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  1. At this time I am 75% done with my new Everon. It is all resistance textures and objects (except some houses, had to keep the Evronian feel). Some things changed are:

    Forests - No more OFP forests. The whole island is now like GAIA now. Forests blend in with envirnment. They now are a bit bigger than their original size, as the forest thins itself out in wilderness areas. No more company size tank battles in the open where u please. It is designed to look more like a deciduous forest island, not a field island with some forests.

    Towns and Cities - Expanded

    FPS drop - No more than Nogova in most areas. Trust me, I have no super computer.

    Island split in TWO - In the middle area where the island got narrow is now a "river" with a ravine. One town surrounds this bridge on both sides, therfor securing it will no be a piece of cake.

    AGS and Farm Objects addons used.

    Montignac now looks like a capital CITY (no AGS city though...maybe on the AGS_City Update)

    Ill put some screenies up in a few days of all differnet areas.


  2. no offense FDF, with all of your great addons, why are you so anti-messing around with ur files. I understand if you dont want people distributing them, but why get offended if someone wants to costomize their own.

    ***Just my 2 cents. In no way is any offense intended. Please continue with the great work.***


  3. Hey everyone, alright anybody who knows anything or has any suggestions reply to this or send me a private message.

        Is the new VBS1 technology for ofp2, is that pretty much what OFP2 is going to look like?  rock.gif . Then since the first place winner of the mission editing competition gets the whole VBS1 cd pack, another question is. Is OFP2 going to consist of all those 8 VBS1 CD's and your going to have to buy each one and are they going to range in price anywhere from $50 to $140/per cd??? I hope OFP2 comes out with only like 3 CDs in one PC box and i hope it will only cost $50 to $60. Because if it's going to be over $100 I don't think i'm going to buy OFP2 if it's going to be that much. If anybody has any suggestions or questions or anything just let me know. Thanks for your help Forums.   biggrin_o.gif ,  smile_o.gif .

    o god watch out Nightjay, you'll get flamed on here if ur not willing to pay $100 for OFP2... better go run and hide

    crazy_o.gif


  4. supply and demand. If people dont need a forum, they will not go.

    There is also a thing called a "tipping point". When you get a certain amount of people coming back and posting, it will come to a point where people will sign up because of the large community.

    I for one wouldnt sign up for a forum with less than a 100 people unless it was something i really liked.


  5. Get Speilberg. His war movies are the only ones that dont have that HOLLYWOOD feel to them.

    Windtalkers...I dont know if it was Woo or Cage that ruined that. Probably both. Who runs around with a tommy gun acting like rambo?rock.gif?rock.gif?

    Pearl Harbor...Should a war movie attract chicks?rock.gif Need I say anything else

    Tears of the Sun... Great movie.....UNTIL....the end in the big battle where they all pull back in a line together with the guns blazing at their hip... Amazing how one scene can ruin an entire move. Plus Monica Bellucci shoulda shown some nipple.

    Thin Red Line.... Great

    Forest Gump... The movie that isnt a war movie, yet started the way modern war movies are done. I will always remember the part in the dike with tracers and bombs goin off

    Band of Brothers......Hmmm, need I say anything.

    The Patriot..... Even with the lame "girly" aspects i think it did a great job. Lets just say if a movie made me go practice with a hatchet an hour a day it deserves some respect.

    Gods and Generals.... may have dragged at times, but I love the southern point of view. You also got a great feel for the generals. Nice job making the special effects seem real, and not hollywood.

    The Rock.... May not be an official WAR movie, but it fits in the R6 category. Another movie where Nick Cage ruined a great flick. Sean Connery...AWSOME. Plus we had a Ding Chavez in a stocking cap...AWSOME tounge_o.gif

    Full Metal Jacket...boot camp part...great. The war scenes were intersting, as they showed how battles are not 1 hour of continuous shooting.

    Apoch Now... More of a drama, watch while ur stoned kinda movie. Total cult classic

    Saving Private Ryan.... What modern war movies would we have had with out this?

