Thrax: Where's the masses?

YEAH!!! You are right! Wait..............er..... .

I'm almost afraid to post an opinion here, as I know it'll get ripped from here till doomsday. But I've been playing the Tribes series since 1998, run a successful team that has been around just as long, provide servers in both T2 and T:V and I enjoy each and every one of the games. However, there is something wrong when I can log into T:V on a Sunday afternoon and find only 277 players online.

The point some of you seem to miss is that it is really hard to maintain a community with dwindling numbers. T2 is hanging on by a thread and T:V is a wasteland with empty servers everywhere. It is the community, more than the games, that I've enjoyed the most. And now I'm seeing it dwindle to very small numbers. And even though I enjoy T:V, I blame it for the loss of players. It does not measure up to the standards of the previous releases. And though it is fun, I highly doubt it is going to hold my interest for the same period of time that T1 and T2 did.

My hope is that someone will eventually build a game that is worthy of the series and will be able to bring us all back together for some fun gaming.

I'm almost afraid to post an opinion here, as I know it'll get ripped from here till doomsday. But I've been playing the Tribes series since 1998, run a successful team that has been around just as long, provide servers in both T2 and T:V and I enjoy each and every one of the games. However, there is something wrong when I can log into T:V on a Sunday afternoon and find only 277 players online.

The point some of you seem to miss is that it is really hard to maintain a community with dwindling numbers. T2 is hanging on by a thread and T:V is a wasteland with empty servers everywhere. It is the community, more than the games, that I've enjoyed the most. And now I'm seeing it dwindle to very small numbers. And even though I enjoy T:V, I blame it for the loss of players. It does not measure up to the standards of the previous releases. And though it is fun, I highly doubt it is going to hold my interest for the same period of time that T1 and T2 did.

My hope is that someone will eventually build a game that is worthy of the series and will be able to bring us all back together for some fun gaming.


i don't think anyone is giong to rip you apart for posting that, seeing as how most people agree with you

I'm almost afraid to post an opinion here, as I know it'll get ripped from here till doomsday. But I've been playing the Tribes series since 1998, run a successful team that has been around just as long, provide servers in both T2 and T:V and I enjoy each and every one of the games. However, there is something wrong when I can log into T:V on a Sunday afternoon and find only 277 players online.

The point some of you seem to miss is that it is really hard to maintain a community with dwindling numbers. T2 is hanging on by a thread and T:V is a wasteland with empty servers everywhere. It is the community, more than the games, that I've enjoyed the most. And now I'm seeing it dwindle to very small numbers. And even though I enjoy T:V, I blame it for the loss of players. It does not measure up to the standards of the previous releases. And though it is fun, I highly doubt it is going to hold my interest for the same period of time that T1 and T2 did.

My hope is that someone will eventually build a game that is worthy of the series and will be able to bring us all back together for some fun gaming.

Nice Post!!

:wave:

I'm almost afraid to post an opinion here, as I know it'll get ripped from here till doomsday. But I've been playing the Tribes series since 1998, run a successful team that has been around just as long, provide servers in both T2 and T:V and I enjoy each and every one of the games. However, there is something wrong when I can log into T:V on a Sunday afternoon and find only 277 players online.

The point some of you seem to miss is that it is really hard to maintain a community with dwindling numbers. T2 is hanging on by a thread and T:V is a wasteland with empty servers everywhere. It is the community, more than the games, that I've enjoyed the most. And now I'm seeing it dwindle to very small numbers. And even though I enjoy T:V, I blame it for the loss of players. It does not measure up to the standards of the previous releases. And though it is fun, I highly doubt it is going to hold my interest for the same period of time that T1 and T2 did.

My hope is that someone will eventually build a game that is worthy of the series and will be able to bring us all back together for some fun gaming.


Well said. :sunny:

I agree.

I can easily predict the game being made, but there is going to be a very long wait ahead of us.

Everything will be fine.

Enjoy life until "The best game evar" comes.

sup.

