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Yeah I've basically never played any other game but FreeSpace for most of my life. :D [[User:Snail|Snail]] 15:14, 31 March 2008 (CST)
 
Yeah I've basically never played any other game but FreeSpace for most of my life. :D [[User:Snail|Snail]] 15:14, 31 March 2008 (CST)
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The christmas I got TIE Fighter (1995?) I played it on my dad's 90 MHz Pentium laptop so much that the joystick's calibration broke and the little rubber mouse nub wore off.  I think I remember passing out in the middle of one mission and waking up and finishing it later, and I'm sure I brought the discs with us to my aunt's in San Diego, where I spent the entire summer vacation in a dark room serving Admiral Thrawn.  Maybe the best time of my life. [[User:Machaka|Machaka]] 21:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
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That sounds really cool and would give the community so many more Vasudan ships to play with. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 14:32, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
 
That sounds really cool and would give the community so many more Vasudan ships to play with. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 14:32, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
  
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==GTF Loki - Veteran Comments==
 
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*Thank you for solving the problem I created in the Loki's article. I had no clue on what happened. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
 
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** No probs. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 23:28, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 
  
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==IMPORTANT: "Lost Generation"==
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==Karnak page==
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No offense, but you have completely messed up the articles I set a while ago. They were just fine, why did you change them? In any case, I tried to solve this uber-problem but I don't have enough powers to do it. Once again, I'd like to tell you that "(disambiguation)" shouldn't be in any article's name. Use {disambiguation} (with one more "{" and "}") '''at the beginning of the article''' instead. Thanks for your attention. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
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I meant "canonical" in the sense of "what Dark and Ace intended", but your rewording is definitely clearer. :) [[User:Goober5000|Goober5000]] 18:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
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*Mobius, I did not fucking make a "horrible mistake". I did what I thought was right for the Wiki. I did the same thing that most articles on Wikipedia have done - A main disambiguation page and multiple other stuff aside. I don't mind if you rearrange things but saying "SNAIL'S HORRIBLE MISTAKE" pisses me off. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 19:28, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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**The point is that when you were so happy to make useful changes you also made mistakes. My older settings were working just fine and now we need a Wiki Admin to sort that out. If you're pissed off, what do you think I feel like? The last thing you can do right now is pretending to be right. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
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==Iceni Comment==
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***I don't mind being corrected on things, but what I do not appreciate is people berating me when I am just trying to help. Perhaps if you had phrased your complaints slightly less aggressively, I wouldn't be in so much of a tiff. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 21:21, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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****I'm the one who is supposed to feel offended here. Well, let's forget this. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
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It DOES more or less state outright everything it says was said above...what's your reasoning?
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I have no reasoning, only peanuts. Feel free to re-delete it I guess... I am sorry for getting in the way of your Jihad. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 10:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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Don't get all passive-aggressive on me. You did have a reason I hope. :p [[User:Ngtm1r|Ngtm1r]] 23:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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At a glance it looked like a reasonable, well-written comment, but I guess you're right. '''DON'T HURT ME PLEASE I'M SORRY''' D: - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 10:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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==3.6.11 open question==
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Normally I would ask this on the Hard light forums, but I am very relucent to had out my e-mail adress at the moment. Either way, I am hearing much about this 3.6.11 open build for the SCP, yet they don't say where to get it, do you where to get it? [[User:Grunt minion22|Grunt minion22]] 7:21am November 1, 2009.
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*3.6.11 open builds are 'nightly' builds, one is released each day. They are not stable, and will likely cause problems if you do something wrong with your mod. I personally don't recommend them, but here: [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?board=173.0 Nightly Builds Board]. Good luck with whatever it is you're doing. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 15:23, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
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==Removing Shivan stats==
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Have you read the last two comments on my talk page in the shivan stats section? I explained how I found them though table editting and Topace comfirmed it. He had tried it himself, and managed to get it by modified the Hercules, so please, what I was posting on all those Shivan fighters there IS canon. If you don't believe me, go make all of the Shivan fighters flyable and it will give you its stats in the Ship selection page. [[User:Grunt minion22|Grunt minion22]] 6:42am 23 December 2009
