"mass" "engineers" etc

Well they are metal......and do have mass.....GO FOR IT!

Neutrino calls them Fabbers. Following from poofriend's suggestions, we simply must call them Fabbers as well.

(And no, I'm not completely joking. Having read the Troy Rising series, which uses the fabber term perfectly seriously, I would actually be fine calling them fabbers.)

I know, I just prefer to full name over the nickname

seconded, I feel like we now hold the solution.

as a cause of lazyness i simply call em cons ... for constructors
fabs work too though ... ... ...
... kinda fab-ulous for Fast Atom/ic Bombardment ... ...
fac/s for factory with a letter for the type b, v, a , n and o maybe later h aswell
Comm for commander

Yes, because changing from metal to mass from Total Annihilation to Supreme Commander was so difficult. Uh huh.. I've been saying metal for TA and Mass for SupCom. Not only do I keep them separate, but only every once in a while do I mix them up.

That said, Mass was just a new name for metal for the lack of IP. Honestly, the name isn't a big deal. People too used to mass are going to call it mass, People wanting to call it metal will either call it metal, or get used to saying metal again. Yes, it is correctly called metal, yes, fabricators. Yes they are incorrectly naming them, but telling them they are wrong will change that? Not likely.

Will that stop me from calling them construction units? Pff. Yeah, no.

not everyone played actually THAT much TA. I have no numbers on it, but I am sure I never played more than maybe 100 hours or so. I was just too young at the time. In FA on the other hand I have like 2k hours.

I have maybe 100 hours on both SupCom and TA, but I enjoyed every moment of TA. I enjoyed maybe 1/4 of my time playing SupCom, which is why I stopped playing it.

This is true. It's also really unfortunate. It's still unmatched in gameplay to this day.

I wouldn't be able to count my hours. I used to have several hundred hours totaled for both SupCom by itself and FA just on steam. Doesn't include time not included on Steam, nor time in FAF either. Though I spent days upon days, hours on end playing TA all the time when I was younger.

Sc is based off ta. Pa is based off ta.

By the transitive property of algebra, i like donuts.

annnnnnnnnnd.... hey wait! it doesn't equal Doughnuts! I must have lost your trail of logic, what did I do wrong!!!!

I feel you may have missed the sarcasm.

But in all fairness, without a kind of sarcasm tag like '/s' it can be hard to pick up on through text.

On the contrary, I think he was being sarcastic. To what end? No idea.

Why the hell do you have some random series equations with a PID controller?

[PS:] I'm an engineer.

People really need to use the '/s' tag.

Please get back on topic. We all like to show how amazingly smart we all are. Let's talk about games again, k?

Whatever [you] decide to call things I am okay with... because I'm sure [you] will be sensible. The lore sounds cool. The mythology background is good too… tempted to start a thread on that or is their one already?

None of this will change gameplay, it's just a name. That's my unimportant opinion. Although stabilising the code might help but it's in alpha so its quite normal. Testing ideas, server architecture and features is important too: which is what has been going on . Just be careful with these things ';' when typing out the code.
Excuse my ignorance of programming. Tried it once upon a time.

The topic died when 'poofriend' stopped replying to things on topic.

Mike

Yes because you know I love knowing who's fault that an entire thread got derailed by multiple participants was.

People can chose to set a good example, or set a bad one. This thread is full of bad examples.

Please just close this topic as no one is going to listen.