Project: Flashpoint '07 Initiated

During the second half of the summer of '06 Project: Flashpoint was launched. The project was created in response to the large amount of criticism that CS-players had recieved during the past years by other gamers who percieved them as immature, impatient, cheat-prone and childish. By recruiting CS-players from various communities and training them in the extremely demanding simulation game Operation Flashpoint (OFP) created by Bohemia Interactive Studios, dmakatra along with the assistance of several other OFP-Vets tried to prove that the CS-community was not full of idiots.

The result and conclusion drawn from the project was that while the CS-community is indeed packed with hordes of immature, impatient, cheat-prone and childish gamers there are plenty of mature and responsible people as well - they have just not discovered that layer of their mindset. The cadets were trained in the arts of patience, co-operation, communication and leadership. Out of the tens of people recruited (most of them being replacements to the original ten), only five remained when the smoke cleared and came out as fully-fledged Flashpoint-grunts.

The original blog for Project: Flashpoint is still up and can be found here:

http://project-flashpoint.blogspot.com

Now, nearly a year after the completion of the original, Project: Flashpoint '07 is launched. The reason has changed, but the principal stays the same - to teach people not only how to play the game Operation Flashpoint, but also learn how to co-operate, communicate and command your fellow project-members. This time Project: Flashpoint takes on a larger scale. Everyone is welcome, as long as s/he has an open mind, a microphone, decent knowledge in English (there is a Swedish platoon, but communication between the platoons are of course in English) and a decent computer and connection. The game itself is supplied by the project, unless you already own it. Skill, interest and maturity is not a requirement. Quite the contrary, Project: Flashpoint '07 is launched to show gamers of all tastes that you don't have to play the games that EA pumps out every year. Games that are basically the same but in a different package. Project: Flashpoint '07 will try to show gamers that it isn't big explosions, fast-paced action and pretty graphics that makes a game good - it's experiences, comradery with the man next to you, responsibility and the feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself.

Interested in joining? You can either join now and be with us during the start (planned launch of project is Mid-June 2007) or hop in during the project. Please send a mail to dmakatra@hotmail.com including the following information:
- Nickname
- Age
- Have you played Operation Flashpoint before, and, if so, to which extent? Do you own the game?
- What other games have you played a lot? What types of games do you prefer?
- Connection
- Location
- How much time can you spend on Project: Flashpoint '07?
- Why do you want to join Project: Flashpoint '07?

OFP-Veterans are not only welcomed but also recommended to join as the training which you are put through in Project: Flashpoint '07 is similiar to the training that serious co-op clans engages in. Due to this you will probably learn to appriciate the game a lot more. However, we can't allow everyone to join due to server strains. Therefore people oblivious to Flashpoint are prioritized.