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SM is more dead than HP, which is more dead than here.

Neechi is somewhere in the middle.

VA, IK, and ND are relatively busy, but they having nothing to do with tach.

I hope you're going to be live tomorrow Fox... you got a leaky fuel pump on your ship?

Well what I suggested a while back (and we're talking October for the tournament here)....
Was the GSC client.

GSC takes care of IM, voice, has ways of displaying who's in a room on a web site, and integrates with some games.
It's got bare basic support now (had to bug the developers, but I got it) for FreeSpace 2, so by association... for FringeSpace.

So I figured that was the all around best way to go, at the time.
The problem being... that there's basically no one ever on, so even though we have all this functionality, it goes to waste.

Most people I see, are by regular IM. I've got pidgin, which is a multi IM free client.
So I'm jacked into YIM, AOL, MSN, Gmail, IRC, ICQ, etc... all the time. That's how I usually try to look for people if a game gets going.
Regular games now are Saturday and Sunday 8 to 10 PM EST. Over and Nova are usually on early afternoon on Sundays.

Xfire and Teamspeak I tried, and found to have worse audio quality and were a pain to setup compared to GSC.
Figuring they have several servers all over the world and I can change the location at my choice, I can help offset lag for some players.
It helped quite a bit in the tourney between me an RK, as I believe it was among the reasons why we beat Eurofighter's group in arena.

Well Tachyon is now on Steam for the cost of 8.99 USD

Seems there's still people out there that like the thing.

Well just get on some IM if you've got it, or state a time and we'll try to meet.
I still think pidgin is about it best if you don't want something bloated.

I just get bored fighting only 1 other player really unless it's like Ghostrider, RK, Euro, Raven, or Megaman.
Each of them is above my level so it's good competition and makes me work for it.
Playing with newer guys, while I don't have negative feelings toward em, isn't nearly as challenging.
Get a couple vets in, and things get a bit more interesting.


I'm pretty much stopping for the day - I technically set my hands on fire a few minutes ago.
Was hooking up extention cords and got electrocuted and it burst into flames in my hands at chest level.
Got some flash blisters and a 'cuted thumb, but I'll live. The cords will have to be thrown out,
completely charred and melted the heads down.

Could have been worse considering I was standing in front of a pile of ceiling insulation fluff,
and had open gas cans past that. So thank God I'm not in ER right now.

untill there is either a sequel (never happen)

I'm hurt....

Yeah I understand the mentality... same thing goes for HP and SM and Neechi.
My point was that, if you enjoy the game and the company you're not really wasting your time.

Actually I like these kind of questions. It tends to produce thinking and I can reveal things here and there by being vague. ^_^

"Official NL, Bonified, Tachyon Sequel".

Ain't going to happen. Buy the rights from NL and we could do something and I'd have a fair guess that
3-4 of the old devs would help out. It's still their baby... just one the "other" parent has custody of and they
don't get to see except on holidays.

I didn't think that FS was a sequel - is it?

Yes and no. On one hand we are not an official sequel. Furthermore doing something in the veins of a SP campaign is something that has been
under debate since FS began. Eventually I saw things RK's way, with some reservations. RK's way says that doing a campaign is a (insert infinite space term here)
amount of work, most of what we need for basic SP we need for MP, people play multi more so than SP (ie get more use out of - long term), and if you
do a direct sequel - then "someone" is always going to pop up to complain about it not being accurate some way.

My stance is that we need a SP for several reasons, but I concede on the amount of work, the MP/SP, and people play multi more.
There'll always be folks that complain, so whoop te doo. To counteract the multi usage issue, you can do a SP campaign entirely in co-op mode.

As to the work, there's no way around that. What we're hoping for is a resurgence in players, who want to try their hand at freding (map making)
or modding, and we will have the hands to perhaps try SP.

NOW... all that being said.... how much have RK and I talked about campain ideas? A lot.. like enough to fill a monthly magazine for a 3 month special
feature series. We've layed out about 3 or 4 different plots on a universal scale, some at last reiteration, got morphed together. They are all in the future,
not outside the lifetimes of the existing cast. We've thought up some drastic stuff which would change how the tach universe works on a large scale.
yadda yadda yadda...

In the test mission we put together for the alphas (yeah I know), megaman wanted a script. I scribbled one up from nothing in about an hour.
Main character in that was Alex Rory, only son of Redship... so you can figure on some dark and not too pretty history there. We're talking more
along the lines of his mother trying to escape with him as a child while Redship was in jail, fending for themselves in the slums on a backwater world.
Might have been some abuse in there... So ol' "Alexis" is more likely to want to break his old man's jaw then bear hug him at first sight. On the other hand,
perhaps he doesn't have the whole story. There's more to it than that, but I don't want to spill a lot of beans for a temp character.

