PREDICTION: Spark Editor is ruining NS2 new player interest?

ObamanismObamanism Join Date: 2009-11-20 Member: 69442Banned
in NS2 General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">FIX: get rid of the excessive Sparks Editor discussion here?</div>Perhaps new people who are interested in NS2 but know little about it and/or little about NS, may get confused whent hey go to the "NS2 General Discussion" forums, and see it flooded with discussion about something called the Sparks Editor when they don't see a link to download it officially from the NS website? Is the Sparks Editor intended to be for those who have already pre-purchased the game? If that is so, why are people downloading and seeding it via torrent? What is the official stance on this from the NS2 team? Is it ok or is it not their official policy to allow those who did not pre-purchase the game to use the editor? If it is only private for those that have pre-purchased the game, then perhaps, it may be best to make a forum about using the Sparks Editor and any technial difficuilties, questions or issues that may arise? Just some thoughts.
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited November 2009
    <!--quoteo(post=1740745:date=Nov 27 2009, 05:19 PM:name=Obamanism)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Obamanism @ Nov 27 2009, 05:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1740745"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is the Sparks Editor intended to be for those who have already pre-purchased the game? If that is so, why are people downloading and seeding it via torrent? What is the official stance on this from the NS2 team? Is it ok or is it not their official policy to allow those who did not pre-purchase the game to use the editor? If it is only private for those that have pre-purchased the game, then perhaps, it may be best to make a forum about using the Sparks Editor and any technial difficuilties, questions or issues that may arise? Just some thoughts.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    everyone can download the editor on the download page, its even on the news frontpage

    <a href="http://www.naturalselection2.com/download" target="_blank">http://www.naturalselection2.com/download</a>

    ...but only those who purchased the special edition got the serial key to use it.. so whats your point?
    peoples can get interrested in ns2 just by watching the awesome tutorial videos of this very easy to use editor aswell.

    <a href="http://www.naturalselection2.com/tutorials" target="_blank">http://www.naturalselection2.com/tutorials</a>

    and then they might even prepurchase the special edition just to get a head start doing their own project.. i dont see your point... i sense frustration of some kind
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  • craecrae Join Date: 2005-01-30 Member: 39035Members
    Give people more credit..I think it's fine.
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  • ObamanismObamanism Join Date: 2009-11-20 Member: 69442Banned
    edited November 2009
    Ok. You bring valid points. I didn't know you needed a serial key to use the Sparks Editor. That is good to prevent those that are not allowed to access it, I suppose. My thought is that it is not a good idea to clutter this fourm as it may frustrate people who are interested in reading about NS2 and may not want to have to sort through all this talk about the Sparks Editor.
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  • FortuneFortune Join Date: 2009-04-27 Member: 67290Members, Constellation
    It's been said many times that there's going to be a seperate place for Spark discussion, but not for a while as the general forums were being kinda slow. Since most of us preordered and now recieved this awesome little tool, there's a lot of excited chat going around on how to use it, troubleshooting and what we'd like to see. If this was all in a seperate forum right now, General Discussion would be practically dead. We're all just excited talking about the new toy, it'll die down and things will get more organised.
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  • NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1740756:date=Nov 27 2009, 09:38 AM:name=Obamanism)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Obamanism @ Nov 27 2009, 09:38 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1740756"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Ok. You bring valid points. I didn't know you needed a serial key to use the Sparks Editor. That is good to prevent those that are not allowed to access it, I suppose. My thought is that it is not a good idea to clutter this fourm as it may frustrate people who are interested in reading about NS2 and may not want to have to sort through all this talk about the Sparks Editor.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    did you read the download site or the front page both here and on naturalselection2.com?

    It clearly stats pre-order key is needed.


    But yeah the forums can be about cluttherd with Sparks, but i find it fun then just lurking around wating to talk about the new content or new..

    So i think it fine as its for now, but in time a Spark forums is needed.
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  • pSyk0mAnpSyk0mAn Nerdish by Nature Germany Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19166Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, NS2 Community Developer
    BUT PPL CAN STEAL THE TEXTURES WITHOUT A KEY!!112

    srsly..
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited November 2009
    <!--quoteo(post=1740761:date=Nov 27 2009, 05:48 PM:name=pSyk0mAn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pSyk0mAn @ Nov 27 2009, 05:48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1740761"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->BUT PPL CAN STEAL THE TEXTURES WITHOUT A KEY!!112

    srsly..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    a small part of what is in the full version of the game.. and let them go for it, if we catch someone doing it and SELLS crap made with those textures, flayra can use the money from the lawsuit for uwe..



    or.. booze and women..



    (im not sure though if using it in free mods, or other free redistribution is alowed.. im honest i havent realy read the license agreement on the sparky installer)
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  • TurtleTurtle Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1540Members
    People would be more excited that there will by plenty of extra community content to experience, further increasing the value of their purchase.
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    We're not opening a separate forum just yet.
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