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Mattman
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 07:50
I know theres been talk about community projects using our most famous members, but I think I got it...

How about an RTS, each unit being famous members of our beloved community? I haven't really developed on the idea a whole lot but I think a community project based off of phaelex's RTS tutorial would be sweet. Anyone interested?

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Neofish
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 07:57
I would be if I wasn't so lazy (and busy)

Major Payn
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 08:06
Good idea, but I have a suggestian, there should be a Major Payne unit, that has extra weapons and invincibility.

Guns arn't the problem, people are the problem, shoot all the people and guns arn't a problem anymore.
Peter H
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 08:53
lol and a Peter unit that can use the force (along with cool sci-fi weapons) to blow everybodies buttocks off

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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 08:54
OOo ever played Warrior Kings? the little Pagan monster things can be nubs

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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 09:06
Quote: "there should be a Major Payne unit, that has extra weapons and invincibility."

A perfect example of people being the problem.

Mattman, I like the idea, but I'm sorry I can't help much. My job takes up 80% of my day, and my emulator takes up the rest of it. No time for eating or hygene!

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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 09:52
Hmm, I don't get how it would work. You mean each forum member would be a unit? As in, you could 'build' multiple units of them? Sounds sort of odd. Or do you mean it'd be a RTS with generic units such as 'Newbie' and 'Veteran' but the forum members would be 'Hero' characters like in Warcraft III?


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Coding Fodder
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 09:57
Hey I have been registered over a whole year now and active for the last month. What does that make me? Put me down for a tree chopping, gold digging, mining who knows what ore, peasent.

Something really catchy that makes people stop and think about the meaning of life and say to themselves "My but thats clever"
Mattman
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 12:02
Exeat - Kinda. Obviously we can't have EVERYONE. In fact, we wont be able to have most people. The whole Hero idea I think should be the really big ones (Flinstones, Rich, Me , etc.) and then each group (I dont know how thats gonna work yet) will have different units off of other well known members.

Obviously I'm gonnna need some help with expanding on the storyline so that it works. Wheres a pirate when you need him...

Thanks for the support you guys, if anyone is interested just give me and email or MSN, you dont have to be fully part of the team. A model or idea is greatly appreciated

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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 12:40
But there is a problem. The n00bs are attacking the boundry of the outer Mod City-Moderator Only Forum. New n00bs assualt this paradise, and the mods soon find that the Great god Hero Unit (rich) wont help recreate the world! alas, you find an army of hidden veterans emerging from their long sleep. Soon, the sun will rise. Soon, the War begins.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 13:12
Rich, Lee and Mike, the Triumvirate gods looked down on the world of dark, Darkbasic.com.The sacred idol, Darkbasic was on its pedastal in the forums, that they had created, and it was good.
But not good enough.

Soon the gods created a new divine power, Darkbasic Pro, and placed it on it's pedastal next to it's brother. The new governing darkness, Darkbasic pro, shone darkly, and by this darkness the gods forged a new world, TheGameCreators.Com and transported all from the lands of dark to it. In the holy sanctum, Apollo, they rested.

But this darkness of this new world was to strong. Soon others came from the lands of Blitz, C, and VB. The gods saw theese refugees and took them under their wing.

But then, from the ash scarred lands of Noobia, came forth a new and evil race: the noobs. The people of the new world were overwhelmed by this mass. Soon the noobs started breeding.

And Capital letters infested the land and 'kewl' filled the sky. And the team requests filled with MMPORGS, to lure the darkdwellers into a frustration and corruption

Thus it lays to you, one of the last surviving darkdwellers, to work your way to Raven Studios, in the land of Noobia, and smite the Noobgod Raven, so the remaining darkdweller can drive thh noobs out

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Mx5 kris
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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 13:36 Edited at: 10th Feb 2005 13:37
that is hilarious...but my story:
it is just a enhanced version of yours.

