Posted by: kucsidave
« on: February 19, 2017, 10:30:27 AM »
Well, it's time everyone. My 1000th post on the forum...
I wanted to make this special so...
Thank you everyone. Than you all.
When I came here, it was all so different.
For those who weren't here or just want to go down memory lane with me, let me tell you my story.
Even the form had a different adress if my memory is not cheating me.
I remember that when I came, 1.3 has just came out on ModDB and I loved it. I haven't registered for some time after it, but when I did, I never would have immagined that it will turn my life around. This was actually the first forum for me to register, and let me tell you all, I feel like it was the best choice of my life. I might or might not have been(Yeah... I most possibly was) the most annoying guy, just posting out every single tidbit idea I had. I still remember when I just let out the idea to make the DL's AT-ATs spawn yevethans instead of stormtroopers. I had no damn idea what it would have meant work-wise at all. Just thought that change the two units out and bam, you have yevethans coming down the rope. How little did I know back then.
Time went by, I checked up once every few weeks, there was not much to read either way, but then... 2.0 got announced. Everyone was pumped again. I still remember waiting when it comes out. Everyone dishing out ideas left and right, the forum getting full of life. Everyone was ecstatic. It was like the liberation of France.
But then, the news came. It was the last release of Thrawn's Revenge, or Imperial Civil War. I was confused since back then it was just Thrawns Revenge out everywhere, but both the launcher and the Download link was telling Imperial Civil War. I always called it ICW though. And then, the news of 2.1 as a minor bugfix/minimal addon came. What a long lasting update it turned out to be though.
The new final release came out and with that, I was actually afraid that the forum dies. I never experienced this before, and didn't expected this. This place became a part of me without even realizing it. I played ICW so many times. About Ascendancy though... Believe it or not, if the team never announces Ascendancy and that it will be on Sins, I would have never known the game. Crazy, right?
But time kept passing, and soon I learned about the joys of submods. Vulcanus's Balance and Flavor became a particular favorite of mine. But then again, a certain underused race also started to catch my attention and immagination too. The Duskhan League. That is how I got to know that there is a Wookieepedia in the world.
I still remember spending time and the shock of realization I had when it turned out that they used Immobilizer 418s and CR90s. I immediately thought that "THEY MUST HAVE THEM! They had them in lore, and they really missing an anti fighter and an interdictor. Someone should give them those things."
I kept asking for it, but nobody listened, and since 2.15 was well out here in the forums, and news were that there will be no more releases I was devastated. I thought that they will never have them.
I also knew that Balance and Flavor was more about the PA than anything else, so I had no other choice, than to learn. And that is when I first opened an XML file. With internet explorer since I had no damn idea what is what and what it works with.
And I just said "I don't understand a goddamn thing in this."
why is a [/x] after everything? Why is that colored? It is just text. Where is the model? Where are the pictures? I don't find them in the folder system here...
But I was persistent. By each passing day I learned more and more. Started experimenting, did one thing, then another, and soon I started to understand what was doing what and what effects could I count on.
And soon, I created my very own submod. I was going hyper about it. It was just adding 1 or two new space units for the DL. Mostly using Ctrl+C; Ctrl+V and rewriting a few variables here and there.
BUT EVERYONE BE WARNED, only start modding if you are commited because it is addictive. I just couldn't stop myself and in just a few days Pushed out 3 more fixes/small updates with things like turrets in them, which to be honest I had no idea to where to even start coding until my submod was out. Luckily for me I had nothing else to do, and that 5 days or so was spent like this:
Wake up at 7 AM, fire up Bowser(my old pc), Time spent learning about moddign and doing the stuff, oh shit, it's 11PM already. Kay, go to bed it is. To be continued tomorrow...
Updates eventually slowed down, as I realized that there is nothing more than I can do, but I had plans, but those needed much more time. It was also the problem of school next to it, and I had no more time to take out of it, just to pursuit my crazy submodding ideas.
Slowly but steadily however I learned more and more about XMLs, balancing units, factions and GCs. I also tried to make it challenging too, but not unbeatable or unfairso there was that as well.
But enough of my submod, and go back to memory lane. A good time after that, the news came of a possible 2.2 release. And I wanted it to do something about the DL so badly, that I would have done basically anything. The only thing that never occured to me was to join the team other than a tester though. My first assignment of mine however didn't came from that. those sign up threads were not existing yet. But Xizer had a rank. Voice Actror. I wanted to help any way I could, and thought that my accent could be put into good use, as maybe a voice actor for the Yevetha. Let's face it, two voice lines are not really enough, but are really annoying after the 100th time...
So Me and Xizer started working on some lines for them, and I was wrapped up in doing quite a few lines for him in the end.
About they being used or not is a 100% no because the direction the team has taken with the voiceovers after that.
But, it gave me the confidence to do something else for the team. I still know that it isn't much, but I can code in XMLs, and I know how to build a GC and do some story scripting thanks to my submod, so I decided to offer my help.
And here I am now. A coder in the team, talking to my friends on a forum that is an irreplaceable part of my everyday life. Every morning my first route comes here, and this is the last place I check before I go to sleep.
So once again, thank you. Thank you all for being such a good community.
Now to my special thanks to:
Corey of course for being who he is. Thank you for such a good mod, and such a good place to hang out.
The whole team for creating such an awesome game, and such an great place to hang out.
Lord Xizer who was always with me trough thick and thin, gave me ideas and inspiration, and to whom I could turn to with any problems or just to discuss things.
Vulcanus without whom I would have never found my way to the fields of submodding.
And last, but not least every single one of you guys. Without you guys, this place wouldn't be the same. Your ideas and chatter is what keeps this forum living each and every day. Without you, this would be an empty place with no life at all. Thank you for helping to create such a great place that with time took this much space in my life. It wouldn't be the same without each and every one of you.
With a big thanks to every single one of you:
Kucsidave
Forum member since: January 24, 2013, 09:53:50 AM
Mod team member since: June 8 2016 5:38 (more specific time will be added as soon as I find it somewhere...)
