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[wMin17]

Dude, he said I could share them.  Read his posts before!

[thanoulas]

Sorry if I was unclear, you can share them with the people that I said that they could have them in a PM, my original rules still apply. Eternal fury and permanent destruction of your mac.
But, seriously, no harm done, so no worries. Please don't post them again though!
Cheers

[wMin17]

Sorry for the misconception!

[hmtinc]

Ok i finshed the letter . Although it needs editing. Feedback please

------ Letter Below -----------

June, ?? , 2012

To

Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022

Dear Hi - Rez Studios,

Your Tribes Ascend Game is a great achievement in Free to Play MMO FPS games. The games you have developed have gained 500,000 followers, Players , and fans. The reason for this letter is notify you about the currently active Tribes : Ascend Mac OSX Port , Currently a work in  progress. The Project aims to use the Wine Project (Open Source : LGPL) and configure it to run the games using various fixes and patches. The project has already received a large positive response from the community and we also have made a fair amount of progress on the port. Seeing this success , we would like you to consider a place in this project , since this game is property of your studio. The Mac gaming industry is increasing in population and demand for more stable games is increasing. Many developers have expanded their business into the mac industry using wine based port and have received tremendous success. This Port ( when complete ) will allow your game to be playable on the Mac osx Platform ( 10.6+) and will bring in new  users who can play the game. Currently we have been able to connect to hirez servers , download the game  and get to the login screen using the mac port. Although we need help with authenticating  the mac port so mac users my play ( since the game requires online access. To Hirez servers). We hope you consider this project as a possible future for the Tribes Ascend game and future hirez. games to come. If You are interested in this project please reply either to this email or on the Porting team Forums : http://portingteam.c..._120#entry83108

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Sincerely

The Tribes Ascend Porting Project and Its Contributors.

[Hrachya]

The address is suppose to be on top, below your own. The second thing is, in the first paragraph, you have to have at least 3 sentences on how our community, and you (the writer) like the company and their products. A bit of exaggeration won't be harmful, you're suppose to be kissing butt. Then, you address the issue, that the company doesn't support macs etc. The second paragraph is resolution. Thats where you write, that we (TPT) did so much to make the game work, and the only thing we need is their participation.

BTW This is how the ending should look like:

"Sincerely,

The Tribes Ascend Porting Project
The Tribes Ascend Porting Project"

[Hrachya]

This is what I made in half hour:

Spoiler

Portingteam – Tribes Ascend Porting Project

Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022


Dear Hi - Rez Studios,

The video games, and the progress You have made in such short time and such small amount of people is simply incredible! The games You developed have gained over half million of players, fans, and followers throughout the whole world... Including us. We, members of a Mac community – The Portingteam, admire the goals, and will power of Your company. Most importantly, we love the video games You have made, the thrill, the excitement and fun. However, we are a Mac community. Windows games, as you know, aren’t compatible with Macs. We have OpenGL, You have DirectX. We have Obj-C, You have C++. But we still are a community – a few people, can do magical things.

We already have a solution. Tribes Ascend is downloadable, updatable, and is up and running. Only problem we ran into is logging in. We ask for one thing – participation. If you help us, we can help you.

Sincerely,

The Portingteam
The Portingteam

See? A few "kiss-butt" sentences, the problem, and a new paragraph with the solution.

[BLACKNIGHT]

Hrachya, on 30 May 2012 - 03:40 AM, said:

This is what I made in half hour:

Spoiler

Portingteam – Tribes Ascend Porting Project

Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022


Dear Hi - Rez Studios,

The video games, and the progress You have made in such short time and such small amount of people is simply incredible! The games You developed have gained over half million of players, fans, and followers throughout the whole world... Including us. We, members of a Mac community – The Portingteam, admire the goals, and will power of Your company. Most importantly, we love the video games You have made, the thrill, the excitement and fun. However, we are a Mac community. Windows games, as you know, aren’t compatible with Macs. We have OpenGL, You have DirectX. We have Obj-C, You have C++. But we still are a community – a few people, can do magical things.

