Defining Groups

[Ivan]

Maybe we should come up with a specific artistic direction when it comes to characters, weapons and levels, considering whether or not they are aliens or humans. For instance, human weaponry and characters tend to be more streamline and have a rustic metal quality while alien weaponry is big, uses undefined materials, and has lots of little lights on them. Humans can have the conventional weaponry like the shotgun, machine gun, and bazooka while the aliens can have the odd weaponry like the nex, electro, and cylink. The characters and arenas could reflect those ideas. It would be cool if people would start a game and quickly identify whether it is an alien or human arena.

I think that this would be a good idea to consider down the road when people are making new stuff for the game, what do you think?

[torus]

Cough *halo* cough

Sorry, I had a bit of mimicry in my throat.

[Psychcf]

what do you think this is, quake? Plus, nobody chooses the strogg as their models, let's face it. Every one wants to be a human on team deathmatch.

[Bnonn]

Um, are we talking about Nexuiz here? Because everyone uses the same weapons in this game...

Sounds like someone is confusing Nexuiz with Alien Arena?

[tZork]

interesting idea, and yes ts been done a few time too. I think something like that would take Nexuiz to far away from its roots. It would undoubtedly change the basics of the game.

[Ivan]

ok whatever, we'll all just go willy nilly with the art direction

[Bnonn]

It's great how new players with no knowledge of Nexuiz's history and objectives come onto these forums and tell its community how their game be changed to make it better. Not that they offer their own, noob perspective in the hope of adding something useful; not that they are giving professional advice; just, they come in and tell us, "This is what you need to do."

Thank heaven for the internet.

[torus]

If it werent for the undeniable cuteness of that fox, I would resent that statement. I wouldnt say that this is ordering people around:

Maybe we should... The characters and arenas could reflect... It would be cool if... I think that this would be a good idea... what do you think?

For the precise reason that he hasnt been on this forum too long, that he doesnt know the "direction" Nexuiz is going, whatever that may be. You nor I have been on the forum particularly long either. Dont scare away the young'uns.

[Bnonn]

Merp! The fox saves the day!

If you edit what he says enough, sure, it looks very humble. I just got the distinct impression otherwise from his use of the word "we" in the beginning (as if he's one of the developers; yes, I know, "everyone's a developer in open source," yada yada, but no, they're not really), and from his sarcastic response to being disagreed with: "ok whatever, we'll all just go willy nilly with the art direction."

[torus]

what he says... looks very humble— the distinct impression... from... one of the developers... I know.. in... being... willy nilly

El torus the spin doctor.