The main problem is, is that I'm afraid SHIV will be abandoned before all of the endemic bugs are knocked out. The dev team (who we shouldn't really blame for this mess) will be moved on to something else (a la SHIII) and SHIV will just die quietly as one of the "near misses". People will mod the crap out of it, but it will probably ever meet the standard that some of the optimistic people out there believe, because some of the functionality problems are absolutely chronic.
I personally think the source code should be handed over to somebody else, if the team is moved away, there are probably enough people on this very forum that could finish the job properly, as they won't be under the pressure that UBI has obviously placed the dev team under.
Tony
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