Voodoo_Operator

Yeah, it's all LA mod reskins.

I vote for that name.

This may come as a surprise to you, but I would tend to agree with you on us being strict. I'm glad you've made your point in a mature way instead of trying to antagonize us by calling us idiots. The thing is, your background clearly has an influence on how you view the way we run things here. By clan/console, I think you imply that the players involved are somewhat mature (save for a few byproducts of bad parenting who got their hands on M-rated games at age 12). I would imagine that graphic design involves an even more mature level, possibly college students and upwards. In such communities, most members have at least basic notions of netiquette, and are relatively mature. Any member that pops up and breaks the written (or unwritten) rules will soon be an outcast and will be driven to leave long before any moderator has his word to say about it. Here, the situation is different. Instead of a clearly mature game/topic, we're covering a game that may be enjoyed by kids and adults alike, albeit for different reasons. I'd "guesstimate" the proportion as being 60% of members under 15 years old, about 25% between 15 and 18, and 15% over 18. As far as I know, we staff members, and probably most content creators as well, are all in that last 15%. If the Emergency series had been rated M for Mature (Come to think of it, how could a game that shows graphic puddles of blood, and is one of the only games on the market - if not the only one - in which children can die, have not been rated M? ), this community would probably be comprised of the 40% aged 15 and up. Then we could probably hope that people would start listening to our advice, and would understand/follow basic netiquette rules such as not constantly harrassing content creators for release dates. You know what, there's even a chance that we wouldn't even need to have that rule: people just wouldn't do it. Nor would they try to get away with stealing other people's work, getting into flame wars, spamming to boost their post counts, etc. But as it turns out, it's just not how things are. Why do we shake the stick, threatening to hand out warnings and bans all over the place? Because it's the only method that works. Sometimes it just becomes so absurd that we start making fun of it. And the next thing you know, to anyone coming from the outside, it sounds like we're drunk with power. But in the end we're just a happy bunch of cynical old farts who really wish they wouldn't have to enforce this place as if it was some kind of kindergarden. By the way, I'm not saying I despise younger members. Most of them follow the rules, and if they slip once, they won't make the same mistake twice. But yeah, there are also a lot of kids with the "Gimme gimme" and "Screw you, I'm right, you're wrong" attitude, and since they come here to look at the shiny toys we've got on display, the only thing we can do to make them behave is to threaten to take those toys away from them. I personally apologize if that makes us look like huge douches in the process. Try seeing it as a game and playing along. Makes it a lot funnier. /my 2 cents.

Hold on, now. He said "most" moderators are idiots. He didn't say who. Maybe you're in the clear.

For an unexperimented modeler, you sure came up fast with a highly-detailed model - faster than any experimented modeler here does.

Wrong. Did you read our policy? This is not a matter of asking permissions. NO MODELS FROM THE 3D WAREHOUSE ARE PERMITTED. PERIOD. chrisblaalid, time to try making your own models. Since you're going for military hardware, which is usually comprised of a lot of squary shapes and straight lines, this should be fairly easy for a beginner. By the way, I don't know how many times I'm going to have to repeat this, but Sketchup is NOT, I repeat NOT, the right tool to use when modding for this game.

We still use common sense. First of all, the worse that can happen for asking for release dates is a 2-day ban (although I guess we may consider a permanent ban for a repeating offender, but that has never happened yet). Secondly, I'm merely giving examples here of things that may be considered annoying. Common sense dictates that if there have been no postings from a mod author for a while, he's probably not doing any secret progress on his mod. While keeping everyone in the dark is not a very good way to keep your fans happy (the least you can do is post a note about being away for a while, and/or ask the moderators to close your topic), it is bothersome to see month-old topics spring back to the top of the forums because of a "Any progress? What's going on?" post. Keep in mind that the rule is discretionary. While I like to shake the boomstick to discourage those behaviors, we (moderators) make judgement calls, and while just plain asking for a release date will often result in a 2-day ban, there will also be situations where a warning, or even an informal comment, will be enough. I'm not adding any new rules here. I'm merely clarifying them to avoid future warnings. But what's done is done. The purpose of this topic is specifically to avoid debating semantics. I don't care what Merriam-Webster says, these are the rules HERE.

