If not made apparently clear in the last couple of weeks, some of the devs on the team including myself have become in the eyes of some, somewhat petulant.
I am not saying this is correct though I understand the issue, mainly because I have made the conscious decision sometime ago to not entertain much of the people on this forum in debates of whether a certain thing should be included in the game or not.
I have also noticed some of my companions in the dev team have also begun acting in similar manners.
The causes of this may be multiple, one is the fact that for many of us our countrymen and in many cases friends and or those of loved ones are in harms way, be it for good or ill. Another is simply that we recently accomplished a pretty major threshold in development, and yet find that most of our time is in keeping people happy. Yet another reason is the sense that we have a duty to you.
The truth is in reality all of us are doing this during our free time, and often in our not so free time. Our social lives have suffered and often we have been fustigated pissed and disillusioned.
Our motivations for this are as diverse as our origins, for my part, I love the concept, I love the ideal, and I would love the sense of accomplishment.
Other then a few people who look at this as possible resume padding, none on the team realistically see this as something that will provide us any economic gains, in reality it is the opposite, we have lost sleep, I have lost weight (I am not as fit as I was when I started this) and I am sure at least 5 grey hairs are a result of this project.
The reason for this post is not sympathy or to have any sycophant like responses. It is simply to inform our ?fan base? that for some of us on the dev team (I speak only for myself but I assume others are in the same boat) there is a growing indignation towards some on this forum. As such, the perceived need to be polite and accommodating has left many of us. Is this to say that we will tell off anyone for anything, no, not likely. This is however the truth as to how we may react to stupid comments.
One thing that is regrettable about Links banishment is that he is not here to put some people in their place, the problem in reality with Link that he often was rude and out of place, but for one of the devs to ask someone to program their demands of how things should be done is entirely appropriate. Many of us on the dev team don?t put fixed demands on people, much less do we do it when we have not contributed anything to move things forward.
For those wishing to contribute, with programming or other skills such as creative writing and 3D modeling contact the appropriate people. If they do not respond, keep plugging and ask the rest of us to help, do some examples of work and e-mail us. If we still fail to respond, I can not say much other then we are busy. However if we say we can not use your skills at this moment, accept it. There are other similar projects out there and while I would hate to lose a good comrade moving this project forward, other projects help to motivate us and move us onward so you help us indirectly.
To summarize,
If you feel you can make demands on this team and not contribute you are wrong, if you just what to whine, gripe and moan about the direction of things in this project, I?d say you can kiss my, well I?ll maintain some decency and instead say we will most likely ignore you.
One of the great things about a non commercial entity that is not getting much economic support is for now we can be as blunt as we feel we need to be.
Edit was to remove bitch as it appears as peanut?those of you who know know, the others (the first peanut is an insulting slang word that in non slang refers to a female dog, I used it in the common vernacular as a substitute got nagging or complaining, it is now Gripe, and I corrected of to off.