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* Bla bla bla. Doesn't change the fact that those stats are non-canon, due to being the result of a SCP code change. In retail, you would never, ever get to see those stats. Even if you edited the tables. Thus, they are not wiki material (or need to be marked as non-canon). It would help if you would follow the discussions on HLP or join the #hard-light IRC channel, where these things can be discussed before they hit the wiki. [[User:The E|The E]] 13:15, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
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**Discussion on the HLP Wiki Forum has confirmed those stats are non-canon. They do not belong on the Wiki. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 13:55, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
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==ASW Issues==
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Ok, this problem has not occuried anywhere else, so sorry for dragging you into this. Its just that I am able to get most of Ancient-Shivan War to work, yet there is still some crashing errors that I don't know if they came with the game or not, and have been effecting other people. I do got all the Vp files located inside the ASW folder, and copied into the tables. I started up the game, but I ended up getting messages saying that the game can't find the flyby sounds for the Ancients and Ashesidions (however its spelled) and uses Terrans and Vasudans instead. Going forward, I managed to get the game up, with the correct intro, the background picture, and all ships in the tech database, made a new character and selected the Ancient-Shivan War campain. BUT, instead, I get a dozen debugger messages exiting out of the game informing me that "arguement is illegal" and its all about the User-made cutsceen. I have not encountered this problem anywhere else, this happening to you or anyone else, or I'm just screwed up as usual. [[User:Grunt minion22|Grunt minion22]] 8:22pm, 16 January 2010
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You really, really, REALLY need a forum account. Snail, as awesome as he is, is not the Tech Support person, I am. He also isn't a member of the ASW team.
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So, please register at HLP. Open a thread detailing your problem, with a fs2_open.log attached, in the support board. Then we can help you sort this out. [[User:The E|The E]] 04:37, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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Aww, someone thinks I'm smart. How touching. :) - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 10:21, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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Sorry, I am just a bit distrustful of forums since my LAST incident with them that resulted in my email getting spammed up. If the only email sent is just the activation code, and nothing else, then I'll do it and stop asking questions here :). [[User:Grunt minion22|Grunt minion22]] 8:08am, 17 Januaray 2010
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*HLP doesn't spam you. - [[User:TopAce|TopAce]] 14:34, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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*Sorry, different forum site. [[User:Grunt minion22|Grunt minion22]] 9:39am, 17 Januaray 2010
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*On the topic, no one forces you to use exactly one email address. I, for example, have an university email, a nerd magazine email, a Gmail email, a Windows Live email and a piece of defecation email. I use the last one whenever I'm registering to places and/or have a feeling that whichever email I give there might end up getting spam. In short, you could just open up a new email account for your registration needs/whatever. Also, the only emails I've gotten from HLP have been strictly business. No spam. Ever. - [[User:Fisk|Fisk]] 18:54, 17 January 2010 (EET)
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Actually, great idea! --[[User:Monitor|Monitor]] 22:52, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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**coo - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 22:54, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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==Minor edits==
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Bleh I keep doing that by mistake, sorry. I think it's because I set my preferences to always set things as minor edits by default at some point. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 16:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
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== On [http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php?title=SB_Seraphim&diff=33778&oldid=33775 this]... ==
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Hey, thanks. You did a great job slimming down the opening paragraph. -- [[User:Androgeos Exeunt|<font color="#9966CC">Androgeos</font>]] [[User_talk:Androgeos_Exeunt|<font color="#40826D">Exeunt</font>]] 13:55, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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*Actually I have been thinking about the ship intro paragraphs. Currently a lot of them seem to be glorified Vet Comments which strike me as out of place. I think we might need to reconsider what does and does not belong in those blurbs. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 18:55, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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::Yeah, we probably should. When I was uploading the retail ship images, I also tried to expand the opening paragraphs of most of these articles to give them a bit more substance. In a number of cases, I took leaves from the VCs, which might not have been the brightest idea. -- [[User:Androgeos Exeunt|<font color="#9966CC">Androgeos</font>]] [[User_talk:Androgeos_Exeunt|<font color="#40826D">Exeunt</font>]] 05:15, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
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Maybe we should consider just paring them right down to a line or two. Ship name, class, period of activity, introduced during... basic facts we can apply across the board for every non mod ship (and a fair chunk of the mod ships too). All the other info can go into the relevant headings deeper in the article. [[User:Black Wolf|Black Wolf]] 11:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
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:Yeah. However, I do think interesting trivia and facts about ships could go up there, so I'll leave those be. Basically I think we should go ahead and remove any subjective info from the blurbs but leave facts and stuff. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 20:55, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
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== Question ==
  
