[WIP] TMO: Nine Delta Two

[Ducimus]

I don't have it timed exactly, but right now i have the IXD2 crash diving while cruising on the surface at 10 kts, to reaching periscope depth, in about 45 to 60 seconds or so. It's somewhere in that range. I haven't fine tuned it yet.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I don't have it timed exactly, but right now i have the IXD2 crash diving while cruising on the surface at 10 kts, to reaching periscope depth, in about 45 to 60 seconds or so. It's somewhere in that range. I haven't fine tuned it yet.

Now that sounds close to realistic!

[Ducimus]

I'm gonna whine a little bit.

S'cuse me while i bust out the violin.


I'm starting to wonder what possessed me to take on this project. I've been putting in 5 to 6 hours a day on this mod for the last 3 weeks. This is in addition to my daily commute, work, and home life. Somehow i've been managing to squeeze in sleep in that routine.

I can't keep this up. My options are:

a.) to scale back the project for the first release by omitting sea trials and the 10th flotilla and doing them later. ( This allows me to put off doing alot of axis harbor traffic and mission scripting. The focus on the first release then becomes entirely on the 12th flotilla patrols in south Atlantic, and monsun patrols in the indian ocean, which is mostly done. Thank you lurker! )

b.) Taking a break for a week or three. (trouble is i feel rushed, and i want to hammer this out while the iron is hot)

c.) Get help to complete items mentioned in option A.


Honestly i'm leaning on A. I'm feeling like i got way too ambitious for the first release. The whole scope of what i've been envisioning is way too much for one modder to handle in any reasonable length of time.

[lurker_hlb3]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I'm gonna whine a little bit.

S'cuse me while i bust out the violin.


I'm starting to wonder what possessed me to take on this project. I've been putting in 5 to 6 hours a day on this mod for the last 3 weeks. This is in addition to my daily commute, work, and home life. Somehow i've been managing to squeeze in sleep in that routine.

I can't keep this up. My options are:

a.) to scale back the project for the first release by omitting sea trials and the 10th flotilla and doing them later. ( This allows me to put off doing alot of axis harbor traffic and mission scripting. The focus on the first release then becomes entirely on the 12th flotilla patrols in south Atlantic, and monsun patrols in the indian ocean, which is mostly done. Thank you lurker! )

b.) Taking a break for a week or three. (trouble is i feel rushed, and i want to hammer this out while the iron is hot)

c.) Get help to complete items mentioned in option A.


Honestly i'm leaning on A. I'm feeling like i got way too ambitious for the first release. The whole scope of what i've been envisioning is way too much for one modder to handle in any reasonable length of time.

My recommendation is "take your time" and build your mod to "your" schedule and "not" to what others appear to be trying to "demand" you do. Remember your "NOT" these peoples "slave".

[ivank]

Originally Posted by lurker_hlb3

My recommendation is "take your time" and build your mod to "your" schedule and "not" to what others appear to be trying to "demand" you do. Remember your "NOT" these peoples "slave".

greatest advice ever

[Nisgeis]

Scale it back, staged releases and enjoy it. Don't burn out! That's no fun. Although I do understand the desire to release it in a certain state, it's better to release it in small incremental bites, than one big wadge of a mod.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by lurker_hlb3

My recommendation is "take your time" and build your mod to "your" schedule and "not" to what others appear to be trying to "demand" you do. Remember your "NOT" these peoples "slave".

Thanks lurker. You know, i lose site of why one mods. At first I mod because i enjoy it. Which later becomes, "because i said i would do it", later it becomes work..... and sometime after that my fangs come out.

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Scale it back, staged releases and enjoy it. Don't burn out! That's no fun. Although I do understand the desire to release it in a certain state, it's better to release it in small incremental bites, than one big wadge of a mod.

Yeah i think i'm going to where the campaign is concerned. That stuff burns me out faster then a quick match fuse. The good thing is i planned ahead when i laid some stuff out, leaving things open ended for later.

On a side note, working on this mod, ive realized that i've learned a few things from working on TMO. In some respects this mod will be better then TMO when im done with it.

[Reece]

Sometimes it is better to mod "behind closed doors" that way there is no expectations and can work at your own pace/pleasure, by all means don't rush, SH4 is not going anywhere. But really I don't see anyone pressuring you, most are just keenly interested and excited! Well we all know what happened when UBI rushed - SH5!!