TA Spring on Wikipedia

BvDorp · Post by **BvDorp** » 13 Mar 2006, 00:37

Heya,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_games

We're not on the Wiki! I'm willing to translate a page into a Dutch one, anyone thinking he's capable of creating some nice page in English first?

Edit: xcuse, we are there :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TA_Spring

So.. we can use this thread to update the wiki :) seems pretty good though. Some things:

The game is mainly focused around multiplayer games over the Internet or a LAN conection. There is currently no single player campaigns or missions, although there is some (very) basic support for this through Lua scripting. There are also many skirmish AI's under development, allowing for offline play or extra players in an online game.

AI's are better than this :)

TA: Spring has a small, close-knit community. At any given time, approximately fifty to one hundred users can be found online on the main TA: Spring server, any number of whom actively speaking.

Some more users perhaps?

The TA: Spring community places a high value on ethical play, which has contained cheating up to now. The community frowns upon:

* Misuse of "Group AIs", small macros designed to perform a particular micromanagement task.
* "Commander Bombing", where a user sends their commander into an enemy base and using the explosion from its destruction to cause damage to an enemy's base.
* "Commander Kidnapping", where an air transport is used to pick up an enemy commander, and then destroying the transport in an appropriate location to cause maximum damage.

This is somewhat too strict. Com bombing and com napping can, and will be used. Let's frase this otherwise?

BvDorp · Post by **BvDorp** » 13 Mar 2006, 00:53

And ofc place it in the 'open-source games' category :)

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 13 Mar 2006, 01:16

I didn't know we had a wikipedea entry... Although our project is cool it seems like the kind of thing the wikinazis would try to delete.

It does look like the artical could use an update and an edit through for biases.

We've had almost a hundred users on at one time before, and we must have at least about a 1000 people who play occationally.

I think it's better just to leave out the ethics section all together. Group AI's aren't really a problem we've ever had to deal with and comm bombing and comm napping are valid stratigies that players are expected to deal with. The comm issue is too diluted to really make rules like that work.

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 13 Mar 2006, 01:52

I updated the wikipedia entry.

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 13 Mar 2006, 11:16

When last big version of Spring came out (first, kind of officially, working on Linux), i posted a news about it to Happypenguin and sent an explanation of the game more carefully wrote.

You can go there to see the description of Spring:
http://happypenguin.org/show?TA%20Spring

EdvonSchleck · Post by **EdvonSchleck** » 13 Mar 2006, 13:40

tranlated the English page into German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TA_Spring
if somebody knows German, please look over it.

SeanHeron · Post by **SeanHeron** » 14 Mar 2006, 10:06

I├é┬┤ve had a read through your translation and it looks good :D .

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 14 Mar 2006, 21:25

Someone should upload a better looking ingame shot. Current one is crap on a crap map.

Decimator · Post by **Decimator** » 14 Mar 2006, 21:47

The intimidator shot on River Dale would work perfectly, or the screenshot of Agorm's tree map.

GR Carrex · Post by **GR Carrex** » 15 Mar 2006, 02:10

Awesome!

This should bring more description to people wondering about TAS

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 15 Mar 2006, 05:39

The german page uses aGorms tree map, and it looks alot better than the CPIA shot. I say change it.

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 15 Mar 2006, 10:32

Everyone can post anything on Wikipedia.

Anyone can change it too...

The article was probably made by someone in the Spring community, someoen we know very well but isn't willing to come out?

I like the fact WD was mentioned, makes me feel a bit better about my mod.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 15 Mar 2006, 13:00

A huge portion of the artical was made by werdna

The rest was mostly done by someone who hasn't registered a wikipedia name yet but seems fairly knowledgeable about gamer culture from thier other wiki entires. Could be most of us here.

BTW, is anyone else slightly unerved that wikipedia posts your ip adress when you make an edit there without a user name?

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 16 Mar 2006, 03:51

I added some, but that was a while ago.

BeeDee · Post by **BeeDee** » 16 Mar 2006, 05:21

SwiftSpear wrote:BTW, is anyone else slightly unerved that wikipedia posts your ip adress when you make an edit there without a user name?

The GNU Free Documentation Licence requires that the contents of articles be attributed to their authors, so in the case of people who aren't logged in the IP address is all that's available.

Signing up for a user name is really quick and easy, and it doesn't require any personal information be given - just make up a username and password. It's actually more anonymous than editing without logging in.

Werdna · Post by **Werdna** » 18 Mar 2006, 09:33

Yeah, I wrote a large portion of the article. Apologies for the crappy shot, I only had one at the time. Anybody is welcome to click on the image and upload a new image to replace it - it is a Wiki after all! If you look at my name in the article history, it's Werdna648 - and you will probably see that I am _very_ active on Wikipedia, with over 1350 edits in about 4 months. In any case, anybody is welcome to help out with the article and add new stuff.

DarkOppressor · Post by **DarkOppressor** » 18 Mar 2006, 09:45

I changed the picture to the same one as on the German page, so now it's pretty! :D Also added some more info, fixed up some grammer, and reordered a couple things so they made more sense.

Werdna · Post by **Werdna** » 18 Mar 2006, 12:40

Much appreciated. Extra screenshots have a place lower down in the article - other mods would be good. If anybody has any new sections or ideas for the article, please let me know and I'll write them.

DarkOppressor · Post by **DarkOppressor** » 19 Mar 2006, 03:28

I've added some pictures, but I don't know how good it looks. Maybe someone else can take a look and fix it/say it looks good.

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 19 Mar 2006, 04:20

http://www.freewaregames.net/fwpro/strategy.asp?page=4

About half way down the list. :)

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