I am giving VuG, IG, Ren, GTW et al a couple of more weeks to give me the game I am looking for. Otherwise the Great Net@Nite may have to doff his programmer/mapper/modder cap. Uhm...do they still program in Basic?

10 print 'Neta's version of Tribes'
20 goto 10

Just a sampling of my talents.

peace at long last? what gives :)

The game is 19 bucks at Frys. No I don't think there will be a patch for you. Enjoy it or leave :)

peace at long last? what gives :)

Said posters tossing around blame and hate have departed from the thread. All is quiet.

So..... You guys wanna play truth or dare?

Once again I have fixed everything! You are all welcome.

Ok, Dare! Wait Wait No! Truth... Truth!

I'm almost afraid to post an opinion here, as I know it'll get ripped from here till doomsday. But I've been playing the Tribes series since 1998, run a successful team that has been around just as long, provide servers in both T2 and T:V and I enjoy each and every one of the games. However, there is something wrong when I can log into T:V on a Sunday afternoon and find only 277 players online.

The point some of you seem to miss is that it is really hard to maintain a community with dwindling numbers. T2 is hanging on by a thread and T:V is a wasteland with empty servers everywhere. It is the community, more than the games, that I've enjoyed the most. And now I'm seeing it dwindle to very small numbers. And even though I enjoy T:V, I blame it for the loss of players. It does not measure up to the standards of the previous releases. And though it is fun, I highly doubt it is going to hold my interest for the same period of time that T1 and T2 did.

My hope is that someone will eventually build a game that is worthy of the series and will be able to bring us all back together for some fun gaming.

The Tribes MOD on SS:2845 using the new TSE will bring it back. Im placing my bets now.

Once again I have fixed everything! You are all welcome.

Thank you Net, I knew someone would take charge!

So nice to see LadyDeath :wave:
Shes the best btw. }-)

The Tribes MOD on SS:2845 using the new TSE will bring it back. Im placing my bets now.

Hopefully. I am still split on how skiing should be.

Hopefully. I am still split on how skiing should be.

Various folks are working on a Tribes MOD for SS. Trajan has confrimed that there will be jet code in SS and it will be easily moddable.

I'm putting my $0.02 in here, then ducking out really quick.

There's a very definable thing that made T1 the game it was. It's broken into two areas.

Customization, and Physics, with the emphasis on Physics.

T1 was an extremely customizable game. People could mold it to their vision of what they wanted it to be. But the only reason they wanted to do that was because how the game was played, and that comes down to physics.

All the game's balance comes from the physics of the game. How objects interacted and how they moved. T1 was a great success and spurred a huge online following.

Now, when you go and try to follow up a great success, there's a very simple concept that most people fail miserably to comprehend:

If it isn't broken, don't try to fucking fix it.

If the way something works is good, and you want to release an update, you better make damn sure that you don't take ANYTHING away from what made the first one the game it was. You copy the physics algorithms down, line by line. The collision boxes in T2 were BOXES. Collisions in T1 were handled by cylinders capped by half-spheres, essentially "pills". Little things like that make the game play the way it did.

Starsiege: Tribes was a successful game. And if there's one thing any developer of a sequel should learn (indeed it should be a sequel developer's first commandment), it's NOT TO CHANGE A SUCCESSFUL ACTION.

It's pretty safe to say that there was a VERY small list of things that Starsiege: Tribes could have done away with and still been the game it was (e.g: Scouts/Vehicles).

You know what we wanted? It's been said OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER, and OVER again. Tribes with better graphics and sound. Maybe a new weapon or so. An updated inventory system.

THAT'S IT. If Sierra had made that game, and called it Tribes 2, we wouldn't be where we are today with a dead franchise.

Look at Half Life 2 or CS: Source. It's the SAME FUCKING GAME, but with better graphics. The core game/physics are still there (although highly improved).

Anyways, that's all for now.

This is where Legends comes in. :bigthumb: