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Contents 1 Hotline Servers 2 Small Addition 3 onyx warlords? 4 Myth gaming community 5 Awards Section 6 Myth IV 7 Split 8 List of Myth Units

[edit] Hotline Servers

I removed the hl.udogs.net link since a better explanation is needed. A short entry could be put in about the role HL played on Myth - it has had much greater use of hotline servers than most games. hl.udogs.net and hotline.clanplaid.net also both work as hotline servers, not just web-pages - this neede detailing.

Someone write it up please

(The Elfoid 17:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Small Addition

I added a mention of Homeland under the listing of maps made by the group Creation. This is more for consistency's sake for anything else, as it had been mentioned twice before in the article - once at the begining and another time under "notable creations" - alongside other Creation Games projects but not mentioned with them underneath the mapmaking group's description. Thus, it's more or less for a reader who looks at those listings and says "Hrm, I wonder who made that..." Now that reader can find the answer underneath the mapmaking group descriptions.

That said, if it sounds like I'm harping the map itself, it's because I probably am. I was the project leader of the Homeland map and would very much like it to recieve proper credit/documentation (it has been denied it before). That, and I think it's pretty cool. :)

Imakjak 18:52, 18 March 2006 (UTC)Much love - haere e hoki, Jack

[edit] onyx warlords?

Never heard of this, and google isn't much help. Are these guys actually notable? Do they have a website or any releases more noteworthy than the thousands of releases that have not been mentioned? I mean heck, lots of groups formed and promised to release stuff. I've been out of touch for a while so just wondering. Argyrios 20:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Things like this are exactly why I was against making a groups section in the first place... the level of detail into which it is possible to go here is a serious threat to the coherence and readability and balance of the article. I think a Community of Myth sub-article needs to be started ASAP so we have a place to dump all this info about mapmaking and whatnot. Argyrios 20:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Their site's down right now - they've had HUGE troubles maintaining it but I believe they'll be sorted out. TFV has been in development since 2003, its gonna be bigger (in terms of units, and solo OR multiplayer maps, complex scripts) than TSG we are told. Its been heralded as the closest we'll get to Myth IV. Other than Magma they're the only current team, and they're far more active - just a shedload of work to do. I can see why you might not want it up, but I feel its useful.

E-mail me (theelfoid_TFS@hotmail.com) Ares, I forget your e-mail adress. We can get working on a Community section as soon as. I've got a basic plan of paragraphs to put in:

• Brief history
• Noteable tournaments (e.g. oPoP series, 7 Phoenix Rising (cuz it was official) and MWC - paragraph each - can later expand into having an MWC page with a little data on winning teams)
• Myth Development (summary of work by Bungie, Mumbo Jumbo, Myth Dev, Flying Flip and Magma in VERY brief text) history
• Map-making teams/individuals
• Community centres (servers, information on sites like The Mill, general community hubs)
• The Galleria Mythica (call it me PR plugging but I'd at least like to see how it goes down...my Galleria had over 3000 hits on PlayMyth.net since October 2005 and has been a real hit)
• Community language (e.g. definitions/origins of 'hillus', 'care factor' or 'rank h00r')
• Community icons (e.g. HoHo Goldfish, Flying Flip, Anna The Bot, that question-answerer from Bungie's old site [before my time...])
• In-game language (unit names, what 'D our N' means)
• Noteable community figures (this can be determined by me nosing around the community, I don't think this'll be worth implimenting but we can have a look into it)
• Many more links than the main Myth page, removing less important ones from there

I'm pretty sure this stuff'll get so long it'll be seperated into several pages - lets see how it goes and start small. Get in touch. Might be worth us making a small forum somewhere where we can discuss in more detail than we can here? I can host one on mine (www.visionalgraphics.net/tfs) if you care - just an idea.

(The Elfoid 19:20, 20 March 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Myth gaming community

I have started a page for this entry Myth gaming community. It is intended to discuss all the notable contributions of both editors of Myth and gamers, as well as to give a general history of Myth editing (mostly from a technical and not creative viewpoint) as well as the community's somewhat notable accomplishment of literally prolonging the franchise on their own, without a commercial backer. FieryProphet 20:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm really happy with the latest changes. I feel the main article is much more readable and coherent now. I took the liberty of moving a lot of community-related content and re-naming the new article to Community of Myth (computer game) Argyrios 06:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

And look at that, the WikiNazi's have deleted the page from probably a "lack of Notability". We need to keep the Community content on the main page... Also, perhaps some commentary on how the community has fallen apart? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 164.116.71.226 (talk) 18:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Awards Section

Upon reading the Total Codex Edition box, it seems some of the Myth games gained some recognition in so it should be list on this page...

Yes the Myth games have won several GOTY awards, as well as all sorts of other awards. GameSpot even labelled Myth:TFL/ The Myth Series, as one of the greatest games of all Time.164.116.71.226 18:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Myth IV

I deleted the entire section on Myth IV because there were no citations and I'm pretty certain it was false. Take 2 owned a 19.9% share of Bungie. When Bungie sold to Microsoft, Take 2 got the Myth and Oni IPs in exchange for their ownership. Any future Myth projects would not be tied to Bungie unless Microsoft buys the rights back. Ace of Sevens 17:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split

I have tagged the article for splitting off into four seperate articles. Three will cover each individual game, and one will cover the general series and overflow information. It is standard practice for each game in a series to have its own article. Check any game series and see for yourself. As well, the page relies too heavily on lists that could be converted to prose, and needs references sometime in the future. Green451 17:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I Support rohith 20:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Another Support. This article is cluttered. AKismet 10:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Oppose. The article is not long, and would only merit splitting if considerable additional text were to be added. Gimmetrow 17:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Support At one point these articles were seperate and they should be again. Alyeska

And they were merged for a reason. Unless someone is going to add a few thousand words of quality content, there is no good reason to split the article apart. A fair amount of the content currently in the article should be deleted. Gimmetrow 20:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Each is a seperate entity and thus deserving of a seperate entry. Some articles are naturaly larger then others, some smaller. Alyeska 21:01, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Not all separate entities get separate articles. Small articles are often merged into related articles. Splitting would probably result in a lot of unnecessary duplication of material, and probably make the resulting articles further away from the "broad" and "comprehensive" requirements of WP:GA and WP:FA. Gimmetrow 21:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Very little material would need to be duplicated. Alyeska 23:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Support if someone can make the separate articles good. I know nothing about the series, so I couldn't help. Dåvid Fuchs ^{(talk / frog blast the vent core!)} 00:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Myth Units

The list lacks many units from ALL the series (mainly the Wolf Age) and could do with its own article, as the above has proposed with others, with alittle more depth to it. User:Stabby Joe