Why so little interaction with the community?

Originally Posted by Trumper

The sad thing is even IF/When Clod is patched it may still not work but you know that's it then [unless you buy BOM of course ].
This is the official IC forum and they can't even be bothered to come on here and tell the truth,i suspect even the moderators are feeling the same sense of being left in limbo.
I would guess that someone could read Luthier the questions out and the answers dictated back in a short time ready to be posted on here,where there's a will there's a way.
Hey it's Friday tomorrow maybe just maybe

I have very little faith in truth, after the 50% performance increase patch actually dercreased my fps and dumbed down the graphics and removed clouds I think that if they fix just one bug without breaking anything else it will be considered a great result by the dev's.

[Toni74]

@Mysticpuma: please put the quotes into proper qoute tags otherwise it is really hard to read. Thanks

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I have very little faith in truth, after the 50% performance increase patch actually dercreased my fps and dumbed down the graphics and removed clouds I think that if they fix just one bug without breaking anything else it will be considered a great result by the dev's.

I've often wondered what would possess a software developer to predict a "no less than 50% increase" in performance, before they had even begun working on the optimisations. It was almost child-like in its naivety.

[Chivas]

I want questions answered as much as anyone else, but that certainly isn't going to save the development. Concentrating on fixing the game engine certainly will. There won't be any positive answers to our questions, or any type of knowledgeable answer until they know what they have when its done. They ventured guess early in the development that obviously didn't turn out, and are understandably quite now, when guesses won't cut it. If they fix the game engine most of this negative cr#p will be forgotten, if they don't, it won't matter. Staying quite now is the best course of action, it will give fodder for the negative types, but its still the right thing to do.

[MadBlaster]

Reading all this, I was thinking about making myself another home brew C++ game called "answer the questions". Here's a little sample:

/************************************************
Player 1

MadBlaster, try to answer these questions really fast and win!

1) Was epilipy filter a fraud?
Answer: Yes!
Time to answer this question : .1 seconds

2) Was clod a hunk of junk?
Answer: No doubt about it!
Time to answer this question: .4 seconds

3) Do you think bom will be better than clod?
Answer: Wishful thinking. They call it vaporware!
Time to answer this question : .6 seconds

Player 1 Total Score: 1.1 seconds
That was an excellent score, MadBlaster!
Winning!!!

Player 2

Luthier, try to answer these questions really fast and win!

1) Was epilipy filter a fraud?
Answer: What? (shakes head) Oh no, no, no! We really had to do that because we didn't want anyone to become injured playing our wonderful simulation of the Battle of Britian. We really weren't trying to mask our fails in programming this wonderful ww2 simulation. It was all on the “up and up” to help those less fortunate that have this terrible spastic affliction, because we really care about those guys and gals (hic) and their happiness is more important than success of our sim that we worked many, many, many years on. Too bad we had to fire some of those guys. But dem's da breaks!
Time to answer this question : 1 hour and first bottle of vodka.

2) Was clod a hunk of junk?
Answer: No, no, no... no doooubt about it!
Time to answer this question: Sometime into the second bottle, half empty with some backwash, bits of burrito floating on top.

3) Do you think bom will be better than clod?
Answer: Uh, wake me up when it's over. B6, where’s my pillow??? Too late. Thump! (falls on floor, foaming vomit trailing side of mouth, big gash on side of head that gets infected with white pus a few days later.)
Time to answer this question: Error!..Error!..Error!..Error!...

Player 2 Total Score: Disqualified
That was a not so excellent score, Luthier!
Winning??? Not so much.

/*************************************************


It’s just an example. When or if I get it finished, I’ll make an “announcement”. Hum dee dum...

[Pudfark]

This whole thing sorta reminds me of a fella that I knew some years back.
He smoked a lot of the "wildwoodflower"...and was always under the influence of it. He had a favorite saying..."You're never late, if you don't care."

He was right.

[kendo65]

Sorry Chivas, this just won't do.

Luthier made a statement that he would do something. No-one here forced him into that obligation or choice. I have supported them many times in the past.

I refuse to have such bullshit behaviour swept under the carpet because honestly acknowledging it may endanger the future of the game. If so it is their fault

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Sorry Chivas, this just won't do.

Luthier made a statement that he would do something. No-one here forced him into that obligation or choice. I have supported them many times in the past.

I refuse to have such bullshit behaviour swept under the carpet because honestly acknowledging it may endanger the future of the game. If so it is their fault

I would agree with you if I thought they had the answers, but I'm not so sure they do. I think the development is on the tipping point and its about to go one way or the other. The answers will be very different depending on which way it falls.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I would agree with you if I thought they had the answers, but I'm not so sure they do. I think the development is on the tipping point and its about to go one way or the other. The answers will be very different depending on which way it falls.

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

[Al Schlageter]

Originally Posted by furbs

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

Tomorrow never comes as it is then today.

What does Luthier actually do in the office?