Actually silly comments do not really impede our progress.
Progress is limited with the free time moders can and are willing to dedicate to modding.
Like I said a year ago...we could release back then already. But with loads of **** not finished and with vanilla gameplay. Since we want TLD to be different there is a lot of additional work involved.
All our scenes are unique. Lots and lots of custom buildings. We have replaced practically every vanilla item with our own. Armours, weapons, horses. All cultures look and feel unique. Even town walkers are unique to factions. The map is huge. Map icons are unique too. We also woried about framerate and playability, so we're making lods for items, we remapped tons of items for optimal texture sheet use, reworked random generated scenes, tons of optimisations, etc, etc. And then there's code which is meant to make playing TLD an immersive Tolkien world experience.
And all this done by a handful of people who do have lives, jobs, partners, etc.
So...we could release as is, we could give up and forget about it, or we can keep putting the puzzle together, bit by bit. And when it's functionable it'll be released.
Thank you for your patience.