Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a How-to guide, the information on what to do is unnecessary, and already acknowledged in the Legacy section. 24.84.62.242 ( talk) 23:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Uh... Still could be useful. --
67.8.93.255 (
talk)
21:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I added a small summary of current events to the end of the "present day" section - some of the same information that was in the giant blob of text everyone keeps re-adding. Hopefully they can stop now. I also didn't notice that the shut-down of the Tribes 2 master servers was mentioned in 1 sentence in the Legacy section, and I mentioned it again in the part I added. Someone else can decide if you want to move what I added up to Legacy, or remove the link from Legacy, or remove only my link so we don't have 2 references doing to the same place. Kryand ( talk) 16:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
I seriously think the tribes 2 page should be split, because it is becoming
too long, and, it would be wise to split it up. If nobody responds within two days, I'm going to
be bold and split it. --
əˈnon
gahy
♫Look What I've Done!♫
01:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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Xatnys (
talk)
03:00, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
From what i hear (and can tell for myself by trying to play) the master servers were finally killed, 18th August 2007. Considering how i can no longer connect or log in, i think this has a basis in truth. Anyone care to update the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.189.47 ( talk) 10:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
People are indeed still playing, there is a community still alive of some new members and diehards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.186.172.186 ( talk) 23:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
The Master Servers are back up as of November 20th, 2007 - Xatnys ( talk) 02:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
The Miami Vehicles portion is a current unofficial/unauthorized offshoot, if not extremely poor impersonation of "Houston Vehicles" www.houstonvehicles.com which was a Tribes2 clan started in 2000 when the game first started and is still alive and well today with over 2000 members.
Miami Vehicles copied the name, the rules, and every aspect of Houston Vehicles and is currently living off of it's legacy.
Some of this is evidenced by the year gap between houstonvehicles.com and miamivehicles.com at the way back machine at http://www.archive.org/.
Houston Vehicles is still a strong member of the tribes community and one of the oldest and largest tribes in Tribes2 and easily one of the most recognized non-competition Tribes.
Someone please correct this error, and do not let people seeking undeserved glory re-write true history.
This article is ripe for expansion. Yes, much of the specifics are very similar to Tribes, but there is still a lot of information regarding weapons, stations and packs that could be added. If no one else wants to take a hack at it, I'll get around to it eventually. - DynSkeet (talk) June 29, 2005 14:19 (UTC)
Alrighty. I just finished adding all kinds of information about plain old base. Just all the basic stuff such as packs and weapons, as well as asset info.
I saw a few things missing about the game itself, such as how the game plays and it's features. I know all of that is located under Tribe 1's page, but I thought it was neccessary here too.
Feel free to change/edit my additions.
I guess the page could still use some info about mods such as Classic and Arena, but I don't know everything about every mod, so I'll leave that to other people.
No it didn't! Tribes2 is indeed cool, but the Quake1 Team Fortress mod preceded it by years with regard to deployable turrets and inventory stations, at least... -- Irrevenant 12:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
This section needs a bit of cleanup. While there is some useful information in there, it's very hard to get out of the rest of the information which is, frankly, irrelevant. On top of that, much of it is not up to NPOV standards. The whole thing reads like a run-on sentance or stream-of-consciousness writing, and should be reworded/rewritten to match the overall tone of the rest of the article. The same can be said of the Defense Turret section. -- Y|yukichigai 21:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Nobody seems to have incorporated this... it let you see your own feet! I don't know any other FPS that allowed this... 86.11.124.189 19:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed that, while there was a section about server-side modifications, there was almost no mention of the ability to modify your own HUD and add new client-side functionality through scripts. I was thinking of a section like the following to add in...
Thoughts? Comments? I know I may have gone a little overboard on Q-Fire, but considering its impact on the community I thought it worth expanding upon. I also was one of Qing's testers for it several months before it was released to the general public, so its a bit more memorable for me. -- 64.218.89.101 21:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
User "Combination" recently removed the list of weapons/vehicles etc. because he thought they were "listcruft". While I agree that the list doesn't belong in the main Tribes 2 article (and some of the content is probably unencyclopedic), the wide range of weapons/vehicles etc is one of the most important and notable aspects of the game.
I believe a description of the elements of gameplay is indeed interesting to anyone who is interested enough in the game to want to read its Wikipedia article. Perhaps it should be recorded (in a somewhat more encyclopaedic style) as a separate article -- "Tribes 2 Gameplay" or similar.
