Alright, you guys need to stop argueing and CALM THE HELL DOWN. Slovi, even I can see that your just openly attacking, DM-Horus speifically. Please, stop doing it. I don't want to see it, and neither does anyone else. If you have a personal vendetta against him, take it somewhere else. Otherwise, just try to stay on topic.
As for the rest of this...
Yea, some people are sick of seeing multitude of failured OP3 projects. But even then, still lend your support! Somebody might actually come through some day. As long as there is still people here, at OPU, there is always a chance one may materialize. Theres also a pretty good chance it'll be really good, like some other player made fan games I've had the chance to try. (There was one based off of Babylon 5 that was pretty good, I don't have it anymore). So long as they don't let their project get clouded by fanboyism. Ideas are good, but they have to think whats going to work, and what won't. If its cool, then thats just another plus. Thats partly why the OP2 combat looks and feels somewhat incomplete with stalemates easily occureing. Its because it was tacked on just to appeal to another crowd, basically "Because its cool". Fanboyism did take a role here, as they where trying to appeal to the C&C crowd. AVOID FANBOYISM LIKE THE PLAGUE. It is the death of ANYTHING, includeing a recent movie known as Snakes on a Plane... Fairly promising, until the fanboyism takes its effect.
Yea, I'm sure theres plenty of s*** going on behind the screens. I'm one who endorses a plan like I found on a different MMORPG (its kinda dead now), but what they did was have the Admins judgement was FINAL. Players could appeal the admins' decsion, and the community could go to hell as far as the admins where concerned based on their decisions. It was all within reason of course, and it was done in a 3 strike style system, with escallateing punishments eventually leading up to ban. It went like this.
1. Personal warning to behave
2. PMed message to behave
3. PMed message to behave with threat of 5 minuite kick
4. 5 minuite ban with message of what they where doing wrong.
5. Day ban (24 hrs)
6. Perma ban.
This was based on infractions of the RoC (rules of conduct). This setup allows them to make decisions with an air of finality. The affected person can appeal the decision if they think its not fair, and can try to get the punishment removed or reduced in severity. This gave them the flexibility to have a sort of finality to their decisions. And, if people asked, they simply ignored requests unless the affected party didn't mind. They never bothered to explain themselves when it came to stuff like that. Nor did they have to.
Note, they created a second, locked forum for admins/mods to create a whatchlist of frequent troublemakers. If steps where taken against you, they added you to this list, and gave the reason for the decision and the respective logs. Players on the whatch list where often given a more severe sentence then first time offenders (actually a lot like the current legal system too)
This also allowed them to avoid eliminateing a specific age group too, as they treated everybody the same when it came to this. The document that you agreed to, the TOS, was actually written out in lawyer style, so it would stand up in any court.
As such, they where removed from any liability that underaged people's parents might try to dump on them.
Of course, a certain amount of openness to the community needs to be instituted too. In the past, changes to OP2 that affected game play where added without the knowledge of the players. This must be prevented. ANY change to OP2 officially endoursed by OPU SHOULD list exactly how it affects the game, in layman's terms. This helps prevent some one from also trying to slip in some sort of personal cheat, especially if the changes must be approved by the other programming admins, as well as examined by them. I trust hacker not to exploit the game system. If he was going to, he would have done so long ago. But we do need to keep an eye on those who might think to do so.
We also need specific rules governing the exploitation of game bugs, most specifically, the one that gives you a free structure kit. I'm not going into detail on this one, I don't want people trying to actually do it. And I hope anyone trying to describe it gets that section of their post removed, we don't need people trying to cheat in that manner. Especially in Multiplayer.
