Official Soldat Forums
Misc => The Lounge => Topic started by: jrgp on June 28, 2014, 06:48:18 am
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Okay Soldat Forums, it's been almost THREE days since your last post. This is extremely unnerving. What was once a lively thriving community is almost past dead. This forum is in danger of being archived and merged into some unified THD grand forum. I don't want that to happen. Seeing the amount of decay this forum has gone into honestly brings a tear to my eye as I've been coming here daily over the past 10 years.
Here are the rules for this thread:
1) If there are no posts elsewhere in the forum for over 1 day, post *anything* here.
2) Anything constitutes stuff that is not banned in the rules.
3) Go!
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Indeed, I've been watching this cancer-like stagnation for the past few months myself and I dont see a lot of ways to get out of this damned state. It is truly unnerving what has become of this place. We can try and bump activity a little bit. I WOULD PREFER NOT TO SEE IT ARCHIVED so wake the fuck up!
What about a shoutbox?
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A shoutbox would do OK indeed. F12
Also we should really get some more veterans bumpin' on here.
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i check this place few times a day, so I'll make sure to post some bs if it goes too silent
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Agreed. It is quite unnerving.
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LOL, first you threat all new users like trash, because they post random topics/posts like here: http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43219.0 or here: http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=38412.260
AND NOW YOU ARE SAD THAT YOU ARE ALONE HERE?? xD cool!
Now you have only few older users that talk only about some random stuff, even devs dont post anything new, hell! No one post anything about soldat! even now there is less that 100players in game.
Why?
Because some dicks that think they are "veterans" and own everything, discouraged every new idea made by new users, and others say that changes need time... sorry this game is too old to talk like that Get your sht done, remove all F trolls that bashing every new idea and start fixing this game, because like Adam said in this threat:
http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43537.msg520761#msg520761
All that Fckers that are so proud that they are here for more than 6 years did nothing in the past few years, only: BLA, BLA, BLA, BLA, BLA, BLA, BLA, BLA, talkin talking talking.
And what you gonna get in the next version of soldat? few random bug fixes that shoudl be removed 8-10 years ago, probably new stupid idea about movement or weapons and maybe 10% less players than now.
You should thx your "veterans" users that their approach to everything new is like: "GTFO you are noob".
I hope now you have topic to talk.
Because looking at you now, I think you didn't deserve for anything better than random rant not related to actual game, because thx to some of you no one like spending here time anymore. you are all alone now.
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Oh, hi Akinaro.
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GTFO Akinaro, you are noob.
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post a devlog already
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*sniff sniff* do I smell burnt butt from Akinaro's corner in the Sin Bin? :|
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(http://lakewoodlanes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/grilled-cheese.jpg)
Too soon for the shit posting or?
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Yeah, goodness, I used to come here daily. Being here for 7 years, I don't want it to disappear. I still rely on this forums for, well, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. Lol, maybe not literally, but it's a nice reprieve. Plus, in a month or so, I'm going to go back to mapping.
Anyway, I still really enjoy this forums. A merge into a THD forum would suck, and would probably not look half as nice, plus we'd lose our independence and the chance for oldies to come back to what they used to know.
A shoutbox would do OK indeed. F12
Also we should really get some more veterans bumpin' on here.
Bleh, a shoutbox would just shit up the forums.
And having veterans visit is in no one's control.
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Devlogs (and discussion related to the game's future in general) are the only reason I really visit here day by day and I guess I'm not the only one.
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Unfortunately does this place have validity for being independent aside from devlogs that could be combined with a larger forums? I guess I would argue, yes, given that I've already said that it gives veterans a place to rejoin, and that the game popularity could spike with future updates (desperate, but maybe).
I'm glad an attempt to keep this forums alive is out there. I think of the forums from time to time...
I used to sit and refresh the forums, waiting for responses.
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I used to sit and refresh the forums, waiting for responses.
I still do that. Whenever I'm on a computer, even at work at every job i've had, I always have an 'Active Topics' tab open and refresh it periodically throughout the day. I know some oldies refer to these forums as their first "internet forum" and have since moved elsewhere, but I haven't. Only forums I visit are these and 4chan, the latter of which doesn't count as its stateless and i only browse it when i'm drunk at 2am. Even if I didn't get into a staff position in the soldat/thd community and gain responsibility for maintaining the soldat forums/servers, I'd still come here and refresh active topics as a community member.
(http://lakewoodlanes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/grilled-cheese.jpg)
Too soon for the shit posting or?
God DAMN that looks good. I should probably learn to cook and buy ingredients to make that kind of sandwhich. Food porn is always welcome, even if it's for the sole purpose of keeping a forum alive. I don't know what that bowl is filled with though.
post a devlog already
Where the fuck are the devs anyway? Shoozza has yet to get back to me when i linked him this thread.
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I still do that. Whenever I'm on a computer, even at work at every job i've had, I always have an 'Active Topics' tab open and refresh it periodically throughout the day.
Admittedly, I was doing it five minutes ago.
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Devlogs (and discussion related to the game's future in general) are the only reason I really visit here day by day and I guess I'm not the only one.
Same here.
Also to be honest,
When I check unread posts, most of what I see are random topics with random people giving their opinion on things for which they have no expertise...
Just like now, I checked the "Show unread posts since last visit." And apart from this thread, all I saw was:
"Religion Re-Envisioned" http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43593.0
Seriously guys... I check here to see things related to Soldat. And what I find are topics about religion...
I'm starting to wonder if this forum has any relevance and pertinence left.
Not only that but let's pretend I'm interested about this religion topic. Why would I discuss it here? Why not go to a History/Philosophy/Theology forum instead. There I would learn things from people who at least have a clue of what the fuck they're talking about.
Sorry, jrgp, if this forum is loosing activity. It's not your fault in any way. It's just the reflection of the game Soldat itself losing activity.
Maybe the devs could write some devlogs to spice it up a bit?
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So while we're regaining our forum activity, we shouldn't forget about having some fun meanwhile.
Check this nice loop out - http://z0r.de/955
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@jrgp
Posted the devlog http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43594
Devs are probably idle because summer and repo stuck status so yeah..
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Not only that but let's pretend I'm interested about this religion topic. Why would I discuss it here? Why not go to a History/Philosophy/Theology forum instead.
cause it's more fun to discuss stuff with the people you know
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yeah JEEZ i came by here to hang out and see who still posted to discover how infrequent of a thing that is. yikes
hi Blacksheepboy, Shoozza, DorkeyDear, cheeseman, good to see y'all
Alternatives to teh forum, 'cause it's so depressing:
What if we left this forum running but heavily advertised the official soldatforums IRC channel? We could all hang out there and talk about soldat, there are so few of us that it might make the most sense. or maybe a soldatforums subreddit? I know reddit has a bad rap to many but I personally find the hierarchical style of posting and responding to people superior to these classic categorized forums (at least for small homogenous communities).
The forum could stay open for newbies who have questions or want to browse what's left of the maps/mods.
What about official soldat gameservers? We could set dates for soldat gathers, say, on a couple random days in each month, so everyone has a shot at making it to one.
With the addition of background polys i'm tempted to get back into mapping. make a mappack or whatever. i know i was never the best mapmaker but pumping some consistent and new content into the game might do it some good. Dunno. Was polyworks fixed to support background polys?
As for the devs & new versions, the game looks really good nowadays. I like where it finally matured to— I still liked 1.3.1 the most but y'know whatevs
All the same, perhaps we as a community should brainstorm to figure out what soldat's FINAL FORM should be. if just a couple more bugfixes and a quiet death is what we really want, or if Something Big could happen.
Edit: Just read that post by Adam (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43537.msg520761#msg520761). My sentiments exactly, too bad I don't know what to do about any of this.
omg jrgp grilled cheese is the fucking EASIEST thing to cook. ok that's it i'm making a soldat cooking show brb
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I used to sit and refresh the forums, waiting for responses.
I still do that. Whenever I'm on a computer, even at work at every job i've had, I always have an 'Active Topics' tab open and refresh it periodically throughout the day. I know some oldies refer to these forums as their first "internet forum" and have since moved elsewhere, but I haven't. Only forums I visit are these and 4chan, the latter of which doesn't count as its stateless and i only browse it when i'm drunk at 2am. Even if I didn't get into a staff position in the soldat/thd community and gain responsibility for maintaining the soldat forums/servers, I'd still come here and refresh active topics as a community member.
(http://lakewoodlanes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/grilled-cheese.jpg)
Too soon for the shit posting or?
God DAMN that looks good. I should probably learn to cook and buy ingredients to make that kind of sandwhich. Food porn is always welcome, even if it's for the sole purpose of keeping a forum alive. I don't know what that bowl is filled with though.
post a devlog already
Where the fuck are the devs anyway? Shoozza has yet to get back to me when i linked him this thread.
