Hey everyone!  A few of us have been planning a reunion!  The OP2 Super Special Satisfactory Sapient Superior Sensationally Superlative Summer Shenanigan Smash!  Yeah, we like the letter S.  Live with it.  

Anyways... For those of you who don't know, a reunion is when we all get together and play OP2 nonstop for 3 days.  A bunch of old members tend to come back and find time for a few games, too, so it's generally good times for all.  The current plan is to have the reunion sometime in late July or early August.  So, think of it as Summer Camp, except you actually enjoy the experience.

We'll probably stick with the old formula of releasing a new update to OP2 (1.3.5, and we have plenty of good stuff to give you this time!) and encouraging people to develop new content and whatnot.  Myself, I'm working on a new techtree, if you didn't notice.  So if you want to contribute, we welcome everything!
But I should mention, please, please,  PLEASE[/i] don't rush any projects to meet the Reunion deadline.  We prefer quality more than quantity.  Bug test anything you produce before you submit it to be included in the next OP2 update.

I think that's all for now.  If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post here!

Well hope I can get some time to work on things and help out before then

Just a question, where's this reunion s´pose to be ?

The reunion will be held on IRC. We aren't actually physically getting together, because that's expensive.

Ya same place as allways. Rocking out on IRC

Ive forgoten which number reunion this is..!

Anyway guys be sure to get on IRC if you are not allready on for chat and games

Download and install this and your set.

So, uh... We seem to have forgotten about this?
What do our administrators think of this?
It could generate some activity around here... We've had so little lately...

Yes Yes! I won't miss it this time! I'm already err 'training' for it I'm horrible at op2 but definitely getting better. I wouldn't mind a game now actually.  

So what date do people think is best? When can they make it online?

July 11th - 14th
July 18th - 21st
July 25th - 28th
August 1st - 4th

We don't want it too soon as we want a build up to it and to make sure everyone knows about it.

Please vote here.

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!

As much as I hate those dates, I guess I can make an extended appearance.  Hopefully I can get everything working properly for it.

Gives me an excuse to work on my big map again, though I'm going to have a lot of horridness with tile-matching until the auto-placer thing that was being talked about is added into an editor.

Hmmm I'm not too sure about any of those dates, so i'll save my vote for later. Quick question... Around how many people go to this reunion every year?

A lot, assuming we can get a newsletter out to everyone in time.
But we'd need BlackBox to do that, and he doesn't really seem to care about having a reunion.

QuoteA lot, assuming we can get a newsletter out to everyone in time.
But we'd need BlackBox to do that, and he doesn't really seem to care about having a reunion.

Eh, I never said that. I think a reunion would be a great idea.

Probably will be less new content (with a lot of people busy / not around) but that's not necessarily a bad thing (it will let us do a lot more "quality control").

I would suggest at the minimum:
- OP2 1.3.5 (with some of the new patches that have been developed, as long as they get sufficiently tested)
- New IRC version (whatever the newest versions of mIRC / NNS are).

It would also be nice to get the website looking nice again.

Quote- New IRC version (whatever the newest versions of mIRC / NNS are).

Arklon and I would be very happy to help with that.  
And thanks for your support. Now we can get things into gear and start planning this thing!

Sirbomber you wont be putting those doom 3 sounds in a irc download or putting teh mes hal in the perform

Yes new website would be great as well as the other things. And yeah once we have a date sorted we should think about geting a newsletter sent out.

And op2rules. These are not a yearly thing. We have done a few of them at random times since 2003.

Look like last weekend in July wins with 2/3 of the vote.
Commence newsletter sending.

what up hommies!!!! long time no seee!!! uh well i may try to make it since it been like a few yrs since i  have played........ yea yea i know... no flaming plz.... lol.  ps. op2hacker when did u change your name to blackbox?

He changed his name ages ago.

Sirbomber you should of got more than 6 people to vote..!

And personaly I think its too close but I guess it will have to do.. July 25th - 28th. Lets get a newsletter out by sunday please.

Well, uh, I think we should change the dates to... late August?
And yeah, somebody send out some sort of notice!

QuoteHe changed his name ages ago.

I feel SO old now  thank you lev'
I must be at least a couple dozen AGES old.....  

Hey, everyone! Slight change in plan...
Because it's hard to schedule one weekend for everyone, the last week of August (yes, the entire week) will be the Reunion!

Who's bringing the popcorn?

I'd like to play.. I need to practice though :]

Well I like this idea and I should be around for it

Also we should make the end of the week (29th - 31st) the main reunion time but yes a whole week is great.

Hey guys! I'd definitely come back for the occasion, so try to keep the forums updated with how things go in planning the reunion?

Chris

Did it happen?  And if it did, why did you have to make it the exact same days as PAX?