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==Ancient-Shivan War==
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Snail, are you a moderator? --[[User:FlamingCobra|FlamingCobra]] 01:12, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
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1) I am in the ASW team. I'm not a full member but I'm there. Check the [http://www.sectorgame.com/ASW/ official ASW website]. 2) What's the point in removing the names of the sites external links lead to? It doesn't make sense. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
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*No. And I know exactly what you are going to say. Don't say it. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 11:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
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*Sorry, I didn't know. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 21:21, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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**Truth be told, I wasn't going to say anything else and I had forgotten all about this until now, because I came back to ask you another question: Is it ok to upload .hcf files? --[[User:FlamingCobra|FlamingCobra]] 02:52, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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**I have the impression that you're modifying my edits with extreme prejudice. If I'm correct, you are strongly encouraged to change behavior. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
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***I, uh, I don't know. I'm not sure it's even supported by the uploader. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 19:24, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
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***All I have done is try to do things in a '''different''' way. For the [[Stealth]] page, all I did was try to help out and remove some miscellaneous info, which you took objection to. For the [[Lost Generation]] fiasco, all I did was do it in a '''''different''''' way. Are you saying that '''''your''''' way is the '''''only''''' way? Sure seems like it. For the ASW page, quite clearly - '''''You were not on the team in the first place'''''! Additionally, with what authority do you "encourage me change behavior"? You are not a Mod. You are not an Admin. You are not a SysOp. Don't act like one! This is precisely why I have been at odds with you, Mobius. Your enormous ego and your preposterous assertions of authority. Why don't you start treating people as people? We're your '''equals''', my friend, not your damned slaves. I'm sorry if I've done something you don't agree with, Mobius, but instead of acting as if you're a god and that your way is the only way to do something, why don't we talk it out as equals? This is precisely the problem I've always had with you. Acting as if you were superior, while quite clearly you aren't. - [[User:Snail|Snail]] 20:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 
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****Let me be clear this one. I don't understand why you keep claiming that I have a god complex because it isn't true. That's a mere excuse you have been citing for a while only to find an easy-to-understand explanation of the reasons behind my actions. When you made the wrong edits, effectively turning into dust my previous ones, '''I felt offended'''. When you removed me from the ASW team without even knowing that I'm the list, available for everyone to read on the website, '''I felt offended'''. Who's the "superior" guy here? Also, I've informed Flipside and MatthewPapa about your misuse of the Game Warden Shoutbox. You posted stuff about knowing my address, coming to me, killing me and then drinking my blood. You then deleted that to hide all proofs. Why don't you tell everyone about this, effectively showing how the true Snail behaves? It's too easy to criticize me (and only me), it's the way too easy. As fellow community member, I can encourage you to do things. We started out as equals, but you were the one who messed up internal forums ''and'' came out with this "Mobius feels like God" thing. It isn't true so stop spreading false informations, ok? --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
 
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***I've edited the ASW wiki page to be accurate now, so don't worry of this. But you two should really stop arguing this much. I mean seriously- act civilised. You're not little 10 year old kids. And if there's a lengthy reply posted beneath this one, with the same thing being talked over and over, you'll just prove it that you can't be mature. Both of you. -[[User:ShadowGorrath|ShadowGorrath]]
 
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****First of all, I'd encourage you to find out more about Snail's offenses. Killing me in order to drink my blood? That's insane. He also posted stuff like:
 
  
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*****''"12 Hours Ago 10:25 AM Snail
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Now I won't need to listen to your bullshit again
 
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12 Hours Ago 10:25 AM Snail
 
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I am so happy I've finally quit INFA
 
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12 Hours Ago 10:24 AM Snail
 
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No more fucking around trying to fix the horrible messes you've made.
 
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12 Hours Ago 10:24 AM Snail
 
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No more fucking around with your horrible grammar.
 
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12 Hours Ago 10:24 AM Snail
 
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No more fucking around with send-message-list SEXPs
 
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12 Hours Ago 10:24 AM Snail
 
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Free, as in never having to listen to your horrible ego-infested self-righteous posts ever again."''
 