2 BREAD. 1 CHEESE. 1 CHEESE GRATE DEVICE. PUT GRATED CHEESE ON BREAD. APPLY HEAT TO BREAD. EAT.
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are you a wizard shard ?!
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are you a wizard shard ?!
Yes.
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It's called the lounge for a reason. But I see your point for not caring.
Hi Mistercharles.
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Alternatives to teh forum, 'cause it's so depressing:
What if we left this forum running but heavily advertised the official soldatforums IRC channel? We could all hang out there and talk about soldat, there are so few of us that it might make the most sense. or maybe a soldatforums subreddit?
theres soldat subreddit but its not really popular though http://www.reddit.com/r/soldat/
The forum could stay open for newbies who have questions or want to browse what's left of the maps/mods.
What about official soldat gameservers? We could set dates for soldat gathers, say, on a couple random days in each month, so everyone has a shot at making it to one.
I once talked with shoozza about a "approved" server tag in lobby so people can easily choose best servers, but it didint go further than discussion. After all there are only a handful of servers active daily left so why even bother. I once though of an anti-idle day http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43112.msg516416#msg516416 but obviously no one cared.
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The forum could stay open for newbies who have questions or want to browse what's left of the maps/mods.
What about official soldat gameservers? We could set dates for soldat gathers, say, on a couple random days in each month, so everyone has a shot at making it to one.
I once talked with shoozza about a "approved" server tag in lobby so people can easily choose best servers, but it didint go further than discussion. After all there are only a handful of servers active daily left so why even bother. I once though of an anti-idle day http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43112.msg516416#msg516416 but obviously no one cared.
Regarding "official" servers, I host 18 for KAG (spread over US, DE, and AU) and their IPs/ports are hardcoded into the game itself so they show up gold colored and bold in the ingame server list. That is mainly for quality control as Furai maintains those servers in terms of banning people and setting the modes and stuff. I think Soldat would benefit from that if it had the player base it did 10 years ago.
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Regarding "official" servers, I host 18 for KAG (spread over US, DE, and AU) and their IPs/ports are hardcoded into the game itself so they show up gold colored and bold in the ingame server list. That is mainly for quality control as Furai maintains those servers in terms of banning people and setting the modes and stuff. I think Soldat would benefit from that if it had the player base it did 10 years ago.
It would also make sure that people could maybe play on good servers again.
Currently the few "new players" Soldat will get will have to play on unmoderated servers which are full of retards running around with their Chainsaw, Brt & M79 for the whole time.
They'll have to play with 20 people on maps which were made for 6-8 players and they will get spammed with retarded scripts and in the end they will think that the /mine command which places a mine on the ground is an official game feature.
Then they'll uninstall the game.
What if we left this forum running but heavily advertised the official soldatforums IRC channel?
There is #soldat.devs and no one ever talks about the game there (no one talking about anything there at all). What should we talk abou though? There is not too much to talk about anymore after 12 years.
Was polyworks fixed to support background polys?
Yes! Working just fine!
Adam's post (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43537.msg520761#msg520761) quite much points it out.
- discouraging talented and motivated people always bothered me / It seemed that no one really cared about the amazing work Akinaro made for Soldat and again no one saw the high rate of work he contributed. He would have been capable of redoing all Soldat maps / Menus / Logs and everything visual related in a very short time but all he got was insults. one of his maps (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43531.0)
He is by far the best mapper we had in visual terms, everyone disagreeing here, has no idea.
but the fact that suggestions have been ignored for years and hold back made the game and the forums to where we are now.
I'm especially talking about the
- GUI
- Account System / Soldat Portal (which was highly blamed by soldatforums members for no reaon)
- Ant-Cheat (it's not that bad without anti-cheat right now but I guess it didn't have a good impact though)
I have made a post about the need of a new GUI and Account System / Portal / Stats on selfkill.com which must have been in 2006 or 2007 and all the german community did was giving dumb replys like "play Call of Duty then" because they lack the idea behind what marketing is and how important the visual look of the menu and GUI is (the first thing the player will see after installing the game) and the portal (which shows the latest game news, manuals, links and what not) and Account System (for the case that there is no anti-cheat, it will help to get hackers banned, it does give the devs statistics about the playerbase, new registrations etc. and of corse the stats system which is one of the most important things in games since it's getting people hooked.)
the list is quite large.
By the way: For everyone who really still believes that bug-fixing is needed in Soldat, I'm just saying this:
Soldat is quite much BUGFREE.
EA Sports, a multi-million company, releasing FIFA every year has bugs. (ref will end the match if it's in 90+ but if you are just about to shoot a goal, because they are too dumb to recognize that YOURPLAYER.POSITION = close to the enemies goal
it has several other bugs which BREAK the game.
Soldat doesn't have such. (I'm not counting eats as a bug)
I play Soldat on a highly frequence again and I can say that I have never seen heavy bugs which would break the game.
Don't even try to argue with me, you will get smashed :-\
but yeah, welcome back
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Why does everyone think we turn talents down? Should we have gladly embraced his major douchebaggery with joy as he tramples on all the things socially not accepted in this forum? Have we called him out like "your stuff sucks, go away!" ???
No, we did not. We encouraged him to map, but also told him to shut the fuck up. He didn't, and now he's gone. Or were we supposed to hold our arses for him so he may ravage in us for the sake of a couple of maps? You got to be kidding me.
As for myself, I was discouraged to map, because none of the staff responsible for maps got in contact with me. I wrote a couple of PMs asking for what's up and whether they need help fixing bugs in maps, or what they think about the remakes - but nothing. Akinaro was actually told his maps are amazing, so what the fuck.
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It would also make sure that people could maybe play on good servers again.
Currently the few "new players" Soldat will get will have to play on unmoderated servers which are full of retards running around with their Chainsaw, Brt & M79 for the whole time.
They'll have to play with 20 people on maps which were made for 6-8 players and they will get spammed with retarded scripts and in the end they will think that the /mine command which places a mine on the ground is an official game feature.
Then they'll uninstall the game.
I can set up some "official" servers (in US, DE, and AU) and work with shoozza to make them stand out in the ingame list, depending on whether or not he thinks this is a good idea. I already host (and rent (https://gshost.us/buy/game/soldat/location/US)) a bunch of soldat servers for random people, and of course the "jrgp's" servers which occasionally are full.
- discouraging talented and motivated people always bothered me / It seemed that no one really cared about the amazing work Akinaro made for Soldat and again no one saw the high rate of work he contributed. He would have been capable of redoing all Soldat maps / Menus / Logs and everything visual related in a very short time but all he got was insults. one of his maps (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43531.0)
He is by far the best mapper we had in visual terms, everyone disagreeing here, has no idea.
No one ever disputed his mapping ability. He was heavily praised for it. You are ignoring the fact that he was not polite or friendly which is why he left.
I have made a post about the need of a new GUI and Account System / Portal / Stats on selfkill.com which must have been in 2006 or 2007 and all the german community did was giving dumb replys like "play Call of Duty then" because they lack the idea behind what marketing is and how important the visual look of the menu and GUI is (the first thing the player will see after installing the game) and the portal (which shows the latest game news, manuals, links and what not) and Account System (for the case that there is no anti-cheat, it will help to get hackers banned, it does give the devs statistics about the playerbase, new registrations etc. and of corse the stats system which is one of the most important things in games since it's getting people hooked.)
Regarding an account system/portal: right before EnEsCe was kicked off the devteam he did complete an account system and portal for the game, including "lobby chat" based on IRC. The added functionality garnered mixed to negative reception. Once development was transferred to Shoozza, the new devteam worked for a while removing all traces of the account system from the code.
Soldat is quite much BUGFREE.
EA Sports, a multi-million company, releasing FIFA every year has bugs. (ref will end the match if it's in 90+ but if you are just about to shoot a goal, because they are too dumb to recognize that YOURPLAYER.POSITION = close to the enemies goal
it has several other bugs which BREAK the game.
I agree with you about bugfreeness. I've played the hell out of most of the Soldat releases since 1.2.1 and none of the "bugs" pissed me off that much and I hardly ever noticed them.
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It would also make sure that people could maybe play on good servers again.
Currently the few "new players" Soldat will get will have to play on unmoderated servers which are full of retards running around with their Chainsaw, Brt & M79 for the whole time.
They'll have to play with 20 people on maps which were made for 6-8 players and they will get spammed with retarded scripts and in the end they will think that the /mine command which places a mine on the ground is an official game feature.
Then they'll uninstall the game.
Players choose where they want to play, if out of 150 online servers they choose my 4 ctfs it means they are serving their purpose perfectly.
