MooglesRcute

You know.... its pretty sad to see demigod slowly fade away into nothing...and I thought these 2 demigods might revive it even for a little bit? it has had so much potential... but by the time 1.2 will come out will anyone even care...hopefully that won't be the case.

1.2 will probably be released later this week or next week.

Demigods probably in abou 2-4 weeks?

Those are just my plain guesses

Btw. if you want to actually "see" a little bit how the development of the Demigods goes forward you should check out Sorian's blog.

GPG isn't "stupid". GPG simply does not have the ressources to cater everything to perfection.

the bad network code is not explained by less resources! its stupid programmed! you may explain the lack of many default features with too few resources even though a working ladder i could programm alone in a day. no really, there is no damn vaild excuses for that mess.

and the big stupidity lies not in the lack of the features and the bad net-code,.... no. it is the economic stupidity that you simply wasted all your efforts if you only sell half finsihed work. you get a too small community, too few customers and so it barely pays off if it even does. it is simply stupid. it would be better to do nothing than to invest money in a project that wont sell enough due to bad and unfinsihed work.

dude, i am not talking about that it is p2p. this is the only GOOD thing about the network code! this was not a bad decision, it was the best thing they ahve done. the problems we all see has NOTHING to do with that. it's how they implemented it.

edit: just an example: the desync error we all knew. it is an easy thing to resync within seconds (if done right within a fraction of a second) when detected if the communication has been programmed intelligent.

you know there are many features you may add in. i just speak of the a working ladder not of all the extra data representation. here even the ladder calculation does not work right which is redicules easy stuff! believe it or not.

*sigh* you are very talented in twisting simple phrases all around. you should go into politics.

this does not make the statement more correct. actually i'm an expert in this matter by profession. of course you do not need to believe me. it wouldn't change anything no matter if you do or not.

ofcourse "easy" is highly dependend on what you consider to be the minimum skills of a developer. for my mome this won't be an easy task of course. beside of this it is a really reyll EASY thing to implement at least a very very simple sync feature that still resyncs in a second. no magic, no high level algorithmic knowledge required. but of course for the big mass of coming from html/php wanna be programmers its a magic overwork of the whole data since game start, so as they sort things in n^2 time.

edit: btw. your invitation is a primitv provocation. you know yourself that we all have things to do, a job or others. do i get payed for the work? do they even want me to do it? such statements are no invitations but simply a dumb try to provocate.

no, in my case they maybe feeled like provocations, i admit that, but it is the expression of a disapointed customer that is really pissed off seeing such a great game ruined by so damn stupid mistaks that could have been easaly avoided.

you see the difference? its small, but it is one!

edit: and i know that the ladder stuff is made by SD. but as it is the least important think of the stuff i miss i didn't bothered to get into details with that. anyway, i never saw a ladder that ws so messed up like this one. and this holds now for.. a half year?

you say, they have also other things to do? indeed. if you release an unfinished produkt to few people buy it. hence to few money gets in. that's exactly the stupidness i mentioned above. if they had done it right we wouldn't talk about that now. i don't talk about bugs that allways occure. i talk about missing the most important features a mp-title needs on release! things ANY OTHER has even in beta. the BASE of any mp-game. to release an pl-game wihtout that is as if you release a first person shooter without guns!

releasing a mp-game without a working network code? its still more buggy than any other game i know (even other p2p games as most rts games are p2p based), wihtout automatching? wihtout team creation? wtf? how the hell could they expect to sell it enough to get in plus? if this is not stupid, what else?

I thought the Netcode stuff was handled by Impulse, unless you are playing LAN. Could be mistaken.

I think the question worth asking is, if the new demigods aren't coming in patch 1.2, what is the delay left for patch 1.2?