We already have a solution. Tribes Ascend is downloadable, updatable, and is up and running. Only problem we ran into is logging in. We ask for one thing – participation. If you help us, we can help you.

Sincerely,

The Portingteam
The Portingteam

See? A few "kiss-butt" sentences, the problem, and a new paragraph with the solution.

i Like it

[hmtinc]

Hrachya, on 30 May 2012 - 03:40 AM, said:

This is what I made in half hour:

Spoiler

Portingteam – Tribes Ascend Porting Project

Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022


Dear Hi - Rez Studios,

The video games, and the progress You have made in such short time and such small amount of people is simply incredible! The games You developed have gained over half million of players, fans, and followers throughout the whole world... Including us. We, members of a Mac community – The Portingteam, admire the goals, and will power of Your company. Most importantly, we love the video games You have made, the thrill, the excitement and fun. However, we are a Mac community. Windows games, as you know, aren’t compatible with Macs. We have OpenGL, You have DirectX. We have Obj-C, You have C++. But we still are a community – a few people, can do magical things.

We already have a solution. Tribes Ascend is downloadable, updatable, and is up and running. Only problem we ran into is logging in. We ask for one thing – participation. If you help us, we can help you.

Sincerely,

The Portingteam
The Portingteam

See? A few "kiss-butt" sentences, the problem, and a new paragraph with the solution.

Heres my edit to your post : Since your post was mostly "kiss-but" sentences
I added more info on wine and how other developers had success with wine ports etc .
This should be the final revision before i send the email out.
Should i send email out as Portingteamprojects@gmail.com or Tribesascendmac@gmail.com



Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022


Dear Hi - Rez Studios,

The video games, and the progress You have made in such short time and such small amount of people is simply incredible! The games You developed have gained over half million of players, fans, and followers throughout the whole world... Including us. We, members of a Mac community – The Portingteam, admire the goals, and will power of Your company. Most importantly, we love the video games You have made, the thrill, the excitement and fun. However, we are a Mac community. Windows games, as you know, aren’t compatible with Macs. We have OpenGL, You have DirectX. We have Obj-C, You have C++. But we still are a community – a few people, can do magical things.

The reason for this letter is notify you about the currently active Tribes : Ascend Mac OSX Port , Currently a work in  progress. The Project aims to use the Wine Project (Open Source : LGPL) and configure it to run the games using various fixes and patches. The project has already received a large positive response from the community and we also have made a fair amount of progress on the port. Seeing this success , we would like you to consider a place in this project , since this game is property of your studio. The Mac gaming industry is increasing in population and demand for more stable games is increasing. Many developers have expanded their business into the mac industry using wine based port and have received tremendous success. This Port ( when complete ) will allow your game to be playable on the Mac osx Platform ( 10.6+) and will bring in new  users who can play the game.

We already have a working port. Tribes Ascend is downloadable, updatable, and is up and running. Only problem we ran into is authenticating our copy with the servers. We ask for one thing – participation. If you help us, we can help you.

Sincerely,



Contributers of the Tribes Ascend Porting Project
Tribes ascend Porting Project
http://portingteam.c..._120#entry83108

[Hrachya]

Nice! The only thing is... At the end, you write it in handwriting, and then you print the same thing below. So for example:

Contributors of the Tribes Ascend Porting Project
Contributors of the Tribes Ascend Porting Project

[wMin17]

k, so are we going to send this in or not?

[Hrachya]

No man. We are making a letter, spending hours of work on it, breaking our backs, but we aren't sending it. We just did it for fun y'know.

[GameGuy]

^lol not really need

I hope they respond with a positive response as this is a great game and more people deserve to play it.

[Boulder_Avalanche]

I would add a small tidbit to the letter in the part about the growing Mac gaming industry  about major AAA title going native on the Mac  like Diablo 3, Deus Ex Human Revolution and others.