For this reason I have reinstated the lists, BUT added templates regarding the possibly-unencyclopaedic nature of the lists, and suggesting that the page be split.
I was directed to this article with a suggestion that I edit some of the information reguarding Ascension/RenWerX. Since Ascension is not the same game/series/story as the Tribes series, it has little to no place in this article. Except for the reference to games being built on Torque engines, Ascension/RenWerX fails to fit with the content of the article.
If the section on modifications was expanded, the Tribes 2 Renegades MOD and hence RenWerX would have some place in the article. 24.131.123.179 07:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Renwerx just switched up their irc server from irc.dynamix.com to irc.rizon.net. I made the change and switched the two since the old irc no longer is working. they mention the change here http://forums.renwerx.com/announcement.php?f=2-- Djbjra 12:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, it is pretty great that the server problems have been fixed, and how! However please keep relevent information about tribesnext in the subheading. Tribesnext may be an extremely functional way of running a tribes match but it isn't the 'only' way.
It should be noted somewhere on the page that GarageGames has re-acquired the Tribes franchise and plans to re-release it as free web-based games. (See blog entries on GG's website, linked at Talk:GarageGames.) Also some explanation of the relationship of GG to Dynamix would be useful. -- SpareSimian ( talk) 15:30, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I just cleaned this page up, but I might have taken too much on the modding section... The problem is that it's all so tangled up with unneccesary detail that I had to strip that particular section to bare bones. If anyone can improve the mod section in a sensible way, that would contribute most to the article. Eik Corell ( talk) 19:26, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
(Client-side Mods) : Goes into way too much detail, if it is to be added, it should be mentioned only in passing in the mods section. (Construction Mods) : A mention in passing once again, in the mod section. (Dynamix) : Rumors and speculation are not the business of Wikipedia per WP:OR (Games Inspired by Tribes 2 == : Not really sure about this section, doesn't seem that relevant to the article. (Fan Reaction) : Completely POV, not needed. (Community division) : Not relevant, the article is about the game. (Present Day) : Not relevant again. (Freeware Release) : Not relevant to the article, it's already been mentioned that the game has been re-released. (TribesNext) : WP:EL concerns. It only serves to advertise. (Ports) : WP:GAMEGUIDE concerns - It's not Wikipedia's job to tell people how to get the game to work. Eik Corell ( talk) 12:02, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I want to start a letter writing campaign in hopes of convincing the current owners of Tribes 2 to put the game of Steam, but I can't get any clear information on who holds the rights to it. -- 67.58.84.81 ( talk) 18:46, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
This isn't a place to get information on games. Try Google. - 71.205.132.108 ( talk) 00:26, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
While digging through the online print archive, I located the following print preview material for this game:
One or more print reviews for this game may also be found in the archive. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 14:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
(Copied from the AN/3RR report) I could support protecting the article if editors continue to re-insert "available servers" against not only WP:ELNO, and WP:NOTHOWTO (this coming from an admin who I don't believe has really edited any game articles, so I'm definitely 3rd opinion here - one based on policy). I could personally fully understand a mention that "third party and fan-support servers have been created to allow continued gameplay since Vivendi has discontinued support", but there should be no specific advertisements of who they are ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 14:36, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi-Rez owns the Tribes 2 IP currently. They are supportive of community efforts to keep the game going. I ask that we are allowed to link tribesnext.com on the tribes 2 wiki page. I am asking for support from community members still active playing. Tribesnext.com has been the main website for about 10 years from which to download game files in order to meet others with full server supports. This is to help old players in finding games to join. Thanks. July 25, 2020.- Thaen999 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaen999 ( talk • contribs) 03:04, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, yes there are several download sites. However, as far as I know, those give the basic files without any patches and only LAN game functionality. Also, back in 2009 Tribesnext.com was launched after the master servers were taken down previously. The purpose was to provide a master server listing again. Hi-Rez has voiced support for it and is the current owner of Tribes 2 Intellectual property. Back in 2010 Hi-Rez Bart helped us highlight a 10-year anniversary Tournament on the Tribesnext Master server, leading up to promoting their new game, Tribes: Ascend. If we can contact the actual IP owners would it be possible to again show their willingness to support Tribesnext.com; and simply be allowed to share its link on the wikipedia page? The tribesuniverse link is not in any way related to being able to join tribesnext servers. Without any other known claimed master server lists, it would greatly help the game find more former gamers who can only join LAN games via direct IP port knowledge. Regards, Thaen999. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaen999 ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a How-to guide, the information on what to do is unnecessary, and already acknowledged in the Legacy section. 24.84.62.242 ( talk) 23:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Uh... Still could be useful. --
