Spring RTS Engine

I was talking with a guy in a 1v1 today and it turns out we both found out about TA spring for the first time from that recent slashdot article: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 1&from=rss I'm curious, how many other people joined because of it?

/me points at http://www.tafansite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?&t=1312

Thats where I saw it.

I came in from the Slashdot article. It's great to see that the TA community's still going strong.

Alterscape wrote:I came in from the Slashdot article. It's great to see that the TA community's still going strong.

Yep, hopefully this project does become the best RTS ever!

I'm an "old timer" by Spring standards. How many remember the original tech demo release where you could control a couple of units in a pseudo first-person mode using a wonky control sheme? It was something like W and S were the vertical axis movement keys, and H and J turned you left and right. :)

There was even an explanation in the readme that basically said that that was how the person that programmed it liked it. :)

hell it is practicaly the best RTS iv seen. Its suprisingly inovateve and realy fun. The navel battles are a blast! The air battles are fast and furiouse, while a protracted land campaing can have you sitting in the trenches with your troops, looking at the vast fild of wrekage between the two bases of your and your enemies. FPS controll is a blast too, and i hope they implement more stuff in it, like strafing, and the ability to turn backwards.

It's definitely the only good new one I've seen for years... at least since Warcraft 3. In all the new ones they're using 3d and most dev companies can't seem to manage... they end up 3d but most every other element of the game is absolute crap and it gets pushed onto the shelves unfinished.

I've basicly been around since the start of the forums, although I registered pretty late...

I've been lerking for a _LONG_ time... only on release did I join the forums.

been around... well forever it seems. Iwas watching spring when it was still just a pice of news on the old SY site, maraculay I infact came to the spring site on its first day up, and been watching teh forums since. Only joined after christmas though when i finaly thought i had somthing to say... (all the other oldies should know whaat that was...)

aGorm

Oh yah and wasnt that a blast, I joined when I first saw these forums and ahve been posting ever since.

In the meantime damn you new people I used to comprise 20% of all posts on these forums and now its only 11%!

i cant remember how i found out about this proj but i only have been following for only 4 weeks.

I remember riker saying he's been here since the start like aGorm does.

*sharpens axe and starts swinging wildly*

I posted the /. article. Yay me.

Thanks :) I would never have found out about the best RTS ever if not for it.

I been here for ages. Didn't register on the forums for centrues, got the origional spring off the old SY site before spring site became operational.