Linking with other MP Space Sim Groups

In an unrelated forum, I encountered someone who is an ardent fan of Tachyon: The Fringe online MP space sim play. With apologies to him (Slippster), here’s an excerpt of one of his posts:
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You really need to venture in to the online portion of Tachyon.

its nothing like 1 player.

there are 2 games online.

by the way, the tachyon lobby link i put up in the previous post does work, i just put it there so you could see what the online lobby screen looks like.

both links work by the way.

ok back to explaining Tachyons online games;

Base Wars involves the 2 factions in the game ;
namely Galspan and Bora.

each has their own base, and the maps are usually divided up into 3 sectors, Galspan, Bora, and a common sector in the middle.

the mid sector is where alot of tthe action happens.

basicly you “mine” crystals and fly your “credits” home and your base and your ship gains experience.

you progress through technology levels, aquiring new weapons and equipment at each “Tech Level” ( 1-10)

the object is to get to tech 10 where you get access to the nuke weapons Helios Bombs and you drop 25 of those on their Life Support and win the game.

Dogfights are fast and furious, as well as defending your base from attackers who attack your “credit plants” that appear on your base as you mine credits.

the other online game is called ARENA.
its your basic head-to-head deathmatch where you kill everything you see and try to get the most kills in 20 minutes before the server resets.

its a good area to practice ships, dogfighting,and weapons so that in base wars you become a better pilot.

the ppl in tachyon can become your best friends and your hardest opponent , and as in any game, theres a few bad apples but dont let that steer ya away!

Tachyon community is a very close knit group of people.

The ships in multi are much faster and stronger than any of the ships in single player so if you do manage to get online be ready for a shock!

you may think your a “hot pilot” but multi will melt all of that away fast, lol.

you may find yourself re-learning many aspects of flight .

your game will need to be patched to improve performance because Novalogic dropped support and hasnt made a patch since 2000!

and you can find that patch on my msn groups site i call GAMING PIX2.
you can download it here:
http://www.gamingpix2.pwp.blueyonder.co … lsetup.exe

I have a wide collection of player made Maps as well
as screenshots from the game and Videos too.

if you would like direct contact with me or anyone in the tachyon community you cal logon at this site, its an ez-board so youll need to register a screen name to be able to post. ( free)

New Breed Clan: http://p197.ezboard.com/fnewbreed2frm7

welcome to da Fringe!

regards, Slippster
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Apparently, this is a dedicated group of online gaming fans who love this space sim, and the play Tachyon affords. I thought it might be worth mentioning it here, to the I-War2 Star Wars MP mod dev team because the same problem that has plagued the awesome MP options available through I-War’s engine in the past will likely continue to do so in the future…even with the Star Wars appeal: Lack of players.

My suggestion would be to make contact with this group and play with them a little in their world (they’re always looking for new players), have some fun, build some relationships, then invite them to help us play test or beta test the Star Wars mod, maybe even review it for us. If this could be set up as a concerted group effort and get lots of them to see this mod, we stand to benefit through a) recruiting new interested players if they truly find it fun, b) gaining valuable feedback about the game and its play from other experienced online space simmers, and c) potentially get some positive word of mouth PR. The downside would be trying to coordinate the event, making sure they all have a working copy of the mod, installed right, tested, and trained on the EoC flight model/controls, etc. It might not be worth all that effort, but I thought I’d bring it up as a suggestion anyway.

Here are a couple more links:

http://nw2.novaworld.net/ttflobby1.htm

http://groups.msn.com/GamingPix2/_whatsnew.msnw

This latter one I think, is Slippster’s own page. I’d make the contact myself, but I’ve never actually addressed Slippster directly, and I know too little about setting up MP play. My guess is MT or SC would be best to make this contact, if at all, but I leave the rest up to you.

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Hot4Darmat