As most of us know, there are two main communities in Sins of a Solar Empire, one for multiplayer and one for modding. Bar the occasional group of friends playing a mod on ICO together however, these two communities rarely interact with each other, besides occasional discussions of game balance.
Therefore I propose a little icebreaker in the true Sins fashion, complete with the typical disintegration of metal, screams of nuked worlds, and if we're lucky even the rare space pony sighting, that we've all come to know and love, regardless of which form of Sins we get most of our entertainment from. Yes, I think its time for the first ever Pro Player vs Modders MP game!
Of course as we are meeting in the Pro player's home court, I think in the interest of a semi-interesting game the modders will need a team advantage of some sort. Any ideas on the exact number of players on each team as well as the best time to arrange this will be welcome (I'd guess sometime on Thanksgiving weekend). And of course, if you're interested do let us know.
I'd like to have one pro player sort of be in charge of the logistics of making the game who promises to be there, presumably if any of the other pros don't show we can find substitutes at the game launch. As modders don't often log on to ICO don't commit unless you're sure you can make it at whatever time we agree on. Also if possible I think it would be nice for as many different mods as possible to be represented, but obviously filling the roster comes first.
Results:
Game 1 (4v4)
Auqia versus modders youtube
Modders FFA youtube
Replays
I don't even know myself. Can't be bothered. Besides zombie
Carbon did--- he enjoyed our get together.
If you give me some more karma i'd gladly show you all what you've been missing.
Aw...I was gonna give you karma one day and forgot. Sorry about that.
Now don't get a big head!
i won't -dont worry.
I'm ready to break your pirate blockade whenever we play this next
Okie--should be interesting. The map has been very reworked to try to make it compatible for a greater number of players. It also has more resources and the like to allow it to move a little faster.
Still these pie rats are hungry and if you go into their room and forget your matches you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Oh--and the "Allies" now start with 12 colonizer frigates each. My bad before. Now they can compete some for the resource asteroids in the area before reinforcements can reach them.
Sounds like a painful map... I like.
You know, we get a lot of fun maps with mods and there's the randoms too, but there is so much potential for map packs that tends to get overlooked in favor of doing mods. Point is that if there were some vanilla designed mods (or even some with openings for mods to insert planet types) that came in large packs, they would be loved and even if inserted into the original game files, wouldn't have any negative affect on the program.
So... anyone know some good map packs?
Oh, and what are people thinking for this upcoming weekend?
Darvin has a really b ig map pack floating around on one of his threads. So far people have still seem interested in the above map (I'm biased of course).
I'll be there nlt 9pm est.
Ditto if I can swing it. I don't think there is anything major happening so it should be a go. Big issue holding back map-packs that ICO doesn't support them directly (via download or otherwise).
They don't support mods either, but we are rocking strong.
You know guys ... if we keep this up ... you will all be responsible for a lot of beer being murdered by my liver.
or vice versa
it becomes a question of who brings more numbers
Here's the link to the new map (thread) for Wolfpack!
So everyone can peek at it if they want or just read up on the thread about set-up and play. Lt me know if there are any issues or questions.
Well darn...I didn't make it home until 10pm. Sigh. I am working a bit now but am am online.
Are we doing a game today?
I am logging on soon, so I'll be around to play. I don't have any mods downloaded or installed though.
No problem
I'm on TS right now
KrdaxDrkrun and I are on the TS channel. Either DS, Sinperium's Map, or plain Vanilla sounds good.
I vote for Sin's map if we get enough guys.
I lost my voice over the weekend.
C'mon guys, I know that many of ya'll are hanging around!
While we wait ...
"Cosmic Castaway" - Electrasy [Titan A.E.]
I'll be on in about 15 minutes.
Hey all, don't know how the game went today, if it did, but i'll be back home next week for christmas! (woohoo) and will be able to provide some recording from the pros side (this time with pros voice/input, not the modders . Anyways, hope to see you guys in the next few weeks, although i realize holiday season is fully upon us with christmas a week away and new years a week after!
Awesome. We were actually still playing through our first game on Sin's new map. Completely totally awesome.
They done kilt me Mah!
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