MoreDread,

Well, I'm genuinely flattered that you'd like to include me in your chat-lasso. :)

I'm very eager for the kind of game mechanics that we're discussing, evaluating, and in R@S' case, designing here, and I mean that in a much larger sense than just 7.62.

I'd be open to such a chat, although it's been years since I last used such a medium of communication. Please note that this week is going to be VERY tight for me time-wise due to some major house repairs that I'm undertaking tomorrow.

Feel free to PM me with your thoughts and suggestions, and I'll see what I can do to follow through with them from this end.

Good night!
:)

I've sent you guys my contact info, feel free to contact me.

I've been working on the Reloaded maps, adding guards to the Palinero faction was much easier than one might imagine. Since that faction only has one city, I'm not sure how it will affect the gameplay or how the final vanilla govt quest might react. But that will have to wait until the main gloabal AI is done.

Check your PM...Campaign Proposal 1 is awaiting you!
 

R@S,

I realize that you're swamped right now, so this is just a quick note to check your PM, as I've enclosed my proposal for a campaign to you.

It's not chock full of missions (although some are very obviously "there" without having to be written about in detail) but rather is, in my opinion, the very fertile soil to grow missions out of. I really hope that you like what you read, and PLEASE do NOT hesitate to respond with a critique. It's the best way to grow! :grin:

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I've been swamped with Real Life issues, but I did have some time several nights ago to press further on with the last build. I went to get my gear from Pacquito's cousin, and was totally surprised to face the military. Well, I guess that I shouldn't be "so" surprised, I did wipe out an entire station's worth of officers and took over a city!

M4A1's left and right and several Minimi's, and they're all pointing at ME, "Mr. Nice Guy." Whoa, did that give me some stiff opposition that I had to carefully think through!

It was challenging and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The sniper rifle that Pacquito's cousin was saving for me was a nice surprise.

When the battle was over, the kill count was at 39...1 away from leveling up to 2nd level. Frustrating! :) I quit the game with a TON of formidable weaponry to sort through.

Which got me to thinking. Is there anyway to bundle weapons of the same type and condition together? For ex., let's say there are 5 M4A1's in mint condition without a round having been fired, could those be listed with a single image of an M4A1 with a subscript number "5" printed near it? I just think that would speed up the sorting process greatly.

There was something else that I had wanted to mention, but I can't remember it now and my nearly 2 year son probably made off with the Post It note like a little bandit. :) If it comes back to me, I'll mention it here.

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MoreDread,

I'm hoping that later tonight or tomorrow night I'll be able to send you and R@S a PM with my contact info. Like R@S, my schedule's packed right now. I'm doing some very important house renovations that are just wiping me out, and I hope that the worst of it will be over by this Sunday, but that's if the weather cooperates.

Come the very end of July I'll be having a childhood friend of mine and his family staying with us for a week and a half. Can't wait. It's been a long time since we've seen them last. During that time I'm hoping to have my days and nights filled with fishing, lazing around on the beach, and playing Illuminati late at night. Those little tykes of mine would love Illuminati too, but just so they could play with the cards and miniature money! :grin:

My break's done. Time to get back to scraping paint up. :(

Ciao guys!

weekend! finally!

allright i've been thinking about the best way to get in contact with some people.. i'd like to keep this open. in the last post i mentioned both R@S and kyle, but that doesn't mean i want to prevent others from having a chance to voice their opinion. so i'd say everyone is welcome to join in.

since atm i'm still forced to use this macbook to access the web, quite a few of the IM apps are not the best choice for me.

i'm registered on skype and i think i could theoretically revive my old ICQ account, but since R@S is using neither of those and i don't really wanna sign up to too many services i think it might be best to meet in the IRC network.

if you guys agree then i would look for an easy to use browser based client to access it and post a link here. that would allow everyone to join in without having to download any software or go through any kind of registration process .. keep it simple and accessible.

i live in germany, so thats gmt+1
since kyle lives in sweden, it won't be hard for us two to find an agreeable time to meet... to make the best choice for everyone we would have to find out more about the timezone of every participant. so plz post yours or send me a pm.

the topic would be the class system first and foremost, but of course also exploring what people would like to see in the game and what can be done.

personally i love to wrap my mind around RPG systems and discuss them, but i'd also love to get involved a little more into modding the game.

since my expertise lies in modeling, animating and a little texturing, but the only thing that can be done is reskinning characters and weapons/items right now (on my part), i'd be interested in trying to do a couple of weapon models for the game as well.

so if you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to tell me. if you have reference pictures as well, that'll increase the chance that i'll actually get around to do it.
note that i'm capable of modeling a gun just fine, but i haven't researched how to get the weapon models ingame. from what i've seen it shouldn't be too hard a task.. but you never know. i'm just saying: no promises.

Time zones...ICQ...model & skin maker=GREAT!
 

Well, it looks like I'm the odd man with a GMT+5 (I live in Michigan, USA), and I've never used ICQ, but am happy to learn if that's the way the two of you would like to go! Once we're in agreement on a chat system, I'll download and get an account setup ASAP.

I am SO happy to hear of your skills!

That's VERY good news for this entire community.

Yes indeed!

More later.

:grin:

oh right... i remembered you posting that you're a swede and falsely deducted from that that you're living in sweden... didn't even ask.. my bad
in other words.. maybe i'm the odd one out ^___^
we shall see

Don't feel bad.

We're all a bit "odd" around here, which means that as a community, we're COMPLETELY "normal" to each other.

Now if only the whole world would get on board.

:)

They could be normal like US.

:grin:

So, you're still around afterall MoreDread;)

Anyways, I just popped in quickly to give you some bad news, my computer just got blown out by a lightning storm that passed by during the night. If I'm lucky it 's just the power supply unit, but I need to buy a new one before I can check to see if any more damage was done. Since I have all the mod files backupped I'm not that worried about that, but still, I have a lot of stuff on it that I haven't had time to copy to my usb drives. Keeping my fingers crosssed.

And I'm the swede here, and I too live in the GMT +1 zone so no worries there. I'll try to get back to y'all when I come back from the city with the new parts and hopefully have a functioning computer again. This laptop sucks and I had planned to buy a new one after the summer when the paycheck for my extra shifts arrive, but if my stationary needs more repairs that might have to wait:(

aww bad news indeed.

well good luck.. it happened to me too once...
the fuse saved my pc tho.

http://chat.mibbit.com/

here check this out:
simply insert your desired username, and enter #bsm in the channel field, then hit go...

i'll be waiting there for the weekend, however i might not respond immediately as i'm not the only one using this computer.

Wow. What awful news R@S!

Meowcat of the YARM mod had something happen to his rig too.

I hope it's not me triggering all of this electronic pain! ;)

The very best of luck to you on this.

Got to go. A farmer's market and then an art festival to check out and then it's back to working on that terrible porch from the Realm of Flames and Brimstones!