@Blackfox,
I can agree with some of your statements. Not sure if I took this wrong, but hockeykid is not my "buddy". There are other programmers on this forum, me includes like you mentioned. I do not know SC, I do not know his skills set. What I do know is I paid for a product that is being sold by a company who, correct me if I am wrong specializes in game development applications. Where as, FPSC before hand was usable (disregarding 1.16 which also was a complete failure) that we had to revert, which took time and for some of us money. I like some other people pay for some of the guys working with them. This is a set back as it hinders development time and money towards the game.
I was happy when 1.19 was announced. I didn’t at the time care that flatlander or SC was working on it. Until I popped the new source code open and nearly tore my hair out. Not just me, the other programmers here as well. It took so long to integrate our code with the complete mess before us. Not to mention the serious problems generated from 1.19 and even still to this day has. Now obviously I understand it’s a beta. Who wouldn’t right? I would not have a problem with structured organized code that simply didn’t work. Easy fix, I can find the code and fix it my self. Now it’s a needle in a hay stack.
Now, when TGC decided to hire Hockeykid and Knxrb I knew something was going to go wrong. Like in the FPSCIP thread, I posted a nice long (With evidence) post about why you should avoid FPSCIP and my opinions were my opinions and the facts were facts. I was a disappointed customer. It’s been over a year and several months since that application was updated. Half the features don’t work blah blah blah. Back to FPSC, now we get this really nice shiny post from Lee “You may be able to make menus!” wow that’s really cool but I understood the maybe part. Knxrb tells everyone about the GUI-x9 program and what it can do. Oh wow! That’s so cool menus. Never mentioned the fact that you had to pay for a pro version, similar to all the crap he had tried to sell off in FPSCIP, which took me literally 5 minutes to build myself using a High-level language. Not visual basic. I already paid for the engine, now I have to pay for upgrades to get a pre-written menu example?
I was actually able to read Hockey kids code. And when I requested help from him on AI, I got it. Not to make this sound like a flame post, trust me, that’s not what this if for. This is my opinion as a customer of the FPSC software.
Lastly, I do not believe that only Hockey kid is the only one who can work on the engine. I think lee is very capable of it. I would rather wait for him to update the code himself, because after all he is the creator than to dive in the current mess much like it was with 1.16.
So no, I am not happy, and neither are a lot of people. Now, I do trust the foxes. If lee woke up one day and said the foxes can work on the engine. I would most likely be fine with it. Your both great community members, you participate, free media, really nice model packs etc etc. However, if your code was sloppy, and the errors you made were simple and just plain sloppy I would obviously be mad at you. I agree very much with you when you say the code can be re-organized. Again however its time and money. So what do I do about it? Exactly like I said before, I will just continue on with working on older code.
