Dead or alive?

[dabo]

Hello,

I have read on this forum recently and on other forums as well that people think this project is dying (or hinting that it is getting there) because we do not post news/screenshots every other week or seem to make progress as quickly as people would like. I just have to say that it annoys me a little when people with no information on how we work when we are not active posting here draw such conclusions; I know there are plenty of projects that have been started and died this way (and pretty quickly) but we have not been part of any of them. Some things we have been working on cannot be illustrated on a screenshot yet and thus we have decided not to post any news about it; so there are things that have not been revealed yet or at least directly. If this project somehow died I would be the first one to tell you, we would not just disappear and never post again. Because we are not posting news/screenshots every week does not mean nothing is happening. Of course our project cannot be compared to a project where the developers work 40hrs a week in regard to development speed; we have jobs/studies and some have kids that need to be prioritized. As a result, yes, there are weeks where no progress is made but there are also weeks where lots of progress is made. If we were planning on giving up on this project we would have done so a long time ago and not wasted this much of our free time and involved lots of researchers. Speaking for myself I am as commited, if not more, to release a playable version as I was when I first started this; partly thanks to the great feedback we have received here. So everyone has to have patience with this project even though a likely release date is further ahead in the future than everyone wishes. We have never asked for anyone's money (nor do we plan to) or given false hope on a release date that has not come through, all we ask for is time.

/Daniel

[Beukeboom]

Dont worry, everyone is just hoping to get a great game from you ,(and early drafts of your work show you are on a great way) and of course as soon as possible. The possible part ist totally defined by you though, and everyone that doesnt accept that shouldnt really make you worry, because he is just a jerk. And now get back to work on the game instead of wasting your time on unproductive posts like this.

I really hope some guys being impatient dont spoil your enthusiasm for this great project. But perhaps it also is a good school to when some jerks will ripp the first version because it doesnt look like a professional game EHM style (yet).

[archibalduk]

A point well made.

[Ogilthorpe]

Well said Daniel.

[JakeTheSnake]

Good point and nice of you to come out and take some time to address these rumours.
I know a lot of people are expecting the game and of course while time passes people usually can get a bit frenzied about things and that can surely be a bit stressful if you are the one they are expecting something from.
Like Beukeboom said, hopefully this doesn't spoil the enthusiasm and the experience of developing something all new for the community for you guys.

You just take your time, i for one am happy to wait for the game. The more time you have, the better the result!

And for all you impatient people: contribute or shut up!

[CM0304]

It seems the game is coded from the draft.
Honestly,I think the first playbale version will have lots of bugs(millions of),as I used to do sth for BGS(CM2005 design studio).It's a very tough work to code such a game from the draft,even to these professional studios
The effective way is to do an EMH2007 Mode,as the game structure is somewhat same as CM0102,CM0304,Archi knows that in UK and Russia,lots of experts,like Tapani can handle the game,even patch them to a brand new one.
The above is only my opinion,I am very intereted to creat a CM0304 Mode,as FM is too complicated to be a game.
Dabo,you should not give up