-mine command is only available on ctf#2 so dont overreact
-ctf#4 is 16 slots and is most popular server atm so dont question players taste
- theres m79 and ret limitation scripts running
- there are no admins cause everyone from the old admin crew eventually stopped playing or plays once per month, however im on arsse 7:50am-4pm on weekdays as i can easily run it at work so yeah theres that, if help is needed everyone can easily request me. Plus you know there are votekicks and players can use their inner democracy to take care of the server themselves
- your arguments are invalid ;d
dardar so mad on my servers even though they are pretty much only active ctf;d
I can set up some "official" servers (in US, DE, and AU) and work with shoozza to make them stand out in the ingame list, depending on whether or not he thinks this is a good idea. I already host (and rent) a bunch of soldat servers for random people, and of course the "jrgp's" servers which occasionally are full.
Can i get a reccommended star plx on zabijaka servers
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Can i get a reccommended star plx on zabijaka servers
If this stuff ends up happening, yes.
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No one ever disputed his mapping ability. He was heavily praised for it. You are ignoring the fact that he was not polite or friendly which is why he left.
That's a shame.
No, we did not. We encouraged him to map, but also told him to shut the fuck up. He didn't, and now he's gone. Or were we supposed to hold our arses for him so he may ravage in us for the sake of a couple of maps? You got to be kidding me.
I'd put up with bullshit. Some people are just, well, whatever. That doesn't define their status in the community, or maybe shouldn't. Well, at least if they offer positive content... well whatever. My argument is words are cheap. I guess maybe he should have noticed this too.
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*shrugs* kids either grow up or stay kids.
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As for myself, I was discouraged to map, because none of the staff responsible for maps got in contact with me. I wrote a couple of PMs asking for what's up and whether they need help fixing bugs in maps, or what they think about the remakes - but nothing. Akinaro was actually told his maps are amazing, so what the fuck.
For a while this has been the case with my remakes too. I realize some of them still have a long way to go, and I'm glad that at least Fortress and Warehouse remakes got in, so not all is bad. I'd love to see your Voland remake too, it's incredible especially in comparison to how butt-ugly the original is. Some of Akinaro's remakes are also amazing and it would be great if they were included as defaults, but alas, Akinaro would rather have them rot away.
It would be nice to have a slightly better communication from the map team, so map(re)makers are better aware of what their remakes are lacking and why are they not added to the default pack. There are some really good remakes out there, it's a real shame they're nothing but a piece of eyecandy buried in the forums' depths.
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Players choose where they want to play, if out of 150 online servers they choose my 4 ctfs it means they are serving their purpose perfectly.
No, players dont choose where they want to play by themself and they dont pick your 4 Servers out of 150. They pick your 4 servers out of 15 servers (which have some players on it) and since your servers got the most players they'll most likely join them. It has nothing to do about the servers but no one will join empty servers. That's just it.
-ctf#4 is 16 slots and is most popular server atm so dont question players taste
If you start growing up with some cheap fake coka cola then you'll obviously drink it, not because it tastes so amazing, but because you don't know any alternatvies.
Your map pool is that fake coka cola and the players didn't have the opportunity to taste the amazing real coke yet.
- your arguments are valid!
Yes
dardar so mad on my servers even though they are pretty much only active ctf;d
As I said above they are not active for their quality but for the inactivity of all other servers. Players will always join the full servers instead of empty servers and those are yours right now.
I'm mad about the poor way Soldat looks like if players would play on them. I remember having fun a few years ago on public servers. I can't say that nowadays (at least on the CTF Servers)
jrgp:
No one ever disputed his mapping ability. He was heavily praised for it. You are ignoring the fact that he was not polite or friendly which is why he left.
I must assume that all people he ever had trouble on the forums here lack the sense of how to socialize.
It's quite easy to find out about how other people think and behave and someone with a common sense about that could just have shutup by himself instead of insulting him for no reason over and over again. Things like "You are a good mapper but a horrible person" as a first reply to a new map doesn't really give a good impact on such.
If you know that your opinions might be different than by some other member but you see him contributing aweseome work to the community then just shut the fuck up or answer in a solid way that he won't be hurt too much.
It's quite easy, just read his mind a little.
Also, do something about the mapping team, wow and replace those awful old maps and replace them with the TONS of remakes we have there, or add some new. WHERE IS THE PROBLEM HERE ?! Jesus.
It's not even work to do, just copy+paste (shortkey : CMD+C then CMD+V if that will help)
jrgp:
Regarding an account system/portal: right before EnEsCe was kicked off the devteam he did complete an account system and portal for the game, including "lobby chat" based on IRC. The added functionality garnered mixed to negative reception. Once development was transferred to Shoozza, the new devteam worked for a while removing all traces of the account system from the code.
I know about that, it was the most promising soldat version we ever had and it was sad to not see it happen. It worked just amazing in the beta.
Even though it was even added way too late back in the days, and when NSC didn't share the code no one seemed to bother to re-do it.
About merging all THD related forums to one:
Why not ?
It's not a bad thing and especially about marketing that's a good way to get the new THD games shared to the playerbase of the other games.
I dont see something bad about it just that it's no longer as unique as a "private" forum.
About the dead forum:
I myself am more the reader than the writer and I guess others act the same way, and if there is nothing to read (by others) the chance will even get lower to ever write something. Time of "modding,mapping,tools,interfaces and whatnot" releases is over too. So, most things we could talk about are some offtopic things or whenever there is a devlog ( which does not happen too often sadly and the last 2 devlogs quite much said that there was no code-progress made yet, at least nothing about that was posted)
You can't create a hype if there is nothing to hype about.
I just hope to see those "big projects" for 1.6.8 - 1.7, whatever they are but I hope one of them is a new GUI.
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If you start growing up with some cheap fake coka cola then you'll obviously drink it, not because it tastes so amazing, but because you don't know any alternatvies.
Your map pool is that fake coka cola and the players didn't have the opportunity to taste the amazing real coke yet.
CTF#4 as you might have picked up from the name was created last. So its purely players decision they play there. As for maps I tried to introduce big ass maps to ctf#4 with slight success but it turned worse with time so I had to reverse it. Old mapslist consisted of gems like ctf_Kaolon, ctf_Harlequin, ctf_Festen, ctf_Silence etc
In december it will 5 year anniversary of starting my first zabijaka.pl server, this indicates that players indeed chose them over others.
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yeah i added a shoutbox to the front page. people might as well post in it. if it doesnt get any activity i'll delete it
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@L[One]R: Exactly my thoughts. On an unrelated note: I would love to see you frequent deviantART more. :P
@darDar: Here's the web definition for constructive criticism for starters: Constructive criticism is the process of offering valid and well-reasoned opinions about the work of others, usually involving both positive and negative comments, in a friendly manner rather than an oppositional one.
I bet you could help Bonecrusher better his servers. I too believe they need some tweaking here and there, so why not? He's sponsoring them off his own money, I don't think he deserves being talked to like that.
I cannot resist pointing the irony out when you call the community out for 'turning talents down by insulting them' (generalisation btw, it was only Akinaro) and then you compare Bonecrusher's servers to fake cola. Way to go.
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It's quite easy to find out about how other people think and behave and someone with a common sense about that could just have shutup by himself instead of insulting him for no reason over and over again. Things like "You are a good mapper but a horrible person" as a first reply to a new map doesn't really give a good impact on such.
If you know that your opinions might be different than by some other member but you see him contributing aweseome work to the community then just shut the fuck up or answer in a solid way that he won't be hurt too much.
It's quite easy, just read his mind a little.
Yeah... I haven't checked out his maps, but from what I heard, they were pretty fancy.
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I really wonder what made the Soldat community die. It's sad to see it die like this. No one would have expected that back in around '07 I guess.
Quake 3/Live for example still has a big and active community, and it is 15+ years old.
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sup?
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I stream here: www.twitch.tv/700hours around 12 to 4 GMT -8.
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Guess this is the thread for the death of Soldat or something like that. Ironic that it would be made by jrgp.
I got banned for posting Goatse as a dare by the name of Fluffy one day a long ago. Then I got back by the name of Antipathy and probably talked just the same shit as I always did. Anyway. Just here to pay my respects for the game. It was dope. Still is I guess, haven't tried in a long time. Whatever you do MM, I wish you the best of luck in your ambitions whatever they may be although you are most likely humming mantras in Tibet right now instead of reading this. Also my kudos for the Bash Pit, fuck the mods for deleting it, fuck all the moderators in fact, you were shit all day long, fuck you all, except that one guy, he was pretty cool, he was alright.
I'm going now, goodbye. I'm going into the light.
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sup.
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We got 2 new persons at work yesterday. One hot chick and one really funny guy.
win
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That makes two people who distract you from work. That's not a win, homer. :P
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Well, since this thread isn't too old, I guess I'll leave my 2 cents.
