Ideas from the original thread, split, for organization Options

[Team Black]

5-21-07 - Team Black - I split these posts off of the original thread, from before the forum was made. I put them here because they're ideas.
It would seem natural to put em in the IDEAS thread, now wouldn't it?

OK here's my first idea: How about in this mod, we make a TS2CNC3 total conversion, as much as possible we can bring the CNC3 stuff into TS.
Unfortunately I don't exactly own CNC3, so I wouldn't know just how much CNC3 stuuf TS might be able to work with, and I wouldn't be able to really head up a mod like this.
Obviously, we won't have helipads holding 4 planes, and we won't be able to do the multiple build ques, but I think there's enough stuff that IS possible to be able to make a decent mod with.

What say you?

This post has been edited by Team Black: May 22 2007, 01:17 AM

[Team Black]

Holy goodness LKO those are frikkin awesome ideas!

Heh, so the scrin could have starcraft-esque mobile buildings, that's totally amazing!

Okay people, "Shouting" (meaning capitals, large fonts etc..) about it won't make it happen any more quickly.

People keep saying the mod isn't organized enough, even though I've already described my plans to go about it-
None of the mod's critics have showed any signs of attention to this, which is frustrating.
By using bold/itallic, I was hoping it would make this more noticable-

Has anyone actually sent a PM to DvD yet?.

yes

Remember that DvD is not on the forums 24/7, he may not have had time to do anything.

True, but the only thing he said is "No, because the plan isn't concrete" - which isn't a sufficient response in my opinion.
Assuming he even read my plan for the TCM forum, he didn't address any of the ideas I mentioned on how to run the TCM forum, what would work and what wouldn't-
This is also frustrating.

You could try contacting him via MSN, it will probably be faster that way

wow, I don't know why I didn't think of that OK he's added now

Python also has control over that sort of thing - if you cannot contact DvD, try him.

Python seemed to me as being less available to reach than DVD - but yeah that's a good idea too.



see, theres' two different topics in this thread, one is trying to plan the forum, and the other is trying to plan the mod itself. the longer we wait to put the forum up, the more disorganized this thread will become.

Organize it into sub-forums, something like:

Voxels: -(locked-sticky) voxel list for the mod
-voxel submissions in individual threads

SHP: --(locked-sticky) shp unit list for the mod
-(locked-sticky) buildings list for the mod
-(locked-sticky) terrain..
-shp submissions in individual threads

Ideas: -(locked-sticky) ideas to be used in the mod
-All ideas discussed here

Applications: -(locked-sticky) list of things the mod needs..
-(locked-sticky) Member list: people affirmed to be in the mod, and their jobs
-applications here in individual threads
Here you can apply to contribute to the mod. etc. etc..


All the things in the "lock-sticky's" will be the things affirmed to be put in the mod, (controlled by whoever is leading the mod). the rest will be in individual threads (with a poll or something perhaps, on whether or not they should be used)

Here's my plan:
Once the forum is up, (I'll moderate), from there we can decide things, probably in this order:
1. Applications thread: Discuss leaders, when a decent team is formed then proceed to

2. Ideas thread: decide on the direction of the mod. Come up with a list of what is needed (this might take a while), then

3. Open Applications: individuals pick something on the list to work on, and apply by showing previous work, with respect to what they are applying for (i.e. show a voxel they've already made if it's a voxel that they'd want to work on) - Community might have a vote on whether or not it should be accepted, although vote or not, the leaders will ultimately decide whether or not to accept the application.

4. Once a job is accepted, it is recorded somewhere, and the one doing the work will post progress, when available, in the respectable thread (voxels in the voxel thread, etc.)

5. When it's agreed on as 'complete', then it will be submitted to the leaders in PM or something.

6. list of completed work will be posted in a sticky (probably locked, too) at the top of each sub-forum.

the current "TCM" thread is ONLY to get feedback on the idea, and to form a plan on how to go about it.
What's happening now is an explosion of ideas, and in order to organize them and get community feedback, I'm going to need a forum.
Not only that, but we haven't even decided on a group of leaders-
People are anticipating the mod and are jumping the gun with all kinds of ideas, which is why I'm requesting a forum before it gets too chaotic, which will defeat the purpose of your hesitation in the first place

This post has been edited by Team Black: May 16 2007, 01:33 PM

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Holy goodness LKO those are frikkin awesome ideas!

Heh, so the scrin could have starcraft-esque mobile buildings, that's totally amazing!

thank you.
I have this vision in my mind: You start as GDI on a big map with a big Base you call your own. A lot of your units spread all over the map.

Then an incoming message: "Radar centre here, we've recently detected a large fleet of unkown ships already entering the atmosphere. They are approaching this sector and seem to land here"

Then you see how Huge Scrin ships enter the map like Drop Pods do. First 2 or 3 medium sized ships, already as big as the Kodiak-shp. Then the huge Mothership and 3 big support ships land. The medium-sized warships start attacking the player units and the Base ships deploy in a fantastic detailed animation.

While the Player tries to rescue as much units as he can, more and more ships appear and really flood the area. In nothing more than a few minutes the whole sector is controlled by Scrin ships, Mechs, Tanks and Troops.

The first mission is over and the player has nothing left than a heavy damaged Kodiak (my one ) that flees from the sector.

The campaign starts.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 16 2007, 03:06 PM