GENERAL DISCUSSIONS

FIREFLY MMORPG

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 1:58 PM

SNAKECHARMER

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:17 PM

ZZETTA13


I see this as a good thing but I still want the cast and crew back on television or the BDS (big damn screen).

F*X is milking every penny out of something that should be back on the airwaves and they know it.

Z

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:21 PM

BIONICBATMAN


I think this might be a ploy to see if this does good they might consider bringing it back. Its a long shot but it could be done.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:35 PM

KELAI


Eeee, I'm excited!

On FOX---

Forgive but dont forget

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All A R O U N D You
you're S U F F O C A T I N G
the e m p t y shape in Y O U
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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:37 PM

SUCCATASH


Great news! And nice to see this website mentioned as well.

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:48 PM

SERGEANTX



.....


Now we just have to figure out how to make sure they don't f it up.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:51 PM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN


Thanks for telling us about this!

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:54 PM

MONKSDAD


awesome

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:56 PM

INIRE


amazink!

"Kaylee, find me that kid takin' a dirt nap with baby Jesus; we need a hood ornament"

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 3:23 PM

SOULOFSERENITY

The Man They Call Soul...


*jaw drops*

Oh. My. God.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 3:38 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.


So, should I quit my job now--or just wait till the game comes out?

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 3:50 PM

HERA7


Shiny!

I hope that they involve Joss & Company in the development and have fans on the development team.

Hera7

Mechanic & Cook
"So thats where that bolt went to."

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 3:56 PM

FREEMONT


Well this is very shiny, not only will it feed my "jones" but it keeps us flying.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 4:53 PM

REGINAROADIE


I'm not an ar-tard.

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"We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"Four"
You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?"
"We would destroy the Cybermen with ONE Dalek. You are superior in only one respect."
"What is that?"
"You are better at dying."

Trash talk between a Cyberman and a Dalek. It doesn't get any better than that.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:00 PM

SIGMANUNKI


Yes, it's shiny that a game is being made. BUT, it basically kills (legally speaking) any other mod or game project out there just like the whole t-shirt fiasco. As someone who has put in a fair chunk of time into one of these things, I'm rather irritated. Also, it's only for Windows, so I can't play it. So yah, I'm a bit bitter.

Shiny for the rest of you guys though.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:11 PM

ROXYFREEFALL

Woman, you are completely off your nut.


Ok, getting very excited now! There goes Final Fantasy XI. Found my new MMORPG!

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http://www.myspace.com/roxy_freefall

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:12 PM

13


If you're reading this, BDVersers:

CAN YOU SAY 'DANCER ONLINE'!!!


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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:21 PM

LONDINIUMSSHINYHAT


about time i had something to completely eat my life and destroy my Big Damn Future.

Ah well. it's worth it.

especially if i can go reaver, PvP, and eat everyone.

cause that would be wicked sweet.

-Yeah, and I'd like to be king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat. Now MOVE!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:26 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN


this just seems too good to be true; therefore I'm gonna keep playing anarchy online until I get at least 5 ppl who all agree that it is great.



What do you make of the nylon dot cardigan and plastic mule rest?

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:34 PM

ZAKNRFAMA


I think my face just melted. I cannot wait.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:43 PM

13


Playing a reaver would be sweet. Remember, they have British accents and huge vocabularies off-camera.


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Thursday, December 7, 2006 5:43 PM

DERANGEDMILK


I would be excited but its only for windows. Screw that.
-e

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"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:23 PM

VINTERDRAKEN


I honestly first thought you were yanking my chain or promoting some text-based chat. But after reading the post, jippi! This is great

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:23 PM

VINTERDRAKEN


I honestly first thought you were yanking my chain or promoting some text-based chat. But after reading the post, jippi! This is great

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:23 PM

VINTERDRAKEN


I honestly first thought you were yanking my chain or promoting some text-based chat. But after reading the post, jippi! This is great

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:23 PM

VINTERDRAKEN


I honestly first thought you were yanking my chain or promoting some text-based chat. But after reading the post, jippi! This is great

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:23 PM

VINTERDRAKEN


I honestly first thought you were yanking my chain or promoting some text-based chat. But after reading the post, jippi! This is great

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:23 PM

VINTERDRAKEN


I honestly first thought you were yanking my chain or promoting some text-based chat. But after reading the post, jippi! This is great

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:25 PM

BLUEDRAKE


OMFG... if this game is anything like EVE Online it will totally rock....take that WoW

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:35 PM

JVP


The system/engine/program they're using sounds like a kind of "open source" software program... I don't think it'll have a high production value, and sadly, if they use the engine they've chosen, the operation may never get off the ground.

Cynicism aside, sounds pretty cool.

Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fighting at a time like this? You'll use up all the air.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 7:15 PM

ZAKNRFAMA


We'll just have to wait and see. And if it ends up being poorly done, it still wouldn't be bad, because it would be a Firefly MMO omfg.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 7:17 PM

BRIGIDSIDHE


Oh SNAP.

I avoided Warcraft.

I avoided (mostly) Neopets.

