General Tribes Inqueries

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Shinnokxz wrote:
> Did anyone give this a whirl? It seems to me that it flipflopped over
> the the bargain bin a bit fast.
>
> Also, is it true that the first two Tribes are now free? Will my old-ass
> account from 2001 still be active if I install it from the CD?

Er... the first question is in regards to 'Tribes: Vengeance' in which I
had originally had in the subject line, but got rid of it for some reason.

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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:33:41 -0600, Shinnokxz wrote:

> Er... the first question is in regards to 'Tribes: Vengeance' in which I
> had originally had in the subject line, but got rid of it for some reason.

Heh, I'd forgotten there was something called tribes:vengeance, for my
other reply.

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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:33:41 -0600, Shinnokxz <shinnokxz@charter.net>
wrote:

>Shinnokxz wrote:
>> Did anyone give this a whirl? It seems to me that it flipflopped over
>> the the bargain bin a bit fast.
>>
>> Also, is it true that the first two Tribes are now free? Will my old-ass
>> account from 2001 still be active if I install it from the CD?
>
>Er... the first question is in regards to 'Tribes: Vengeance' in which I
>had originally had in the subject line, but got rid of it for some reason.

I heard the game itself wasn't bad as a single player "experience" but
from what I played on the demo servers, it is *NOT* really Tribes.
More like Unreal Tourny with a Tribes mod bolted on.

And your account should still work, if you remember your nick and
password.

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Shinnokxz <shinnokxz@charter.net> wrote in news:9L%Ye.7138$P7.5029
@fe06.lga:

> I never tried Tribes I, and to tell the truth I was never a huge fan of
> Tribes 2. I played it just because some local friends did. The game was
> fun, but I thought the engine was a bit overwhelming and a little too
> player unfriendly. Not to mention there were umpteen-thousands
> modifications for it on every server- it was hard to decipher whether I
> was actually playing the vanilla game, or some lame mod.

"Overwhelming"? As in too complicated? The big draw of T2 for many of us
was that there was constantly something new to learn. Even after 3 years,
we still come back to it, and find other games just starting to use the
same concepts (like Battlefield 2).

"Player-unfriendly"? In what way? Again, there's a learning curve, but
that's a Good Thing. It means the game doesn't go in the bargain bin a
month after release.

T2's biggest problem was the bugginess that required constant patching and
it never did get completely stable.

However, you can now buy a license to the source code of T2's engine for
only $100 and build your own game, and have some hope of fixing the bugs
without waiting for official patches. For another $150 on top of that, you
get access to the next-generation engine. So for the price of a new video
card, you can be a code insider.

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ScratchMonkey wrote:
> However, you can now buy a license to the source code of T2's engine
> for only $100 and build your own game, and have some hope of fixing
> the bugs without waiting for official patches. For another $150 on
> top of that, you get access to the next-generation engine. So for the
> price of a new video card, you can be a code insider.


So, if 10 of us pitched in $25 each, the code writer in here could
create our own AGST Tribes.

I got $100 to start us off, so only 6 more members need to pitch in.



And yes, I'm serious.



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ScratchMonkey wrote:
> "Miracle Smith" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> wrote in news:433653a3$1_1
> @news6.uncensored-news.com:
>
>> So, if 10 of us pitched in $25 each, the code writer in here
>> could create our own AGST Tribes.
>>
>> I got $100 to start us off, so only 6 more members need to pitch
>> in.
>
> http://renwerx.com/
>
> I've already got my TSE license. But I'm there mostly to make the
> Linux server builds. I'm not a "new content" guy. I'm a bug buster by
> nature.


Oh WOW, they're moving along nicely!!! Thanks for the heads up,
Scratch, this is a good resource site, and a place to help support the
Tribes community in general.



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