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News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:56 pm

Sackjack wrote:Kind of off-topic, but when does HMW2 come out?

ummm... currently there are no announced plans for a HMW2 in progress

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:23 am

Sackjack wrote:Kind of off-topic, but when does HMW2 come out?

Oh you did not just do that ...

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:59 pm

By my calculation, taking into account the complete lack of qualified programmers, and the complete lack of useful access of the unqualified programmer we have and the fact that the last I heard, he hadn't requested the powers back since old man Seibs drew his attention back on to the subject, and multiplying that by the number of times someone has asked this question, I'd recommend you book a table at Milliways, the Restaurant and the End of the Universe...

Unfortunetly, we wont be any closer by that point, but it's the closest we'll ever get before the universe officially ceases to be....

by **Loki God Of Mischief** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:46 pm

So it's more likely that I'll nail Liz Vicious before HMW 2.0 comes out?

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:55 pm

I'll be the Queen of the 2nd Great British Empire before HMW 2 happens....

by **Loki God Of Mischief** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:58 pm

I refuse to make the obvious British crossdresser joke. It's too easy.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:08 pm

Ahh goddamnit, you're no fun!

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:43 pm

Burn is it possible at least for the next few (oh i dunno) years to have HMW2 entered in to the word filter so we just get **** or "NOTHING TO SEE HERE" OR "THIS TOPIC IS BANNED"

Just a thought...

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:15 pm

Editor wrote:Burn is it possible at least for the next few (oh i dunno) years to have HMW2 entered in to the word filter so we just get **** or "NOTHING TO SEE HERE" OR "THIS TOPIC IS BANNED"

Just a thought...

It probably could.

Give you one guess who can do that!

Oh and Mkall did put his request list in. Think Psychout did too. Dunno about the others, whoever they are these days.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:24 pm

Burn wrote:Give you one guess who can do that!

well scrap that thought then.

by **Loki God Of Mischief** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:11 am

Hate to disappoint, but only Admin can play around with the fun forum stuff like abusing the word filter for laughs, banning people, screwing with people by changing their sigs and avatars, etc. But there's like 37 of them here so you can probably bug one of them to do it.

Mods can usually only prune topics, merge topics, sticky threads, etc. Some forum software allows them to soft or temp ban them, but I'm pretty sure they can't on this forum software.

News Credits: 2 · by **-Soundwave-** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:52 am

Alright I have to admit ****** would be funny.

by **Badass Grimlock** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:43 am

Why can't I say it? Is it like saying Voldemort or something? :BANG_HEAD:

by **Badass Grimlock** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:46 am

Name_Violation wrote:
Sackjack wrote:Kind of off-topic, but when does HMW2 come out?

ummm... currently there are no announced plans for a HMW2 in progress

Darnit.

There used to be a trailer up here somewhere!

by **devast8or** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:02 am

it's a conspiracy i tell ya...

News Credits: 2 · by **-Soundwave-** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:12 am

Sackjack wrote:
Name_Violation wrote:
Sackjack wrote:Kind of off-topic, but when does HMW2 come out?

ummm... currently there are no announced plans for a HMW2 in progress

Darnit.

There used to be a trailer up here somewhere!

Its sort of like that every time we manage to get someone who might help out with it they disappear into the Bermuda triangle.

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:20 am

Sackjack wrote:
Name_Violation wrote:
Sackjack wrote:Kind of off-topic, but when does HMW2 come out?

ummm... currently there are no announced plans for a HMW2 in progress

Darnit.

There used to be a trailer up here somewhere!

the trailer still exists. saw it on youtube not that long ago.

but it's just like the cake

THE CAKE IS A LIE

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:30 am

Long story short for SackJack.

- programmer get appointed.
- programmer leaves, banned, disappears.
- repeat cycle.
- new programmer starts making headway.
- progress proceeds including public input.
- programmer disappears
- players get on with life, and the game as is.
- Database crash takes game down, comes back with minimum loss but lack of access to backend.
- Backend access being restored.
- Most players now of mindset that fixing current model with slight upgrades here and there to be a better idea than holding out for V2.

And now you know.
CBS Cares.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:18 pm

The problem is, this version is a mess. It'd take an almost complete re-write to really improve it anyway.

News Credits: 2 · by **-Soundwave-** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:23 pm

For now it just feeds the addiction. :grin:

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:30 pm

And it works as it is.

It might be a mess but a bit of tidying up, re-organising the alt-classes so we have about 20 instead of over 50 etc., and some visual polish - like updating the altmodes to the multi-colour types Moggy wanted for his V2 (which should be theroetically posssible as all they were were slighly larger .png's instead of .gifs) would make the world of difference.

All anyone wanted from V2 was the war map and few extra tactics anyway.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:33 pm

And a much more balanced game, and well balanced stats that all have a point....

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:58 pm

Psychout wrote:And it works as it is.

It might be a mess but a bit of tidying up, re-organising the alt-classes so we have about 20 instead of over 50 etc., and some visual polish - like updating the altmodes to the multi-colour types Moggy wanted for his V2 (which should be theroetically posssible as all they were were slighly larger .png's instead of .gifs) would make the world of difference.

All anyone wanted from V2 was the war map and few extra tactics anyway.

Redimus GTS wrote:And a much more balanced game, and well balanced stats that all have a point....

In other words, nothing that isn't impossible to factor into the current game if people who know what they are doing were actually working on it, and had the control to be allowed to get it done.

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:31 pm

*shrug*

The game will never be 'balanced' as its PvP. Ill conceed the one about the stats though, but the point is that the pressure to rewrite a new game whilst this one is so obviously incomplete is what breaks the programmers. Get this looking suitable shiny and then the pressure is off.

The way I see it, add a warmap to conquer/defend and give the players an achieveable (and repeatable) win condition, and then the game becomes less of a grind and more like an online game. At that point 99% of people will forget about V2 and get back to basics.