Just FYI still playing EVE. I am now a dedicated carebear by orders of magnitude greater than ever before with 7 accounts. But typically, I don't actually do any mining or industry, so it's a shooty-shoot type of carebear.

I'm shrinking the forum down, it's a bit old now... losing bone density and stuff.

I would say it's time for an update, but the frontend is actually kinda nice and was way ahead of its time, so I guess I'll leave that be? Backend could use some patching though.

Yeah, it opens up prospects for a lot of new features, such as: * Highres textures * Higher poly models (and higher engine limits) * Better audio quality * Improved menu/map system * Getting rid of crashes and performance issues * New level editor And so much more... But it is very late, would've be...

Are we alive?

Kevin Bentley just dropped the D3 source code. Blimey! https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3 Posts about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177 https://www.descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=25116 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/descent-3-has-been-made-open-source/ This could be the s...

Pretty much everything I have is already on Descent Files, which you can download quite easily from. The only things missing are perhaps some of the Descent 3 Sector stuff (but I'm not sure). Sounds like an interesting project - reminds me of an old Descent site that used to be around back in the da...

There's only so much you can do with it . Actually an enhanced co-op mod was released in like 2010 or something like that. It basically added some features like being able to move players around (incase they were stuck), higher PPS, a few other tweaks.

Does it work now?

I forget how to do it. I'll try to fiddle.

I used to have a copy of my old D3 mission folder, but can't seem to locate it RN.

No luck with a google deep dive?

You have to kinda cheat to enjoy co-op, such as setting the respawn rate really low so you can stock up on weapons. And since nothing carries over, you have to start with the default loadout on every level. And some things don't work well in co-op + the robots use a different AI online. It's not ide...

Wasn't that impressed but it had some good moments. It was interesting to see the shadow war unfold in a way JMS had originally intended, rather than the hugely compressed storyline we actually got. Also the Vorlons using the moon to destroy Earth was haunting. I didn't much care for the silly jokes...

I didn't even know about it - I've not really been following fandoms much these dayas. Will check it out soon

...but gave up because the game is SO bad. Maybe I'll give it another go in the future on a lower difficulty. It was a horrible experience.

Rose-tinted glasses indeed.