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Title: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Kazan on May 08, 2007, 12:12:33 pm
Sorry for posting in this forum, but as you can see from my avatar list I cannot post it in games and gaming.

I have decided to bring back the ferrium project, but starting pretty much from scratch again because the target game type is different.  I want to make a game like Privateer/Elite - open ended space flight combat sim, with optional storyline(s).  A richer universe however - easier to add to, more space to grow into (remember my Universe Map (4.7meg jpeg) (http://ferrium.org/game_media/Universe_Map.jpg)).   I have this vision for the universe just screaming to get out of my head and I cannot stand it anymore :D I must make it a reality.

A more detailed post is available on the Ferrium Forums (http://ferrium.org/phpBB2/)
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Vretsu on May 08, 2007, 05:34:25 pm
Last time you ignored your team and played Everquest while the project descended into chaos. And if I remember correctly, the most that got done, after four years, was Raa coding a smilie into the graphics "engine." 

Furthermore, an Open Source project should not be based on any one self-described auteur's vision, while everyone else simply slaves away trying haphazardly to achieve it. That might work in cubicle-land for EA, but not on the internet.
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Kazan on May 08, 2007, 05:47:02 pm
thank you for the nice pemissistic flame that should have been kept to yourself. 

Actually a lot more than that got done in it, and I just salvaged most of the code from it for use in the new one.  About the only code I discarded was the GFX engine code which was capable of D3D and OGL, we're going straight OGL on this one.
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Mathwiz6 on May 08, 2007, 07:02:11 pm
Hi Kaz  :)
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 08, 2007, 07:19:21 pm
Any chance of PCS2 coming back while we're at it?
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Kazan on May 08, 2007, 07:41:27 pm
 :wtf:  :lol: go look at the official feature request thread in modding.. i posted two PCS2 builds yesterday! :D
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Unknown Target on May 08, 2007, 08:12:25 pm
$20 says this'll get driven into the ground by your usual attitude, Kaz.
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Kazan on May 08, 2007, 08:50:03 pm
that was less offensive before you edited it, there is no need for that kind of behavior UT
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Polpolion on May 08, 2007, 08:58:52 pm
who says he was trying to make it less offensive? :nervous:


*runs
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Unknown Target on May 08, 2007, 09:23:58 pm
that was less offensive before you edited it, there is no need for that kind of behavior UT

I wasn't trying to make it less offensive.
EDIT: Anyway, I'm done with the thread. I just wanted to post my "reservations" about the completion of this project.
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Kazan on May 08, 2007, 09:35:45 pm
there is a difference between "Reservations" and "insults". 
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: IceFire on May 08, 2007, 10:22:54 pm
By post three this thread has already gone in to flamebait land.  Make it go somewhere else or lock.
Title: Re: (Semi-OffTopic) An Announcement
Post by: Kazan on May 08, 2007, 10:24:41 pm
I've posted a WIP of the "initial loading screen" over on the official forum