Rich, Lee and Mike, the Dev team gods looked down on the world of dark, Darkbasic.com.The sacred Temple, Darkbasic, was on its pedastal in the forums, that they had created, and it was good.
But not good enough.

Soon the gods created a new divine power, Darkbasic Pro, and placed it on it's pedastal next to it's brother. The new governing darkness, Darkbasic pro, shone darkly, and by this darkness the gods forged a new world, TheGameCreators.Com and transported all from the lands of dark to it. In the holy sanctum, Apollo, they rested. Apollo was the ultimate power. It lead all to worship. All was well, and all men were equall.

But this darkness of this new world was too strong. Soon others came from the lands of Blitz, C, and VB. The gods saw these refugees and took them under their wing to learn. They usually were nice, but some became evil doers, making fusses on the Holy Temple.

But then, from the ash scarred lands of Noobia, which was defeated by the good people of online, came forth a new and evil race: the n00bs. The people of the new world were overwhelmed by this mass. Soon the noobs started breeding. Their language was mostly not under-standable, only the experienced Followers could read it.

And Capital letters infested the land and 'kewl' filled the sky. And the team requests filled with MMORPGS, to lure the darkdwellers into a frustration and corruption. Many left to what seemed like the holy grail of rgt and llrgt, but it was only temporary. Soon when many of the n00bs were banished, and moved to the paradise of rgt.

Thus it lays to you, one of the last surviving darkdwellers, to work your way to AOL, in the land of Noobia, and smite the Noobgod CMC 101, so the remaining darkdweller can drive the noobs out of the last land. Defend this land, or noobia will take control, and Apollo will fall!

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Posted: 10th Feb 2005 21:18
lol, Noobia! Destroy the Darklings of Newbia! Fight through the elite forces of the Bamberites!

Not sure about a game, but we could have quite an interesting community story.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2005 13:26
id be there as a random statue of Osiris, for like a ruin

Wiggett
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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 09:02 Edited at: 12th Feb 2005 09:30
im down, as long as im one of the pirate units
I'll get to work right away if you add me to msn robtronx@hotmail.com
see if we can get this goin further than dark trek. Another thought, you could have the darkbasic group as one team, and have specialist characters that are all the vets of the forums, and have generic newbs aswell, and have the enemies like blitz 3d etc, and they are tryin to take over the resources (which are lil computer stores) and you need to destroy the enemy using each characters special ability. I bags being eth pirate ship guys, but you could have each forum member as a special character that you can only have 1 of at a time, like the stalker in tiberian sun, and the ghost guy, just when they die they can be rebuilt again.

new ideas see code!


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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 10:10
even better!

enemy control center, teh spaces can be built up as the center upgrades. and no i dont think persians are the bad guys.

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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 11:12
Can I be the super villian? I could be the dark lord of the noobs and be the leader of all the dreaded MMORPG makers, using my evil ways to bring chaos to the land of thegamecreators. Feel my wraith! (luaghs an evil luagh)

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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 11:13
I think we should make like races based on people for example pirates. And then have like the newb armada which have fast,cheap,poorly clothed guys that run at the enemy in hordes etc.

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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 15:42
that or I could be a super unit, because id be a god, like a superweapon, hehehe, lighning could come out of my eyes and kill units! , like in AOM: the titans!

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Buildings could randomly disappear due to bugs in the system! And to get the building back, you must first upgrade your civilization to the next stage!

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Wiggett
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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 19:36
Quote: "Can I be the super villian? I could be the dark lord of the noobs and be the leader of all the dreaded MMORPG makers, using my evil ways to bring chaos to the land of thegamecreators. Feel my wraith! (luaghs an evil luagh)"


No, you will get an unglamorous position in the noob scene, you wil nto bring chaos to the game creators, an dwe wil not feel your wraiths, nor your poor spelling and changing words like WRATH to something completely different. im workign on a pirate ship model.

Jess T
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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 20:24 Edited at: 12th Feb 2005 20:24
Hey, you pirate,
Don't forget about my Alien Landing pad! I mean, where else can I land my Voot Cruiser ( that's the name of it ), eh?

indi can ride in on his super-mega-fega-high-definition-digital-whoopty-doo-crazay-plasma TV!

