When I was a younger man, before I became the old and decrepit 24 year old before you, there was a little-known game not much unlike this one. It was fun, nerdy, made by a small yet very active company (before Microsoft got it, I guess), and had a small, dedicated community of players. Okay, not "Holy crap there are 200 people on ICO at the same time?!" small, but you get the idea. The game was Mechcommander and one of the leagues formed around it went by the name of Steel Command.
The SCL was a heavily role-played league which used Mechcommander as a vehicle to wage an enormous interstellar war between the various Battletech factions (faction websites still exist today, in all their 1998 glory). Factions would fight for territory and resources. They would commit Mechs and other resources to battles, then play out those battles in the game. There was diplomacy and even an enormous map which was manually updated to reflect faction ownership changes (this was back before the web was "dynamic"
I think a league like this would work well in Sins for a few reasons. First of all, it is asynchronous. That is, factions can schedule games or just issue orders ("Explore this planet", etc.) and won't need to randomly have a whole lot of players on at the same time (this is the main reason clans don't work right now). Secondly, Sins is very customizable, which is required for this sort of thing to work. The Map Designer is quick and dirty, but the real power lies in Galaxy Forge (assuming it gets fixed) which allows maps to be custom-tailored to battles. With this customization combined with the fact that different battles can have different supply caps, sizes and so forth, games can be long or short depending on the battle setup and include any number of other variables.
Sins games can be incredibly long, back and forth, intense experiences even though the action isn't necessarily constant -- that's what I love about it. You have to make big decisions -- do I build up and dig in or rush? Do I save that planet being attacked or do I counter? -- which can affect where you are an hour later. But what if the game didn't end in an hour, a day, or a month? What if there were an entire Universe to conquer and not just a star or two at a time?
If there's a game out now that could be used to resurrect the enormous scope and breadth of Steel Command, it is almost certainly Sins. However, this is no minor task and will require dedication and effort from many -- not to mention players! I'm not sure if we have enough people yet, but we'd have to start somewhere. This would be a considerable undertaking and I am already extremely low on free time, so I'm putting this out now to see what sort of interest there is, if any. Please provide feedback!
P.S. If you're wondering who would actually make the site for this, the answer is me. I do it for a living so we've at least got that part covered.
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Okay folks, it seems like we have enough people interested to make an official inquiry here on the boards. The way I see it, we need a minimum of 25 people to start really getting the ball rolling in an official way on this thing. To that end, I have created a form that interested parties should fill out. It shouldn't take more than 30 seconds and will give me a way to keep track of people with serious interest.
One of the questions asks what you want your "role" to be; I have created the following roles with my recommendation of minimum numbers to fulfill in parenthesis (assumes 3 initial factions; one for each race):
Fill out the form here: http://binjured.wufoo.com/forms/sins-league-signup/
Thank you in advance!
(Entrenchment required for membership for the time being; with more players, hopefully we can have two leagues... but that's a dream for now.)
Like I said..my pc is still at the repair shop! So until I can get it back..I guess I'll be working on the rules,etc...keep myself busy!
Well I'm still up for a match if your around setsuna. Hope I get a reply before 12:00, if not another night then.
Its funny how my attitude gave momentum back to our league huh?
BTW Nycz None of my recent posts have been directed at you but, i do realize people have other matters to attend to, but nobody has been doing anything league related, in a whole, We've all been discreet an keeping to ourselves was what i was getting at. And not doing much but, gathering/farming ppl into the fray.
There not much to do league wise, untill bingjued gets back to us one way or another. So instead of causing drama and flaming, you could be working on something if you think we are failing in your uholy wisdom, go for it. Dont yell at us cuz its out of our hands. WE as faction leader and faction members are doing everything we can. By working on our factions. If you wanted to do league things talk to binjured.
Your attitude didnt give momentum back to the league, sure it created alot of post but was anything creative done with you negative comments? So let return back to the orginal topic the league. If you got nothing league wise to post then dont. Mmmmkkk?
This is 1 of those teaching things you get in church, *good intentions but it came out wrong*
Im saying, nobody is doing anything outside their respective faction, and as long as binjured is MIA we arent moving the league forward, i mean, carbon, SM, and Naut. you guys could start pm'ing each other about ideas, and propose them to the rest of us, This league doesnt NEED TO rely on binjured.
