restarting Desert Storm

[Killerbot]

Posting just to see if there's any interest at all. Witchie and I have been thinking about restarting the zone, and rebuilding most of the stuff. I'm also looking for possible host.. contact me or post here.

 

Please vote

 

Greetings

Edited December 26, 2010 by Killerbot

[★ Purge]

If you do, don't expect anything different.

[Sass]

Why restart DS? What will be different than what it was - which is really kinda boring and no one plays.

[Dr Brain]

Yes, if you use HSCore and put items in. Otherwise, why bother?

[★ Maverick]

I voted in favour of restarting Desert Storm just for the sake of keeping (old) zones online; I believe that we should keep zones online to show off the different kind of zones the game had / has.

[Dr Brain]

A web page with screen shots of zones would be far more effective for that purpose.

 

EDIT: I think that more zones are great, but restarting a zone that failed without any changes is doomed to fail again.

[L.C.]

I'm also looking for possible host.. contact me or post here.

BlueT/SSCV is available.

[Cheese]

dont bother if you arent using ASSS

maybe items with hscore

[Killerbot]

Ofcourse there's a chance that it won't work and that we're reopening a zone which won't attract any players. But..

 

I voted in favour of restarting Desert Storm just for the sake of keeping (old) zones online; I believe that we should keep zones online to show off the different kind of zones the game had / has.

That's the reason why we want to reopen it. We're planning on using the gamestyle and settings we used in 2007 with which we used to hit 40+ on avg every night.

 

 

dont bother if you arent using ASSS

maybe items with hscore

I'm not familiar with as3, but that's a possibily to look into. I'm sure we can figure this out.

 

 

EDIT: I think that more zones are great, but restarting a zone that failed without any changes is doomed to fail again.

We had a steady population till like 2 years ago, when we changed maps several times.

Edited December 27, 2010 by Killerbot

[No_Remorse]

I have never played in DS before, but the more zones the more options newcomers have to choose between. Good luck and I'm sure you'll do fine.

[spidernl]

Agree with switching to asss. There's no disadvantages to it that I know of.

The RPG aspect of HSCore might also 'encourage' some players to stay, for a change.

 

Oh and off topic, welcome back Killerbot

Edited December 27, 2010 by spidernl

[Cancer+]

I like it. I used to like playing in DS. Bring it back. Make it better than ever.

[★ SD>Big]

using hscore and a shop sounds good in theory, but some zones thrive on simplicity no? just get in a ship and fire. i find DS fits that role.

[No_Remorse]

using hscore and a shop sounds good in theory, but some zones thrive on simplicity no? just get in a ship and fire. i find DS fits that role.

 

Somebody give this guy a medal. I've always been a fan of the simplicity and skill-based gameplay that Subspace offers - I doubt that I am the only one.

[Resol]

I voted in favour of restarting Desert Storm just for the sake of keeping (old) zones online; I believe that we should keep zones online to show off the different kind of zones the game had / has.

 

I honestly think that there are too many zones in the list, and not that any new players are coming... but it makes it hard to find the good ones.

 

I think a great idea is to have an Archived Zone Server. A former player, I think it was blackjayde had attempted to do something similar. Perhaps have a few zones on a server, in which are broke up into categories. For instance, Turf, Flagging, CTF, Powerball, Infantry, ect ect..

 

The public map could be something simple, where you just fly to an arena and get sent to that arena to which zone name you selected, maybe have a description of the zone with the name. Then when players are in a certain zone, send server wide announcements stating which zone is being played.

 

I don't know.. I just feel like bringing all the population together is a good idea, every zone is better when you got lots of people to blow up!

 

 

Also, I agree that HSCore is just too complicated, yeah it has a lot of great features an all, but 90% of players don't want to "learn" everything you can do, they like to fly around and kill people. Another issue with HSCore, you have to edit entirely way too much to even get it to compile.

[L.C.]

I think a great idea is to have an Archived Zone Server. A former player, I think it was blackjayde had attempted to do something similar. Perhaps have a few zones on a server, in which are broke up into categories. For instance, Turf, Flagging, CTF, Powerball, Infantry, ect ect..

