Closing on 3000 members and with 10000 posts.

[Spleenslitta]

We currently have 2986 members with a grand total of 9295 posts. Should we have a celebration of some kind when we reach 10000 posts?
Or how about a 3D designer competition where the fans contribute models and when we reach 10000 posts the dev's pick one of these models to put into the game?

[Zerbula]

Agreed. Celebrating 3K Mems and 10K Posts of the most Dev-friendly community. T'would be great.

Even if we don't have a entrence contest, I still think it would be fun If all of us community members put up some concept art, models, or ideas to help the devs out.

[Spleenslitta]

i just had a great idea. How about we submit designs for an FoA mascot character? Four cartoonish mechs (one for each faction) sounds cool.

Or this could be even better- There are plenty of writters/artists out there making webcartoons while hoping to catch the attention of a big publisher.
When the game launches Wardogs Studios could ask such a person to make a cartoon that is released every two weeks/or during major updates in a digital newspaper or something that also contains the latest FoA news.

The news could be just about anything- interviews with top ranking players, prices on ammo going up, terraforming progress, guilds putting out advertisments in the newspaper, events, model design contests, Etc.
But then again such news could be covered by that radio Sturm Kintaro was talking about here on the forums.

There are plenty of such hopefull writters with few means of getting readers so i suspect they wouldn't have to pay the artist much if anything at all.
What do you think guys?

[Zerbula]

No added suggestions, but agree. ^ +1

[Shadex]

Is that 3000 imaginary members? Because there is more life on the surface of Mars than on this forum.

[teufelich]

Is that 3000 imaginary members? Because there is more life on the surface of Mars than on this forum.

do not be fooled, this forum has more watchers than members.
Many are watching in the development of FOA from several gameing news sights and from other games sights too.

Of course I cant help but plug FOA here and there no matter where I go

[Shadex]

Alright, I'll bite then.  What's the story? I posted up in the General Forum a few days ago and no answer.  The General Forum. . .  the main forum to any site.  Is this game in a playable form? Is it in dev, alpha, beta, gamma, delta??

[Spleenslitta]

Good question Shadex. The dev's are releasing the game in a way that they call phased release. You can read more about what phased release means here- http://www.forceofarms.com/msgbbs/index.php?topic=728.0
And no it's not playable yet. it's not even at the Beta stage yet, but a game this big and advanced is not made overnight.

i used to think the same thing you did Shadex and i was quite frustrated -i just made a major update on my mech. Why haven't they made a single comment on it?
The reason they don't respond fast is because Wardog Studios is an indie game developer with only a few people. If they are busy responding to posts they are not making the game.

This game is not what puts food on their table so they are not working on it all day. They have jobs, families and other stuff to do as well.
in other words they work on it when they have available time and enough coffee to stay awake through the night.
So that just means that if i don't get a comment on the stuff i make i just haven't worked on it hard enough.

They had a simple facebookgame going but that was mostly to gather data on combat from what i remember.

And Teufelich is right- this forum has more watchers than members. if you are interrested in the game try contributing some ideas such as mech designs, settlement petitions ideas, give critique on the mechs in the mechbays and member designed stuff or just give your opinion on some of the subjects here.
If you have any other questions feel free to give me a PM Shadex. i'm not a dev but i think i got a decent amount of knowledge about what's happening on these forums.
i visit the forums at least once everyday so you'll get an answer pretty quick.  

[teufelich]

They had a simple facebookgame going but that was mostly to gather data on combat from what i remember.

the face book game is still there.

The FB game of FoA had a lot for reasons for game development for the main game, but primarily to get it out to the public and use for more advertising.
The more people Know about the game in development the more interest, and eventually the more investors are likely to give WDS their money... I mean invest in the game   we all know how that really works out but still love joking with other peoples money.

Per a previous post they are currently using UDK (iirc) to develope the pre release etc. so that they can give the anticipated people something like they had with multiverse.
The objective there of the alpha was so that we could get a feel for size and environment, but I am not certain if the new tester will stick to just that.

WDS has an angel investor atm (one of the dev's) and they have a lot of work to do.  As spleen said they are busy working and not as busy posting so development continues as they can.  One of the more frequent is Sturm.  You can count on him as being an intermediary between the devs and the forums.


The nice part about what WDS is wanting to do, this is not going to be built like any other game out there.  They are NOT going to grab something already developed and modify it into their own game.  This will not be a clone of anything out there.  <drools again>

[zango6]

Is that 3000 imaginary members? Because there is more life on the surface of Mars than on this forum. 

do not be fooled, this forum has more watchers than members.
Many are watching in the development of FOA from several gameing news sights and from other games sights too.

Of course I cant help but plug FOA here and there no matter where I go

its true i check almost every day to see if anything new has come up i really hope to see this game happen this so far from what the devs have said is everything i want to play even if i have to pay out the well u know what i mean i have wanted to play a game like this for a long time an now some people with real skill r makeing one an only 11 more people till the 3k mark woot   

[Agamemnon]

I do attempt to at least read the forums most days, even if I don't get a chance to respond. We'll have to work better on that, sorry for the slow response.

FYI-Our current page views for the month is 44551, we average somewhere between 50k-60k these days, so there's quite a few lurkers out there. Come jabber folks!!!!