  
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****I'd like to forget about this accident, but I'm also calling for justice. --- [[User:Mobius|Mobius]]
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Um... I've been working on a mission for a campaign that I'm thinking up and I was going to ask you to be a beta tester until I found out you are on the Earth Defense team. Then when I started looking at the story of Earth Defense I noticed there are a few similarities between my idea and ED's, so should I just scrap everything I have and start over or what? I also was thinking of using some assets from the ED asset release pack and a few things from BP. Is this also a bad idea? --[[User:FlamingCobra|FlamingCobra]] 22:12, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 22:12, 25 September 2011

User page

Wow... awesome bio. I had no idea of your pure FS fanaticism. Played the OEM version for two years- damn! Kudos. You've really seen it all. Mustang19 23:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


Yeah I've basically never played any other game but FreeSpace for most of my life. :D Snail 15:14, 31 March 2008 (CST)


The christmas I got TIE Fighter (1995?) I played it on my dad's 90 MHz Pentium laptop so much that the joystick's calibration broke and the little rubber mouse nub wore off. I think I remember passing out in the middle of one mission and waking up and finishing it later, and I'm sure I brought the discs with us to my aunt's in San Diego, where I spent the entire summer vacation in a dark room serving Admiral Thrawn. Maybe the best time of my life. Machaka 21:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Editing

If you see a spelling eror, you're welcome to correct it, but thanks for pointing that out. --Mars 02:20, 18 August 2006 (BST)

When I was tinkering around with mission tables, I got light capital when I tried out the Seraphim. AllStarZ 00:18, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Not Sparta...

What's it take to drive Snail mad? 124 consecutive edits. Nice job with the cleanup of the user-made ship pages. -- BlueFlames 16:45, 5 September 2008 (CDT)

random whatever

Actually I intend to make a bunch of Vasudan ships for exactly that reason. Have a bunch of rough sketches I've been doodling while at work. And also have one Shivan Cruiser in mind, but if I do him I'd probably save it for my campaign so that'd be a long ways off. Got the Anouke just about done, after that I might try to put together a pack of 6-8 fighters. Akalabeth

That sounds really cool and would give the community so many more Vasudan ships to play with. - Snail 14:32, 7 September 2008 (CDT)


Karnak page

I meant "canonical" in the sense of "what Dark and Ace intended", but your rewording is definitely clearer. :) Goober5000 18:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Iceni Comment

It DOES more or less state outright everything it says was said above...what's your reasoning?

I have no reasoning, only peanuts. Feel free to re-delete it I guess... I am sorry for getting in the way of your Jihad. - Snail 10:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Don't get all passive-aggressive on me. You did have a reason I hope. :p Ngtm1r 23:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

At a glance it looked like a reasonable, well-written comment, but I guess you're right. DON'T HURT ME PLEASE I'M SORRY D: - Snail 10:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


3.6.11 open question

Normally I would ask this on the Hard light forums, but I am very relucent to had out my e-mail adress at the moment. Either way, I am hearing much about this 3.6.11 open build for the SCP, yet they don't say where to get it, do you where to get it? Grunt minion22 7:21am November 1, 2009.

  • 3.6.11 open builds are 'nightly' builds, one is released each day. They are not stable, and will likely cause problems if you do something wrong with your mod. I personally don't recommend them, but here: Nightly Builds Board. Good luck with whatever it is you're doing. - Snail 15:23, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Removing Shivan stats

Have you read the last two comments on my talk page in the shivan stats section? I explained how I found them though table editting and Topace comfirmed it. He had tried it himself, and managed to get it by modified the Hercules, so please, what I was posting on all those Shivan fighters there IS canon. If you don't believe me, go make all of the Shivan fighters flyable and it will give you its stats in the Ship selection page. Grunt minion22 6:42am 23 December 2009

  • Bla bla bla. Doesn't change the fact that those stats are non-canon, due to being the result of a SCP code change. In retail, you would never, ever get to see those stats. Even if you edited the tables. Thus, they are not wiki material (or need to be marked as non-canon). It would help if you would follow the discussions on HLP or join the #hard-light IRC channel, where these things can be discussed before they hit the wiki. The E 13:15, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
    • Discussion on the HLP Wiki Forum has confirmed those stats are non-canon. They do not belong on the Wiki. - Snail 13:55, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


