Timbo: Still waiting for the announcement that the sellout is a April Fools Joke

[FisherP]

As is tradition all April Fools jokes are to be renounced by it's creator at 12 midday of April the 1st. I'm still waiting for that announcement Timbo either that, or a forum thread which confirms it.

[Conzul]

As is tradition all April Fools jokes are to be renounced by it's creator at 12 midday of April the 1st. I'm still waiting for that announcement Timbo either that, or a forum thread which confirms it.

It's not a joke, FisherP, these really are the last days that you will get to play Tremulous on a PC. Value them.

[David]

Due to idiots in stupid timezones who can't count, it's been decided that any such announcement will have to wait until after midday in all timezones to avoid confusing any retards that may be in those timezones.

[CreatureofHell]

The day isn't over yet 

[GeneralScott]

This had BETTER be a joke... Its not probably, but even if its a joke its already had some pretty big repurcussions! Support Librelous!!!   http://librelous.info/projects/librelous

[Asvarox]

Wow, I guess kharnov took care about this site

[FisherP]

Wow, I guess kharnov took care about this site

I know... if this is a joke, like I think it is, they've gone to a lot of effort to propagate it. What I don't understand is they can go to this level of effort for a joke, but can't seem to manage a fraction of the effort it took to tell us what's really happening. The only Dev communicating anything is Norf, and I do not think lightly of this. It is pretty much a slap in the face to me, and I think all the players in the community should feel this way. It's an insult, almost enough for me to abandon Tremulous all together.

[David]

Yes, because obviously they should spend a lot of time to explain what's going on in simple terms for you.
Everyone else manages to keep up-to-date (not like it's fast or anything).

[Aviator]

If it is a joke, it's a damn well staged joke   

[mooseberry]

Sadly this is definetly true... I talked to Timbo and many other devs on IRC and they confirmed it. He said to email him if you were interessted in the discount for Tremulous on XBOX though!

[Kiwi]

Nice!  But I'll have to go buy an xbox first :/

[shocker154]

Well thats gay ;/ they couldn't you know tell us on any other possible day?

[Celestial_Rage]

I still can't believe you guys bought another domain...

Admittedly, it was a .info, but STILL!

[GeneralScott]

ITS JUST AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!! LOOK AT  THE LATEST NEWS !!!!!!       

[Asvarox]

omg i already ordered it

[Dracone]

12-year-oldulous would actually be just great, suddenly bringing the already steadily declining average player age to that unfortunately low number, so that we have a virtual kiddie pool with a twist.

[Aviator]

12-year-oldulous would actually be just great, suddenly bringing the already steadily declining average player age to that unfortunately low number, so that we have a virtual kiddie pool with a twist.

...>.> go to the Skittles server and you'll see what that's like lol

[FisherP]

Yes, because obviously they should spend a lot of time to explain what's going on in simple terms for you.
Everyone else manages to keep up-to-date (not like it's fast or anything).

I've been away for the Easter weekend, otherwise I would have responded sooner.

Um, hearsay and Chinese whispers from people who are not developers does not count as news David. The only Dev that has posted any sort of news or progress reports on what they are doing on the forums is Norfenstein. All I've seen from the devs is an April Fools day joke that I would say took hours to set up and arrange. If they only spent each maybe 10 minutes (total of one hour which is a fraction of the time it took to set up the joke) I think that the community would be able to treat this joke as that, and not as an insult.

You say

a lot of time

What I would think is enough is 10 minutes now and again, is that too much to ask, or are you/they too high and mighty to deign spend a portion of the joke time to REALLY tell the rest of the players just what's happening.

[Thorn]

I think that the community would be able to treat this joke as that, and not as an insult.

Why do you assume the community agrees with you? This drama is far more entertaining than the joke itself was, tbh.

[nubcake]

All the 'newer' players ive spoken to found it midly amusing, but the every player who has played and been on there toes for 2 years or more waiting for a release was annoyed

[Timbo]

It is pretty much a slap in the face to me, and I think all the players in the community should feel this way. It's an insult, almost enough for me to abandon Tremulous all together.

Seriously, what? You seem to think you're owed something?

If I wanted to insult you I'd just call you a cunt or something...

