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Originally Posted by Deathblow
Warning: Venting Frustation
How come one modding team working in their spare time, has proven more effective in fixing many of the bugs, shortcomings, and wishlist of the community than the actual developers whose real job is to do so.... what kindof sad sense does that make. And to top it off, the people that are supposed to be improving the product, but moving at a rate that would have me an old man before things are actually accomplished, are forbidding those that could probably do the job as quickly and nimbly from doing so...  Argh! Such as ball of frustration. |
Actually, there is an informal division of labor involved. Sonalysts works on the basic theoretical models. Modders then make the best game possible out of each model.
This is good. The modders don't have the expertise to play around with the basic models (like the sonar propagation models) well. Sonalysts is both bound by secrecy regs (which bans them from confirming or denying even stuff that's already floating around outside) and they aren't
players, so they don't know what we really want. So, why not split up the effort?
Their job is arguably harder than ours and thus takes longer. We play with text files - they play with the code itself, and to make it possible for us to modify the game using text files, the game has to include extra code for interpreting the text and a capacity for error correction to avoid the whole game crashing when one of the modders types an additional space or anything non-standard when entering his new doctrine.