignoring) what others create while you attempt to create something similar. It's like going into research and refusing to read researchers papers published by any other researcher, because you have "plenty of understanding" of the world, so you don't need to look at what others have done.

Yeah, good luck getting anywhere with that attitude. You'll need it.

[Black Wolf]

Enough with the dogpiling guys, leave him alone.