I have reached the stage where a choice has to be made. The plug CdH - Exodus has 74 missions but is not nearly finished in my eyes: not until the entire Crescent is under the Voinian heel. However, there are still a lot of missions and a lot of stuff happening, and the plug is damn fun to play if I do say so myself.

Now, I look at my schedule and see that work on the plug will be very slow in the coming weeks because of various reasons - college, work, life ect

What I want to know is, would you rather wait for a finished product with the Voinians, say, taking the Zidagar system, or should I just make a final mission on the plug and release it as it is, with a sequal forthcoming at a later date?

If I continue to work on it the delay of release will rise significiantly. I therefore leave it up to those who will play it to decide the plug's fate.

Please post your opinion so I know what's happening. I will go with the majority whatever the outcome

--gav

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(This message has been edited by pistgavin (edited 11-13-2003).)

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I say release it. While people are flying around trashing Crescent Aliens, work on the plug's sequel can be completed.

Yup. Release it. Let's see what ya got! If there's going to be a delay before you can get back to it, there's a good chance that when you do you'll have gotten useful feedback on part I in the meantime, and will have had all sorts of fresh new ideas of your own as well. CdH Exodus II will be the better for it!

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I'd say go ahead and release it.

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I'd say to wait for the finished product. I like to play through something in a day and then do it again the next day. (Starting a new pilot each time =))

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Go ahead and release it. I want to see what kind of idea you had in store for the Voinians. Voinians abandoning their space, and invading the Crescent instead is pretty crazy, so I want to see it. Its crazy because why would they abandon their space suddenly? It does do the Voinians-conquer-Crescent element though, which has never been done, not enough even in ROTV II.

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But wouldn't you rather have it posished?

I have to agree with Visitor (but not his spelling).

If you ask people 'shall I release now', they always say 'yes, release it'.

However, if you wait until it's finished, beta-tested and polished, and then release it, they will love you for ever.

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I agree with Martin here. If you release a not-entirely-finished plugin (such as the B5 TC for EVO, which had a whole load of graphics using EVO sprites) then people will have a low opinion on it. Take a few months to get it into a properly finished and tested state and people will love you for it.

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I see.

Well I'll have to consider it for a while and then make my decision within the week. The most likely event is that it will be released ahead of schedule but I might add a chunk of storyline at the end without having the change any systems or spobs (which is getting increasingly difficult as many systems in the game change 2-4 times), or perhaps the Final Press on the Zidagar system for instance.

As it is the galaxy has already been vastly changed and although I didn't put in as many innovations as I might have liked, the story is long and juicy. I might do some more work on that aspect but for now it's just hardcore bug-testing, what with life and everything.

At any rate, I hope you'll all enjoy the plug.

--gav

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Originally posted by pistgavin:
**I see.

Well I'll have to consider it for a while and then make my decision within the week. The most likely event is that it will be released ahead of schedule but I might add a chunk of storyline at the end without having the change any systems or spobs (which is getting increasingly difficult as many systems in the game change 2-4 times), or perhaps the Final Press on the Zidagar system for instance.

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I feel your pain on that one bro. Multiple switch backs are a bitch. As for the plug, I'd wait until its entirely done then release it.. doing it in stages hasn't worked well, as far as I can recall..

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Heh, with other projects, I didn't finish FOTVE either, but have not given up on that. If I released it now, it would probably end up like some other plug-ins that kind of have vaporized to oblivion.

Having it completed like Martin Turner says, and everyone will be your bee-yatch. If you finish your plug, go back and make some fine tuning because first impression is always important.

FOTVE will take sometime to complete. I noticed that some of the popular plug-ins like ROTUE and ROTVE are cool for playing it over again, but sometimes I find certain scenarios to be unprobable.

Your plug-in Exodus, I would expect a really, really good reason why in the middle of a war, the Voinians would all of a sudden abandon their empire. To conquer a new part of a galaxy will require a crapola amount of resources to pull it off.

I also expect that going into exodus will leave the bulk of the Voinians totally vunerable to some extent by their enemies of which they have more than enough to spare.

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