Rich brings with him Atari Power.

RPGamer with his Little Gun-weilding Bunny rabit thing ( I know, it's not a bunny, but it sure does look like one! )

Mouse... Well, that one's obvious

TCA... urm, sorry, STB, just has to be that dancing penguin/bunny!

And MikeS can be a YELLOW Frog!

W00T!

'twould be good if people could supply their own models for units/buildings etc, then just patch them all together in the game. Would look great, me thinks

Oh, and Exeat doesn't deserve super-dooper-cool powers and a horse...



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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 20:39
Rich needs to be the ultimate unit for the veteran community, with the power of banning - Poof! newbies and MMORPG wanna-bees are stuck where they stand until they get eaten by numerous, assorted bugs and birds.

The opposing evil team of MMORPG wanna-bees can hoard and fire their bulls**t rays at the veterans. Me, on the other hand can be my own species, Aussie-lords! And I can fire my kangapults at everyone and dominate the sanctum.

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workers buil dother buildings and lay network cable (each building
must be connected via network cable to the control building.)
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and maybe you could upgrade to wireless networking later

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Can I be this weird dude that says 'GAME OVER' if you're dead?

Can I have a pogo stick?

No, no, even better I can be on the 'change resolution' settings scren, because that's the only thing I know about.

On second thoughts, you'll need to talk to my agent..

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Quote: "and maybe you could upgrade to wireless networking later"

But then realise why that is stupid: ban connections, slower etc

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but you wouldn't have a load of cables in your way

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Neofish
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the cables dont get in ur way unless u suck at networking

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they might do in a game though

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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 00:33 Edited at: 13th Feb 2005 00:33
If this project takes off, here's a my unit.





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wow a yellow frog

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that frog has something stuck in its foot.

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Those are just the scene lights.



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Drew Cameron
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I think it would be cool if the "units" were actually just the avatars of the famous people around here - like that weird brown thing VanB has, Exeats thing, Jeku's Rubix Cube, MikeS frog etc...

Thanks for the comments on the film Mike; appreciated

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Holy sweet, this is picking up. I'm thinking of appointing Ubberwigget lead of ideas and having an IRC meeting to gets ideas together. I have some units and their specail attacks, will post later

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oooo teh chainsaw fish would be a good unit but a prat all the same

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Here's where I'll spawn from, "THE POND". (Screen attached)

I think if we all start throwing some media out there, we can get this game rolling.



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Major Payn
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Quote: "Quote: "there should be a Major Payne unit, that has extra weapons and invincibility."
A perfect example of people being the problem."


I was joking, I doubt I am popular enough on this forum to get even a unit based off me.

Guns arn't the problem, people are the problem, shoot all the people and guns arn't a problem anymore.
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ha ha ha yeah true...

*idea!*
have different races: cats, fish, nubs, mods etc

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Quote: "I'm thinking of appointing Ubberwigget lead of ideas"

yep, im an ideas man.

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I already said different races lol

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Yeah but I'm cooler that you
(didn't read all the posts)

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so...

Mattman
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lol im real busy, ill try to work on it tonight tomorrow ive got a part most of the day and night so well see how it goes.

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Quote: "I think it would be cool if the "units" were actually just the avatars of the famous people around here"


<----- hmmm......

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Okay I plan to get the ball rolling finally. RobX if you have any form of IM'ing I'd like to get in touch with you. For anyone else that is interested please post with your planned contributions (models, textures, coding) and contact information (if you don't feel comfortable posting it you can email me, I won't spread it without your permission) I plan to then have an IRC chat in like a week to get all our ideas together and divvy up jobs.

Hope this works out,
Matt

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Osiris
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Need some ground textures, I got em

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you claudius MC Mattman, here is my msn robtronx@hotmail.com and no im not afraid of posting it, i already have like seven thousand times.

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