Hi there, I just stopped by after 5 years absence.
I honestly expected my account to be deleted but it is still here.
I came back mainly because NexusMods pinged me saying my mod has many downloads due to the steam sale on M&B Warband. I thought, hmmm its not dead? That's news.
I spent the last 5 years working minimum wage at a call center but learned to be a humbler and nicer person.
As my daughter now has her first laptop I wanted to set her up with a game she could take a personal interest in, so I spent 8 days writing a player handbook in pictures. I also found I forgot how to play the mod, how to post here,
I should mention, not so much for sympathy but in passing, I have a really hard time remembering
anything. I even forgot my daughter's name recently. I did manage to get early retirement and in Bulgaria my really low retirement pension from USA is actually exactly middle class salary here, almost to the penny what I received working 50 hour work weeks at the call center. So now I can tweak this 'dead mod', if I want to. I expect my 63rd birthday in about a month. I no longer desire or need support, but I feel like the mod as it was left is like a still born child, and to me it had a life of its own.
Something I DO want to do is release the full source for personal use - not so much OSP as more of an opportunity to educate and for tweaking for personal use. I even made a study comparing Native source to Guspav's August 2017 source to the last stable source I could find on both of my development PCs (v158 a1). I should have Guspav's permission to keep it cleanest.
I had a real meltdown and can well understand why I was pretty much tarred and feathered by some in the community.
I reckon, with source code anyone that felt I was not responsive can somewhat casually tweak it their way. Or maybe not. It is a pretty large project, and I think it is a little more complex than other mods, BUT I remain optimistic the source might be useful anyway.
I was hoping Guspav would come back and continue the mod while I was away, as my complete absence would have been the perfect vacuum. But it does look completely quiet here. I can't guarantee I will be able/willing to resume a post of top egotist / maniac-in-chief, but the mod never really needed that. Maybe if it was a little more open, a quieter gentler presence could steer the ship.
That's all the news I have. Sorry once again for my history here.
GS Sofia Bulgaria