I've avoided every online RPG I possibly could

This? THIS is going to be the game that finally sucks me into MMORPGs and kills, once and for all, my gasping freetime.

I relish the prospect.

"Every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another"

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 8:01 PM

RAGEX3


why are you moaning about it being windows only, if you noobs were using anything other than windows you'd know damn well you can emulate anything to make it work... so just quit crying and looking for reasons to b***h and moan, your ruining the excitement for the rest of us.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 8:10 PM

MITHICORON


Hey, I'm new, first post BTW, big MMO'er and browncoat.

So, this is the Big Damn Game? While I am thrilled at the continuation of the 'Verse, I pray it is not the 'verse's final hour. The engine has potential however. If multiverse/whoever develops the game can make it look good, then I'm all for it. But so far from what I've seen from the engine it's a small upgrade from Everquest 1. That doesn't sit well with me.

On a positive note, there is not sight of SOE or EA anywhere.

"'Everything looks good from here. Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive.'

'We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'.'

'I think we should call it...your grave!'

'Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!'

'Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh...now die!'"

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 8:18 PM

WORMY


I am insanely excited too, but dont get too hyped up, mmorpg fans, because its being made by a small developer using a pre-made engine that has not created any real mmorpgs yet.

But gee, its hard to keep from getting excited.

The name 'Big Damn Game' might be a bad idea, BDG look familiar to any DOOM fans?

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 8:50 PM

CHOO1701


yep...there goes my life.

With both Stargate AND Firefly i'm screwed.

ALTHOUGH these guys did do Star Wars Galaxy and hopefully they've learn't their lesson from THAT!!!

BTW: how they gonna make sure everybody doesn't run around with Firefly Class ships???

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TRAIN!!!

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 8:58 PM

HAVOK


They said that they will make something that is different than WoW or SWG. So I'm pretty excited about what it's gonna be. Given that they don't completely F**k it up.

Also, as said earlier, it would be pretty sweet to play as a reaver and eat people alive.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 9:47 PM

MITHICORON


actually they didn't do SWG, that's Sony Online Entertainment. the company that's doing the firefly 'verse is Multiverse.

But yes, they can learn from the mistakes of others, which I do hope they do, SWG was a great disappointment.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 10:45 PM

AGATSU


I'm intrigued.
Let's hope they don't make the 'Verse too big - I'd prefer detail and atmosphere. Piranha Bytes messed up Gothic 3 big time by making the world huge but rather boring, quest-, character- and story-like.

I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

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Thursday, December 7, 2006 11:11 PM

JORUNE


I don't think it will work. For any MMORPG to work it must have a compelling story for people to return to and a large community to support it. Now Firefly clearly has both but I think that the community is quite happily doing it's own thing and doesn't really have the time to spend on this.

It's not that don't want to play the MMO but that we're happy doing other stuff.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 12:35 AM

GOTHWALK


I think you underestimate the communal power of MMOs, Jorune. If the game is good, there'll be a lot of people playing it. Time will be diverted from other pursuits if the quality is there.

Besides, as you say, it already has both story and community. A lot of MMOs (EVE Online, Everquest, Anarchy Online) have had neither starting out, and been very successful.

http://dukestreet.org/

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Friday, December 8, 2006 12:57 AM

JACKCOLT


GREAT NEWS! If it's succesful, it might spawn another series, and that's because a MMO can show true numbers to the executives. If they are good, maybe they decide to try again...

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Friday, December 8, 2006 2:38 AM

SIMONB


Quote:

Originally posted by SnakeCharmer:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html?tw=rss.index

Read. Drool. Dream.




Knowing all the things that can go wrong, fall-through, be bad, or just not work with this...I'm trying hard to stay rational and calm about this.

But I can't!!

SHINY!

(if it happens)

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die

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Friday, December 8, 2006 2:47 AM

GOMITHROUS


Squee! I'm so excited, but now I'm gonna have to make time for this in my busy World of Warcraft schedule.

Beware the Giant, Sock-Eating Purple Llama!!!

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Friday, December 8, 2006 2:50 AM

SIMONB


Quote:

Originally posted by Gomithrous:
Squee! I'm so excited, but now I'm gonna have to make time for this in my busy World of Warcraft schedule.

Beware the Giant, Sock-Eating Purple Llama!!!



Hello Llama Liberator...

Yeah, me too - I'm one of those who's stuck with SWG (it's not awesome, but I like it well enough) and I was looking at the new SG-1 MMORPG with interest - but now, if this goes ahead and lives up to the potential, I might just have to push both of those aside and go with this one instead!

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die

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Friday, December 8, 2006 3:02 AM

JAWDY


As many of you have said - "it's only for Windows" - i felt compelled to come on here and set a few records straight (that, and finally speak to some REAL geeks who love FireFly and Serenity!)