67.8.93.255 (
talk)
21:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I added a small summary of current events to the end of the "present day" section - some of the same information that was in the giant blob of text everyone keeps re-adding. Hopefully they can stop now. I also didn't notice that the shut-down of the Tribes 2 master servers was mentioned in 1 sentence in the Legacy section, and I mentioned it again in the part I added. Someone else can decide if you want to move what I added up to Legacy, or remove the link from Legacy, or remove only my link so we don't have 2 references doing to the same place. Kryand ( talk) 16:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
I seriously think the tribes 2 page should be split, because it is becoming
too long, and, it would be wise to split it up. If nobody responds within two days, I'm going to
be bold and split it. --
əˈnon
gahy
♫Look What I've Done!♫
01:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Don't worry about it, I did it for you. -
Xatnys (
talk)
03:00, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
From what i hear (and can tell for myself by trying to play) the master servers were finally killed, 18th August 2007. Considering how i can no longer connect or log in, i think this has a basis in truth. Anyone care to update the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.189.47 ( talk) 10:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
People are indeed still playing, there is a community still alive of some new members and diehards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.186.172.186 ( talk) 23:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
The Master Servers are back up as of November 20th, 2007 - Xatnys ( talk) 02:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
The Miami Vehicles portion is a current unofficial/unauthorized offshoot, if not extremely poor impersonation of "Houston Vehicles" www.houstonvehicles.com which was a Tribes2 clan started in 2000 when the game first started and is still alive and well today with over 2000 members.
Miami Vehicles copied the name, the rules, and every aspect of Houston Vehicles and is currently living off of it's legacy.
Some of this is evidenced by the year gap between houstonvehicles.com and miamivehicles.com at the way back machine at http://www.archive.org/.
Houston Vehicles is still a strong member of the tribes community and one of the oldest and largest tribes in Tribes2 and easily one of the most recognized non-competition Tribes.
Someone please correct this error, and do not let people seeking undeserved glory re-write true history.
This article is ripe for expansion. Yes, much of the specifics are very similar to Tribes, but there is still a lot of information regarding weapons, stations and packs that could be added. If no one else wants to take a hack at it, I'll get around to it eventually. - DynSkeet (talk) June 29, 2005 14:19 (UTC)
Alrighty. I just finished adding all kinds of information about plain old base. Just all the basic stuff such as packs and weapons, as well as asset info.
I saw a few things missing about the game itself, such as how the game plays and it's features. I know all of that is located under Tribe 1's page, but I thought it was neccessary here too.
Feel free to change/edit my additions.
I guess the page could still use some info about mods such as Classic and Arena, but I don't know everything about every mod, so I'll leave that to other people.
No it didn't! Tribes2 is indeed cool, but the Quake1 Team Fortress mod preceded it by years with regard to deployable turrets and inventory stations, at least... -- Irrevenant 12:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
This section needs a bit of cleanup. While there is some useful information in there, it's very hard to get out of the rest of the information which is, frankly, irrelevant. On top of that, much of it is not up to NPOV standards. The whole thing reads like a run-on sentance or stream-of-consciousness writing, and should be reworded/rewritten to match the overall tone of the rest of the article. The same can be said of the Defense Turret section. -- Y|yukichigai 21:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Nobody seems to have incorporated this... it let you see your own feet! I don't know any other FPS that allowed this... 86.11.124.189 19:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed that, while there was a section about server-side modifications, there was almost no mention of the ability to modify your own HUD and add new client-side functionality through scripts. I was thinking of a section like the following to add in...
Thoughts? Comments? I know I may have gone a little overboard on Q-Fire, but considering its impact on the community I thought it worth expanding upon. I also was one of Qing's testers for it several months before it was released to the general public, so its a bit more memorable for me. -- 64.218.89.101 21:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
User "Combination" recently removed the list of weapons/vehicles etc. because he thought they were "listcruft". While I agree that the list doesn't belong in the main Tribes 2 article (and some of the content is probably unencyclopedic), the wide range of weapons/vehicles etc is one of the most important and notable aspects of the game.
I believe a description of the elements of gameplay is indeed interesting to anyone who is interested enough in the game to want to read its Wikipedia article. Perhaps it should be recorded (in a somewhat more encyclopaedic style) as a separate article -- "Tribes 2 Gameplay" or similar.