[bleach]

It is pretty much a slap in the face to me, and I think all the players in the community should feel this way. It's an insult, almost enough for me to abandon Tremulous all together.

Seriously, what? You seem to think you're owed something?

If I wanted to insult you I'd just call you a cunt or something...

Win

[janev]

It is pretty much a slap in the face to me, and I think all  the players in the community should feel this way. It's an insult, almost enough for me to abandon Tremulous all together.

Seriously, what? You seem to think you're owed something?

If I wanted to insult you I'd just call you a cunt or something...

I agree with Timbo, but took the liberty to highlight some parts of his text, in case he was not being clear enough for you.
But just for posterity one more time in layman's terms:

u wuz liek me me me

and he wus leik back da fuk up biatch

[mooseberry]

It is pretty much a slap in the face to me, and I think all  the players in the community should feel this way. It's an insult, almost enough for me to abandon Tremulous all together.

Seriously, what? You seem to think you're owed something?

If I wanted to insult you I'd just call you a cunt or something...

I agree with Timbo, but took the liberty to highlight some parts of his text, in case he was not being clear enough for you.
But just for posterity one more time in layman's terms:

u wuz liek me me me

and he wus leik back da fuk up biatch

We have a word for this in the english langauge: pretentious. Get over yourself.

[player1]

It's an insult, almost enough for me to abandon Tremulous all together.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

[FisherP]

Seriously, what? You seem to think you're owed something?

If I wanted to insult you I'd just call you a cunt or something...

Seriously, All I think that the community asks for is some real news once in a while. I don't think I'm owed anything. I think the community is owed something. I understand that you have a real life, I do as well. But then I'm not on a development team for a game played by possibly hundreds. All I hear is "join the IRC" but that's OK for people who a) have it b) know what it is c) have their computers on 24/7 d) don't mind sifting through all the rubbish talk to find out the highlights.

Timbo, I've told you in the past that you've created a good game and also that I don't really care how long it takes to get 1.2 to the place that you and the dev team feel is right. I have also many, many times expressed concerns around the Dev team lack of communication with the community. All I hear is "Read it on IRC" or "Look at the SVN" both are as helpful as a hole in the head and almost impossible to sift through all the bugs, half of them either are repeats, some fixed on svn (which you don't know they are unless you cross-reference with the svn), and others we all know won't be fixed in 1.2. Real communication is that too much to ask 10 minutes of your precious time every month or two, not for me personally, for the players of your game?

EDIT: Insulting me by calling me a cunt or whatever won't work, I'm not normally that easy to insult.

[khalsa]

Hey look some news on the frontpage

And a dedicated board full of updates:
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12469.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12700.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12867.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=13047.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=11859.0

And a bug list

WOW and a thread about the status of the models for 1.2

If you need some help with IRC, there is a sticky topic in the general area of the most used board.

Protip: a lot of the good stuff happens in #tremulous-dev

If you are in-game (GPP) you can click News and see the latest updates as well

The easily-readable SVN log clearly states which bugs are being fixed within each commit, and bugzilla is always updated when a bug is closed.


It's so sad that you are correct** that there is never any updates available for the community, and "real news" is entirely inaccessible to those who want it. I'm going to go complain to the developers about this!





**Note: You are not actually correct

[FisherP]

Hey look some news on the frontpage

And a dedicated board full of updates:
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12469.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12700.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12867.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=13047.0
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=11859.0

And a bug list

WOW and a thread about the status of the models for 1.2

If you need some help with IRC, there is a sticky topic in the general area of the most used board.

Protip: a lot of the good stuff happens in #tremulous-dev

If you are in-game (GPP) you can click News and see the latest updates as well

The easily-readable SVN log clearly states which bugs are being fixed within each commit, and bugzilla is always updated when a bug is closed.


It's so sad that you are correct** that there is never any updates available for the community, and "real news" is entirely inaccessible to those who want it. I'm going to go complain to the developers about this!





**Note: You are not actually correct

Khalsa, I have admitted in the past (on those exact threads regarding the GPP) that Norf seems to be the ONLY developer that seems to have any regard for publishing his progress. I have in fact applauded him on this many times if you can spend the time to read them. Regarding the Modeling for 1.2 random posts in some thread titled "Re: It's the end for 1.1: Evidence shown! Images Leaked!" is not what I consider making a public announcement.

