I have a favour to ask other TS players Options

[RainXc]

Hello, I'm Rain.
I have a favour to ask you guys .


I currently run a page on facebook about "Westwood Studios" together with some of the ex-Westwood employees

(Alright that's the Westwood Studios page right here):

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/We...29073921?ref=ts


We've reached our 1000 member marker which is a small milestone for the page.
For the occasion we're organizing a major update blog for the members of the page concerning all the Westwood Studios games
(Nox series,Lands of Lore, the Dune games, the C&C series,ect.)

For the last year I've been on an exchange student program with a bad laptop and slow internet.
So I haven't been on Tiberian Sun for quite some time now or any other C&C game for that matter.

All I need to know is a brief summarization of how C&C TS- FS is doing these days online
Perhaps you could help me with TD too ?
(the same will be done with the other C&C games. )

I would like to interview all of you and ask your opinions, but time is running out and there is a deadline.

so please post your opinions about Tiberian Sun/ FS in a reply here.
Be as honest as possible: The good , the bad and the ugly.

Perhaps it would be also interesting to know what communities are still active and what mods are in the spotlight nowadays.

Thanks,
Rain

[Rampastring]

All I need to know is a brief summarization of how C&C TS- FS is doing these days online

As far as I know there's always some 30-100 players online, but most of them play modified, non-westwood maps, which have no terrain detailing and the maps' layout consists of small rocks.

I don't know about TD.

so please post your opinions about Tiberian Sun/ FS in a reply here.
Be as honest as possible: The good , the bad and the ugly.

I first played TS in 1999-2000, but I was about 5 years old then and didn't really understand the game. However, in 2006 I bought EA's The First Decade with playing RA2 as the main intent. However, at the same time I decided to try TS again, and since then I've been loving it and nowadays it has.. "overrided" RA2 and newer C&C's from my list of favorite RTS's.

After playing the campaigns I started modding the game, making the AI better, making maps and searching for active communities.

In my opinion normal TS had many flaws in it; some useless units, a build queue limit of 5, foolish AI (it attacks with 4 light infantries..) and a few other things, however they were easy to fix by modding the game. The only problem I have with TS nowadays are Reconnection Errors, random errors which de-sync the game in multiplayer.

Perhaps it would be also interesting to know what communities are still active and what mods are in the spotlight nowadays.

Communities.. the most active ones are TiberiumWeb (this forum) and Project Perfect Mod (www.ppmsite.com). PPM is much larger, however both sites have much content and are active.

About mods, there are multiple, I'll name a few:
-The Dawn of the Tiberium Age, a Tiberian Sun to Tiberian Dawn TC. You'll find more information about it in the "About/History" topic in the forum.
-Tiberian Odyssey. I don't know much about it since I haven't been really interested.
-Twisted Insurrection. It's probably the most active TS mod at the moment.. and although I've been visiting it's forum about twice in a week I don't remember it's intent

Also, there are not only the large community mods, but I think the most of us modders have a personal mod making TS closer to what we wanted it to be. There are also lots of public assets for modders to use in mods, like the maps in my signature, new graphics and other things.

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Jun 21 2009, 04:19 PM