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Thank you! I happen to see you online on Steam recently and noted your avatar hadn't changed. It reminded me of MSFC and is one of many reasons I'm back!Welcome back!
OH man... I just read all that. I am very glad you are doing better. How has the recovery been? I can't imagine going through all of that. Are you out of the woods by now or are there lingering concerns?Not a lot ... I Just all most died
http://www.msfc.com.au/community/index.php?threads/have-a-seat-we-need-to-talk.6485/
So how have you been Adm Z ?
Yeah, my avatar doesn't change much. When it does it's just an updated version of the tiger emblem thing. I actually did make a new emblem, but it's without the tiger so it didn't come with an avatar update.Thank you! I happen to see you online on Steam recently and noted your avatar hadn't changed. It reminded me of MSFC and is one of many reasons I'm back!
Great to hear you're doing well for yourself! I'm still working on the 'house' and 'wife' parts. Currently at 'renting' and 'single.'As for me, I have been doing very well, though very busy for the past few years. I fully intended to keep in touch through and post college, but life has a way of getting ahead of our intentions... Despite the current global turmoil, the last few years have actually been the best of my life. I managed to swing a very well paying job post college, though nothing related to game design or any of my passions. I also managed to swing house, and then shortly after, a wife! The wife being the most recent of my unlocked achievements, happening right before (and ultimately accelerated by) the pandemic.
We haven't gotten any more people, unfortunately. I would assume the GOG version is moddable, though. Typically, GOG will modify the EXE and leave everything else alone as much as possible. Sometimes there will be a new DLL and/or config file, but every other game I've gotten off of GOG worked just fine with old mods, even when it required extensive modification to get running on modern systems.Speaking of which, I ALSO saw A2 is now on GOG... is it still modable? Has the community been revived to any degree? If not, how do we make it happen!
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OH man... I just read all that. I am very glad you are doing better. How has the recovery been? I can't imagine going through all of that. Are you out of the woods by now or are there lingering concerns?
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Great to hear you're doing well for yourself! I'm still working on the 'house' and 'wife' parts. Currently at 'renting' and 'single.'
Day by day
I still have to go to the hospital three time a week rehab and testing. But I cherish each and every day.
Z I'm happy to hear that your life is shaping out for the best.
Great to hear you're doing well for yourself! I'm still working on the 'house' and 'wife' parts. Currently at 'renting' and 'single.'
We haven't gotten any more people, unfortunately. I would assume the GOG version is moddable, though. Typically, GOG will modify the EXE and leave everything else alone as much as possible. Sometimes there will be a new DLL and/or config file, but every other game I've gotten off of GOG worked just fine with old mods, even when it required extensive modification to get running on modern systems.
Glad to see you're back and doing so well. Bit of a blast from the past haha.
Haha you and me both though tbh after being married before I'm not so much after a wife more just a partner to have kids with and grow old with, without the paper attached and government involved.
I've been starting to think my person was hit by a bus lol or hiding really well.
Thanks Maj! That all sounds like a bit of news to me too, but I have been away so long its hard to remember. Either way, I hope you find your partner as mine found me. In my case, she practically pried me out from under a rock.
Thanks, and you too! I was just looking through the old uploads and some old threads. Did I ever send in my Star Wars Fleet Ops beta after the servers were refreshed? I couldn't find the file but I definitely still have the installer in my dropbox, where it has been for nearly 10 years haha. Would anyone even care if I uploaded it? I'm not sure what the modding community is like these days.Hey Z, long time no see! Good to see you stop by.
I'd care. I've been thinking of starting up the Halo mod again, but I'd want to do it in the v4 beta launcher thing and I think I lost my copy.Thanks, and you too! I was just looking through the old uploads and some old threads. Did I ever send in my Star Wars Fleet Ops beta after the servers were refreshed? I couldn't find the file but I definitely still have the installer in my dropbox, where it has been for nearly 10 years haha. Would anyone even care if I uploaded it? I'm not sure what the modding community is like these days.