I was a casual pubber who started playing Soldat in 1.3, living in Southeast Asia. Naturally, my timezone doesn't match and I don't get good ping in many games - Soldat included - usually I have at least 200 ping in any server I play, but I can tolerate up to a maximum of 300 ping. Regardless, I played Soldat a lot, especially INF servers (GameArena, anyone?) and later scripted (zombie) servers until the 1.5 era. To me, 1.4.2 was the peak of Soldat.
That was when the number of pubs started declining, and the non-regular servers I visited began disappearing - trench wars, boss arena, zombies... gone. For regular games, I saw a gradual rise in the number of Barretts and M79s being used, which began to bug me more and more. I eventually found interest in Advanced Zombie, and ended up working with Tehbugerz0r (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?action=profile;u=11163) as an admin and advisor for the server. Unfortunately, as eC stopped hosting, and the server was gone. We kept in contact for a 3rd version of the script, but we eventually had a falling out over my comments on S4 League. With that, my interest(and mod responsibilities) in Subvein: Mutant Factions and my conscription for 2 years, I stopped visiting/playing Soldat for a long time.
I came back to see the game and forums very occasionally like today. While I'm happy to see that development has greatly improved over the 1.5 days, it seems the damage had already been done. When I tried to look for a match, I would find few occupied servers within my ping range. As mentioned earlier, I live in SEA, and most of the activity appears to be in Europe, the location of which I have the worst pings of 350-450. On the few games I managed to find, I would quickly be turned off by the number of Barretts & M79s flying around. The only servers within ping range that always had players were the Snipe n Slice CTF servers, and I'm not optimistic that there'd be a boost in pub players anytime soon and that's the final nail on the coffin.
I do hope Soldat regains popularity in future though, its one of the few games where you could just start up and play a quick match. Until then, I'll disappear again and maybe re-appear when I have a burst of nostalgia.
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Well, since this thread isn't too old, I guess I'll leave my 2 cents.
This thread is immune to the forum necropost rule.
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It got vaccination from our beloved staff member - jrgp.
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Ho damn, I feel like this thread was started a month ago, not since June.
Cool time, cool.
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Bump!
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No.
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No.
aw damn
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Rawrs.
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/me hides
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/me checks under a rock
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/me goes on vacation
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/me does the gene pool a favor and shoots himself in the head with a shotgun
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/me does the gene pool a favor and shoots himself in the head with a shotgun
/me likes this ^
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/me does the gene pool a favor and shoots himself in the head with a shotgun
/me likes this ^
(http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=31928;type=avatar)
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Good boy Fawkzy.
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I woke up this morning and was like
(http://i.imgur.com/X7GArc9.jpg)
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Stickied so it's easier for me to find this thread when I feel the urge to bump it.
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Bump bump bump!
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put a BUMP on it
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Add some Steven Segull
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/211/8/6/steven_seagull_by_kaijugroupie84-d6fxb7p.jpg)
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I've recently dloaded some of steven seagals most hilarious films: Fire down below, and On deadly ground. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a silly movie.
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I've recently dloaded some of steven seagals most hilarious films: Fire down below, and On deadly ground. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a silly movie.
He also makes an appearance in Machete!
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He also released albums of country music!
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Hey forum, wake up! NAO!
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no mommy no school today pls
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no mommy no school today pls
please please pleeeeeeze let me stay home sick!
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You're drunk jrgp and FarkleMadDancer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXVNKtmWnc) (wtf, don't ask DarkCrusade), go home.
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I got an apprenticeship in IT shit
one step closer to becoming the second jrgp
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Yay, you learn how to make coffee. :3
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we have a coffee machine for that lol
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And one apprentice to weild it. :3
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aye boiz
lol i'm googling my old username eyic finding some funny ass young'in posts:
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=6851
holy fuk DNA.styx the original forum master
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=10524
fuk I was such a little baby!!!!
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=3985
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=9827
and when m00net got hacked for like the 100th time
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=30681
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=27631
the original bashpit was absolute comedic gold.
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/subforum.php?forum=39
so many familiar names. so many memories of my childhood in these forums.. those feels
also having a laugh at all the messages in my inbox oh man good times!!!
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back in dem times when the forums were brimming with activity dayummmmmm
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Yeah I wondered what happened to you m00. Back from the days of that LAW server, which I still think about.
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got banned a couple of times lol.. still come and check up on this forum. seems to be a little more dead every time I visit
i love u blacksheepboy
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cute
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i love u blacksheepboy
You rock little star in the heavens.
Haha, don't ask where I got that.
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Helsingborgs Idrottsförening.
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you mistake us with people that care
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Scarface approves.
"1) If there are no posts elsewhere in the forum for over 1 day, post *anything* here.
2) Anything constitutes stuff that is not banned in the rules.
3) Go!"
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*anything*
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http://www.tshirtroundup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/life-of-brian---bright-side-of-life-faniseto.jpg
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got banned a couple of times lol.. still come and check up on this forum. seems to be a little more dead every time I visit
i love u blacksheepboy
Nice to see you again m00`. Now we just need Chakra to come back and this'll be a real party.
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I demand Anna Ternheim on an acoustic guitar for a real party.
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bring back Horve
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bring back Horve
Better yet: bring us back to an era that predates foxconn
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Now we just need Chakra to come back and this'll be a real party.
Now you're just dreaming. I wasn't around to know Chakra, and I was young and retarded, but he seems like a pretty cool guy.
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Wait, what about me?
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life update: uh nevermind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp2-1wWulqk)
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wat
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Wait, what about me?
Nice! Hello mistercharles. Never really got to know you, but there's always the second life to figure that out. So maybe I'll see you on the other side?
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@darkcrusade i'm the shirtless broom master fighting the dark broom master obvi
hi blacksheep i'm floating around facebook and the minecraft forums trying to get a tumblr started what's up
p.s. lol hi m00
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hi blacksheep i'm floating around facebook and the minecraft forums trying to get a tumblr started what's up
Not much, just moved from Washington State to Kansas LOL, hot and humid n stuff. Otherwise all's cool.
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life update: uh nevermind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp2-1wWulqk)
Sick tunes in that. Nice to see you throw the rake around.
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I've been looking for a nice space game to get into and came across Homeworld, which Chakra and me played for while and I got rather nostalgic, missing my old friend. Which also brought me here to this deserted place. I think you're gonna have to accept losing to father time, I don't see Soldat coming out of this hole.So, if anyone knows how to contact Chakra I'd be grateful :)
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I think you're gonna have to accept losing to father time, I don't see Soldat coming out of this hole.
So you think it will become abandon-ware? Well, shucks.
I really think this game holds potential... but yeah, it has been eclipsed by a long life and shower of other games so that the younger generations like I was once won't even find this game. That's what it takes to keep this game alive. Now we're all older, just clinging on. That's my synopsis.
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I've been looking for a nice space game to get into and came across Homeworld, which Chakra and me played for while and I got rather nostalgic, missing my old friend. Which also brought me here to this deserted place. I think you're gonna have to accept losing to father time, I don't see Soldat coming out of this hole.So, if anyone knows how to contact Chakra I'd be grateful :)
His name is Ruari McGill and this is his facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RuariMcgill
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I've been looking for a nice space game to get into and came across Homeworld, which Chakra and me played for while and I got rather nostalgic, missing my old friend. Which also brought me here to this deserted place. I think you're gonna have to accept losing to father time, I don't see Soldat coming out of this hole.So, if anyone knows how to contact Chakra I'd be grateful :)
Just talked to Chakra over FB. He said to give you this:
(https://chakra.u13.net/outcastnaked.png)
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lul, reminds me that I still need to take the gym pics
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Nice, thanks a lot jrgp!
Now that picture must be 10 years old atleast, guess Chakra doesn't format much :)
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WINDOWS ME 4 LIFE BRO
Actually it was sitting on my old u13 storage place. Wassup?
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WINDOWS ME 4 LIFE BRO
I guess the dead do rise.
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>not windows NT
pls
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ho-lee phuk. sup outcast
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Hah still got my old account.
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Hah still got my old account.
Maybe you should ban m00` again for old time's sake.
m00`: you still have your prelude btw?
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Hah still got my old account.
Maybe you should ban m00` again for old time's sake.
m00`: you still have your prelude btw?
yep still got it. I modded it to make my headlights wink :)
I've got 2 extra switches (each one disables the corresponding headlight)
and ho-lee dam phook son it's chakra
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IMMM NUCLEAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
IM WILD
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A long time ago, Michael Marcinkowksi was sad that when he researched this on the internet, he found that no one had pirated his game Link-Dead.
...
Anyone want it?
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I want to let you lads in on a little conversation I have having with some British gents. I think you'll really be interested.
https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1489170
Bitch please.
