I'm with ya! Just my attempt to get the thread back on track with cat pic....I mean patch discussion.

That particular one looks like a cat I had as a kid. Her litter mates were all killed by a pack of dogs. She was the only suvivor. My brother brought her home and we nursed her to health. She had her tail bitten in half. We named here Little Orphan Annie. Just Annie for short. Later on she decided to get warm by climbing up under a car hood and sitting the engine. Needless to say the owner showed up and started the motor not knowing she was under the hood. She made it all the way to the train station under the hood. The car owner heard her cries and opened the hood to find her there in a bloody mess. She had her ID tag on and the car owner called us. Anyway, after all this was said and done, she had 101 stitches down her back. One ear was completely cut off and she lost some fur on her hindquarters that never grew back. Anyway, that picture looks exactly like Annie. So after all that good stuff, one day she decides to break a leg. Cool cast that we all signed. She lived until she was 19 years old. Talk about nine lives bro. :rock:

Weeeee ! Thats either a big tennis ball or a tiney dog.

Maybe it needs a patch to adjust the scale :hmm:

Once the patch is released, we're looking for a 'snatch squad' to go and get Duci and lock him in a room with a computer and a scruffy cat. He stays there until TM is updated to be compatible with the new patch.

He can have food, water, and a hooker once a week. Send John Channing your names and he'll organize the snatch.

Ok so John Channing is organizing the hooker, who's organizing the kidnapping? :p

Who said anything about kidnapping ?

With Ninja Channing on the case, Duci won't know what hit him. The snatch squad mustn't bring beer or pizza though or Ninja Channing might get distracted.

Yeah well, since there isn't, nor there ever will be another patch, i have nothing to worry about.

Head in the sand syndrome... :-?

No, just sarchasm.

I have thought ahead about making TM 1.4 compatible, should it occur, and i got an idea, but im not sure if it's feasible, or if i want to follow through with it or not. The idea involves, umm...... whats the word....

Oh yes... delegation.

Happily for me, there is no patch. Pure fancy.

:D

tater

^ what he said!


But if pigs should fly, and hell freeze over, i have an idea (im not saying im doing this) that is a little unorthodoxed if one was to look at the history of modpackages on Subsim.


The idea is simply to present TM as a community project. Infact, in the readme, it should say, TM, by (insert long list of names here). Then presented as community project, open a subforum in the mod forum specifically for work on TM.Right now im of the thought that only contributing modders should be allowed to post there to keep the forum on topic, but have the forum totally transparent for all to see, with a sticky post somewhere that anybody should be able to post to, to provide constructive feedback. Now there are infact, hidden forums on Subsim that are speicific for "teams" of modders like Sh3's GWX. None of it is transparent to subsim users.. Tmaru's however, should be. Any technical discussions or brainstorming going on, people should be able to see those. Everyones goal should be to better the game we call Sh4, so i see no reason why knowledge should be kept secret.

Now, note i said, "contributing modders" as opposed to "team members". Granted there is alot of teamwork involved, but i feel one should feel free to walk away from the project at anytime. This is a game, not a real life commitment. Nobody should be admonished for having RL take priority over the project (been there, done that, its BS).

Of course, and unfortunatly there has to be a "publisher", and i know im pretty much nominated. Another unfortuante aspect of this is that the "publisher" has to make final decisions on the direction of the mod. So this person may say something like, "I like this part, but not this part, and this might need more work". Now it doesnt have to be me, id be more then happy to step aside from that position. Infact id much rather focus on one little thing, and not one BIG thing.

By doing it this way, you capitalize on indiviual modders strengths, as all modders are really good at something, but not other things. Nobody takes on too large of a chunk of the work, so hopefully nobody gets burnt out, efforts are coordinated, and the game prospers. Theres only one catch.... when something in the mod doesnt work right, its you the modder they scream at, and that can get unfun, pretty fast. So if you worked on it, it sets you up as a target for questioning as adhoc tech support.


Now all of this is assuming

a.) i feel up to this, and have the time
b.) Subsim supports it
c.) Marka_Ragnos agrees to continue to host the mod for D/L
d.) if certain modders are intrested. ( i have a mental list, that im not sharing right now :D )

Oh Tater, as brilliant as some of your mods are......surely you must know there is a patch coming!

Ahhhhhh....this list would indicate you are turning to the darkside and accepting the fact that a patch is forthcoming. The force is strong with this one Oldy One Moldy.....

I think its a very cute teeny weeny ickle doggy......teehee just look at him trying to balance on the tennis ball!!! :ping:



Sorry don't know where that came from :roll: :o