For this reason I have reinstated the lists, BUT added templates regarding the possibly-unencyclopaedic nature of the lists, and suggesting that the page be split.
I was directed to this article with a suggestion that I edit some of the information reguarding Ascension/RenWerX. Since Ascension is not the same game/series/story as the Tribes series, it has little to no place in this article. Except for the reference to games being built on Torque engines, Ascension/RenWerX fails to fit with the content of the article.
If the section on modifications was expanded, the Tribes 2 Renegades MOD and hence RenWerX would have some place in the article. 24.131.123.179 07:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Renwerx just switched up their irc server from irc.dynamix.com to irc.rizon.net. I made the change and switched the two since the old irc no longer is working. they mention the change here http://forums.renwerx.com/announcement.php?f=2-- Djbjra 12:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, it is pretty great that the server problems have been fixed, and how! However please keep relevent information about tribesnext in the subheading. Tribesnext may be an extremely functional way of running a tribes match but it isn't the 'only' way.
It should be noted somewhere on the page that GarageGames has re-acquired the Tribes franchise and plans to re-release it as free web-based games. (See blog entries on GG's website, linked at Talk:GarageGames.) Also some explanation of the relationship of GG to Dynamix would be useful. -- SpareSimian ( talk) 15:30, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I just cleaned this page up, but I might have taken too much on the modding section... The problem is that it's all so tangled up with unneccesary detail that I had to strip that particular section to bare bones. If anyone can improve the mod section in a sensible way, that would contribute most to the article. Eik Corell ( talk) 19:26, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
(Client-side Mods) : Goes into way too much detail, if it is to be added, it should be mentioned only in passing in the mods section. (Construction Mods) : A mention in passing once again, in the mod section. (Dynamix) : Rumors and speculation are not the business of Wikipedia per WP:OR (Games Inspired by Tribes 2 == : Not really sure about this section, doesn't seem that relevant to the article. (Fan Reaction) : Completely POV, not needed. (Community division) : Not relevant, the article is about the game. (Present Day) : Not relevant again. (Freeware Release) : Not relevant to the article, it's already been mentioned that the game has been re-released. (TribesNext) : WP:EL concerns. It only serves to advertise. (Ports) : WP:GAMEGUIDE concerns - It's not Wikipedia's job to tell people how to get the game to work. Eik Corell ( talk) 12:02, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I want to start a letter writing campaign in hopes of convincing the current owners of Tribes 2 to put the game of Steam, but I can't get any clear information on who holds the rights to it. -- 67.58.84.81 ( talk) 18:46, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
This isn't a place to get information on games. Try Google. - 71.205.132.108 ( talk) 00:26, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
While digging through the online print archive, I located the following print preview material for this game:
One or more print reviews for this game may also be found in the archive. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 14:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
(Copied from the AN/3RR report) I could support protecting the article if editors continue to re-insert "available servers" against not only WP:ELNO, and WP:NOTHOWTO (this coming from an admin who I don't believe has really edited any game articles, so I'm definitely 3rd opinion here - one based on policy). I could personally fully understand a mention that "third party and fan-support servers have been created to allow continued gameplay since Vivendi has discontinued support", but there should be no specific advertisements of who they are ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 14:36, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi-Rez owns the Tribes 2 IP currently. They are supportive of community efforts to keep the game going. I ask that we are allowed to link tribesnext.com on the tribes 2 wiki page. I am asking for support from community members still active playing. Tribesnext.com has been the main website for about 10 years from which to download game files in order to meet others with full server supports. This is to help old players in finding games to join. Thanks. July 25, 2020.- Thaen999 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaen999 ( talk • contribs) 03:04, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, yes there are several download sites. However, as far as I know, those give the basic files without any patches and only LAN game functionality. Also, back in 2009 Tribesnext.com was launched after the master servers were taken down previously. The purpose was to provide a master server listing again. Hi-Rez has voiced support for it and is the current owner of Tribes 2 Intellectual property. Back in 2010 Hi-Rez Bart helped us highlight a 10-year anniversary Tournament on the Tribesnext Master server, leading up to promoting their new game, Tribes: Ascend. If we can contact the actual IP owners would it be possible to again show their willingness to support Tribesnext.com; and simply be allowed to share its link on the wikipedia page? The tribesuniverse link is not in any way related to being able to join tribesnext servers. Without any other known claimed master server lists, it would greatly help the game find more former gamers who can only join LAN games via direct IP port knowledge. Regards, Thaen999. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaen999 ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 26 July 2020 (UTC)