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While it's true there is a degree of apathy in this community toward Ares, the actions of the developers hasn't been conducive to reducing it- over the long term.
Hub site is empty; all it does is point to the RenProj IRC. There's no link to the forums, bugtracker, or even Ares. Somebody interested in Ares would have to use the IRC, google or another community site to get to any of this essential info, even if they knew it was hosted on Renegadeprojects.com. And as I've learned from experience and in my business courses, people kinda have a limited attention span when dealing with things on the internet.
Large chunk of the community is shunned; PPM's full of retards, no doubt, but it remains as one of the few active RA2/YR modding hubs, as Revora's CNC section slowly dies.
Information is poorly communicated; I had no idea the bugtracker changed, we moved to GIT, so on, until somebody posted on the bug-tracker and was responded with a link to the new tracker. While I haven't been an active tester in the last few months owing to inconsistent internet, heavy university work and being part of a competitive clan in another game, I would still check the bug-tracker and SVN a couple times a week and the forums whenever I was doing a round of my "sites to visit". Hell, when December rolled around, I started watching everything for a sign of activity and saw only a couple forum posts that didn't suggest much.
I never saw anything about the project moving and it seems this is the case for a lot of people, given that the new tracker is near dead.
Hub site is empty; all it does is point to the RenProj IRC. There's no link to the forums, bugtracker, or even Ares. Somebody interested in Ares would have to use the IRC, google or another community site to get to any of this essential info, even if they knew it was hosted on Renegadeprojects.com. And as I've learned from experience and in my business courses, people kinda have a limited attention span when dealing with things on the internet.
Large chunk of the community is shunned; PPM's full of retards, no doubt, but it remains as one of the few active RA2/YR modding hubs, as Revora's CNC section slowly dies.
Information is poorly communicated; I had no idea the bugtracker changed, we moved to GIT, so on, until somebody posted on the bug-tracker and was responded with a link to the new tracker. While I haven't been an active tester in the last few months owing to inconsistent internet, heavy university work and being part of a competitive clan in another game, I would still check the bug-tracker and SVN a couple times a week and the forums whenever I was doing a round of my "sites to visit". Hell, when December rolled around, I started watching everything for a sign of activity and saw only a couple forum posts that didn't suggest much.
I never saw anything about the project moving and it seems this is the case for a lot of people, given that the new tracker is near dead.
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