A suggestion for offical Addon request

[m79 0]

What if we nominate someone who is a well respected in the OFP communite , who also has contact with BIS , to submit a list of the most

asked for addons. We have a couple of people(I will nominate myself as one) put together the list from the players to give to the spokeperson and then He/She sends it into BIS. We would then have a clear channel to BIS and we would also find out what the chances are of us ever seeing the units/weapons in

an upgrade.

We could have say the 10 most popular units and 10 most popular weapons/systems made up from the submissions of the community. 1 list per player of say no more then 15-20 items.

At least this way there would be a list that would be the most popular wishes and we could see if it could go somewhere with BIS.

Just a thought.

[euly 0]

Thats a really good idea. It would be nice to see someone that acually has the connections to get at least a few of the "must have's" out to the public. It would be kinda hard though, the person with that responsiblity would be under a whole lot of pressure from everyone demanding something or giving other ideas a thumbs down, on top of the enormous amount of single requests for things from catapults to jetpacks. Who knows if BIS will even respect the position for a comunity spokesperson, but if they do it might not be a bad idea to have a few other people under that person so he/she doesn't get overwhelmed trying to please everyone. So far I've enjoyed all the official addons & I'd like to see more, I really like the idea of having someone with a little more control over this so it might help put an end to the "BIS you have to do this or that" kinda posts. So rather than people posting their ideas & getting flamed for it, or getting flamed for posting an idea somebody already had, they could submit it to someone or go to a website or something to vote on it.

[Brass 0]

the developers have already got access to this forum, and this is probably the best place to air new ideas. the thing is that BIS dont care a whole lot of what people want. especially with the rediculous weapons that came out in the betas and 1.30.

as soon as the sdk is out, 3d max experts (there are a whole lot, and im assuming thats what will be used, or something on those lines) will be able to make the addons we want, probably better as they have more time than pratting around trying to solve a million or so bugs they introduced in the last addon. ok, they may not be great or totally bug-free, but youll get more addons that you want.

[Cucuma 0]

That is a good idea but Brass is right they don't care and if you want to email ideas they must have an outlook express link at codemasters.com.

Good idea though

[Paddeh 0]

are there any statements by BIS on the SDK? and when its likely to be available, if ever. I hear lots of people saying it wont come out, but I've never seen anything from BIS to support any of this.

[King Kong 0]

There is no SDK.

Coding a SDK would cost more then a year or so, especially with the OFP engine.

And even if they DO release a SDK it would be useless for model&skinners.

The only thing they can do is release the engine, but do you hounestly think that they would do that?

[King Kong 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Paddeh on 9:03 pm on Dec. 12, 2001

are there any statements by BIS on the SDK? and when its likely to be available, if ever. I hear lots of people saying it wont come out, but I've never seen anything from BIS to support any of this.

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Offcourse, why should they.

This whole SDK thing is fake,

Like Krechet1 said

"Suckers will buy it anyways provided that we put few pretty screenshots out and if we release some "free" patches, they will think of us as Gods!".

[Cucuma 0]

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(Edited by Cucuma at 7:35 am on Dec. 13, 2001)

[Cucuma 0]

Cigarets are bad in two ways they kill people and i don't know how to spell them!

[Isopro 0]

If it is true that BIS encrypted OFP to make it difficult or impossible to create mods without their permisssion; then they would not be spending time and money now creating an SDK to bypass that encryption. Very disappointing indeed.

Jerry

[Paddeh 0]

well.... f**k!!1

[Rogue 0]

As for the sdk, never, is never good for you ?

[Door a jar 0]

Wow this topic got way off, well, topic.

I think he just wanted a list of things you would like to see added to the game, not a run-off of SDK rants. I'd like to see it as much as the rest of you, but hey guys patience is a virtue. As for addons well...

-It would be nice if they replaced the .50 cal east with a KPV.

-I wouldn't mind seeing a BTR, but they might run into the same problems they had with the BRDM when trying to make the turret work.

-An RPK or RPK-74 would be nice as well.

Oh and here is a question for you all. I know we have to wait for the SDK to add new models into the game, but is there anyway to add new animations into the game, I'd like to fix the heavy machine guns so they aren't standing up straight, but are actually hunkered down behind the weapon.

Thanks fellas

-Door_a_jar

[Charlie_McSheenie 1]

for machine guns i'd prefer them to be on tripods, a lot lower down with the guy kneeling down and firing.

i'd want more vehicles, especially russian amphibious stuff, so you could have NATO with air superiority (cos they have more choppers) and the russians with more ground capability.

a fully functional troops ship, where you can have several russian amphib vehicles stored below the deck, and able to drive out when the main doors open for beach assaults owuld be top class. the ship would also have some AAA.

imho that'd be the best add-on, although i doubt it can be done with the opf engine (vehicles stored within vehicles). which is a shame

[amos m 0]

Man, anything is possible with any engine. You only gotta code some changes into it. And your request isn't as unlikely as you seem to expect.

I've seen on this forum how it's possible to do just that using respawns.

And as for the sdk, what do you need for an sdk. A compiler, maybe a decompiler, and a whole bunch of code. I'm guessing they've already got all this stuff.

If I were creating such a huge project, I'd make the sdk as I go, especially if I were intending on making so many addons.

[PV 0]

I would love an island pack from BIS with 3 new islands, preferably different climates.

[Ruskiesrule 0]

I'd like a map that has two large islands, so we can do proper island invasion mission.

[Charlie_McSheenie 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from PV on 6:08 am on Dec. 24, 2001

I would love an island pack from BIS with 3 new islands, preferably different climates.

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new islands would kick ass, they could have a cool map where its loads of small island really close to each other. but that'd only be truly good with cool amphib tank carrying ships