ASW Issues

Ok, this problem has not occuried anywhere else, so sorry for dragging you into this. Its just that I am able to get most of Ancient-Shivan War to work, yet there is still some crashing errors that I don't know if they came with the game or not, and have been effecting other people. I do got all the Vp files located inside the ASW folder, and copied into the tables. I started up the game, but I ended up getting messages saying that the game can't find the flyby sounds for the Ancients and Ashesidions (however its spelled) and uses Terrans and Vasudans instead. Going forward, I managed to get the game up, with the correct intro, the background picture, and all ships in the tech database, made a new character and selected the Ancient-Shivan War campain. BUT, instead, I get a dozen debugger messages exiting out of the game informing me that "arguement is illegal" and its all about the User-made cutsceen. I have not encountered this problem anywhere else, this happening to you or anyone else, or I'm just screwed up as usual. Grunt minion22 8:22pm, 16 January 2010

You really, really, REALLY need a forum account. Snail, as awesome as he is, is not the Tech Support person, I am. He also isn't a member of the ASW team. So, please register at HLP. Open a thread detailing your problem, with a fs2_open.log attached, in the support board. Then we can help you sort this out. The E 04:37, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Aww, someone thinks I'm smart. How touching. :) - Snail 10:21, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I am just a bit distrustful of forums since my LAST incident with them that resulted in my email getting spammed up. If the only email sent is just the activation code, and nothing else, then I'll do it and stop asking questions here :). Grunt minion22 8:08am, 17 Januaray 2010

  • HLP doesn't spam you. - TopAce 14:34, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Sorry, different forum site. Grunt minion22 9:39am, 17 Januaray 2010
  • On the topic, no one forces you to use exactly one email address. I, for example, have an university email, a nerd magazine email, a Gmail email, a Windows Live email and a piece of defecation email. I use the last one whenever I'm registering to places and/or have a feeling that whichever email I give there might end up getting spam. In short, you could just open up a new email account for your registration needs/whatever. Also, the only emails I've gotten from HLP have been strictly business. No spam. Ever. - Fisk 18:54, 17 January 2010 (EET)

BP

Actually, great idea! --Monitor 22:52, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

    • coo - Snail 22:54, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Minor edits

Bleh I keep doing that by mistake, sorry. I think it's because I set my preferences to always set things as minor edits by default at some point. - Snail 16:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

On this...

Hey, thanks. You did a great job slimming down the opening paragraph. -- Androgeos Exeunt 13:55, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

  • Actually I have been thinking about the ship intro paragraphs. Currently a lot of them seem to be glorified Vet Comments which strike me as out of place. I think we might need to reconsider what does and does not belong in those blurbs. - Snail 18:55, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, we probably should. When I was uploading the retail ship images, I also tried to expand the opening paragraphs of most of these articles to give them a bit more substance. In a number of cases, I took leaves from the VCs, which might not have been the brightest idea. -- Androgeos Exeunt 05:15, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Maybe we should consider just paring them right down to a line or two. Ship name, class, period of activity, introduced during... basic facts we can apply across the board for every non mod ship (and a fair chunk of the mod ships too). All the other info can go into the relevant headings deeper in the article. Black Wolf 11:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah. However, I do think interesting trivia and facts about ships could go up there, so I'll leave those be. Basically I think we should go ahead and remove any subjective info from the blurbs but leave facts and stuff. - Snail 20:55, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Question

Snail, are you a moderator? --FlamingCobra 01:12, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

  • No. And I know exactly what you are going to say. Don't say it. - Snail 11:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
    • Truth be told, I wasn't going to say anything else and I had forgotten all about this until now, because I came back to ask you another question: Is it ok to upload .hcf files? --FlamingCobra 02:52, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
      • I, uh, I don't know. I'm not sure it's even supported by the uploader. - Snail 19:24, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Um... I've been working on a mission for a campaign that I'm thinking up and I was going to ask you to be a beta tester until I found out you are on the Earth Defense team. Then when I started looking at the story of Earth Defense I noticed there are a few similarities between my idea and ED's, so should I just scrap everything I have and start over or what? I also was thinking of using some assets from the ED asset release pack and a few things from BP. Is this also a bad idea? --FlamingCobra 22:12, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

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