Forged Alliance Forever

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-03-17T20:51:46+02:00

has this been recorded somewhere to rewatch it?

Statistics: Posted by Hascins — 17 Mar 2015, 20:51

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-26T14:22:39+02:00

It will be a proper, formal, interview that I will live stream on my hitbox.tv channel (or twitch depending on whether or not people care where it is streamed). It will be live so that if you have any questions to ask visionik you can ask him at the end of the interview.

The date has also been confirmed as saturday, I am just looking for a time now, I know that the average joes tourney is also taking place on the saturday so I will try and get it done just before the tournament starts so that you can go straight from the interview to Speed2 who will be live streaming the tournament. I plan to cast a few of the games that speed does not cast so stay tuned for that too!

Statistics: Posted by Kalvirox — 26 Feb 2015, 14:22

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-25T18:37:55+02:00

Is it going to be a live interview or just written q & a?

Statistics: Posted by Col_Walter_Kurtz — 25 Feb 2015, 18:37

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-25T13:42:49+02:00

Ok so, I have had trouble with talking to Visionik because he his client signs out of FAF chat automatically and so he loses messages. However he is free this week and I am pushing for this saturday/sunday.

This is not a dead project I assure you.

Statistics: Posted by Kalvirox — 25 Feb 2015, 13:42

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-24T15:10:22+02:00

so when is this happening?

Statistics: Posted by Hascins — 24 Feb 2015, 15:10

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-13T13:52:26+02:00

I agree with VoiceofReason. Chris is nothing if not a decent, passionate mad scientist motivated by his creativity, not some cynical pursuit of money. I also remember that event (might have watched it on someone's Youtube channel actually) and Chris was and is a legend.

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 13 Feb 2015, 13:52

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-12T14:47:38+02:00

Kalvirox wrote:
tatsu wrote: can you get Chris Taylor on there (pretty please??)

Err.. Firstly, Does he still do this shit anymore? Secondly, What am I supposed to ask him considering he does not actually contribute to this game anymore, and thirdly how do you propose that I get him in the first place? I don't think he cares anymore. He has made his money and that's it.

Chris Taylor came on during one of FAFs big events and was involved in a long cast that went on for hours. He is happy, and proud of what FAF has accomplished from what I recall. He was truly amazed at what a passionate community could create, just to play his game!

If you ask me, FAF nothing but flattery to the man. As for contacting him; someone knows surely a way - just not me...
...and the money comment - I'm almost sure Gpgnets' fait was because he was too good of a guy, and not a evil greedy bugger; His passion for RTS made the games we love, and I bet he's a proud father to these babies - regardless of the paths they take.

I believe it would be awesome to get CT here for another Round of Q&A w/ Visionik, especially since FAF has a awesome new owner, and has changed in at least a few other ways too I'm sure

Statistics: Posted by VoiceofReason — 12 Feb 2015, 14:47

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-12T11:41:55+02:00

Kalvirox wrote:
tatsu wrote: can you get Chris Taylor on there (pretty please??)

Err.. Firstly, Does he still do this shit anymore? Secondly, What am I supposed to ask him considering he does not actually contribute to this game anymore, and thirdly how do you propose that I get him in the first place? I don't think he cares anymore. He has made his money and that's it.

LOL well that last part is a bit harsh, but you obviously can't ask him any development related questions anymore. So perhaps there are other questions to ask him like "does he secretly play on FAF" ?

Statistics: Posted by Col_Walter_Kurtz — 12 Feb 2015, 11:41

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-11T20:01:59+02:00

tatsu wrote:
can you get Chris Taylor on there (pretty please??)

Err.. Firstly, Does he still do this shit anymore? Secondly, What am I supposed to ask him considering he does not actually contribute to this game anymore, and thirdly how do you propose that I get him in the first place? I don't think he cares anymore. He has made his money and that's it.

Statistics: Posted by Kalvirox — 11 Feb 2015, 20:01

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-11T19:53:08+02:00

Kalvirox wrote:
Okay so, do you remember when this was a thing that I did like 2 episodes of and then stopped because I was trying to do them too frequently? Well I am bringing it back hurrah!

So for the third edition I am going to interview Visionik, the date has not been properly arranged yet but it will be sometime in the nearest of near futures and I wanted to open up most of the questioning to the community!

Post your questions in reply to this thread please!
I will of course be asking some questions of my own as well.

Rules:
No repeated questions, it keeps this page nice, clear and pristine.

No questions related to balance. Why? Because balance is now largely determined by the community (or it will be eventually), not visionik.

Phrase your questions nicely.

No troll questions. (Yes, I mean it).

-Kalvirox

can you get Chris Taylor on there (pretty please??)

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 11 Feb 2015, 19:53

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-10T18:06:01+02:00

Does he already regret that he took over the community?

The numner of people in Aeolus is now over 1000 in peak times which is great i think...does he have any number in mind he wants to achive, and if yes how does he want to make that happen?

What's the thing he worries the most about concerning faf?

What does he think about frequent rating resets?

Statistics: Posted by Hascins — 10 Feb 2015, 18:06

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-10T16:46:27+02:00

Question: Visionik off-handedly mentioned funding some big tournaments this year in a thread a while back, could we get some clarification on this?

Edit: Quote in question

Zock asked about Tourny directors - I think this is part of promoting and growing the community, so it would be in the promoters group. BTW, I plan on sponsoring some MAJOR tournaments to bring old players back to the game and new players into it. For example, I am going to run at least one tournament with a $10,000 grand prize. My #1 goal for FAF is to make it more fun, and my #2 goal is to get more players into the game. And I think tournaments are going to play a big part in both of those goals.

Statistics: Posted by Ceneraii — 10 Feb 2015, 16:46

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-10T11:05:39+02:00

Question: Does visionik have plans for keeping the FA(F) community and playerbase healthy and expanding? Increasing the attractiveness of the FAF platform is probably as vital in the long run as getting the internal systems (council, volunteers) set up. The front page of faforever.com for example looks quite outdated and might give the impression that the game is unattractive or outdated. While it can in fact (more than) compete with modern games.

Statistics: Posted by Col_Walter_Kurtz — 10 Feb 2015, 11:05

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-10T00:23:52+02:00

visionik outlined a list of priorities, in a loose order of what they would be done in, a couple of months ago in aeolus. Can you get him to update the community on what these priorities are and draw him out on what each priority means for the people doing it and for the community when it's done. This included things like galactic war and team matchmaker, redoing the lobby and server in all sorts of ways to make it less buggy. There were/are also plans in the works to allow a lot more UI customisation that would be completely fucking awesome. Can you recap what is planned for the Council? Other than the actual "what happens next" stuff, which he should talk about anyway, how much more generally does he expect to be delegating to the council, how much oversight will be have of the decision making process and the final decisions etc.

If that doesn't take up the bulk of the interview - some quick questions: can you just reset and reactivate galactic war? There's an appetite to play it even without any further improvements. Is there scope to get access to the FA engine code? This would obviously be a complete gamechanger, literally. It would be awesome if visionik could explore it with whoever's got it (and is doing nothing with it but would profit from increased FA sales and the buyout if they gave it to us) and could find out the ball park costs - tens of thousands of USD (we could crowd fund that easily) or millions (not worth it unless visionik is Mark Zuckerberg)?

Statistics: Posted by Sir Prize — 10 Feb 2015, 00:23

Re: FAF Community Podcast Special!

2015-02-09T21:30:15+02:00

Flynn. To my Knowledge he plays setons and from a couple of his replays it seems people on the whole don't go "omg it's visionik"

Statistics: Posted by Kalvirox — 09 Feb 2015, 21:30