Monthly Topic Rotation

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"Monthy Topic Rotation" is a term coined by Gnome referring to the fact that people keep coming into the forums and posting messages on the same subject. It seems that as Spring becomes more popular, more new people keep coming up with the same ideas and questions... think of this as the "Is your idea original?" FAQ as opposed to the "real" FAQ.

Now in some situations it's okay to repost on the same topic, if it has been only mentioned before in other people's topics or if you make reference to the fact that it is a known issue you are addressing with new ideas... but that doesn't excuse you from the list. One way or the other, the community might make fun of you for rehashing old topics, expecially when they aren't forgotten so much as people are bored of talking about them.

This has now turned into a sort of game. You can see the current scores here: http://maelstrom.niiil.com/?l=mtr (Note from a visitor: link seems to be down)

The Topics

List of Generic Topics with brief discussion and list of topics posted on these subjects for quick reference:

Spring is dying / Large BA games on DSD are killing it

Has been "discussed" to death. Please avoid threads that contain nothing but complaints or unrealistic ideas.

Advertise "Spring" to make it more popular

Everybody knows that advertising brings more players. What is needed are people to actually do something, eg make easy to use installers, videos or web pages.

Custom Resources

Requests or Suggestions that involve anything from different names for the resources we have, better control over the handling of resources, resources like those in other games etc. The best generalized suggestion is for a more dynamic, mod controlled resource and unit limit. Often coupled with suggestions for hacking or script based work arounds for the lack of the requested feature.

• A Third Resource PLEASE!
• A proposed System
• Mentioned in conjunction with other requests for resource related features
• Carbon or Something
• Reserach as a Resource
• spicing up economy

OTA Style Music

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

Requests or Suggestions that the engine include music playback, especially music that changes depending on what kind of action is happening in game. Associated with requests for a sound track of any kind or asking for a link to get the orriginal TA Soundtrack in MP3 format.

• Soundtracks.
• Original TA music
• TA Style music
• Music Player code
• Is original music needed?
• Music support?

As a subnote, many of Spring's pre beta members have been working on code to get the music working, while yet others have spent time studying other games and their setups. Current thinking is of a THE SIMS style, where you can specify your own music.

Raise/Lower Terrain

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

People suggesting or requesting some kind of better control over deformable terrain or some kind of terraforming unit. Often associated with people posting pictures of cool effects they have achieved through the use of the current "blow a big hole and then restore to the desired surface" method.

• Raise/Lower Terrain?
• Terraforming
• Building Holes

Camera Angles

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

suggesting changes to current camera angles, popularly related to the inability of the rotatable and FPS cams to go outside the map boundries, making it difficult to see units close to the edges of the map.

• The #2 item on my wishlist

Also, there's the problem of the world stopping at a rather steep drop.

• What is good, and what is bad

The New GUI

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

Anything related to how bad the current GUI is, suggestions for features that already exists but users do not know about because they are barely documented, or simply threads asking for or about the new GUI.

• New GUI questions
• New GUI testing
• Wheres the new gui?
• re: about the newGUI
• New "Interface"

Multiple transport load sharing via cable hooks

Seriously WTF, this isn't even a good idea, why does this keep coming up?

• Transports

Mobile factories

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

• Rise and walk, or how my factorie grew legs (and wings too).
• "Build pads" for units
• air based factories for FF

Day and Night

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

Wouldn't it be pretty to see a tank's headlights in the dark? Even prettier would be to have a dynamic sun to go with it. =) Watch the mountain's shadows lengthen...

• Reviving the request list
• Day and Night
• how about night and day
• Gameplay idea: Night

FPS mode hud/movement changes

Lots of people don't think the FPS mode implimentation is being all that it can be. They love to make forum topics about it.

• Regarding the FPS "gimmick"

Game lobby moderators

A well known issue. People always seem to request it...

• Client moderators
• We need moderators

Gaia Player

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

Subject specific threads:

• first one?
• Almost directly related
• This is the last one

But this request appears in random threads every now and then.

• is gaia in cvs? Alantai says so.
• [1], [2], [3], [4].

Improved feature reactivity

Bridges that you can acctually walk on, better hit detection, there are lots of improvements that could be made to the way spring units, models, and features react to eachother in the most basic sense. Often they are mentioned in the same topic.

• 3D Collission Mesh?

Spherical/Looping/Endless maps

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

A number of options are available for making the map "go on forever"... and apparently the new new map format includes support for extanding the map behond the playable area of the map (no more ugly edges).

Usually what is being suggested if for maps to just loop, refered to a sphere but more like a "double cylinder" or "Torus"... some people basically think we could just "warp" units to the other side of the map, but issues have been brought up with ranged weapons, line of sight and figuring out where shots are coming from. If you go WAY WAY back you can even see this idea included in an idea for an MMORTS based on the spring engine.

• Monster Truck Madness 2? Looping Maps.
• Even MORE 3D
• Spherical Maps
• stop talking about this!!!
• Does anyone Want This?
• Multiple Maps Linked together... would also require being able to join a battle already in progress

What is that map with the trees... (and others)

Ok, so its a map, but me, and others I'm sure are fed up of repeting ourselves... The map with trees is NOT availble for download. Its part of aGorms imagination. Unfortunatly the engin currentlyt can't handel the trees very well so its not released... You will see the screen alot because... well people think its a realy good screen.

See the said screen: The Tree Map

• Spring on Wikipedia
• What's this wiki map

Rewinding Replays

This has now been done by a game, map or would be technically possible if somebody wants to do it.

Many people want stuff such as a .jumpto (time) command, or the ability to rewind during a replay. The nature of replays and the spring simulation implies that rewinding can never happen, so discussing this is really pointless.

• Rewinding for Replays?