Then there's the fact that there's more to a game than models and gameplay. There's the client, maps, the admin system... so very much more. Please Khalsa, if you are going to make an intelligent post do so, but don't assume that I'm an idiot. I can read the SVN, have done a few times. I've also reviewed the bugs list, but these are things of the past, I know this, and you do to. Do you honestly think so low of the players that you would think that what you've posted is any sort of answer? Or do you think that all the players are geniuses who can decipher from the svn and bugs list where the future of Tremulous is going? Or do you honestly think that we are all psychic?

Do I need help with IRC? WTF, did you even read what I said previously? I've been there, done that, who do you think posted all those links (5 or 6) IN the IRC to various web sites that parsed the gaming news from /. of the April Fools joke. Let me spell it out to you Tremulous IRC is not user friendly, AND it doesn't tell ALL the players where things are up to and where it's heading. Honestly, if you had twice the brains an amoeba would be twice as smart. What I'm looking for here is not some random list of threads or links to posts that are buried deep in some 17 page thread. I'm looking for Norfenstein level communication from the other Dev's and heaven forbid a thread from Timbo giving something to the players of where the game is up to on a global viewpoint. The progress of 1.2 is News worthy. Players are eager for it.

And before you outright dismiss me because I'm not a sycophant I have vested 3 of my 4 years of playing this game to the Tremulous community in Australia having rcon on one of the major servers. I've had to maintain order on some of the tremulous servers, and doing that with a mixture of clients and game qvm's. I've been looking forward to 1.2 ever since TJW released a new client, and QVM. Don't talk to me about what you owe me, it's not right noone owes me because I was doing it for a game I like to play. But equally don't talk to me as if I know nothing, don't patronize me like that.

EDIT: Fixed pprogress typo

[Who]

Khalsa, I have admitted in the past (on those exact threads regarding the GPP) that Norf seems to be the ONLY developer that seems to have any regard for publishing his progress. I have in fact applauded him on this many times if you can spend the time to read them. Regarding the Modeling for 1.2 random posts in some thread titled "Re: It's the end for 1.1: Evidence shown! Images Leaked!" is not what I consider making a public announcement.

Then there's the fact that there's more to a game than models and gameplay. There's the client, maps, the admin system... so very much more. Please Khalsa, if you are going to make an intelligent post do so, but don't assume that I'm an idiot. I can read the SVN, have done a few times. I've also reviewed the bugs list, but these are things of the past, I know this, and you do to. Do you honestly think so low of the players that you would think that what you've posted is any sort of answer? Or do you think that all the players are geniuses who can decipher from the svn and bugs list where the future of Tremulous is going? Or do you honestly think that we are all psychic?

Do I need help with IRC? WTF, did you even read what I said previously? I've been there, done that, who do you think posted all those links (5 or 6) IN the IRC to various web sites that parsed the gaming news from /. of the April Fools joke. Let me spell it out to you Tremulous IRC is not user friendly, AND it doesn't tell ALL the players where things are up to and where it's heading. Honestly, if you had twice the brains an amoeba would be twice as smart. What I'm looking for here is not some random list of threads or links to posts that are buried deep in some 17 page thread. I'm looking for Norfenstein level communication from the other Dev's and heaven forbid a thread from Timbo giving something to the players of where the game is up to on a global viewpoint. The pprogress of 1.2 is News worthy. Players are eager for it.

And before you outright dismiss me because I'm not a sycophant I have vested 3 of my 4 years of playing this game to the Tremulous community in Australia having rcon on one of the major servers. I've had to maintain order on some of the tremulous servers, and doing that with a mixture of clients and game qvm's. I've been looking forward to 1.2 ever since TJW released a new client, and QVM. Don't talk to me about what you owe me, it's not right noone owes me because I was doing it for a game I like to play. But equally don't talk to me as if I know nothing, don't patronize me like that.

Did you even read his post?

[FisherP]

Did you even read his post?

Yes, your point being?

I swear talking to you Dev's is like talking to a brick wall, no wait, that could actually be helpful. (with the exception of Slacker, he will at least communicate intelligently, and not be patronizing)