What is the v4 beta launcher thing? I see people having made all sorts of rehashes of improvement mods to FO and rebuilding classic A2 in FO... is it one of those?I'd care. I've been thinking of starting up the Halo mod again, but I'd want to do it in the v4 beta launcher thing and I think I lost my copy.
Before the FO team decided to create an entirely new engine for the game, they made some improvements to their code injection based launcher. It features some more hard coded things swapped to soft code, more complex XML tech trees, new weapon classes, and a few other things. I missed the Star Wars bit and thought that was what you meant.What is the v4 beta launcher thing? I see people having made all sorts of rehashes of improvement mods to FO and rebuilding classic A2 in FO... is it one of those?
I remember them talking about that... is it part of the current release? I just downloaded FO yesterday, but I'm definitely interested that. I remember them saying they would boolean functions to the techtrees and I was very excited about that.Before the FO team decided to create an entirely new engine for the game, they made some improvements to their code injection based launcher. It features some more hard coded things swapped to soft code, more complex XML tech trees, new weapon classes, and a few other things. I missed the Star Wars bit and thought that was what you meant.
Welcome back Z!!! Soo good to see another legend return to the fold!
No, it was never added to FO proper. The variant launcher was released on its own without any of the ODF modifications needed to get the game playable. The XML tech trees are fully featured and awesome, though.I remember them talking about that... is it part of the current release? I just downloaded FO yesterday, but I'm definitely interested that. I remember them saying they would boolean functions to the techtrees and I was very excited about that
Interesting. Where would I find this... variant? * insert either Loki or COVID meme *No, it was never added to FO proper. The variant launcher was released on its own without any of the ODF modifications needed to get the game playable. The XML tech trees are fully featured and awesome, though.
Actually looks like the FO site has an active thread about it with download links. It is currently the second thread on the home page.Interesting. Where would I find this... variant? * insert either Loki or COVID meme *
I, for one, would care. I checked our Resources section and I don't think it's there.Thanks, and you too! I was just looking through the old uploads and some old threads. Did I ever send in my Star Wars Fleet Ops beta after the servers were refreshed? I couldn't find the file but I definitely still have the installer in my dropbox, where it has been for nearly 10 years haha. Would anyone even care if I uploaded it? I'm not sure what the modding community is like these days.
How do we feel about music being in mods? I think my auto installed has music in it. Since MSFC is a private community, I never really cared, but I can see about removing it if it matters.I, for one, would care. I checked our Resources section and I don't think it's there.
Hello:
You said you see familiar names, your name is familir to me and the rest of us too. Welcome back Adm_Z!
How do we feel about music being in mods? I think my auto installed has music in it. Since MSFC is a private community, I never really cared, but I can see about removing it if it matters.
Good to see you my friend! I found your old BSG models on an old harddrive a while back. I never got around to using them in my BSG mod that died, but I always have this urge to make a BSG mod.
The biggest problem I have always had with total conversions mods is making an actual game more than just a simulation. Like, I managed to get the battlestar and fighter combat to make sense, but I had a heck of a time making it into an actual game. Everything feels too derivative of A2, where you try to replace dylithium with tylium in a way that just feels inauthentic, or completely pointless, where ships and resources are just based on time or something. idk. I'd be interested to see if any mods really became their own games (maybe Sigma?) or if they all just kept to the basic A2 mechanics. Its a little easier to translate those ideas to Star Wars, but BSG is especially difficult.
Music is fine in mods.
I know Chile had a HD loss a few years back and lost nearly all his models. I wonder if those models are some he lost.
Reason I play Sins of a Solar Empire now a much better game and the mods feel a lot more authentic
Otherwise I never got into Sins... but it was becoming popular even back then. Do people still play it? Are there any other games that are new-ish and have active modding communities?
Thats really neat! I might have to check it out. I was interested in Homeworld there for a minute too.Oh yes and mods are still being made for them. It's more active than A2 to be sure. Some cool Trek and Star Wars mods for them. I am considering modding it myself. Though right now I am just making models and releasing them when I have enough for a pack.