I would love to do this. BlueT Jackpot SVS is just that, and so would SSCV Dragonball Z if I couldn't get it an SSC slot again.

 

If someone retires a zone to take it offline and such, they ought to at least release the files. No harm in doing that.

[valate]

I vote restart. Big fan of DS and always will be, kinda of a soft spot for me :/. If you get active staff members, I'd like to see DS just coast even if there is not a lot of people playing it haha. Now, if someone can help me fucking download continuum for mac that would be great >.>

[007paulwall]

bring back mg if anything

[pixelsoft]

bring back mg if anything

That actually sounds more useful. Didn't MG have a population way higher than Desert Storm's? If we want to follow a policy of increasing the SS population in total then MG would be the better choice, perhaps.

[Killerbot]

MGs population used to be higher yes. But I'm not familiar with MG and I don't have the files. besides that, I like DS better personally:D

[spidernl]

DS' population will probably (and hopefully) be higher with revamped gameplay, so that makes the whole 'MG argument' rather pointless.

[★ Dav]

I say yes but...

 

I think bringing it back as a flagging zone is not the way to go, but turning it back into a turf PB zone is. IMHO the turf gameplay and rank system were the best tings about the zone in the past.

 

ASSS opens up a lot of possibilities to develop that theme and really update the classic DS. I don't like the idea of buying your items in a shop, HS has that done already, but having "ships" available with rank as before, perhaps having items added with rank as well would be nice. You could also make items available as rank goes up and allow a player to equip/swap items they have available as they play in the spawns or at bases.

 

Something I would have liked to do was to make balling and capturing spawns/bases worth something. Perhaps a goal gives you a temp boos like super of shields, and controlling a base/spawn allows you to have access to new items such as thors.

 

Just my 2 cents, thought about this quite a bit before real life killed any hope of CRe and I implementing anything.

[spidernl]

I say yes but...

 

I think bringing it back as a flagging zone is not the way to go, but turning it back into a turf PB zone is. IMHO the turf gameplay and rank system were the best tings about the zone in the past.

 

ASSS opens up a lot of possibilities to develop that theme and really update the classic DS. I don't like the idea of buying your items in a shop, HS has that done already, but having "ships" available with rank as before, perhaps having items added with rank as well would be nice. You could also make items available as rank goes up and allow a player to equip/swap items they have available as they play in the spawns or at bases.

 

Something I would have liked to do was to make balling and capturing spawns/bases worth something. Perhaps a goal gives you a temp boos like super of shields, and controlling a base/spawn allows you to have access to new items such as thors.

 

Just my 2 cents, thought about this quite a bit before real life killed any hope of CRe and I implementing anything.

 

I personally think a light-weight implementation of HS' item system would fit in fine. The 'get money and upgrade' element does help get people to stay, which helps in sustaining population when (if?) you get it.

 

DS was fine with turf before, flagging I never really liked there.

A more intuitive spawn system (maybe a 'selection screen' on death, where you get a quick view of the map showing which parts your team controls and such) would also be neat. The whole !setspawn blahblah where you had to pretty much know the 'locations', as numbers iirc, by heart, wasn't exactly ideal.

That said, the whole turf gameplay system could be expanded where you control parts of the map and slowly advance to the other team's base, and possibly then win the round or do something else neat. I don't know, just throwing out ideas.

[PlayWolf]

OH GAWD YES BRING BACK MY 3 years of fun! bring back DS!!!!!!!

 

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS!!!!!!!

 

I'm so up for it to be revived! ...

 

I liked the part time when DS was just basing and milking and gun linings. none of this ew new graphics and stuff, 2007 map was great!

 

 

 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.

Edited December 31, 2010 by Wolfie

[General Shadow]

OH GAWD YES BRING BACK MY 3 years of fun! bring back DS!!!!!!!

 

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS

DS!!!!!!!

 

I'm so up for it to be revived! ...

 

I liked the part time when DS was just basing and milking and gun linings. none of this ew new graphics and stuff, 2007 map was great!

 

 

 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.

 

The one day of the month I sign in onto these forums and there is a discussion about my favorite zone?

 

I say yes, bring it back and let the old times roll!