    Enemy at the Gates... cool, except we had british people playing russians and americans playing germans. Atleast they didnt attempt to give em native accents.

    Wow, what a ramble on my part. Im sure theres a few i left out.

    My rules for R6 (movie)

    NO NICHOLAS CAGE

    Spielberg as director

    Keep Jerry Bruckheimer away from the set (I dont want girls outnumbering guys at the theater)

    The movie may have to change a bit from the book, as the action in the book is the suspense of the setup, with 30 seconds of action. Cant wait for the castle scene.


  6. i dont know how to do this, but make ur leader a civilian... maybe edit the mission sqm and make him a civilian... he wont do anything hostile.

    the only thing is that the entire squad may be viewed a civilians, so you may have to find a way around that.

    What is the situation for this? Maybe if we all know the story we can find some way around this...


  7. I've read all the TC books up to The Bear and the Dragon (BEST TC BOOK- READ IT!) I always pictured Harrison Ford as the president (John Clark), and Ben Douchefleck shoulda broke his ankle before taping so I didnt have to watch that lame excuse for a CIA agent acting.

    I say keep the actors the same from Clear and Present Danger.... technicly the ages would only be a few years off.

    Oh yeah, make Kate Beckinsale or Keira Knightly Ding's wife so I can stare at either of them if they decide to cast Ben Douchefleck again.....


  8. I had a bad feeling outside and went out to look. It was like someone was guiding me to a certain place. The energy was really off, as if someone was raped in the area i was. Then I had the feeling like someone died a few feet from there.

    The next day I went and looked at my deed and found a family that lived in my house in 1867. They moved after one year for some reason. I went up to the historical society and found an article about a man who shot one of his farmhands because he raped his 12 year old daughter. It turned out that that man was the one from my house.

    At certain times I still get the feeling like something bad is happening, and it always comes back from that area.


  9. I think the the Bis forward sprint animation (E-key by default) would look cool if it could be replaced with the right flanking sprint animation (E + D). What do you think?  smile_o.gif

    edit:typo

    everyone might look like a Fullback charging the defensive line


  10. The only terrorist i see is the USA.

    Flame bait anyone? Would anyone like to take a freebie at a troll? It's a perfect opportunity, mighty tempting i must admit.

    So who are you to be calling Americans terrorists? What glorious pompous name would you refer to yourself with?

    i view myself as a patriotic american, but in doing so I refuse to be ignorant of the facts. We kill more civilians in wartime than "terrorists" do. So we take out some T-55's in the process, but does that justify the 12 civilians we took out along with it?

    I understand that war is the most terrible thing man can do and people WILL die, but the US in general has a superiority issue. The populous think that we can romp around the world removing dictators who we dont agree with and we will only suffer few to little casualties. Too bad the rest of the world doesnt think that way.

    There are conciquences for every action, and we must be accountable for them.

    So overall, if we have the nerve to labal the "terrorists" terrorists, then what are we? Freedom fighters?? Oh yeah, were an OFFICIAL country, so if we go through the process of declaring war, we can kill 1,000's and it will be justified...


  11. Terrorism is what we like to call "war," boiled down to its most base elements.  It's what we call war fought using the most basic elements - fear and death.  If you stripped away all the things that have been added to war over thousands of years, the point is to either kill every last one of the enemy or scare them into giving up.  That's what war is all about.  We western nations have put a lot more time and energy into trying to make war more palatable in the current era.  We've introduced the idea that civillian casualties are a thing to be avoided and we try to fight our wars in a neat-and-clean fashion.

    On one hand, that's good - random people going about their business in Iraq or anyplace else shouldn't be getting bombed or shot up - but in a way it's bad, because we're trying to make war into something that it isn't - nice.

    I think many people forget that war is war, and war is hell, no matter what kinds of ROEs, technology, or ideology you throw behind it.

    I'm not trying to excuse or justify terrorism, but I think we're glossing over the fact that it's not as foreign and unthinkable as we consider it to be.  It's one of the core principles behind the art of warfare.  At the moment we're taking a big step back in time and coming face to face with the fact that other people hate us and want to kill us, but they don't have a prayer of taking us head-on (would that be more "civilized"?) so they make do with what they've got.  When you really, really want somebody dead, you'll find a way to make it happen.