PC back on friday/saturday!
So Carbon...if you wanna help me! One I get my pc back we can take this league between th two of us (and with Nyzccc if he wants)!
Leaders of all 3 faction could become the founders of the website!
PS: DEsamator..at church!!! I'm amased he doesnt get struck down by lightning the moment he crosses the door!
I wouldnt mind moving the leauge along but ofcourse you know Naut founded the Advent faction before me
SM, You cant kill the metal, the metal will live on. - Tenacious D
WOO progress yeah... league website.. woot
DAMN keep on forgeting!
As for
I can only reply POWER METAL FTW (Helloween, Gamma Ray, Hibria, Heavenly, Dragonforce,etc...)!
As for league website..I have AWESOME NEWS!
My pc is bakc 2 days ahead of time +_+! So though I'm at university right now..I will pawn once I get back home
Cool, because i might have to take charge of the site otherwise haha.
you go ahead then! Start it and I'll come in to comment and add my opinions
Hop to it penguin
I might just do that but i have probably the least amount of free time among all of us i think. Plus ive picked up a task of building a new gaming rig which will occupy alot of my time.
Reason you dont see me on more is that I work 6 days a week right now.
Now the only reason Ive been waiting on Binjured was he was the only one out of anyone of us, that new the inner workings on what the Steel Command league ran. Myself only saw the skim of the surface back in the day. So yea, we could go ahead without him, I hate to say it, but we should. Yet I am hesitant cuz I dont want anyone in their haste and enthusiasm to do this half assed or backwards etc etc etc. The whole reason I got involved in the get go, was the fond memoires of know the old Steel command league was epic. It was complex and relied heavly on Role Playing. Over half the league activity was not ingame. Again I knew throwing my hat into this that this league would take some serious time setting up due to those complex behind the scence stuff.
So forgive me if Im not jump off the deep end and go ahead and throwing some 'league' stuff up. After all this was Binjured idea, just cuz he been super busy does not give us the right to kick him off his project. If you feel different your more than welcome to discuss it with me via PM/email/skype/MSN. I for one have no problem leaving this league and taking -Ue_ else were, we have talked among ourself and if Binjured cant pull this together we will move on to a standalone Roleplaying Clan or even create a Roleplaying Community/League or whatever you want to call it.
Not kicking him out at all...he's the one that sent me an e-mail saying we had a green light to get the show on the road!
Slowly but surely I fully agree but nevertheless we have a green light and he will rejoin us in due time!
Game saturday night? I managed to convince my g/f to step away from SIMS 3 and give the game a shot. She has played Age of Empires and such so i convinced her she should be able to handle this game too. So im hoping to get a game with her and everyone. Let me know if anyone is available.
What time? I can play between 4 and 9.
I will have to see, she is asleep right now. We have a fishing trip with some friends tomorrow so i guess when ever we get back. Hopefully its not too late.
I'll play too, if i can get entrenchment too install on this comp... And btw, about time, assume we arent all in the same time zones when you said between 4 - 9, IE 4 - 9 Central time (-6)
We are gonna be back home at about 8pm, so i say a game at 10pm eastern time sounds good? I need to figure out if Sins will install on the window's side of her mac computer since its not Mac compatible.
Wont be able to make it, my ability to connect to the internet is over at that time. Maybe next time.
BTW, I need to get our Skype info so I can add you.
I'm good for tonight at 10 eastern!!!!
Tesla will be pissed but WTH I worked like hell on the mod yesterday..time for some relax!
SORROWWORN FTW!
Okay im on right now, still trying to get the mac to run the game on the windows partitioned side. So far no luck so i decided to let her play the game on my pc and ill just help her out from the sidelines (ill do my best not to piss her off while im at it lol, i am trying to convince her to play this game haha). Anyway, see you guys on ICO, look for me or Ruri-san (g.f)
Update: game has been postponed for a hour so some people can show up >.> You know who you are lol.
Im going on right now lol Sorry
Errr I guess i'll be on in about 30 minutes
NP! Nyzccc is getting a crash course of sins to his GF! We'll start when hes done! He'll come on forums and tell us!
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