[Kazan]

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)).   I have this vision for the universe just screaming to get out of my head and I cannot stand it anymore I must make it a reality.

A more detailed post is available on the Ferrium Forums

[Vretsu]

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.

[Kazan]

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.

[Mathwiz6]

Hi Kaz 

[NGTM-1R]

Any chance of PCS2 coming back while we're at it?

[Kazan]

   go look at the official feature request thread in modding.. i posted two PCS2 builds yesterday!

[Unknown Target]

$20 says this'll get driven into the ground by your usual attitude, Kaz.

[Kazan]

that was less offensive before you edited it, there is no need for that kind of behavior UT

[Polpolion]

who says he was trying to make it less offensive?


*runs

[Unknown Target]

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.

[Kazan]

there is a difference between "Reservations" and "insults". 

[IceFire]

By post three this thread has already gone in to flamebait land.  Make it go somewhere else or lock.

[Kazan]

I've posted a WIP of the "initial loading screen" over on the official forum