macguba 0 Posted April 26, 2005 For reviewed/checked resources posted at OFPEC which may or may not make their way into Flashnews, use these pages:- Editors Depot latest submissions (scripts, tutorials, tools and other resources) Missions Depot Single Player Missions Depot Multiplayer Missions Depot Campaigns Addons Depot All items on these Accepted pages are candidates for Flashnews.  (When items are submitted to OFPEC they are posted on a Pending page until they have been checked/reviewed by OFPEC staff.  Items on these pages are not suitable for Flashnews.   In general, items posted on the OFPEC forums are also not suitable for Flashnews, since they haven't been checked either.) Quote[/b] ]If you can start to create forum threads on the Ofpec forum for reviewed missions then that would certainly aid their inclusion into Flashnews. For any item accepted by OFPEC, members are at liberty to start a thread in the forums to discuss it.  Each Depot has its own forum board specificially for this purpose. Editors Depot board Missions Depot board Addons Depot board However, you very rarely see threads of this nature in these boards.  Why?  Because each item - mission, addon or editing resource - has a Comment facility.  Users can post a Comment on the item's own page, with no need to head over to the forums.   Here is a recent example.  Scroll down towards the bottom of the page.   Comments are moderated, may use smilies and may be edited or deleted by the poster - just like forum posts. Quote[/b] ]I don't immediately include missions into Flashnews for a couple of reasons, the main one is that often a mission gets released on the forum in an quite incomplete state, I won't include it in Flashnews until I have judged by the replies to the forum thread that if I include it the person reading Flashnews can download the mission, find the required addons and get it working without too much hassle Quite right.  Reviewed missions at OFPEC and elsewhere have already checked all this and may be included in Flashnews without further delay.  (Missions on the Pending page may (and often do) have problems.) The Mission Depot has released 63 reviewed missions and campaigns this year so far.   At the risk of tautology, about half were above average.  In my personal view missions scoring 4 or above are suitable for Flashnews - plenty of 4s are fun to play.  You could argue that all [functional] missions are suitable, but almost everybody would agree that  5s are definitely appropriate.  Missions which have serious problems or are non functional are not released at all, or score 0.  If in doubt, read the review - any minor errors will be mentioned. Quote[/b] ]items only get into Flashnews when it's something "physical" that can actually be put into the game there and then. I agree entirely that there must be something physical, and I appreciate the point that for the unsophisticated reader talk of scripts and tools may be confusing.  However, you could have an "advanced users" section (or an occasional feature) in Flashnews.  Many scripts come complete with demo missions (OFPEC strongly encourages scriptmakers to include demo missions) which can be dropped into the game like any other mission and with much less trouble than an addon.  You need a basic understanding of the mission editor to toy with an addon:  a demo mission showing off a script can simply be played like any other mission. However, given that you've got E3 to think about, I appreciate that perhaps this isn't the best time to be hassling you about Flashnews.   Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted April 26, 2005 The whole scripting thing has given me an idea, will take it to PM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acecombat 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Just to add to barron and macgubas statements which i agree on completely , we at opflash.org also have working missions posted checked/reviewed and each mission has its own thread for users to comment on any problems if they come across. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted April 26, 2005 Just need to recruit a Flashnews user mission section content coordinator now then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hardrock 1 Posted April 26, 2005 Flashnews user mission section content coordinator Now that would be a title! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmakatra 1 Posted April 26, 2005 Just need to recruit a Flashnews user mission section content coordinator now then  Me! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acecombat 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Just need to recruit a Flashnews user mission section content coordinator now then  Come on its not that hard you can do it yourself . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sanctuary 19 Posted April 26, 2005 Looking at past screenshots competitions, how about a "king of the scripts" competition ? In the same way of the screenshot competition, each contestants to the 2005 title would submit what they think to be their best script, then a vote would be produced among the community, not sure how. Again, like in the screenshot competition, the winner could win a "king of the scripts 2005" picture to add to his signature, and the 2/3 next to him will earn another picture of "great scripter 2005" or something like that. Maybe it could focus a bit of community eyes to the scripting area , that is mostly ignored despite all the greatness those scripters work can provide to mission makers. And it could reward in some ways those scripters that are giving those great tools , that are those ready to use scripts ,to every mission makers of the community allowing them to enhance their missions beyond what they could do themselves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raedor 