Quote: "This will be worth it for serious developers, I'm heavily interested in taking this up as a career but I can't see any opportunities for game design in the UK in my area, so I have to self teach, FPSCX10 and DBPX10 are the perfect solutions for this, i hope it goes far "
The serious developers part made me crack up! I still don't believe it's worth it until Vista & DX10 get support by the majority of game players, unless you persist on creating games for a small group of elite gameplayers..... and I still doubt those will be interest in FPSC X10 games at all, seeing what the X10 games they love to play offer them.
Another issue is the delay of the release of X10. The longer it takes, the more likely other engines may catch up. On the other hand some of the other well known game engines that indies use, have already stated they're not going to upgrade their engines to DX10 until DX10 gains support by the majority of users and players. I do think that's a wise choice.