Pyro: A request

[TexMurphy]

Hi there Pyro.

I was thinking, you have been talking in your updates about a ToD forum. In these updates you have said that as soon as you guys are ready to start talking about ToD a forum will come up. I take it as "as soon as you have completed enough design and implementation inorder to be able to answer our questions".

What Ive been thinking is that it could actually be helpfull for your design process to get input what we as players expect and would like to see as part of ToD. Given the fact that you guys have relativly small development resources its extreamly important that you guys do spend them on developing the right features, after all you dont have that many man hours to spend on features that "could be cool but might not be used". I know every developer and designer say that "we only develop what will be used" but how better make sure of that then analyzing the expectations of the future users. I also know that the target audience isnt solely the "MA crowed" but just as much the "WW2OL, Il2 and others" croweds. Its kind of hard to hear their expectations and these you guys have to analyze through other means but I still think it could be helpfull for your development process to get a "ToD whats your expectation" discussion going early.

Im also very aware that the potential of crap input is quite high as you for sure will see the "ToD is a waste of time I wount play it Ill be in MA" type of comments. But I do know that there are more people then my self who are very excited about ToD and are very willing to contribute with everything we can inorder to help you guys make it a success.

So in short I do think it could be a good idea to collect the communities ideas and expectations on ToD before you get too far into development.

Tex.

[BigGun]

I think it has been 2yrs since they announced they were going to be working on TOD, hopefully they are fairly far along in the development.

[United]

I definately agree with you Tex.  Taking input from the community of what they'd like to see would be a great way to develop ToD, IMO.

BigGun, HTC announced then that ToD would be created.  From what I understand, they just put ToD in full programming production when 2.03 came around.  Though, they had been slowly working on it since the announcement.

I am probably wrong, but that is what I understand of ToD development.

[BigGun]

More TOD info posted on homepage....sounds like forum is "soon", such a subjective word.....

2.03.....2.04......2.0.5..... 2.06....the improvment to graphics engine sounds nice