The "Multiverse" Client/Server software is currently in closed Beta - and yes, CURRENTLY the Client does only run on WindowsXP (as building a nice front end in DX is fairly simple). There is a test Linux Client, but it's not said to be as stable atm. They're planning on releasing the whole kaboodle in 2007, and at that point both the Client and Server will be cross-platform (Linux and Windows alike). They also reckon that they'll be able to implement OpenGL as well as DX.
So even us Linux nerds can get pretties :D

OK, the other thing was someone mentioned that it doesn't appear to have a lot of investment? Just check out Multiverse's site, and you can see that there's a LOT of investment... AND you can also see their official announcement, which is that they're NOT making the game, just utilising their engine - which to me, sounds fantastic.

First post out of the way - hey all - and im fully prepared to get flamed for this :P

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Friday, December 8, 2006 3:39 AM

ZZETTA13


Hello JAWDY, if this is your first post I welcome you here.


Now down to the brass tacks. I myself am an older browncoat, with a family. I do enjoy playing games with my kids sometime. Let me say that I do believe that the main focus of FFfan.net along with the multitude of other fan sites is to have more of the BDS or another BDM. I think ppl love anything FF that we can get but I don't view, the comics, apparel or anything else as a happy sudstitute for any of the crew or actors.

It's pretty simple. WE WANT MORE FIREFLY. I'm very glad that other things are coming up but I hope that the powers that be aren't trying to fill in with a replacement. "That's a long wait for a train don't come."

I'm happy for the ppl that are gamers. I'll readily do it myself but the whole idea is for the show to return and make money. We know that it will and they do too. I read the whole page of the supplied link. Sounded to me like F*X thinks that this something that should be good enough for the fans and it ain't IMO.

Z

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Friday, December 8, 2006 3:45 AM

JAWDY


More FF - Oh hell yes!

And in almost every respect i agree with you - we need more Firefly, more films like Serenity... but if they do make a game (which is looking likely) then it needs to be done right, with a powerful engine, beautiful front end, visually impressive environments, characters, objects and ships.

But like you say, an MMO shouldn't be an OR in the FF-'verse it should be an AND!
We should have the FF-MMO AND more FF on TV or Cinema! Unfortunately it looks like the powers that be have sought fit to use the former (or) rather than the latter :-/

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Friday, December 8, 2006 3:54 AM

GED


I'm glad Firefly is coming back in some form, but honestly I'd rather have a show than a game.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 4:28 AM

MRBEN


Quote:

Originally posted by JvP:
The system/engine/program they're using sounds like a kind of "open source" software program... I don't think it'll have a high production value, and sadly, if they use the engine they've chosen, the operation may never get off the ground.



FWIW, as far as I can tell Multiverse _isn't_ open source; it's available free to developers, but they take a % online revenues.

There's some more details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_Network - the multiverse website itself is very slow at the moment.

(Out of curiousity, did you think it would have low production value because it was an open source engine, or just because of general doubts about how it would be produced?)

Personally, I think that the best idea would be to produce something where the user community can actually create their own stuff, which the FF community excels at; rather like Second Life.

mrben

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Friday, December 8, 2006 5:07 AM

MAGNESS


Hope the game comes out well...

Fan traffic alone has already brought down the Multiverse site so thats a good indication of "interest". And the fact that its a "Firefly" MMO probably means they are going to set it during the events of the series (so pre-BDM) meaning we should get to see and hear all of our BDH's again. If its like any other MMO we would get missions or whatever from them in-game and the possibilities of this alone are getting me excited. The characters could/should be voiced by the original actors, in-game live events could/should be played by the BDH's themselves, Etc, etc... This could be a Great Game.

I hope it comes out well...
:)

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Friday, December 8, 2006 5:20 AM

JAWDY


Having the voices of the original cast playing certain, key roles of their digital counterparts would be phenomenal.

I see at least 2 problems with that though.

1) Being an MMO, for the missions to work, and continue to grow - the script would have to be huge and also continue to expand. A script like Oblivion (where Patrick Stuart played King Uriel Septim, one of the key characters) had many thousands of lines of dialogue - but is a solid universe (so it wont expand).

2) The recent attacking of the Video Game market by actors and voice actors alike over pay.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:41 AM

CAPTAINJOSH06


Im hopin this is a disc bought game, as it would be hard for me if it is a pay as you go like thing.
As in pay every month to play, but in my eyes it should be sold on a disc or DVD in shops or buy it off the internet or even like EA are doing with Battleifeld 2 series, you buy to download the expansion packs.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 7:58 AM

TIGER


Maybe some of you experts could explain to us video game newbies about MMORPG. I know it stands for massive-multiplayer-something-something, but that doesn't really tell me what these games are like. I gather they aren't traditional games with levels and missions and so forth (keep in mind the only game I've played with any regularity in the last 7-8 years is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six).

I get the feeling that MMORPGs are very involved, take a big time investment, and can be difficult to learn. I'm not going to waste my time with some game filled with elves and dwarves and what not, but since it's Firefly I REALLY want to get the scoop.

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Friday, December 8, 2006 8:14 AM

MATTCOZ


Quote:

Originally posted by mrben:
There's some more details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_Network - the multiverse website itself is very slow at the moment.

Not very reassuring that their website can't handle the flood of Firefly fans.

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