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You claiming Einstein was wrong is like a baby teaching his parents how to raise a child. Bitch please.
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this is absolute gold
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You claiming Einstein was wrong is like a baby teaching his parents how to raise a child. Bitch please.
What the fuck does that even mean?
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Not to sound rude, but what you write sounds very much like you need some mental treatment.
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Sinners actually lose light and
accumulate darkness, ...
You could quite literally walk through the sun if you have on
a black suit.
Ever wonder why black people are so
dark? It is because they are the greatest sinners, and have lost so much light!
So sinner can defy current laws of system.
to change the environment around and step over lines
we have to become part of sinners.
See God is all light - white , but man is half white and black, therefore man could create and change state of reality
in a way how God never could. We listen to God, wants we listen. Then its about the perfect balance - gold middle way!
We project this idea on something practical - Soldat development;
It means that one transforms itself into sin, could able one to step over these limitations.
And later reclaim his Jesus righteousness through absolution.
To affect current state of development, because its system - its stable - become part of physics reality.
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Thank god, more bullshit!
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Oh, I get it. I was so drunk, I was leaking. Fuck me! that was dangerous. Well don't worry, systems check in, we're green, and I'll use my faculties instead of sitting around like piss horse and kiss ass.
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sup bitches, good to see we still running on simple machines
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Toasters are no longer simple and you know it.
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He meant the forum engine.
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and that doesn't run on toasters? [ban]
That smilie reminds me of a demonstration I had against the communist party. They were demonstrating against some war in Iraq and I went down alone with a sign which read "Ja till kriget!" (Yes to the war). They were quite angry at the sight of me and police ordered me to disperse, which is kind of hard for one person to do. They didn't tear me apart luckily, but then I was basically treated like something lower than an animal because I happened to like the local football team. Could be something for malmö fans to do.. or wait, didn't they already stab some commie faggot called Showan Shattac? Maybe it's time for malmö fans to be put in concentration camps because of what happened in their town?
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sup bitches, good to see we still running on simple machines
In two months it marks the ten year anniversary since we installed these forums. :)
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sup bitches, good to see we still running on simple machines
In two months it marks the ten year anniversary since we installed these forums. :)
what a time to be alive
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the huge party of four people that still come here can party hard
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I wish normal mode nades were actually deadly if there is a direct hit -.-
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i'm evoking this again
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i'm here every day :<
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Poopy ass farts. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LfKbCR0MI)
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I woke up today at 6 am and went to gym. Do you even lift, bro?!
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I woke up at 12am and was still fucked like hell today
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I woke up at 1:20 PM and stayed in bed until 2:40PM. FML
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I woke up at 1:20 PM and stayed in bed until 2:40PM. FML
...to fall asleep at 5 a.m. I've been there for a year xD
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I've been sleeping like shit because I got the wrong bed when I ordered from IKEA. I returned the stupid bed and bought a Hastens bed instead (very expencive) Now I sleep on an air madrass until it arrives!
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I've been sleeping like shit because I got the wrong bed when I ordered from IKEA. I returned the stupid bed and bought a Hastens bed instead (very expencive) Now I sleep on an air madrass until it arrives!
Let us know if it was worth buying.
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I've been sleeping like shit because I got the wrong bed when I ordered from IKEA. I returned the stupid bed and bought a Hastens bed instead (very expencive) Now I sleep on an air madrass until it arrives!
I can understand a pillow or a mattress making a difference, but the bed itself? How does that work?
Edit: pillow.
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If you can't sleep well, you haven't drunk enough beer
Simple story!
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I've been sleeping like shit because I got the wrong bed when I ordered from IKEA. I returned the stupid bed and bought a Hastens bed instead (very expencive) Now I sleep on an air madrass until it arrives!
I've got mixed feelings towards ikea:
Pros:
- really lightweight furniture once build so it's easy during moving
- build process is usually easy and cartoons are cool
- cheap
Cons:
- really lightweight furniture which is flimsy as hell in some cases
- sometimes uncomfy
- store is so big i've gotten lost several times
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If you can't sleep well, you haven't drunk enough beer
*you haven't smoked enough weed
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*you haven't smoked enough weed
*you browse too much stuff before sleep with bright screen. Blue light kills your melatonin production and you can't sleep. Easy as that. Solution? Don't browse Internet before going to bed or get redshift/flux.
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Blue light kills your melatonin production and you can't sleep.
...or at least don't browse Soldat Forums because of its color theme.
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I already got Flux because of some mild eye irritations. A pal of mine has more severe problems because of gaming. Careful with too much light guys! Don't go staring into your monitor with full light for long periods every day.
The thing about some mattresses is that they contain bad chemical stuff that you might not want to breath in. Basically all furniture contains these bad chemicals, that's why fresh air is so nice. My wife is allergic to Latex and reacted to many of the mattresses we tried. Hastens beds are made from pure organic stuff, good for you and good for nature. I will come back to you about the sleeping quality after I've spent some nights in it. Sleeping quality has much to do with finding your preferred hardness/softness. You can also choose between spring mattress where the mattress will breath a lot more and help you bounce out of bed or tempur/foam mattress that will wrap around you and feel soft but will not bounce or breath. The quality of the materials used will decide how much moisture like sweat the bed will transport away and if the bed regulates heat when it's too hot/cold.
It will take a month for them to create and assemble the bed and get it delivered so I will come back to you after that :)
I spent about 5 times as much as an IKEA bed. Normal persons will probably be fine with an IKEA bed but after having some issues with their customer service and learning about chemicals we decided to try hastens.
Heh, I talk about not letting small chemicals enter my body while you talk about smoking weed. Well, your choice, I even cough when walking past regular smokers.
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meow
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I already got Flux because of some mild eye irritations. A pal of mine has more severe problems because of gaming. Careful with too much light guys! Don't go staring into your monitor with full light for long periods every day.
The thing about some mattresses is that they contain bad chemical stuff that you might not want to breath in. Basically all furniture contains these bad chemicals, that's why fresh air is so nice. My wife is allergic to Latex and reacted to many of the mattresses we tried. Hastens beds are made from pure organic stuff, good for you and good for nature. I will come back to you about the sleeping quality after I've spent some nights in it. Sleeping quality has much to do with finding your preferred hardness/softness. You can also choose between spring mattress where the mattress will breath a lot more and help you bounce out of bed or tempur/foam mattress that will wrap around you and feel soft but will not bounce or breath. The quality of the materials used will decide how much moisture like sweat the bed will transport away and if the bed regulates heat when it's too hot/cold.
It will take a month for them to create and assemble the bed and get it delivered so I will come back to you after that :)
I spent about 5 times as much as an IKEA bed. Normal persons will probably be fine with an IKEA bed but after having some issues with their customer service and learning about chemicals we decided to try hastens.
Heh, I talk about not letting small chemicals enter my body while you talk about smoking weed. Well, your choice, I even cough when walking past regular smokers.
Goddamn, that's a lot of factors to consider. I'm already having sleep issues, but with so many potential causes I have no idea where to even start. :/ Also how does one "react" to a bad mattress? And how big is the effect of those chemicals? If you're not even sleeping on the mattress directly (without any sheets) - surely you're not coming into contact with any more chemicals than your body is used to on a daily basis?
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Out of the many consumers who have bought memory foam beds, a very small portion seem to experience allergic-type reactions. There are some reports online of people experiencing nose, throat or eye irritation, asthma irritation, or nausea which they attribute to mattress odors. These reviews are in the minority compared to the thousands who have owned memory foam without incident over the past 25 years. According to Sleep Like The Dead’s research, odors cause less than 2% of people overall to return these mattresses. http://www.sleepjunkie.org/are-memory-foam-mattresses-safe/
After trying various beds I would recommend going to a store with lots of beds and just try them all until you find the right hardness for you. The more expensive they are the softer they are supposed to be but it doesn't necessarily mean you like them better. You will probably not find beds without toxic chemicals in them, but you can ask about their ability to transport moisture.
It's hard to choose a bed really :p There's even more to think about; Do you want high legs so that you can vacuum under your bed or store stuff under your bed? Do you want a wooden frame around your bed or do you want your bed to be frameless?
I started with some specifications I wanted and I started at the most expensive store to have a good reference when I was out looking elsewhere
My specifications was:
160x200 (have no room or need for more), High legs (26 cm), No wooden frame (want to sleep close to the walls on the side), Only organic materials (good for nature, good for me and my wife's allergies), Spring mattress (breaths and transport moisture better), One harder side for me and one softer side for my wife (it's common that girls get softer side because of their natural curves), The 160 bed needed to be split in two 80 beds so that I don't fall down towards the middle if she sleeps towards the middle, this also makes the bed more easy to move around.
