Renegade
03.03.2011, 01:30:24
The problem with that is currency and interest. (No, I'm not talking finances.)
If we only release yearly, new features, and, more importantly, bugfixes are only released once a year.
That on itself is undesirable, but a consequence of that would be that people simply lose interest in Ares - why follow Ares if LH_Mouse's patch releases features every month?
Don't get me wrong, I don't see us in competition with LH_M or anything similar to that, it's just a question of resources: There's only a limited "supply" of modders in the community, and if everyone is using LH_M's patch, the interest in Ares will be low.
...and that returns us to the question that originally started this: Why do Ares if nobody cares?
There's no point in people switching to Ares if Ares is dead, and there's no point in keeping Ares alive if no one wants to switch to it.
There has to be a minimum momentum, a critical mass of modders interested in Ares for it to be worth the effort.
A complete, functional ACSC would prove there is such a critical mass; not finding a few additional people to do select tasks would show there aren't enough people interested in Ares's continuation to sustain it.
So while you are right in so far as that we could just code a line here and there and do very long release intervals, we would most likely be doing that for naught, because, by then, interest in the community would be gone.
(That, and, believe it or not, we actually like closure and clarity.
If Ares is unwanted, that's the community's good right, but we'd like to know, so we can focus on something else.)
If we only release yearly, new features, and, more importantly, bugfixes are only released once a year.
That on itself is undesirable, but a consequence of that would be that people simply lose interest in Ares - why follow Ares if LH_Mouse's patch releases features every month?
Don't get me wrong, I don't see us in competition with LH_M or anything similar to that, it's just a question of resources: There's only a limited "supply" of modders in the community, and if everyone is using LH_M's patch, the interest in Ares will be low.
...and that returns us to the question that originally started this: Why do Ares if nobody cares?
There's no point in people switching to Ares if Ares is dead, and there's no point in keeping Ares alive if no one wants to switch to it.
There has to be a minimum momentum, a critical mass of modders interested in Ares for it to be worth the effort.
A complete, functional ACSC would prove there is such a critical mass; not finding a few additional people to do select tasks would show there aren't enough people interested in Ares's continuation to sustain it.
So while you are right in so far as that we could just code a line here and there and do very long release intervals, we would most likely be doing that for naught, because, by then, interest in the community would be gone.
(That, and, believe it or not, we actually like closure and clarity.
If Ares is unwanted, that's the community's good right, but we'd like to know, so we can focus on something else.)
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