I thought I'd clarify the definition of asking for release dates. Lately, a lot of people have been trying to get away with it by using fancy sentencing. Here are a few examples of things that are considered asking for release dates: Wait, what? If you know it, then why would you do it? If you need to start a question like that, you might want to stop asking it altogether. You're probably going to be breaking the rules soon after the word "but". Aaaaaah, yes. Clever. You ask for an estimate instead of a precise date. But don't fool yourself, this will also be considered as asking for release dates, and will result in the same consequences. I call this "reverse asking for release dates". The modder gives you a percentage and you kind of try to deduce the release date by yourself based on how far the percentages have gotten. Well I've got news for you: If the modder can't give you precise release dates, why would he take some of his precious time to carefully evaluate the completion percentage of every aspect of his work? Don't you think the time he spends maintaining those statistics will be time he doesn't spend working on stuff? Some modders do decide to keep completion percentages of their work. It's their choice. However, asking for such percentages from modders who decide not to use them will be considered as "reverse asking for release dates". And you can't have "reverse asking for release dates" without "asking for release dates". Subtle. And yet very annoying. Here's a clue: Read the last post by the mod author, that should give you an answer as to how the mod is coming along. And if that last post was made about 8 months ago, here's another answer: It's not really coming around at all because the author is busy with real life and/or has stopped working on the mod. Don't bother asking. Calm down. Go get some fresh air outside, numbnuts. ---------------- Hope I made myself clear. If not, feel free to ask below and I/we shall answer. Better ask here then to get a 2-day ban somewhere else. Voodoo out.

Please read this: http://forum.emergency-planet.com/index.php?/topic/13375-concerning-the-google-3d-warehouse/ TL;DR version: Use ANY model from the Warehouse, and I'll be very angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Hmmm... GTA from the other side of the law? Great concept, but probably going to be poorly executed and bug-ridden - As are most "simulator" budget games (or any other type of budget game) from obscure German developers. Just look at how EM2012 turned out. No, you won't be able to mod it. EM2012 would have been far easier to make moddable, and that didn't happen. Save your bucks for L.A. Noire. And while you're at it, do yourself a favor by saving a little more and getting a console. That's where the good games are now. PC only gets crappy ports, crappy budget titles and cash-guzzling MMORPGS.

I got a '96 Pathfinder, white, automatic. Some rust on the rims and fenders. Engine runs fine, brand new tranny, 2 sets of tires. Mileage a bit on the high side, but it's probably good for another 100k miles or so. My asking price is 3500$, let me know if you're interested.

So YOU were the hipster chick? Oh. Akward.

Awww man. I love hipster chicks. Don't you see she was being ironic?

Damnit, who banned that hipster chick?

You did good. Anyone knows they'll send the FBI to your house, should you put any other birth date than your real one.

Oh ok... that's a whole different story then, sorry for thinking/implying it was theft and thanks for clearing that up. So if you litterally purchased his account, you should have his credentials (i.e. username and password) ? How about trying to login and download the product again? Let's see if it works then. Maybe something got corrupted/lost in the exe you received, or the program's security is acting up (they sometimes monitor the number of times a game is installed and/or on how many different systems). A clean install with clean fresh files can't hurt anyway (I just hope you have enough bandwidth to sustain it). Otherwise, I don't know... try contacting their technical support, maybe?

"Brought the files"? You mean you copied the game folder from his hard drive to yours without running the installer? And now you wonder why it doesn't work? When you install a program through the game installer, it doesn't just copy the files to your hard drive. It adds many entries to the Windows registry in order for the game to work properly. If you just copy the files, it usually just won't work. You'll get error messages, CTDs, or both. That's why you need to use the installer. Besides, paying your friend doesn't make it legal at all. Instead you just paid for an illegal copy (see it as buying stolen goods instead of obtaining them for free - it's still a crime in the eyes of the law). The only legal way to buy software from other people is buying the physical game disk from that person (and then that person can't use the game anymore because you've got the disk now). Otherwise, one of you is automatically using an illegal copy. If that person has a digital copy of the game, there is no way you can legally "buy" the files from them. I'd try getting that £20 back if I were you. So I'm sorry, but we won't be able to help you. You have to either purchase the game disk, or purchase the game online through digital download, and perform a standard installation.

Hmmm... you did actually buy the game, right? It didn't, erm, let's say "magically" find its way on your hard drive without any payment, now, did it? Just checking. We get a lot of people claiming that their game has crashes or other issues, only to find out that the game was obtained by illegal means - in which case we do not provide any support.

I don't know who scared you with Windows 7 and compatibility issues, but Emergency 4 isn't THAT old (Nor is Windows THAT bad regarding compatibility) Personally, I'm running Windows 7 and it works perfectly fine on my system.

Personnally, I liked to play SWAT 4, Call of Duty style: Run, gun, ask questions later. Fun times.

It's funny how clever editing and rock music can make anything look exciting. Basically, this game is about driving a sluggish truck from point A to point B. Over and over again.

Hmmm, yeah, however, the difference between the picture and your rendition is that the text "Ambulance" is mirrored, not merely written backwards. "ECNALUBMA" in a mirror will probably look like it's written in Russian, some of the letters are going to be backwards. See my example below:

Aaaaand I just lost my appetite. ... Wait, it's back now. Never mind. Seriously though, screw lasagna or stew after seeing that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50lqwdO9fZw