Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:46 am
SarcasmSushi wrote:QUOTE (Sushi @ Jun 18 2009, 11:49 AM) dedicated dev team
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:49 am
Be the solution or stfuSharpshooter wrote:QUOTE (Sharpshooter @ Jun 20 2009, 07:46 PM) Sarcasm
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:01 am
I'm Cheezits and I approve this message.MrChaos wrote:QUOTE (MrChaos @ Jun 20 2009, 08:49 PM) Be the solution or stfu
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:08 am
I dunno about other devs but as far as I'm concerned I've stopped developing because I had no feedback / testing from the community, only the usual whining/drama.
Last year, I spent so many hours developing the 'alliance' system. Everyone seemed happy about this but no one helped to test when I asked.
I felt that my free / spare time given to this game was actually wasted more than anything else.
More recently, TE proposed me to take over the dev team as the new lead dev (ZL) and this was one of the reasons for which I declined the offer, at least for now.
Other reason was because I strongly disagree on other subjects relative to how this community is handled (the existence of 'hiders' and the baning/booting/enforcement system for instance). and another reason was that I would have had to ban 2 people from the current dev team.
so whatever, given all this, I really don't know if this game can survive another 10 years or not. But who knows what can happen...
Last year, I spent so many hours developing the 'alliance' system. Everyone seemed happy about this but no one helped to test when I asked.
I felt that my free / spare time given to this game was actually wasted more than anything else.
More recently, TE proposed me to take over the dev team as the new lead dev (ZL) and this was one of the reasons for which I declined the offer, at least for now.
Other reason was because I strongly disagree on other subjects relative to how this community is handled (the existence of 'hiders' and the baning/booting/enforcement system for instance). and another reason was that I would have had to ban 2 people from the current dev team.
so whatever, given all this, I really don't know if this game can survive another 10 years or not. But who knows what can happen...
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:36 am
Dear CountKGJV wrote:QUOTE (KGJV @ Jun 20 2009, 09:08 PM) I dunno about other devs but as far as I'm concerned I've stopped developing because I had no feedback / testing from the community, only the usual whining/drama.
Last year, I spent so many hours developing the 'alliance' system. Everyone seemed happy about this but no one helped to test when I asked.
I felt that my free / spare time given to this game was actually wasted more than anything else.
More recently, TE proposed me to take over the dev team as the new lead dev (ZL) and this was one of the reasons for which I declined the offer, at least for now.
Other reason was because I strongly disagree on other subjects relative to how this community is handled (the existence of 'hiders' and the baning/booting/enforcement system for instance). and another reason was that I would have had to ban 2 people from the current dev team.
so whatever, given all this, I really don't know if this game can survive another 10 years or not. But who knows what can happen...
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responsePosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:55 am
Imago's been very active in the last few days in #freeallegiance (KGJV wrote:QUOTE (KGJV @ Jun 21 2009, 04:08 AM) I dunno about other devs but as far as I'm concerned I've stopped developing because I had no feedback / testing from the community, only the usual whining/drama.
) to get FAZ5Contrib to build (currently builds fine in VS05, VS08 and VS10, AFAIK) and he found some help to iron out a couple new bugs in the DX code. As far as I can see, he's working hard to bring FAZ Weds back 
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:41 am
we will add a PPR aka Pay-per-rant - mode to the forum. 1€ per rant ($ will loose its value even more). That money will bring us in the position to get peter molineux as main development leader and a team of full payed devs. Sadly booting will be replaced by the slap-stroke system from B&W... nevertheless there will ne less bugs and a better graphics...
This will be the new F3-view.
On this picture you can see a Bios Expansion Complex with a zebra??
This will be the new F3-view.
On this picture you can see a Bios Expansion Complex with a zebra??
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:10 pm
In a few years we'll probably have to start working on an Allegiance II.
Basically rewriting the game for modern hardware. Not an impossible task, given the talent and dedication of our player pool. But in the short term we have big problems. I wish I was a programmer so I could help fix the current graphics card issues
Basically rewriting the game for modern hardware. Not an impossible task, given the talent and dedication of our player pool. But in the short term we have big problems. I wish I was a programmer so I could help fix the current graphics card issues
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:57 pm
KGJV, sounds like we need a dedicated test team as well as dev, or part of dev so that the dev continues to progress.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:33 pm
There's no need for a "dedicated team of testers", we just need to bring FAZ Weds back.
(If that means hacking up a few scripts in Python to help with registry I should be able to help, it shouldn't be rocket science. )
(If that means hacking up a few scripts in Python to help with registry I should be able to help, it shouldn't be rocket science.
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