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[Kadath]

I do have a desperate subject change relevant question, though: What are your thoughts on the UI, Kadath? Will actions simply be dependent on what you're holding (Holding a screwdriver and using it on an item will automatically attempt to dismantle/interact with it) or will a list of available actions pop up you can choose from (Stab, Pry, Unscrew)? Or something completely different?

Interactions are dependant on what you have equipped and what mouse button you press, yeah. A few things things, like complex devices, will have a GUI that pops up.

Also, working on player models now - here's a WIP:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You'll be able to customize at least skin & eye color; and hairstyles.

[ShoesandHats]

And facial hair, I hope?

Spaceman Spiff MUST have a Chaplin 'stache.

[rarborman]

My modeler senses are tingling...
The shame of no replaceable models... if someone doesnt eventually hack/slash a model visual replacement in eventually I'd be suprised.
How do you plan to handle varible model displaying through into multiplayer?

[eerr]

Space station 13 is so open source you can update in the middle of a game.

This is actually one of the tenants of updating a running server.

Part of the reason Space station 13 is SO BAD, is entirely built around this problem-


Updating while running the game and not crashing.

A non-open source SS13 isn't feasible unless someone works on it 24-7.

So the idea it won't be open source is silly.

[MrWiggles]

I cant quite decipher the point you're trying to make.

[Neonivek]

I cant quite decipher the point you're trying to make.

I think eerr is badly trying to say that the game is only functional as an open source game.

Except he constantly contradicts himself it is confusing.

[eerr]

It was designed with open-source as a core tenant of the game.

It will fail horribly if it's not open-source.

[MrWiggles]

It was designed with open-source as a core tenant of the game.

It will fail horribly if it's not open-source.

Oh.

Well, then your point is absurd then. Open Source is just a production style really. It has its pro's and con's as does Close Source, but you're going to have to substantiate your arugment a bit more to show that a game liken to Space Station 13 can't function as a close source project.

The project creator already given a fairly good reason for why hes as in so far decided to stick with a close source model.

[forsaken1111]

It was designed with open-source as a core tenant of the game.

It will fail horribly if it's not open-source.

Thank you for your opinion, it has been noted and discarded as silly and irrelevant. You are welcome to cling to your opinion if you want to. In the event of a water landing, your opinion may be used as a flotation device as it is full of hot air.

[Kagus]

It was designed with open-source as a core tenant of the game.

It will fail horribly if it's not open-source.

Thank you for your opinion, it has been noted and discarded as silly and irrelevant. You are welcome to cling to your opinion if you want to. In the event of a water landing, your opinion may be used as a flotation device as it is full of hot air.

While I'll admit that comment did make me chuckle, it's probably not really all that conducive to a reasonable argument...

But yeah, I'm not really seeing any particularly good reasoning for the sourcing issue.  Sure, having closed-source development will mean there will be less active development on the project, but the development that does take place will at least be semi-coordinated, instead of being a jumbled mess of everyone and their cat's (referencing Scamps' programming talentsEEEEEEEEEEEE) individual and independent contributions.

And while SS13 may have been designed with the open-source nature as a core feature, this project is/was not.  So, clearly, it will succeed stupendously.



But yeah, any news?

[forsaken1111]

You're right.

To be more constructive, I submit that the success or failure of a software project has nothing to do with its status of open or closed source but rather the skill of the person or persons working on the project.

[monk12]

You're right.

To be more constructive, I submit that the success or failure of a software project has nothing to do with its status of open or closed source but rather the skill of the person or persons working on the project.

There ya go, a much more reasonable and mature criticism of the criticism! Bravo.

Thank you for your opinion, it has been noted and discarded as silly and irrelevant. You are welcome to cling to your opinion if you want to. In the event of a water landing, your opinion may be used as a flotation device as it is full of hot air.

I'm gonna sig this anyway though.

[head]

It was designed with open-source as a core tenant of the game.

It will fail horribly if it's not open-source.

Uh, no?

Creator made SS13,left,someoene reversed engineered the compile binary -> time -> lots of ss13

[Kagus]

So, how's this thing coming along?  Haven't heard anything for...  Quite a while.

[coolio678]

So, how's this thing coming along?  Haven't heard anything for...  Quite a while.

the site for it is linked in here somewhere. Maybe there's news there.