Jurikles
Sergeant
Hi E., hi guys,
quite some interesting stuff was going on here...finally.
Even if I wasnt the most active one here on the forums, some might remember me being here since the 0.96 release.
Actually, I registered on this forum only because of hegemony, and never strayed far from this section.
I even contributed some armour models a long time ago. I don't know if they will be used, maybe Ealabor has exchanged them by better quality ones, but no matter.
I don't really know why you locked the post with you 2 ranting - because once public, such a topic should be accessible to the public.
Look...while releasing content without permission or further enquiry was no doubt condemnable, AlphaDelta has made some interesting point.
The mod is taking long...really long by now.
Once there was a progress list. However this was barely readable, incomplete and featured no dates so any progress was hard to track.
And really, a long long time nothing happened even in that post.
However, it was a very long time "nearly" completed with only a few points yet missing - I remember a friend asking me "So, when will hegemony be released" over a year ago, and I answered "Well it cant be too long, seeing as theres not much left to do", referring to the progress list.
Its a wonder that I still have this subforum in my main browser favourites.
Rarely is there an interesting update here on the forums.
One of the possible conclusions is that work on the mod has come to a standstill - or, like AD said, the scope of the mod is way too overambiguous.
Also, there is to say that M&B moves on regularly. the second addon has come out by now. I imagine you have more porting to do from one patch to another than you can spend time on actually working on the mod.
Regularly new features are implemented into M&B, wich you need to prepare the mod for also.
What I'm trying to say is, I feel M&B moves on without you. Faster, you can't seem to keep up. Of course I have no idea whats really going on behind the locked bars of your developer circle.
But after such long years of waiting, it is hard not to start imagining the weirdest stuff of what could be going on -
and most importantly, I am loosing my interest by all the waiting. Not to mention that each day the graphical content outdates even more, which is not so bad since we (M&B players) are no gfx whores, but its still another little issue. Judging from the activity on this subforum and comparing it with the past, I think I might not be the only one slowly losing interest.
Also, by somewhat (maybe even fake) involving the community in development by releasing techdemos, alpha and betas etc., you keep people at bay.
Many people would like to contribute by testing for example and would be proud when the 1.0 is released, "look I helped testing this mod and followed its dev for like 3 years, aint that cool?"
Of course I understand your more professional approach to the dev of this mod, but speaking quite frankly, your PR really sucks.
Theres what, mainly other devs on this board left, and some very patient whiteknights only logging on this forum to tell people that ask for a release that they should wait, because it is so right and so cool to sound like a professional. "When it's done" being that years old everybody's favourite quote.
And now, while I was never thinking it could take this long for the mod to be release, you finally announce a change of mind, wanting to release part-mods.
Very nice PR idea, but really...where the hell is it? Nothing ever really happens here.
I hope I dont sound too aggressive, I dont want to rant around or something, rather have a more polite approach to the subject.
I know that nobody can demand anything from you, its free and all that good jazz, I know I know.
But that just doesnt nullify the points made. It just silences anyone asking whats going on.
Greetings
quite some interesting stuff was going on here...finally.
Even if I wasnt the most active one here on the forums, some might remember me being here since the 0.96 release.
Actually, I registered on this forum only because of hegemony, and never strayed far from this section.
I even contributed some armour models a long time ago. I don't know if they will be used, maybe Ealabor has exchanged them by better quality ones, but no matter.
I don't really know why you locked the post with you 2 ranting - because once public, such a topic should be accessible to the public.
Look...while releasing content without permission or further enquiry was no doubt condemnable, AlphaDelta has made some interesting point.
The mod is taking long...really long by now.
Once there was a progress list. However this was barely readable, incomplete and featured no dates so any progress was hard to track.
And really, a long long time nothing happened even in that post.
However, it was a very long time "nearly" completed with only a few points yet missing - I remember a friend asking me "So, when will hegemony be released" over a year ago, and I answered "Well it cant be too long, seeing as theres not much left to do", referring to the progress list.
Its a wonder that I still have this subforum in my main browser favourites.
Rarely is there an interesting update here on the forums.
One of the possible conclusions is that work on the mod has come to a standstill - or, like AD said, the scope of the mod is way too overambiguous.
Also, there is to say that M&B moves on regularly. the second addon has come out by now. I imagine you have more porting to do from one patch to another than you can spend time on actually working on the mod.
Regularly new features are implemented into M&B, wich you need to prepare the mod for also.
What I'm trying to say is, I feel M&B moves on without you. Faster, you can't seem to keep up. Of course I have no idea whats really going on behind the locked bars of your developer circle.
But after such long years of waiting, it is hard not to start imagining the weirdest stuff of what could be going on -
and most importantly, I am loosing my interest by all the waiting. Not to mention that each day the graphical content outdates even more, which is not so bad since we (M&B players) are no gfx whores, but its still another little issue. Judging from the activity on this subforum and comparing it with the past, I think I might not be the only one slowly losing interest.
Also, by somewhat (maybe even fake) involving the community in development by releasing techdemos, alpha and betas etc., you keep people at bay.
Many people would like to contribute by testing for example and would be proud when the 1.0 is released, "look I helped testing this mod and followed its dev for like 3 years, aint that cool?"
Of course I understand your more professional approach to the dev of this mod, but speaking quite frankly, your PR really sucks.
Theres what, mainly other devs on this board left, and some very patient whiteknights only logging on this forum to tell people that ask for a release that they should wait, because it is so right and so cool to sound like a professional. "When it's done" being that years old everybody's favourite quote.
And now, while I was never thinking it could take this long for the mod to be release, you finally announce a change of mind, wanting to release part-mods.
Very nice PR idea, but really...where the hell is it? Nothing ever really happens here.
I hope I dont sound too aggressive, I dont want to rant around or something, rather have a more polite approach to the subject.
I know that nobody can demand anything from you, its free and all that good jazz, I know I know.
But that just doesnt nullify the points made. It just silences anyone asking whats going on.
Greetings
), and stayed to check on it's progress, I'm afraid I must agree with the sentiments of Jurikles, no offense to you, Ealabor.