    Reactions?

    SEAL84, I couldnt have put it any better.

    I noticed that people have to tread lightly on this subject. I for one am for the fact that terrorism is the basis of all war like u said in the above post. One of the problems I have is getting my beliefs across without coming off as a pro-terrorist.

    I propose that from this post on taking people opinions as they are, and not haveing any judgment without cause. I must say that this thread has been very good about this compared to many other threads along this line of topic.


  12. cam create some LGB's, grenades and fires...just use timing to set off the different explosions. Hide the fires inside the object (smoke and light will still come through it).

    As for USAF personell, id use an officer because of the cap, but webgear might pose a problem. Maybe a BAS crewchief with no NVGs etc...

    Theres also a set of of reskinned Gubas for each branch of the military, but the USAF men would have to be officers due to the hat they have.


  13. And who determines the line? Is it Vienna in 1683? Is it Grenada in 1492? The Crusades starting in 1095? The pre-May 1948 line, the post-may 1948 line? the pre-1967 line or the post 1967 line? The pre-1973 line or the post 1973 line? The security fence line, or property lines approved by the pre-1967 Jordanian ministry of Palestinian Affairs?

    When you can make a reliable method of drawing mutually agreed  upon lines in the sand with working DMZ's, let me know. The only one that has come close is the Sinai Peninsula, and that has lots of tunnels under the border at Rafah.

    My property line....

    "This is my house, my yard, and my driveway...dont stand on it please"

    We could all start there?


  14. It is obviously quite natural to be concerned more about 'your' casulties than 'their' casulties. Having said that, a little background.

    On 9/11(9/12 local time), I was in a remote area of west-central Japan. We got a phone call that America had been attacked, stuff had blown up, and that was all the caller knew. The post office was next door, and was running the tape of the towers coming down. We asked when the airports would re-open. Nobody knew. I didn't know that the airports had re-opened, or that I would even have a means of coming home, or what the conditions were, until the slow boat mail came in some 2 months later.

    There was an 'Extra' paper printed that day, and a few pictures in the main paper the next day, but by a week or two later, it was off the Japanese news radar. If you recall, there was a plane crash due to mechanical failure shortly after 9/11 in NYC. A man approached me on the street and said <Gee, that's too bad, you guys got hit again> I wanted to retort back <Wait a sec, don't you get it? It's just like...> Then I thought <wait, you don't see Pearl Harbor the same way we do, do you?>

    One significant difference that we tend to overlook is that the world outside of the Middle East acknowledges the neutrality of 'civilians'. That is not commonly accepted by the terrorists. Palestinian terrorists have routinely cited the fact of mandatory Israeli military service as justification their allegation that their victims are in fact combatants. The rationalization given for killing children is that they will inevitablly follow in their parents' footsteps, so better speed them on to hell.

    As we saw in the case of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, even being sympathetic or agreeable is not enough. The most radical fringe elements view other people in three ways: brothers, apostate muslim infidels, and foriegn crusaders or idolators. There is no middle ground for them. No diplomatic immunity, no independent journalistic security, if you are not fighting alongside them, you are their active enemy, and therefore an 'enemy combatant'.

    good point shinRaiden. You brought up a good point that "terrorist" have no such word <civilian> in their vocabulary. That fact alone should prove that point that no one is exampt from this.

    If you are being shot at intentionally from a soldier from another country, would you sit there and say, "Im a civilian, dont shoot me!" even if that is the truth in your head? The fact that you are another soldiers enemy makes you a soldier, like it or not. So you dont have a gun and have done nothing to offend them? OK, just sit there and die. Thats what differentiates cattle from humans. Cattle can be driven to death with the thought in their head, its ok, Im just a cow, while humans have the privilage to think, no, I am human, and will not let this person do as they wish with me.