[cybershark]

Hrachya, on 30 May 2012 - 03:59 AM, said:

Nice! The only thing is... At the end, you write it in handwriting, and then you print the same thing below. So for example:

Contributors of the Tribes Ascend Porting Project
Contributors of the Tribes Ascend Porting Project

In e-mails you never post the name two times. This is only for letters. IN e-mails this is only different sexual orientation. And the other point, maybe it would be better if one guy f.e. thanoulas write them under his real name. He should tell them about porting team and our aim, but should use his real name, because this is an official writing.

[KGameLover1]

cybershark, on 30 May 2012 - 06:31 AM, said:

In e-mails you never post the name two times. This is only for letters. IN e-mails this is only different sexual orientation. And the other point, maybe it would be better if one guy f.e. thanoulas write them under his real name. He should tell them about porting team and our aim, but should use his real name, because this is an official writing.

dafuq


Also, I agree with the statement that someone else should write the letter. You guys have terrible grammar and spelling - no offense.

[Nytestryke24]

Spoiler

hmtinc, on 30 May 2012 - 03:51 AM, said:

Heres my edit to your post : Since your post was mostly "kiss-but" sentences
I added more info on wine and how other developers had success with wine ports etc .
This should be the final revision before i send the email out.
Should i send email out as Portingteamprojects@gmail.com or Tribesascendmac@gmail.com



Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022


Dear Hi - Rez Studios,

The video games, and the progress You have made in such short time and such small amount of people is simply incredible! The games You developed have gained over half million of players, fans, and followers throughout the whole world... Including us. We, members of a Mac community – The Portingteam, admire the goals, and will power of Your company. Most importantly, we love the video games You have made, the thrill, the excitement and fun. However, we are a Mac community. Windows games, as you know, aren’t compatible with Macs. We have OpenGL, You have DirectX. We have Obj-C, You have C++. But we still are a community – a few people, can do magical things.

The reason for this letter is notify you about the currently active Tribes : Ascend Mac OSX Port , Currently a work in  progress. The Project aims to use the Wine Project (Open Source : LGPL) and configure it to run the games using various fixes and patches. The project has already received a large positive response from the community and we also have made a fair amount of progress on the port. Seeing this success , we would like you to consider a place in this project , since this game is property of your studio. The Mac gaming industry is increasing in population and demand for more stable games is increasing. Many developers have expanded their business into the mac industry using wine based port and have received tremendous success. This Port ( when complete ) will allow your game to be playable on the Mac osx Platform ( 10.6+) and will bring in new  users who can play the game.

We already have a working port. Tribes Ascend is downloadable, updatable, and is up and running. Only problem we ran into is authenticating our copy with the servers. We ask for one thing – participation. If you help us, we can help you.

Sincerely,



Contributers of the Tribes Ascend Porting Project
Tribes ascend Porting Project
http://portingteam.c..._120#entry83108

This is a good letter, I would say, though there are a few issues I can see. Firstly, there are some inconsistencies in spacing (double spacing, you shouldn't space before a comma, nor after an open bracket/before a close bracket, for example) as well as capitalisation. Also, capitalising each You is incorrect. Finally, there is never a reason to use Comic Sans, especially not in a formal letter.
Here's a fixed version (I've also cleared up the image a little, the faux handwritten font is inappropriate)

Spoiler

Hi-Rez Studios
3750 Brookside Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022

Dear Hi-Rez Studios,
The video games and the progress you have made in such short time and such small amount of people is simply incredible! The games you developed have gained over half million of players, fans, and followers throughout the whole world... Including us. We, members of a Mac community, The Porting Team, admire the goals, and will power of your company. Most importantly, we love the video games you have made– the thrill, the excitement and fun. However, we are a Mac community. Windows games, as you know, aren’t compatible with Macs. We have OpenGL, you have DirectX. We have Obj-C, you have C++. However, we are still a community – a few dedicated people can do amazing things.
The reason for this letter is notify you about the active Tribes:Ascend Mac OSX Port, currently a work in progress. The Project aims to use the Wine Project (Open Source: LGPL) and configure it to run the games using various fixes and patches. The project has already received a large positive response from the community and we also have made a fair amount of progress on the port. Seeing this success, we would like you to consider a place in this project, since this game is property of your studio. The Mac gaming industry is increasing in population and demand for more stable games is increasing. Many developers have expanded their business into the mac industry using wine based port and have received tremendous success. This port (when complete) will allow your game to be playable on the Mac OSX Platform (10.6+) and will bring in new users who can play the game.
We already have a working port. Tribes Ascend is downloadable, updatable, and is up and running. The only problem still outstanding is authenticating our copy with the servers. We ask for one thing – participation. If you help us, we can help you. Please note those involved are doing this purely out of the love for the game and a desire to bring to as wide an audience as possible.
Sincerely,