8 Posted April 26, 2005 Looking at past screenshots competitions, how about a "king of the scripts" competition ?In the same way of the screenshot competition, each contestants to the 2005 title would submit what they think to be their best script, then a vote would be produced among the community, not sure how. Again, like in the screenshot competition, the winner could win a "king of the scripts 2005" picture to add to his signature, and the 2/3 next to him will earn another picture of "great scripter 2005" or something like that. Maybe it could focus a bit of community eyes to the scripting area , that is mostly ignored despite all the greatness those scripters work can provide to mission makers. And it could reward in some ways those scripters that are giving those great tools , that are those ready to use scripts ,to every mission makers of the community allowing them to enhance their missions beyond what they could do themselves. i don't think that you can do such a competition as easy as you could do the screenshot's one. everyone can judge about a screenshot, but only a handfull people can judge about a script. also we would have to reward people who already left the community or are gone to BIS ( ), like Rastavovich (for all of DKM's scripts, esp. the suspension), vektorboson (for his helo dust script, which is used by nearly every new helo addon), TJ (for his ubiquitous burn script) and so on (no, i did not forget denoir, bn880,...). also it is not so easy to say which script "is better". if you see some screenshots you can say "hey, this one is unique!" but every (working) script does its job and you can't say "this one is better" or so... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted April 26, 2005 FlashNews No. 46 BIS @ E3 (for anyone who missed the news ) New User Missions Phoenix Island Sanctuary's Anims updated Godzilla Smart Roadster Coupé And many more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted May 2, 2005 FlashNews No. 47 Laser's Deltas, Rangers and Weapons Updated Dak Seang Island VME Mod update Sanctuary's Pistol Animations Searchlight Addon And many more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted May 10, 2005 FlashNews No. 48 New User Missions Novajev Island Ivtiliac Island Battered Pickup Updated Grenade Pack And more.... The next Flashnews (No. 49) will be posted in two weeks time, precise day TBD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted May 27, 2005 FlashNews No. 49 Post E3 press coverage: Part 1 Operation Frenchpoint new addon pack & updates RHS addons updates Napoleonic Units ver 1.1 ORCS Infantry ver 1.1 Pacific War update Star Wars addons And much, much more.... This FlashNews takes us up to 19th May, Flashnews 50 will catch up completely to the current date Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 1, 2005 FlashNews No. 50 Post E3 press coverage: Part 2 BW Mod updates PhilCommando's Ships Homeland Island Mig-31 Addon Tomahawk Addon And much more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 6, 2005 FlashNews No. 51 Laser's Navy Seals Y2K3 Mod Version 7.1 Remo's Afghan Island and Taliban Pack Napoleonic War Pack 2 Salang Island and house pack And much more.... Due to excessive recycling the HTML of flashnews had been growing each week and last week had reached over 500kb which was quite rediculous, this week I started from scratch and created a template version which will be used from now on, hopefully resulting in continous small filesizes and much quicker loading (this week's Flashnews is 66kb) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 13, 2005 FlashNews No. 52 Liberation 1941-1945 release CJE's Winter & Desert Nogova Sanctuary's new animation pack Civil War Mod addon pack And more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 20, 2005 FlashNews No. 53 New/updated user missions BW Mod's updated Leopard 2A6 Project MCAR new beta & jeep Liberation 1941-1945 fix CJE's Winter Nogova fix Sicilian's OFPSentry And more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 27, 2005 FlashNews No. 54 Open Letter from BIS Console Game Preview New/updated user missions Pedagne Chopper Pack Oilfield addon Sgt. Eversmann's Nogova Island And more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted July 4, 2005 FlashNews No. 55 New/updated user missions CSLA mod version 2.10 Project UK Forces' Landrovers Mortar Pack And more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted July 11, 2005 FlashNews No. 56 Bohemia Interactive in the press European trees/plants ATF2 Dingo IX° Rgt. Paracadutisti d'Assalto Sherman Pack And many more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted July 19, 2005 FlashNews No. 57 Blackblood's UK Desert Troops Q's WGL Everon Island BucketMan's Iranian Army And more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted July 25, 2005 FlashNews No. 58 New beta dedicated server ECP 1.085 Red Hammer Studio updated weapons pack Napoleonic Mod Pack 3 Optica Observation Plane And more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted August 1, 2005 FlashNews No. 59 BIS Forum Reshuffle RHS Infantry, Spetsnaz and patches ORCS T-72b and crew Project UK Forces Warrior IFV Sandy Rocks Final New/Updated User Missions And many more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted August 9, 2005 FlashNews No. 60 Tinamas & ORCS' T-90 & T-80U Ironsight & Offtime's Everon Defence Force soldiers LordHorus' Tatooine buildings pack Franze & NodUnit's AH-64D pack New/Updated User Missions And many more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted August 15, 2005 FlashNews No. 61 New beta dedicated server Grizzly & Fox Islands Ninja Addon International Blackops Stargate Mod Beta New/Updated User Missions And many more.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