Suffice to say when I do characters, I make them with a history in mind as to "why" are they the way they are.
I like to build things around them as well as plot devices... such as copilots & "meatbags."

But that's a temp character, entirely of my design. We might keep him, we might not. RK wanted to get the old fanfic writers to write
the plot for SP actually... so we'll see how it pans out.

I mean I kind of got the impression that you all wanted to take the game towards the simmilar ends of Mystica & Deckor (please excuse spelling if wrong). - by making an area of space for each clan, adding more functionallity, and eliminating the age old patch/problems issues so on and so forth.

I talked to Deckor around the time of the tourney, siad he might give me all his files from Revolution and Mystica... then he vanished on me.
Space for each clan is sort of the idea, although technically most of the clans had made up areas of space they controlled. We did have in mind
to use them as locals and in the lore. So you'd have a chance to visit place X perhaps. As to actually making it some kind of MMO esque war, the only
thing close to that is the old PXO Squadwar which was part of FS2. All I've got on it are descriptions from some manuals. The coders behind the FS2 open source
group, are looking at finally putting it back in in the next major overhaul. Evidently when the code went open, due to licensing between different publishers it was ripped
out. I've tried to ask about mod support... but I get snubbed so we'll have to see once it's reborn. As to functionality - yes... patch problems aren't an issue any more.

like being able to opperate a base turret,

There's a coder that hacked something together to do that in FS2, so it could potentially be applied in theory.
It is largely hackish and incompletely though.

adding custom decals/paint to ships- that identify its pilot,

Already available in FS2 SCP.

being able to pilot a capital ship,

If you said that at a FS2 forum, you'd get verbally stoned and then hit with a cap beam.
It's talked about by noobs on an every other week basis, for as long as we've been around.
Again there's hackish things for turret control (and that's stretching it there), there's another guy who basically
got it 98% of the way done, and requested some new features so he could complete it... he was basically told to wait
until they were good n ready, or he could figure out how to code himself. That's how that status is.

If you want to simply have the body of a cap, and piddle around, sure that's easy. The problem is playing bridge
commander, or gunny, or whatever. Believe me me and RK went round in round for about 6 -8 hours yakking about
whether or not a high ranking officer should be able to hop in a fighter and use some kind of stripped strategic display
to organize the battefield... based on a complicated ranking system. It came about from Tach discussion, but it's totally
not possible in the FS2 engine... basically we designed a whole different strategy/space sim/ star wars battlefront esque system in
the course of a day.

How we want to handle caps is similar to what is done in a certain popular FPS that came about in the last year or so.
Makes much better use of them than trying to fly one. Will you never fly a cap? I can't say that. Maybe it'll be a derilict drifting
carcass through enemy territory.. I dunno.

adding extra ships that are not hacked versions of the original ships that could maintain the ballance of gameplay,

That's already basically what we are done now.... just with stock vehicles. So it depends on the modder and his tweaking.
There are some ships mention in Tachyon that didn't get seen or made, as well as ones RK knows about that got cut.
I've got at least one fighter and a cap in mind that'd fit nicely (completely new), and I know RK want's to flesh out the demon pirate's fleet.

the credit bank that allows pilots to earn credits and spend them on weapons, ships, base upgrades, mines, and ect

.

There be a problem of sorts being that there's no system at all for buying or selling anything in FS2.
Obviously this means the death of ship cards, although a long long way down the road those might be emulated by modding subsystems.
Weapons swapping around like in BW isn't a problem though now. the only thing I can think is that since your stats are already kept, such as
kills... you might be able to some how set it up via a website. Trade in kill points for something, which somehow you redeem and the server
allows you a one time thingy.

On the positive side of things, won't have to tell the noobs "back out and go get boosters, lats, the reserve cards..." etc etc etc...
Can't express how tired I am of repeating myself.

Last question: Is there going to be stick support for FS?

Surely you jest. People been using sticks with FS2 since 99. If you want to ge really funky, there's head motion
tracking support so you can look around the cockpit in FS2 mods as you look around in real life. That's been working
for about a year now. I doubt we're going to use cockpit tubs unless we go back and add em later... but it's there.
One guy if I remember, wired it up so the view switched to the missile when fired... and he steered it with his head.
Didn't work all that great.. but hey... bored coders leads to some strage... stuff.