Also, we have ordered bamboo sheets and duvet covers, the alternative was some high quality cotton but bamboo feels softer and more stretchy ;p It also has very good qualities.
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Woah, nice to see that this dialogue is going into a more serious, productive direction. The 'smoking weed' thingy was not meant to be serious of course.
I have heard about that flux thing a lot lately, already started using it on my phone (since it was super easy to get it running). Will have to read into how to use it on my linux laptop.
My 2 cents for sleeping better and basically all issues "civilized" people face: meditation & yoga. Try it out & live happier! If you need more info on that, I will be more than glad to help you...
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Thanks to both of you, though meditation/yoga/any sort of physical activity is out of the question due to my physically-lazy lifestyle. :P I do have a little routine before sleep though which seems to have somewhat of a meditative effect. I suppose my main issue right now is the mattress - I have a spring mattress I brought from the cottage which looked nicer, but seems to have quite a bit of odor now that I've checked it up-close. I'll get my old one back and see if it's any better. I also have a foam one on top (I find spring ones a bit too hard), but perhaps it's not taking the summer heat and moisture too well. I might just look into buying a brand new one and actually pay attention to materials.
On a sidenote, nice to see Soldat Forums finally stopped shitting bricks. At least for now.
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The right mattress definitely has a huge impact on your sleep, no doubt. If you are healthy both physically and mentally, however, you will be able to sleep like a log even on a wooden floor. :)
meditation/yoga/any sort of physical activity is out of the question due to my physically-lazy lifestyle
Especially if you are physically-lazy, you should aim for doing some physical activity.
BTW: meditation is not a physical activity, but mental. You can even do Yoga without moving (Yoga is not only the physical practice most people in the western world know)
PS: I have now installed and set-up redshift, a FOSS alternative to f.lux. Thanks for your recommendations, dudes
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Exercising certainly help increasing my sleep quality. And I'm trying to force myself to never eat after 20:00. If you eat late the food will tumble about in your stomach all night and I have a feeling it's better for your body to not have food in your system that long.
I'm also gonna buy a fitbit or something that can tell me when to sleep based on the data it gathers from you. I wonder if all this will make me have more energy.
Most exciting forum topic ever :p
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I'm also gonna buy a fitbit or something that can tell me when to sleep based on the data it gathers from you. I wonder if all this will make me have more energy.
Have you tried any phone apps with the same function? Sleep as Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en) is supposedly one of the best ones out there, and Alarm Clock Xtreme (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme&hl=en) also has some basic tracking. Not sure how reliable they are since my phone's a bit basic and is missing some hardware features that might be needed for better tracking. So far, Alarm Clock Xtreme has been working reasonably well for me, though I've yet to get a sleep score that's better than 60/100.
Most exciting forum topic ever :p
:) I'm sure most people will find it... 8) ... sleep-inducing.
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Fuck the USSR.
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Ok I've had my bed for some time now and I've got to give you a little update :)
First of all I got to say that I was ill with a pretty high fever last week, and when the fever is leaving your body you sweat a whole lot! So there I was laying in my new bed with bamboo sheets and mattress covers freezing and sweating every other minute, I could feel the sweatdrops running down my body ending up in what i believed to be a soaked bed. The next day I was feeling a lot better, but not so energetic that I wanted to change the sheet and covers. To my surprise, the bed felt completely dry, and even more amazingly there was no bad smell! There was only the little scent of bamboo and horse-hair (very weak scent), and I thanked myself for getting bamboo fabric that is more anti-bacterial in itself than other fabric, and It might have helped that the bed should be able to transport moisture rather well.
So far I've not come crawling into a bed that smelled bad.
Other than this experience I can say that I have gotten more used to the hardness of my side of the bed (my wife is also enjoying her softer side). I've got some soft pillows to soften it up when I want to.
If you're looking for a final conclusion on whether it was worth the prize? The answer is probably no, I can't say that the bed made that much difference so that it is worth spending that much more. I also got some unexpected cost from customs because I ordered the bamboo sheets and covers from abroad. However, I'm glad that I did this. I hope I have more good experiences in the time to come. I certainly don't sleep uneasy, but there might be other, less costly, things that could contribute to a better sleep enviroment, such as cover up the windows to get a darker room, reduce the amount of drafts (small winds through the house) and finding the perfect sleeping temperature.
Let me just finish this by giving you some sleep inducing music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJj_4ir12-w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJj_4ir12-w)
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Let me just finish this by giving you some sleep inducing music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJj_4ir12-w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJj_4ir12-w)
Funny how what everyone considers sleep-inducing music I use as wake-up alarms. :D
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OFFFFTOPPPPPP lel
I have no time because I have to go out, and i wanna share this with you - this is pure Soldat gold, essence of things for which I love this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYE7mFADyao
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I have no time because I have to go out, and i wanna share this with you - this is pure Soldat gold, essence of things for which I love this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYE7mFADyao
that's not soldat
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WAKE UPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg&feature=youtu.be&t=5m4s)
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Mum, 10 more minutes...
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Bump
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It has been Almost a full week. 😢
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Full week since what?
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I believe is that sleeping is critical part for fulfilling day.
I don't believe in concidence toady, i saw your face today Furai, you are not sending me these odd emails, are you ? ;D, nvm in other case. i'm delusional.
Edit: Nah..it was coincidence.. and that's way you should sleep more.
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Full week since what?
No new posts
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Looks like the community is dying.
Maybe I'm not the only one who has been alienated by your coup to drive Shoozza out and take control of a bunch of key parts of the game (maps, weapon balance, ...)
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Looks like the community is dying.
I remember when there were always new posts every hour of the day. I miss those times.
It's a good sign that threads like this get replies almost as soon as I bump them though, which shows we have "active" lurkers.
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Just to annoy you and give you some hope that its not so dead as you think:
Most of players check forum, BUT they just dont login, because:
1. No one give crap about empty topic like this one(that for past few weeks act just as bump topic for lonely people). Because what you could get from writing here?
2. Everyone expected that new devs team will change approach to community, AND START UPDATING INFO ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
Or saying is simpler:
a. Make one topic where everyone who work on soldat right now, once per week or few weeks, post simple, one sentence what they made.
b. Make official list of future changes. Soldat is not AAA game, you will not get anything from "big-super" update release when its done, it will give you week of hype and then its dead again. With game like soldat you need to keep informing community about work that will be made, show them that that and that is done this is still waiting, this one need fix, that need community help. Damn basic rules of fucking game development...
And if someone mention that "you cant make such list of info because you work for free", kill your self, seriously. Posting one topic with incoming changes and one sentence once per week, when you did something for project, even: "I change color of few pixels in this graphic! look!" will not cost you anything and take you maybe 2 minutes...
And now, i will logout and with other players I will be checking forum as guest once per few weeks, until someone find balls to kindly write about future of soldat, as it should be from beginning...
cheers!
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You do have a point. I hoped to start posting progress updates and teasers sooner, but my GPU died in the middle of it and slowed down the progress of getting something presentable together significantly. Other than graphical stuff, progress is constant but not very exciting. It might be worthwhile to post biweekly updates if there is demand for such a thing, though.
For now, I'll leave you with two bunkers and a bunch of (partly WIP) corpses:
(http://imgur.com/W08ZJvN.png)
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Holy shit, it's beautiful :o
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WOW Its very gooood this
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You do have a point. I hoped to start posting progress updates and teasers sooner, but my GPU died in the middle of it and slowed down the progress of getting something presentable together significantly. Other than graphical stuff, progress is constant but not very exciting. It might be worthwhile to post biweekly updates if there is demand for such a thing, though.
For now, I'll leave you with two bunkers and a bunch of (partly WIP) corpses:
(http://imgur.com/W08ZJvN.png)
WOW.
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Yeah, it's only a minor part of of what monsteri actually made for us :3 but i think you can tell he knows what to do ^^
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Where's the rest?
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Looks like the community is dying.
I remember when there were always new posts every hour of the day. I miss those times.
It's a good sign that threads like this get replies almost as soon as I bump them though, which shows we have "active" lurkers.
if it helps you feel any better, I've been a part of these forums since I was 12, and I'm 21 now. I occasionally check but don't have much reason to post anymore.
Original account was wolf_man (https://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?action=profile;u=1287) but boy is that a dumb name
i remember having a distinct appreciation for you and brick, and moderate several forums and such myself now. you all had a huge influence on me as a child.
i also remember looking up to ana and the maps or more specifically the tools she made. i made pretty bad ones myself, but the ability to mod soldat opened up a whole new world for me.
i also remember when you guys changed the forum logo way back when. i believe i made a few but i can't exactly remember. this all feels like ages ago, though.
thanks for everything soldat forums.
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Looks like the community is dying.
I remember when there were always new posts every hour of the day. I miss those times.
