3rd Party Catogry

posted on August 7th, 2005, 5:24 pm

Basicly in this you can have a place for the communtiy to make additions to fleetops (eg extra stations, ships, races etc) I know we alredey have a map section but this can go in here aswell, i think it will help the fo community develop more stuff, to help a keep us ocupied a little longer b help us discover talent that could be used in Fo in the future, and C help ideas develop more.

I propose in the Catogry you have the following forums:

Race
Mini
Maps
Misq

What you guys think?

[DOCa Cola]

posted on August 7th, 2005, 9:17 pm

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i already thought about something like a new section like you menationed. i realized that some people posting stuff in these new categories would expect us to integrate their ideas in the next version of fleet operations even if everybody else won't like a certain feature in fleet operations. some people also may begin to post mini-mods that they don't have done but seen everywhere else. i think these forums would contain more trash posts but useful posts. i think that works quite well now with feature request forum and people contacting me via mail.

DOCa Cola

posted on August 7th, 2005, 9:51 pm

what if it was servealy modarated it? all new post had to be approved first?

[DOCa Cola]

posted on August 7th, 2005, 10:08 pm

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somebody has to do the moderating work. as optec and me are the only ones to approve what goes into the mod we had just more work to do.

besides that i think, the new category would for the most part the same as the feature request category as people can also post their mods there.

posted on August 7th, 2005, 10:19 pm

I would be willing to mod it, (belive me i have a lot of free time) the whole point of 3rd party is excatly that, it has nothing to do with the mod its self, and will be treated like it.

posted on August 8th, 2005, 12:04 am

over time that would evolve into its own armada2files kinda thing but for fleetops if get my meaning

posted on August 8th, 2005, 12:49 am

i am not sure if we are ready yet to evolve the site and mod in that way. it would have great impact to the mod and i am not sure it will be a good one. the mod is developed with great influence by it's community much more than many of the others. extending the site for 3rd party mods is not exactly what it should serve for. it's for fleet operations, everything else should go to a site like armada2files.com

posted on August 8th, 2005, 2:26 am

and i cant tell you haw much i aprishate being abule to put input in to the mod. i can safly say you are making the best armada mod by far.

thank you for lising to us.

posted on August 8th, 2005, 2:34 am

and i cant tell you haw much i aprishate being abule to put input in to the mod. i can safly say you are making the best armada mod by far.

thank you for lising to us.

I second that. Thank you FO team.

posted on August 8th, 2005, 8:22 am

Thank you guys.

FO is just not ready yet to take such a big change in development, maybe in a later release state allowing us to plan more freely what can be done by other ppl for the mod than us, but currently in the main we just want to stick by our plan.

posted on August 8th, 2005, 8:46 am

i have to agree with cola on this one. i mean if you look at the armada files. ther are alot of complimation mods and quality vary from ship to ship. imagine if it is done here, it would be very hard to manage and i don't know if it shortens the time of making V3. but we can try sometime

[DOCa Cola]

posted on August 8th, 2005, 9:04 am

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yes, i think about the time when the main points are on our list, maybe after the release of v4 or something. after that we may be ready to give out some tutorials on how some things in fleet operations was done including some info for those creating vessel models matching the current from fleet operations. as we are in the progress of still developing the mod and maybe start integrating a few changes sooner or later (anybody can make a mistake, we too ) it is just not the right time yet to start such a section on the board yet besides the question how succesful such a section would be in terms of how many people are still modeling vessels, station and doing whatnot for armada.

posted on August 8th, 2005, 4:27 pm

looks like i lose on this then...

posted on August 8th, 2005, 6:49 pm

it has nothing to do with loosing posting a suggestion

posted on August 19th, 2005, 8:50 pm

i also agree with cola on this one primaryily because of game balence but i would really like to see a section where the FO staff posts stuff they need done and we could do it, i know i would be glad to help the FO team and it would get the mod done faster which is an added bonus i understand that you guys want to keep it where you can have a unified team *looks at interview* but surely there is some busy work that you can let the community work on that would make it easier to get the mod out quicker