Announcing the Empires Union

As of late, many are concerned regarding the future of Empires. Many hold that Empires is in its death throes, but what is true is that with current levels of interests, it will not last for too long. To promote interest and activity in Empires, we have formed the Empires Union.

The Union and its Members aim to support the Empires community as a whole and demostrate his or her solidarity for what Empires should represent.

All of those interested, not just individuals involved in clans (as this is not a clan), are more than welcome to join.

 

So.. What does it do?

 

Get Empires active again. To do this, we, as a community, will organize to get the word out and other means of achieving this end.

 

And what will you exactly do?

Spam communities about a beta version of some mod in hl2?
No one would care and you would probably damage it's rep even more by showing it in its shitty state that it is now.

The only thing that I think will help Empires in any way is to get rid of Source engine and go standalone with some open source engine.

 

No, we will not spam anything. We will work together to raise the activity of the community and forum. We will discuss getting professional coverage of the mod on websites, etc

 

Professional coverage of WHAT?

a buggy hl2 mod with only one key characteristic that is known which is HSM..
Community will only come after a good solid build.

Look at all the other hl2 mods. the only ones which got that far was GMOD, Portal,tf2,cs

The devs were quiet and didn't listen to idiots telling them how they wanted the mod to be.

 

The only 'game' element of Garry's Mod that thrives today is roleplay. Most have it for its tools. Portal was a professionally developed version of what was originally an indie game. TF2 was a follow up to a professionally developed game which was based on a mod from over ten years ago. And Valve has owned CS and has had control over it for several years.

That's beside the point.

The EU is concerned with the community more than changing mechanics. The game isn't perfect and core gameplay isn't going to change much from how it is now. As a Source mod, Empires is one-of-a-kind which is already a lot to show.

 

this sounds like a good idea, i'll join, empires needs anything it can get

 

If you want to help Empires, learn C++ and how to code an accessible GUI for source mods. Then put it onto Steam and THEN any additional recruiting helps.

 

It's more active than it's been in ages (not counting patch rushes)

 

/join

First thing you can do is get some people together to test Ketobor's research scripts.

It also helps if Kane doesn't post about USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THIS POST

 

Uh, what?

 

Last I checked 57 people were playing.
This shit ain't dead.

 

*Wild Kane is confused*

*Cpatton throws PokeBall!*

*Cpatton caught Kane!*

I mean uhhh..... nothing. Nothing at all <_>.

 

A wild empty appears!
Empty uses FLAME!
It hits for critical damage!
Cpatton is burnt!
Cpatton takes damage from it's burn!

 

ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Cpatton was killed with fire!

/troll


ok back to the thread. Hip hip hurray for the EU. I think this is an important project to be undertaken, and that Empires really will benefit by improved community involvement. I am going on holiday until New Years though, but I do hope we find a lot of support for this.

 

OuNin I will join

 

How bout the union gathers together some money to hire Krenzo back :D

 

Sign me up.

 

Well, everyone can start by participating in the new research script testing, starting now and going on for the next few hours! Read this thread: http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?p=265323#post265323