It's a good sign that threads like this get replies almost as soon as I bump them though, which shows we have "active" lurkers.
if it helps you feel any better, I've been a part of these forums since I was 12, and I'm 21 now. I occasionally check but don't have much reason to post anymore.
Original account was wolf_man (https://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?action=profile;u=1287) but boy is that a dumb name
i remember having a distinct appreciation for you and brick, and moderate several forums and such myself now. you all had a huge influence on me as a child.
i also remember looking up to ana and the maps or more specifically the tools she made. i made pretty bad ones myself, but the ability to mod soldat opened up a whole new world for me.
i also remember when you guys changed the forum logo way back when. i believe i made a few but i can't exactly remember. this all feels like ages ago, though.
thanks for everything soldat forums.
I can seriously relate. I joined the forums when I was 12 too and now I'm 23. These forums taught me to code and be a sysadmin and I'm going to be forever grateful for that, as well as all the fun with maps and mods and community drama.
I made this thread mostly because:
1. I need to know that the forum software still works, and that people aren't posting due to a bug or misconfiguration somewhere
2. I don't like seeing these forums look like the other dead forums in other dead Soldat communities
Also, I want chibi to come back and bring back Fracs and r0adkill should bring back Selfkill. Spasm should also bring back Elitectf. DePhille should resurrect SoldatPage.
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I'm 27 and I joined the forums when I was around 17. Except I learned nothing whatsoever from being here. :[
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As you can see I registered almost 10 years ago, and this is my first post ;D
I just learned some new stuff about movements today from reading the forums. Too bad several of the older youtube videos are deleted.
I'm not sure about the Steam status, but I think that could bring new life to the game. I also get that working on this game without pay, just for the fun of it, to appease a few hundred (if that) players isn't going to result in daily, huge updates. I can't seem to find any donate button anywhere, but even if there is one, a few bucks here and there probably won't make much difference. I still enjoy playing, as I think most of us do, and I don't really need huge updates with new graphics (even though the previews look amazing). The only thing I'm missing is players, and I think even having ~200 players online instead of ~80 (at night where I live) would make a HUGE difference. Right now it's (for me) exactly in some middle spot where usually the 2 servers that are populated are full, and the 3rd one is perhaps 3-4 players, haha.
Still enjoying the game though!
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First post of 2017!
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Second post of 2017!
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Thirst post of 2017! Well isn't this getting just a bit boring...
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NOPE! 4TH! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Oh, we got new (old) logo. I wonder how long it survives this time. I remember it once lived through the whole winter.
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Oh, we got new (old) logo. I wonder how long it survives this time. I remember it once lived through the whole winter.
The spring logo automatically appears during march and maybe one other month, just as the christmas one exists through the month of december.
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Oh, we got new (old) logo. I wonder how long it survives this time. I remember it once lived through the whole winter.
The spring logo automatically appears during march and maybe one other month, just as the christmas one exists through the month of december.
Oh, I thought there was an actual activity on the forums, but this was computer's doing xD
Maybe, we should focus on implementing better bots those would act more like players. You know... Fuck people, really. If they so stupid to play Counter-Strike or Leogue of Legends instead of Soldat then we don't need them. There are already narrow AIs developed that can talk in text. Just add it to already implemented bots. We should think about the ultimate future when developing Soldat - not just few next years. In the end, humanity will die some day but robots will live through that. So, for fuck sake developing Soldat for people? Seriously, this is pointless. We should make sure that billions of computer beings will play Soldat in the next millenium instead of few more people in the next decade.
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Maybe, we should focus on implementing better bots those would act more like players. You know... Fuck people, really. If they so stupid to play Counter-Strike or Leogue of Legends instead of Soldat then we don't need them. There are already narrow AIs developed that can talk in text. Just add it to already implemented bots. We should think about the ultimate future when developing Soldat - not just few next years. In the end, humanity will die some day but robots will live through that. So, for fuck sake developing Soldat for people? Seriously, this is pointless. We should make sure that billions of computer beings will play Soldat in the next millenium instead of few more people in the next decade.
So noble
And, also, so fitting (the username)
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Maybe, we should focus on implementing better bots those would act more like players. You know... Fuck people, really. If they so stupid to play Counter-Strike or Leogue of Legends instead of Soldat then we don't need them. There are already narrow AIs developed that can talk in text. Just add it to already implemented bots. We should think about the ultimate future when developing Soldat - not just few next years. In the end, humanity will die some day but robots will live through that. So, for fuck sake developing Soldat for people? Seriously, this is pointless. We should make sure that billions of computer beings will play Soldat in the next millenium instead of few more people in the next decade.
So noble
And, also, so fitting (the username)
I've made custom AI for Dodgeball mod. If u wanna try look for ,,Dodgeball Bots'' server. They are a bit hard for unexperienced player :P
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Sleep my sweet prince.
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Oh, I thought there was an actual activity on the forums, but this was computer's doing xD
It would be nice if we could get user-submitted logos again.
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bump bump bump
3 days since last post :-/
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bump bump bump
3 days since last post :-/
There you go! Bots will post for you: https://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=44435.msg529583#msg529583 :D
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alive
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bump bump bump
3 days since last post :-/
There you go! Bots will post for you: https://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=44435.msg529583#msg529583 :D
alive
Hi!
CCalp, you might want to know that there was excatly (almost) the same post above one you moderated i.e. edited in order to remove an ad link.
Oh shiet, now Soldat Forums is about how to keep forums clean xD I'd rather keep servers clean from cheaters instead D:
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bump bump bump
3 days since last post :-/
There you go! Bots will post for you: https://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=44435.msg529583#msg529583 :D
Deleted + banned.
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Gotta love April Fool's Day. :)
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ded
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Soldat had its low activity rounds before so don't give up just yet.
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this is ice age low
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Just try some positivity after time...m? it might go whit that cheese man.
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If none of staff have literally 2min to write that they work, even on some boring coding stuff, why anyone else would have to write something in this forum? So at the end its dead.
As I said in other topic, if devs think that they get more attention by releasing new version as a big surprise... they are wrong, soldat is not AA game, its really small community with maybe 120 players that play regularly. If you dont post even small info, previews, screenshoots of maps/sceneries, everyone will not give a damn about this game, because why they should? When you, or rather if you release new version as big update, you will get initial hype, and then... you will get the same as with previous update: big hype about hd graphic, and then back to stagnation.
If soldat staff really take it seriously, start treating Soldat seriously as a Game, not some summer friend project. And dont even start mumbling that its free project, soldat is not alone with that, and posting damn few words on what you are working now dont cost you nothing + also there is really clear solution to that:
https://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=43307.msg529484#msg529484
This is most simplest thing what you can do now to get Soldat to move, to give it really needed advertising and proper support from community. Lack of clear situation of Soldat license, staff management and money distribution is one of main reason why it falling down.
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It's about putting your personal effort in. No one wants to sacrifice himself too much for greater good of Soldat.
Maybe... it's because of Pascal and Delphi. They ruined my life too. It's pain and very hard, lookas ugaly as fuck too. (︶︹︺)
jk
(https://s21.postimg.org/4jl5stv4z/makesoldatgreatagain.png) (https://postimg.org/image/4jl5stv4z/) (https://s21.postimg.org/4jl5stv4z/makesoldatgreatagain.png) (https://postimg.org/image/4jl5stv4z/)(https://s21.postimg.org/4jl5stv4z/makesoldatgreatagain.png) (https://postimg.org/image/4jl5stv4z/)(https://s21.postimg.org/4jl5stv4z/makesoldatgreatagain.png) (https://postimg.org/image/4jl5stv4z/)
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I'm not sure i did a better job at communicating progress in the last year before i left though.
My idea was to only release info after the feature was complete to not disappoint the community in case things didn't work out.
When there were no news it was mostly because either the feature was unfinished and big (Soldat on linux/macOS) or nothing was happening. But that's how I handled it.
Advertising isn't necessary the solution. What you want is a welcoming growing community and a great game. That's at least my opinion atm.
Putting Soldat on steam isn't as important now as it was when steam first opened it's doors People certainly make it look like the problem solver for everything. Sure we might not know if it is or not until we try but don't bet everything on it.
That said it's great to see that there are still people around caring about the game, thanks for the post Akinaro ;)
@daaw I certainly didn't bother working on the game for the greater good and others didn't as well. About Delphi/Pascal: You probably know that the person who designed c# worked on turbo pascal before leaving for microsoft. If you like c# your opinion about delphi is more the opinion how the language was used in soldat and the soldat code base in general. Great programmers can write code in any programming language given it isn't esoteric or designed to be difficult on purpose :)
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Hello, I wasn't referring anything to you. I'm joke time after time.
I'm opinion was that it's a psychology like that - believing in old ideas that hurts soldat progress the most.
