How did you find out about spring?

hammydude · Post by **hammydude** » 20 Jul 2006, 02:19

How did you find out about spring?

Interesting how such a large community formed...

I found out about it because TA3d was featured on digg, then I got interested and went to wikipedia to read about it, wikipedia referenced spring, and so I got here.

Anyways post your story here

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 20 Jul 2006, 02:58

I found it because I was waiting on an update of the TAD.

Cheesecan · Post by **Cheesecan** » 20 Jul 2006, 03:06

I was playing OTA when a friend told me about it. I was making a mod at the time and figured it would be easier to do in Spring. Suffice to say I never completed that mod.

AF · Post by AF » 20 Jul 2006, 03:13

it was emblazoned upon a cookie that ahd been kidnapped by bannana supporters leaving teddy bears everywhere

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 20 Jul 2006, 03:24

Friends, none of which lasted this community for three months. I've been here ever since, and I plan to stay.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 20 Jul 2006, 03:32

What happened to these...freinds? Did they ever exsist? Or are you just a rambling psyocopath.

Me: I was searching for OTA mods and found this link to something called TA: Spring and I said "That sounds like its never going ANYWHERE!"

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 20 Jul 2006, 04:47

Zoombie, don't tempt me to reveal your full identity. Most of them are a year ahead of me, and thus probably too old for you to know of.

One of them was a Final Frontier fanatic. Two played mainly XTA. One was a AA man. The other three loved the engine.

Two are playing Warhammer 40k, which I have to say pales in comparison as a rts and as an adaptation of the actual wargame. Four have computer/network issues that they can't resolve. The last one went back to Starcraft, because of "flaming". That one always makes me crack up.

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 20 Jul 2006, 04:55

hehe, Neddiedrow has Zoombie's number (so to speak)

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I first read about Spring when it was way back in an alpha/pre-alpha stage, at which point I still playing Total Annihilation. A lot of time passed by before a friend of mine (who also played OTA, but was not as avid as myself) brought up Spring again. I checked out the progress that was made, got hooked, and have been playing it ever since.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 20 Jul 2006, 05:19

I am always interesting in RTS before 2k and everything...

So I was searching around for a freeware game that was badass, had hype, sounded cool, and lived up to the hype...

Suffice to say it didn't take me long to find original TA...

I was talking to Chrispin about it and he said " I have TA"

And I was like "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER!"

We played ta for about a month, then he found out about this and told me...

That's how I got to know, 2 months later living it up and making a mod

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 20 Jul 2006, 05:25

Oh bloody bloody bloody hell. I keep forgetting that Neddi happens to know my true identity.

One problem is I have next to no knack for face's and names. In fact I remember fake names (Like AF, Smoth, Cyder ext) far better then REAL names like (John, Dick, Harry, Zamplihamenuf ext).

PS: Add some more bloody's to my hell.

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 20 Jul 2006, 06:08

might want to add Magazine asa choice since i bet some of the new people have seen the press coverage Spring has got.

hammydude · Post by **hammydude** » 20 Jul 2006, 06:53

Magazine? Press coverage? Really?

I haven't heard of any, please tell which magazine/press that it was.

Also, kind of off topic but can you edit polls? I see no edit option next to the poll... Oh well...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 20 Jul 2006, 06:55

PCG had some Spring coverage in their Sup Com cover story. It was a rather large side bar (Well...large for a side bar. It even had two screen shots!).

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 20 Jul 2006, 08:04

I heard about it from GameArena, a game matchmaker service thing i used to play Soldat through. Some random posted a link, i followed, saw it was TA and stuck around to see more.

unpossible · Post by **unpossible** » 20 Jul 2006, 08:23

i saw it on the news of planetannihilation
eeeuuuggh Gamespy network /shudders/

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 20 Jul 2006, 09:48

I dont remember. Honestly, I dont. The first thing about spring I remember is Min3mat, Shintahr, the old lobby and eventually EvOTA.
Ah the time it took to get a game started.. Ahh.

Trying to remember >_<

Note: I was on spring before i regged myself on the forums.

DeathHawk · Post by **DeathHawk** » 20 Jul 2006, 10:30

I was in one of those total annihilation sites looking for a flying Peewee then i seen all these articals on spring so i thought i would cheek to see what all the fuss is about and i havnt left this place since

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 20 Jul 2006, 10:34

This would actually be an interesting poll for general discussion.

Exit69 · Post by **Exit69** » 20 Jul 2006, 11:04

I guess i saw an article on planetannihilation - spring was then in pre-alpha stage - so i`ve been keeping an eye on it since then. but i actually began playing it this summer - as i threw away my 350MHz AMD :) and bought a 2.8GHZ

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 20 Jul 2006, 12:15

I gave SJ the idea for it.

Spring RTS Engine