Rockstone wrote:0.4 is our next make or break point as was said before. Well, I think we are broken. Look, no progress in 6 months, and no combat development since 0.3 was released. An update would be nice, I don't want to see this game die.
Note, the last release was six months ago, not a month ago!
Have you noticed that recently there have been many design discussions on the game design section of this forum, and as a result of those discussions updates have been made to the 0.4 design pad:
http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/0.4_Design_Pad
It is also said in the programming work page that tzlaine is making the necessary preparations for the 0.4 3D combat engine, so some progress is probably being made in the programming part of the project as well.
I am also thinking that maybe we can lure some interested new programmers in, at least to do some minor things, when/if the 0.4 programming work opens up. Although I don`t think my previous advertisement campaign on some Finnish sites produced many new active members.
And what comes to the monthly releases, I think the most important thing is to keep the programmers and other people who have the necessary skills to really forward the project interested. Now I see no need to make monthly releases if it puts too much pressure on the development team, since like Zanzibar said no one is getting paid for doing this and so it is only the motivation of the participants that keeps this project alive.
I must also confess that when I first came here, a little over a year ago, I made fancy calculations and believed that by this time, based on the previous progress, we would be at least designing version 0.5. Now as we can clearly see that didn’t happen. However recently Freeorion has been in its most active stage, since I arrived to this forum, and at least I am quite excited about that.
No, there have been 5 releases since December '06.