Pascal/Delphi: it's a ded language.
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Pascal/Delphi: it's a ded language.
Complete rewrite would take eternity most probably. Yet, these days most programmers asked to implement stuff in Pascal (or even C) will get an allergy symptoms xD
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I'm opinion was that it's a psychology like that - believing in old ideas that hurts soldat progress the most.
Not sure what you mean with "believing in old ideas". I didn't see any of that in soldat.
Pascal/Delphi: it's a ded language.
It isn't a dead language. Not the most popular language for sure but certainly not dead.
Just invest a few minutes and check for yourself:
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/03/17/language-rankings-1-17/
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
The Lazarus IDE and FreePascal Compilers added support for targetting JVM and Android in version 3.0 and iOS support is on the way.
Check out the available targets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#Targets
Oh and the latest release of Lazarus was February 26, 2017.
The Delphi Tokyo 10.2 release was on March 22nd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(programming_language)#Embarcadero_Delphi_10.2_Tokyo
You can get the Starter version for free too: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/promotional-download
And they added Linux support for enterprise customers. So it is moving in the right direction as well.
Also note that the language was initially designed for teaching students structured programming so it should be easy to pick up.
Pascal/Delphi: it's a ded language.
Complete rewrite would take eternity most probably. Yet, these days most programmers asked to implement stuff in Pascal (or even C) will get an allergy symptoms xD
IMHO the language isn't the problem here. Rewriting it just so it uses a hyped language wouldn't necessary solve anything. You probably don't want those people over your code base anyways.
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This is exacly what i was talking about, you so believe in it. I think i see world differently nothing will ever change me and nothing will ever change you. (◡﹏◡)
The Lazarus IDE and FreePascal Compilers added support for targetting JVM and Android in version 3.0 and iOS support is on the way.
Don't bring this in it has nothing to do with this.
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Soldat isn't a dead game. Not the most popular game for sure but certainly not dead.
I just found it bit comical being on soldat forms and again talking about if it's dead or not dead enough.
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Wake up!
Also, I'm implementing some Soldat related stuff right now. Hopefully, to be released by end of June.
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Wake up!
I had my first cyber on soldat last Saturday.
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Wake up!
I had my first cyber on soldat last Saturday.
/pwn on top of a corpse?
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Wake up!
I had my first cyber on soldat last Saturday.
/pwn on top of a corpse?
Real question is did he /piss before or after the /pwn
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It was a real cyber sex between me and a random dude. After we finished he said and I quote: "I feel like a half faget right now". Anyways I'm a old soldat player just returned. What's been up how can i contribute?
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It was a real cyber sex between me and a random dude. After we finished he said and I quote: "I feel like a half faget right now". Anyways I'm a old soldat player just returned. What's been up how can i contribute?
Feel free to introduce the game to your friends! We're still working on the new version, no release dates yet though.
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(https://i.giphy.com/1fMjj5j2Z7chq.gif)
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Bump!
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One player invisible to player list, and invisible on map, black colored name in death log, one player wrong color in team.
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old bug
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(https://media.giphy.com/media/LGpXfQxlClOww/giphy.gif)
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First post of 2018
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First post of 2018
Seconded! Wake up SF!
I'm actually happily surprised to see all of the old usernames I remember on here from years/decades ago active and talking on Discord; so the community isn't dead, it's just elsewhere.
Okay Soldat Forums, it's been almost THREE days since your last post.
Hahahah if I only knew how things would be 4 years later.
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Old man.
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What's going on, I've been looking through old posts from me back in 2006 and it's been a wild ride.
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What's going on, I've been looking through old posts from me back in 2006 and it's been a wild ride.
Whoaa I remember talking to you :D
I remember back then I thought your name meant you got a Nintendo DS and really liked it.
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What's going on, I've been looking through old posts from me back in 2006 and it's been a wild ride.
Whoaa I remember talking to you :D
I remember back then I thought your name meant you got a Nintendo DS and really liked it.
Wait, what? So it has nothing to do with Nintendo DS? :O
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIiGZD3AQ0
This Aquaterrarium thing looks like the background of a Soldat map by VirtualTT. Not sure which one, but it's beautiful.
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Can't wait for Steam update :Q
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I forgot the reason why didn't they wanted sourced open. Programming sucks man.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEduXI6q7LQqU9LIA/source.gif)
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hol? people, seems really dead in here, huh? :(
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I've been thinking and I also want Soldat to come out on Steam. If that happens I might buy a new computer to play games even though Soldat shouldn't need it.
The waiting has been long though. What other games do people play?
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I've been thinking and I also want Soldat to come out on Steam. If that happens I might buy a new computer to play games even though Soldat shouldn't need it.
The waiting has been long though. What other games do people play?
Path of Exile
Dead by Daylight
aaaand some My Time at Portia on Switch
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Hm.. What's yor favourite Soldat map?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D7hFHfLEyk
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Good Morning!
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Good evening!
I just played like 15 rounds of 1v1 infiltration against a dude on jrgp's inf map, it was fun.
Soldat is still probably my favorite game. Like, I would probably be in a public server right now if there were any kind of US playerbase.
Oh, there's a #gather channel in the discord. I might check that out.
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Good evening!
I just played like 15 rounds of 1v1 infiltration against a dude on jrgp's inf map, it was fun.
Soldat is still probably my favorite game. Like, I would probably be in a public server right now if there were any kind of US playerbase.
Oh, there's a #gather channel in the discord. I might check that out.
Glad to know my public inf gets some plays sometimes.
I miss the days when there were lots of public inf servers and they were always full-ish with maps like Fortress/Abel/Warehouse/Moonshine. I think that peaked around 2005-2007 or so.
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Inf was always underrated among mapmakers though. We had things like TW, TTW and climb for the overall gamemode of CTF and people would put all their effort into that. A lot of Inf maps were never made which could have been awesome on any realistic server.
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Inf was always underrated among mapmakers though. We had things like TW, TTW and climb for the overall gamemode of CTF and people would put all their effort into that. A lot of Inf maps were never made which could have been awesome on any realistic server.
Yeah, CTF's where it's at. Most people play CTF and Climb, so that's where the attention goes I guess
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Good evening!
I just played like 15 rounds of 1v1 infiltration against a dude on jrgp's inf map, it was fun.
Soldat is still probably my favorite game. Like, I would probably be in a public server right now if there were any kind of US playerbase.
Oh, there's a #gather channel in the discord. I might check that out.
Glad to know my public inf gets some plays sometimes.
I miss the days when there were lots of public inf servers and they were always full-ish with maps like Fortress/Abel/Warehouse/Moonshine. I think that peaked around 2005-2007 or so.
Yeah, that was the shit. Hoping the steam release gets some kind of traction, because it honestly wouldn't take THAT many new players to hit some kind of critical mass. All it takes is enough people that the servers aren't perpetually empty and people leave, and we can start seeing some kind of sticking power.
I kind of wish I were a streamer with any kind of following, because it would literally only take one decent popularity bump to resuccitate things.
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Oi, somebody post something!
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Something :)
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I post NOTHING
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Wake the fuck up, soldat. We have ctf_Cobra to burn.
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piss year
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I slept well, nice wake up, nice breakfast and coffee
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Happy new year! Good luck in 2020 NG+ :)
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Happy new year! :D
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Wake... up?
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Wake me up!
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The more time passes the more I'm getting paranoid about the forum turning into another archive.forums.soldat.pl.
If/When this happens someone better have enough disk space to store everything from topics to user profile pictures, or just extensively using the web.archive.org to preserve every post
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The more time passes the more I'm getting paranoid about the forum turning into another archive.forums.soldat.pl.
If/When this happens someone better have enough disk space to store everything from topics to user profile pictures, or just extensively using the web.archive.org to preserve every post
I'm not going to let this forum get archived / converted into something like archive.forums.soldat.pl
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The more time passes the more I'm getting paranoid about the forum turning into another archive.forums.soldat.pl.
If/When this happens someone better have enough disk space to store everything from topics to user profile pictures, or just extensively using the web.archive.org to preserve every post
I'm not going to let this forum get archived / converted into something like archive.forums.soldat.pl
A hero we don't deserve!
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I really do miss the days, over ten years ago, when I could make a new topic, go to sleep, and wake up to loads of replies.
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Wished I had been more grown up when the forum was still buzzing. They were fun times no less!
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Yeah in a way I did a lot of growing up on these forums, and so many of my old posts are cringeworthy at this point.
Was lots of fun times though and I definitely wouldn't trade them.
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Wake up, wake up my friend
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Wow, waking up from my slumber...
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Crazy days.
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ohai
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Soldat is in the air recently I guess.
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Im dead inside wake up ? ^^
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:(
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:)
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😴
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Can't wake up
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yo
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Hai