Contributors of the Tribes:Ascend Porting Project

Tribes:Ascend Porting Project
http://portingteam.c..._120#entry83108

[thanoulas]

Allow me to say a couple of things:
First of all, the game cannot reach the login screens. This involves reversing and disabling of the auth process, which doesn't fully work. We need proper authentication, as their own launcher does to run the game and stay connected to the servers.

Second, you don't have the reason why we need to develop a custom launcher instead of using their own in wine. This, for anyone that doesn't know, is because it's written in .NET and remoting objects don't work in wine. So I've developed the launcher to work with Mono instead, but there's only so much of the source code I can see in their own launcher. The project still makes use of their own PatcherEngine, PatcherMisc, PatcherData and HirezUtils dlls (only public objects).

Third and most important, there's no need to reveal my real name to them. I bet they're smart enough to use google to find it, it shouldn't be that difficult if they really want it. We send this message as a group of people - a community that requires immediate attention to be able to use their product. We are their potential customers and that should be interesting enough for them.

[cybershark]

KGameLover1, on 30 May 2012 - 02:18 PM, said:

dafuq


Also, I agree with the statement that someone else should write the letter. You guys have terrible grammar and spelling - no offense.

you remember the curse thread? i wrote another word for homosexual XD

[hmtinc]

Ok I emailed the letter
I made the changes people suggested , corrected Grammer, and added the part about how we are using a custom launcher.
If we get a reply I will post it here.

If you are wondering what email I sent it under.
I sent the email under this email address
Portingteamprojects@gmail.com

[cybershark]

hmtinc, on 30 May 2012 - 09:22 PM, said:

Ok I emailed the letter
I made the changes people suggested , corrected Grammer, and added the part about how we are using a custom launcher.
If we get a reply I will post it here.

If you are wondering what email I sent it under.
I sent the email under this email address
Portingteamprojects@gmail.com

Good luck Hopefully they will respond in a positive way

[Nytestryke24]

hmtinc, on 30 May 2012 - 09:22 PM, said:

Ok I emailed the letter
I made the changes people suggested , corrected Grammer, and added the part about how we are using a custom launcher.
If we get a reply I will post it here.

If you are wondering what email I sent it under.
I sent the email under this email address
Portingteamprojects@gmail.com

Could you show us what you emailed, just for future reference? Thanks Also thanks for sending it. Let's see what happens.

[Hrachya]

KGameLover1, on 30 May 2012 - 02:18 PM, said:

You guys have terrible grammar and spelling - no offense.

I'm learning English, only for 2 years. No sh!t I have bad grammer... Meany.

[Michalk]

Emailed individually, and got a scripted message that said that they don't plan on porting to mac.

Group emails though? Might work.

[KGameLover1]

Hrachya, on 30 May 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

I'm learning English, only for 2 years. No sh!t I have bad grammer... Meany.

I wasn't talking about you

[hmtinc]

Michalk, on 31 May 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

Emailed individually, and got a scripted message that said that they don't plan on porting to mac.

Group emails though? Might work.

what! so you are saying you emailed it with out the consent of the project members
If you we spam them , they won't reply . It will just make a bad impression on the project .
I emailed it to their business and tribes info department and am still awaiting a reply .

[Hrachya]

KGameLover1, on 31 May 2012 - 08:19 PM, said:

I wasn't talking about you

You said "You guys"

[cluthz]

He was talking about:

[KGameLover1]

That movie sucked

[Tv_Dinnah]

KGameLover1, on 01 June 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

That movie sucked

Agree'd

[MMM103]

At least it has an awesome title.