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Welcome to the Outpost Universe!
The Outpost Universe was created to give the gamers of Outpost 1 and 2 a place to come together and discuss strategies, ideas, and games. After the shutdown of WON, there was no place to play Outpost 2 online. The creators of OPU decided to create a network in order for OP2 gamers to come and play. Currently, IRC is thebest way to reach other gamers, more information can be found in our IRC section.
No further updates were released giving OP2 fans, no way to fix bugs. The OPU community has come together and released updates of OP1 and OP2. There is also an SDK available to help you create your own missions and maps.
Stop by our forums to signup and say "Hello!" and see our current projects.
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News
 Forums Rearranged
Posted by Hooman on Oct 23 2008, 02:34 PM GMT | Comments: 1
I'm sure you've probably noticed by now that the forums have been rearranged. There has been some discussion on a number of occasions about doing this, and we've finally pestered BlackBox into making some changes.  Anyways, here's some of the things we had talked about.
You may remember we used to have a "Feedback/Suggestions/Problems/General" and a "General/Issues/Other". The difference between the two was not clear, so merging them seemed like a good idea. Also we removed the "forum" forum section, and merged it with "General Community". After all, why would a forum have a forum named "forum"? Seems a little redundant to me, and an overly useless name that doesn't really say anything about what should go there.
We'd also talked about reintegrating the archive section back with the original posts. At first we thought pulling them out of the original sections would help clean up those sections. We've found however that it complicates searching for old posts, which are sometimes still relevant, doesn't do too much to clean up the old sections, since old posts get stuck on later pages anyways, and also creates a lot of dead space on the main page that isn't of much interest because, by definition, there were never any new posts there. I don't believe the threads were going to be unlocked though, if they were already locked.
Another suggestion for the archive, was to have Archive sub-forums in each of the larger forums. Although, there was one slight problem with this idea. The forum software doesn't allow sub-sub-forums, so sections that are already too deep couldn't have their own archive section.
The forum and section "General Main" was changed to "General Interest". The forum "Outpost Programming" was changed to "Outpost 2 Programming".
You may also notice the development sections have been lumped together. This was one of the uncertain areas where we haven't fully decided what we want to do. Perhaps some input from the people using those sections would help.
I had suggested most of the subforums in "Main Projects" should be placed under Outpost 2 Programming, since that's really what they mostly are. (Outpost 2 Update, Renegades, Colony Games, Mapping/Mapper). Also, the Mapping/Mapper areas could potentially be merged with the Mapping forum already under Outpost 2 Programming. The one exception is the "Colony Wars" subforum, which might be placed under "Other Projects" instead. There are also some loose threads in there that should probably be sorted on an individual basis. With that done, we could probably get rid of the "Main Projects" section, which is a horribly vague name to begin with.
I was also thinking all the sequels (Outpost 3 projects), and remakes (Outpost 1) could be placed together. Possibly in two seperate forums, or a merged Sequel/Remake forum? Maybe the merged option just in case someone does a good Outpost 2 remake, so we'd have somewhere to put it. 
Another suggestion was moving Genesis to the Inactive Projects section.
Of course there is a problem with moving Genesis to any subforum, whether it's Inactive Projects, or Sequels/Remakes. Genesis already has a number of sub forums, and again, the software doesn't allow sub-sub-forums. This basically means we'd have trouble moving it off the main page. We'd either have to remove the subforums, and perhaps dump all the threads in the Genesis forum itself, or somehow modify the forum software to support that extra layer of forums. Neither option sounds too great.
So, if you have some good organizational change ideas, particularly for the development section, feel free to suggest them. Or perhaps changing the subtitle/description of existing forums to better match their content. (I don't think we really looked at this too much yet). Just keep in mind the no sub-sub-forum restriction. Remember that we can rename and add new forums if needed, as well as merge existing ones.
Irc Outage
Posted by BlackBox on May 24 2008, 02:42 PM GMT | Comments: 9
It has come to my attention that the IRC machine is down and looks like there may be a network problem or that it needs a physical reboot.
In the meantime, we have setup a temporary IRC server which may be accessed using the following command (in mIRC at least, probably others as well):
/server outpost2.net:6666
Or tell your IRC client to connect to server: outpost2.net port: 6666.
Since it is a backup IRC server, there will be no services available.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and hope that we can get the main IRC server up and running again soon.
-- BlackBox
Spring Cleaning
Posted by Mez on May 9 2008, 01:56 PM GMT | Comments: 0
Some of you may (or may not) have noticed that alot of posts have been moved into the Archive Forum (Now viewable by all).
These are: All posts that have not been replied to upto and including the 31st April 2007
In All forums except Projects, Programming.
And sub-forums: Novellas, Polls & OP2 strategy sub forum.
If you want to expand on a topic that is now in the Archive forum (and therefore read only) here is how:
Start a new topic in the relevant forum and link to the previous topic in the archive forum.
Edit: Update list of forums & added sub-forum list
Outpost Universe Summer Event
Posted by Sirbomber on May 5 2008, 08:22 PM GMT | Comments: 29
Hey everyone! A few of us have been planning a reunion! The OP2 Super Special Satisfactory Sapient Superior Sensationally Superlative Summer Shenanigan Smash! Yeah, we like the letter S. Live with it. 
Anyways... For those of you who don't know, a reunion is when we all get together and play OP2 nonstop for 3 days. A bunch of old members tend to come back and find time for a few games, too, so it's generally good times for all. The current plan is to have the reunion sometime in late July or early August. So, think of it as Summer Camp, except you actually enjoy the experience.
We'll probably stick with the old formula of releasing a new update to OP2 (1.3.5, and we have plenty of good stuff to give you this time!) and encouraging people to develop new content and whatnot. Myself, I'm working on a new techtree, if you didn't notice. So if you want to contribute, we welcome everything!
But I should mention, please, please, PLEASE don't rush any projects to meet the Reunion deadline. We prefer quality more than quantity. Bug test anything you produce before you submit it to be included in the next OP2 update.
I think that's all for now. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post here!
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