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Joined: 16 Sep 2007, 22:00
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Website: http://lewin.hodgman.id.au
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Location: Australia
I agree with T*AnTi-V!RuZz, there are some stupid ideas posted on this forum and emailed to us like:
- Weapons should be made 2 or 3 at once because the game is too slow
- Buildings should not require road to the built to them (not joking, we got an email which said this)
- Rebels should be trained from the school
- Barbarians should be equipped in the barracks
- People ask us to make new buildings like these which look stupid and tacky because anyone can see they are just chopped up from other buildings. (except the foresters hut of course, but I like the current woodcutter's hut)
I always feel then need to explain why these ideas aren't worthwhile which takes up time and can be frustrating.
That said, I do appreciate these discussions because I take good ideas out of them. But some ideas are just obviously stupid or only suitable for a mod.
While we're on the subject of things that annoy me, here's a list:
- People who ask "why aren't you writing it in C++ which is faster and superior to everything else" Answer: "Why don't YOU go write your own remake in whatever language you like, in fact, why not write it in machine code because that's pretty damn fast! Delphi is very efficient and fast and right now you are playing it online with 8 people from all over the world and it's working PERFECTLY. How would writing it in C++ improve it?"
- People who say "Pascal syntax is so ugly! How do you put up with that! C++ syntax is so much nicer to read." Answer: "I think C++ syntax is much uglier and harder to read because it's so obscure. This is a personal opinion, not a fact"
- People who overuse punctuation for no reason,,,,,,,,,, I find this really annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And what's the point anyway????!?!?!?!?!?! It doesn't make your point any clearer,,,,,,,,,,, it just annoys everyone!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!
- People who say: "Why did you remove the town hall/siege equipment and make the AI dumber?" Answer: "This is a REMAKE, we are writing the entire game engine from SCRATCH so not all features have been implemented yet." Some people seem to think we are editing the original source code and deleting things from it randomly...
- People who kick me or anyone else from a server based on their ping being >500ms. This game is playable with pings up to 3000ms, and you'll hardly notice the different in playing with someone will 400ms to 1000 ms, there will just be an extra 300ms (half of 600) delay from when you order a command to when it happens.
- When people make a suggestion and say "You should do this, you should change that". It would be much nicer if you said "In my opinion this should be changed" "What about doing this" rather than telling us what we "should" and "must" do. But I realise this can be partly because people don't know English well so I am understanding on this point.
- When people don't understand the amount of effort and skill it takes to develop a project like this, and think massive changes can be implemented in minutes.
- When I see 20 players on 1 server and 0 on the other 5... SPREAD THE LOAD!!! Otherwise you'll get lag and your game could even crash.
Things which don't annoy me:
- When people compliment our work before they point out flaws and making suggestions.
- All the wonderful people who have helped and encouraged us over the years
- When I join a server and someone says "Is it REALLY Lewin? " "Lewin is God!" "I want to be on Lewin's team because he's my hero!!" When this happens it makes up for everything in the other list