2008 Mod of the Year Awards

Post by **Haplo** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:09 pm

It's almost that time again. ModDB is about to open up voting (January 2nd) for the various categories of the Mod of the Year Awards, so don't forget to go vote for Map 2 when the time comes!

http://www.moddb.com/events/2008-mod-of-the-year-awards/promotion

I'll post again on January 2nd to remind everyone.

immortal_pigs · Post by **immortal_pigs** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:11 pm

What's the prize for winning?

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:13 pm

fame and a nice icon

Post by **Haplo** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:42 pm

And $6000 worth of prizes and cash.

TennysonXII · Post by **TennysonXII** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:03 pm

So if we're already nominated, what do I do? Just wait and vote on the 2nd?

Post by **Haplo** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:12 pm

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:16 pm

We won last year did we not?

immortal_pigs · Post by **immortal_pigs** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:20 pm

Who receives the prize? I mean it's officially for TR but I doubt it would/can be divided amongst all TR modders.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:51 pm

Last time it went to Garfield, since he's the one hosting the site. It made sense.

Post by **Gnomey** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:52 pm

Last time Garfield got the prize. Who knows what we'll do this year, if we win. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:26 pm

Tyrion wrote:We won last year did we not?

no. we won the Gamespy mod competition(which only ran once) two years ago, this is the ModDB one(which is annual).

the 6k of stuff is mostly in things like game downloads and DVDs, but there is some real neat stuff that could be used by the team in general (such as massive texture packs and game development tools)

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:12 am

*drools*

we need a PR department

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:39 am

I don't know how we could use the game engine... but those textures... ALL HANDS TO BATTLE STATIONS! SORTIE THE PR FLEET! ROLL OUT!

Post by **Haplo** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:41 am

Thrignar Fraxix wrote:I don't know how we could use the game engine...

We could donate it to OpenMW or something. Or garfield, since he does, from time to time, work on indie games of his own. I'm sure it would be a nice present, and he could definitely advise us on what to do with it, if not give it to him.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:32 pm

Tyrion wrote:*drools*

we need a PR department

ive been trying to recruit one

but releasing kickass mods is the best PR we can get.

Post by **ko2fan** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:07 pm

Haplo wrote:
Thrignar Fraxix wrote:I don't know how we could use the game engine...
We could donate it to OpenMW or something. Or garfield, since he does, from time to time, work on indie games of his own. I'm sure it would be a nice present, and he could definitely advise us on what to do with it, if not give it to him.

OpenMW is about making a free open source version of Morrowind, so a proprietary engine would be no good to them.

To be honest I already have a license to a much better engine called C4. The torque engine is considered to be pretty terrible in the indie development community.

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garfield

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:54 pm

Voting has started, so remember to vote!

this is just the nomination stage, so feel free to vote for both TR [url=http://www.moddb.com/mods/tamriel-rebuilt]Oblivion[/url] and [url=http://www.moddb.com/mods/tamriel-rebuilt1]Morrowind[/url]

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:15 pm

Fuckers at ModDB banned me.

Problem solved after thorough cookie deletion.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:36 pm

what for?

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:39 pm

Problem solved now. I think it's because last time I logged there (to download the official Map2 release package), I was too lazy to retrieve my password and used bugmenot instead; and they must ban regularly all bugmenot accounts. So when I logged this time it acceded the cookie and went all "stop, criminal scum" on me until I deleted its cookie.

bamman62 · Post by **bamman62** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:19 am

Thrignar Fraxix wrote:I don't know how we could use the game engine... but those textures... ALL HANDS TO BATTLE STATIONS! SORTIE THE PR FLEET! ROLL OUT!

I think I will be one of those annoying guys on the Bethsoft forums who messages everyone

.

Or I might hit Xbox live and get the whole Friend's friends' friends' friends' thing going.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:08 am

bamman62 wrote:Or I might hit Xbox live and get the whole Friend's friends' friends' friends' thing going.

Pick that one.

TheGooch · Post by **TheGooch** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:07 pm

garfield wrote: To be honest I already have a license to a much better engine called C4. The torque engine is considered to be pretty terrible in the indie development community.

The Torque Engine is crap. period.
better off writing your own engine. (which i currently am doing) should post some screenies when i get my graphics section up and running.

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:20 pm

Money this time could go to something similar resource-wise, maybe full speedtree libraries?

Or we could just give it to Garf again, the first time probably didn't even come close to making up for our bandwidth costs.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:57 pm

It would go to garf

Theo · Post by **Theo** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:08 pm

Don't slice the boar which is still roaming in the woods.

Bloodthirsty Crustacean · Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:05 pm

Or, to English-ify that, "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".

(Sheez, what pansies are we? Chickens? Man, the Czechs get boars being sliced.)

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:50 pm

just trying to head off any toxic discussion. I should have just deleted eraser's post in retrospect.

Mwgek · Post by **Mwgek** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:36 pm

Voted for both TR mods. Is there going to be a final for this or something?

Post by **Haplo** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:45 pm

Eraser wrote:Money this time could go to something similar resource-wise, maybe full speedtree libraries?

Or we could just give it to Garf again, the first time probably didn't even come close to making up for our bandwidth costs.

I don't know, $5000/$6000 seems pretty adequate for about 5 years of web hosting to me.

Even at 100 dollars a month, which I don't know of any service that charges that much, that would still be covered, give or take a month. Most services charge 10 dollars or so. While we use more bandwidth than most servers that cost 10 dollars, I doubt it's 100 dollars a month.

But hey I could be totally wrong.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:45 pm

i think finals start mid february. first we have to get into the top 100 though... so tell all your freinds to vote

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:05 pm

Already voted, and got others to vote.

Post by **ko2fan** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:33 pm

Haplo wrote:
Eraser wrote:Money this time could go to something similar resource-wise, maybe full speedtree libraries?

Or we could just give it to Garf again, the first time probably didn't even come close to making up for our bandwidth costs.
I don't know, $5000/$6000 seems pretty adequate for about 5 years of web hosting to me.

I look forward to receiving my $5000

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garfield

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:42 am

I'm going to look really stupid but I'll ask anyway.

How do you vote?

EDIT: Nope I signed up and I still don't know. A little help for silly me?

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:58 pm

Preselection over, we're not in the top 100.

Jedak · Post by **Jedak** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:01 pm

sorry, I knew something was wrong.

Thanks Gez