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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 05:13 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


with this post...
http://www.team-dignitas.com/news.php?newsid=2441

...I wonder what you guys think?

esr discussion:
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1068762



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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 05:21 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I think there are already too many self-served 'comp mods' anyway. Not just those 2 but expert mod and gtr mod as well. How is that helping the community as this point, which is very small? :s
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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 05:23 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


They should, but they won't.

Everyone wants to be the project leader, and everyone wants to realise their own very specific visions.



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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 06:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I think that if they merge we would have almost done product, and when ID/Raven release their add-on pack to us the Q4 community would rock. but thats only dreams of happy fraggin



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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 06:44 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


riddla wrote:
Come to the darkside :D
The dark side of the old, dead mods? :paranoid:

I have to admit i totally lost track of mod development since the last time i played, which was around patch 1.0.5beta...
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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 07:46 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


But I don't... want to spend a lot of money.



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PostPosted: 04-27-2006 10:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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but expert mod and gtr mod as well


umm, GTR isn't a "comp mod" it's a 'fun mod'


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Anyway, I couldn't do the things I wanted to do in the first place when I joined xbattle,
because in that team competition stuff had first priority.

Now that I left xbm, I'm going to start doing the things I want,
and that is implementing new gametypes into quake4 as a fun mod.



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PostPosted: 04-28-2006 05:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


exactly :p
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PostPosted: 04-28-2006 04:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Speaking of merge, maybe DeltaCTF & CTF Evolution should merge. :p
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PostPosted: 04-28-2006 11:53 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hell, I'm not sure if you guys even understand what mods are.
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I've got no sudden desire to see the two mods merge, infact I would prefer it if they remained seperate; choice is a good thing :)

However I do think they (and any other mods for that matter) should share code. Seems pointless to me to have features that are the same in both/all mods coded by different people. Sure, a feature might be coded better by one modder than another's first attempt, in which case fine, code a replacement and offer that up for all other mods. But their has to be some point where obvious features have been coded by individual mod teams repeatedly, wasting time when they could have been coding something unique ... if that makes sense.
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PostPosted: 05-04-2006 02:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Why don't they just make the mods open source?



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PostPosted: 05-04-2006 02:49 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mainly because it spawns 999999 derivatives.



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I am the coder and designer for Expert mod. I have been working on it for the past 7 months. I have had no one ask me to "join a team", or share my code for that matter. I did ask AnthonyJ about team color source which they did provide. I have been a one man team coder for the mod itself, with the only help from one LDAsh doing models for me. I am by no means a "self serving" developer. My purpose and only purpose of my whole website was to bring an old school mod , being XCTF, up to the newest able bodied game by ID to support the mod. I resent the self serving comment. I have no problem with joining or sharing, but he point with the 9999999 mods is appropriately written. I have many requests , for a capturestrike form and a freezetag mode already, coders , mappers and any one who wants tohelp is more then welcome.

I represent myself as one person supporting an old school mod for over 6 years now. Just look at my website. It will show you just the time frame i have been dedicated to such a game. Nuff said.



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PostPosted: 05-14-2006 07:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Zimbo wrote:
Why don't they just make the mods open source?


there are already moves in this direction with the release of the creative commons quake 4 pak

>> http://www.ingame.de/filebase/index.php ... 5&fid=3208

I was hoping this would take off as a repository of maps/models and perhaps texture paks that mods could share, contribute too and take advantage of (seemed like a great idea to me) - I guess it just needs everybody on board
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PostPosted: 05-16-2006 11:29 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Modder Than Hell: The Q4Max vs. Xbattle Wars

http://www.ggl.com/news.php?NewsId=3083



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PostPosted: 05-17-2006 11:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ill be damned if i can connect to an XBM server in the US.

edit: ammocheck and althurt/enemy sounds are a big plus for xbattle.
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PostPosted: 05-29-2006 01:14 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


k MY JOB IS DONE. EXPECT 1.21 with a bonus.pk4 soon.. you'll see...



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PostPosted: 05-29-2006 01:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hrm, I don't think I've ever played on an xbattle server. I've played on q4base and Q4Max servers. Q4max is awesome. :)
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