Generating Interest in the Imperial Navy

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 4:57 pm

True. But, we can see. And, since the platform is free, it wouldn't be hard to acquire it. It's worth looking into. I'll join the forums over there and ask later today.

Vort: Any update on that letter?

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:45 pm

Not to double post again, but:

What about the First Strike mod for BF2142? I saw Antilles mention it on IRC and took a look at the website. Could be promising. See this screenshot:

http://www.fsmod.com/ssotw/13.jpg

Hazledine · Post by **Hazledine** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:17 pm

Looks pretty good. Is it a total conversion? or do you need BF2142 first?

Post by **Vortagh** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:47 pm

All nice and dandy, however BF2142 is a *first person shooter*. Not a simulator. I am sure there will be some sort of space combat, but for THAT kind of implementation, I am also sure that Battlefront 2, with it's space fights, would be equally good. :P

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:08 pm

Vort: I'm aware of that. However, there does seem to be a significant space combat element. I understand what you're saying, trust me, and I'm going to test it out later this week (tonight perhaps), but I still think it's worth looking into. If there's enough of a piloting aspect such that it could be a useful platform for the Navy, wouldn't it be worth using for the Navy? We need to investigate that unless there really is a good reason to think there won't be.

Hazledine · Post by **Hazledine** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:15 pm

On that note, there's also this for Jedi Academy which looks like it's got a space combat element. I will see if i've got time to download and try it but it might be worth a look at.

http://kotf.com/main.htm

Post by **Jagged Fel** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:29 pm

Gah, webpage music with an off button that sort of blends in. Webpage design fail :P

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:25 pm

EF Hazledine wrote:On that note, there's also this for Jedi Academy which looks like it's got a space combat element. I will see if i've got time to download and try it but it might be worth a look at.

http://kotf.com/main.htm

Problem is, we want to find a platform that's still popularly in use. :P

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:45 pm

Any updates from anyone on any of this? Vort? Antillies?

Post by **Vortagh** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:21 am

Nothing from me so far.

Xayun Erinos · Post by **Xayun Erinos** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:02 am

BF2142 is already unstable enough without mods :P

Post by **LGN_Antillies** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:47 pm

La Forge: Nope, not yet.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:28 pm

Meh. It really does figure that the only two decent mods we could find are either A) not finished or B) not working. The gaming gods hate the Navy, apparently. :P Oh well, keep us in the loop if you get it going, Colonel.

Anyone else have any other ideas, thoughts, opinions, or the like?

Araujo · Post by **Araujo** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:26 pm

Vortagh wrote:Well. Here's the problem as I see it.

LaForge, you already mentioned the main problem about generating interest in the Navy Squadrons: There's no new simulation games for SW coming out in the near future. In a different thread, I have recently talked about this whole dillemma. Not only are there no new games on the horizon, but also people are no longer willing to really put effort into these games. Games nowadays are mostly flashy with nearly no story and a bad engine to run on. Oh, of course there are exceptions, but those are rare to begin with and then either the engine is good or the game is good, but nearly never both. People want instant gratification, not refly a mission 20 times (Wing Commander and TIE Fighter - weee! :P).

Yes. I've already said something like this on another thread.

Vortagh wrote: Let's face it, we live in the age of consoles and of first person shooters and THAT'S what the industry focus' is aimed at. The gems almost always come from small companys (which will be bought up as soon as they produce something awesome and then the name will be milked for EAs new game series :P) - and last time I checked, all the SW stuff was owned by one big company.

I'd dare to say the big companies worked on what was easier for them; eyecandy is easier to do than hitting the jackpot of both a good engine and a good story. They then did everything to stuff this right into our minds and sold nothing but prefab games lol like the 3000 quake engine-based games (JK series were ok to me) ...geez get 5-6 games but lol I saw a ton of those.

We need to consider that for a good sim you need additional software , namely joystick, wheel, etc aaand people doesnt want to waste the extra money for it.

Last but not least, it is easier to insert a game cartigade or a cd or whatever into a console rather than dealing with an install process. It is better to just enjoy the game instead of suffering lag or low performance if your OS is overloaded with extra software or anything. Possible two reasons as to why now people prefers consoles over PC.

Personally I enjoy having my laptop, did whatever I could (more RAM and HD) to make it a somehow decent gaming laptop. I'm pretty happy with what I have, I wouldn't want a wii or a x box 360 if it wasnt because everybody else on my neighborhood just does those consoles...you know, after all, we all want to play with other humans at some point.