    Would you rather die doing nothing becuase u didnt deserve to get into this fight? Or would u face the fact you are someones target and die fighting? Ask this, and be 100% honest with yourself....now do your actions and belief follow your answer?


  15. Anyway, nobody said that it was acceptable killing any civilians, Iraqi or American. On the contrary, there is a tremendous bias for feeling sory for US civilians over Arab civilians. What was the world reaction over the WTC attacks (3,000 dead). What was the world reaction over the Iraqi civilian casualties of the invasion (10,000++ dead,  very conservative estimate)?

    Because we did it in the self interest of protecting ourselves, so therfor it is alright.....haha what a bunch of hooey.

    Didnt the "terrorists" attack the WTC in the interest of protecting themselves? The best defense if of course a good offense...

    As much as I don't like the fact that my country got attacked, we deal it out like that to other countries all the time. Thats why u dont hear me bitching about "being patriotic and saving my country".

    My concern is my home, and when I got 5 enemy soldiers walking on it, I WILL shoot. But I will not go to their land and insitigate a further confilict.

    You stay on ur side of the line, I'll stay on mine.


  16. At this moment, I am about 25% done. I just finished one of my favorite missions:

    You are downtown in your apt. You job is to destroy the generals hummer. After launchin your RPG, you must drop all weapons and dissolve into the crowd, from there, you must get on your bike and pedal away to the safe house.

    While it may not have much action, it is not intended to. I am going for the life of an insurgent during a civil war. To make up for the uneventfull(?) walks and escapes, I have gone more toward making the ambiance feel right. You may notice a Cop chasing some redneck down an alley, to only end up shooting him.

    Oh yeah, about Pappy's config. Its for the most part a definate. After I finish, I'll make a no-addon version (may require JAM weapons though- gotta love that RPG-7)

    I'll post all the updates here as they come


  17. In my view, civilians are almost non-existant in this world.  Everyone (Typed Everon first....must be playing too much OFP) is a citizen now, and must be prepared to take accountablity for their host country's actions.

    Are you trying to justify AQ's attacks on the WTC with this argument? Just curious...

    Justify...partly

    While I may not agree with AQ's actions, I do see their point.

    As terrible as the outcome was, they did it, and got what they wanted to do done.

    War is a terrible thing, and people WILL die. It is sad that so many people met their fate on that day, with no clue it was coming. But because they are US citizens does not place them higher on the list than another country's citizen. We have no doubt killed as many if not more in overseas affairs.

    Pardon my french, but our Kharma came back and bit us in the ass. Just because you live in the US does not mean you are exempt from terrible things. We (as a country) have grown weak, and as many good things come from terrible things, 9/11 has shown us the truth in which the world works today.

    I forgot who was talking about this, but they brought up a good point. Since Vietnam, our country's military actions have been for the most part victorious. We have come to assume that, due to our overpowering strength, that we will have few casualties. How sad is it that US citizens are outraged at the amount of US casualties, while when the war started and we swept through Iraq, they were for it.

    I am just stating my point that many US citizens are for a "just" war when the other side is dieing, but against it when their side is dieing.

    In my view, you must be ACCOUNTABLE for your actions. Be aware that the world is not a happy, flower-picking adventure, and that everyone is a "soldier". We may not all have guns and uniforms, but in essance we are fighting this war in our own backyards.

    I assume people could fathom the old WWIII scenario of fighting a guerrilla campaign against some T80's in americas back yard, but now that war has no front lines, we must be aware that war is everywhere.

    What is the difference between a soldier and a civilian?

    a gun?

    Not anymore

    a uniform?

    Not anymore

    a commander?

    Not anymore

    Get my point? Soldiers in todays world wear no specific uniform, may carry no guns, and take orders from themselves and their own ideals.

    Being a "civilian" myself, I wear no uniform, carry no gun (most of the time unclesam.gif ) and take no orders from a commander. Yet, I am in a war, and must face this fact.

    All in all, the point I am trying to get across after this long, uneventfull ramble is that everyone must be accountable for themselves, and not rely on their government to come save the day.

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