ORIGINAL: DD696
Note that I have never stated that I should take over CHS....that would be quite presumptive of me, wouldn't you think? It does not belong to me. I have never had anything to do with it other than pointing out some error corrections at times. The position has never been offered to me. All I have been trying to do is find out if there is still enthusiam out there for doing so. It takes more than one person to do this, unless you are El Cid. I don't profess to have any special qualities or talents, just a desire not to let this fade away. It is comments like yours that would make make just about anyone not want to become involved in trying to get this thing going again. Obiviously, you have nothing to offer other than snide comments. You ought to consider the hibernation option. Other people have more important things to do. The big emphasis appears to be to launch attacks on anyone who would like to garner up some support for CHS. Tell me there, Buck Beach, do you have the ability to appoint the CHS coordinator and do you have the power to do so?
Sorry pal, that dog won't fly. Here are a couple of quotes:
"Other changes would be easier also if the file structure wasn't so limited. It is possible to expand the number of slots for ships, aircraft, etc. It is not a difficult thing to do. I spent many years as a system's analyst for banks having to do and plan for such things. It is possible to give the player a seris of user input fields to define certain characteristics that effect gameplay. Example: there is a move underfoot to want to lower the experience level of pilots. All well and good, however, there are hardcoded aspects of the game which are then affected. Such as the experience level of an airgroup must be x% before it will fly certain missions and do certain tasks. This "x%" could easily be a user variable. These user variables are the key to finding the "happy balance" needed to play the game to everyone's satisfaction. These can be done, but it involves "change". The files must be expanded. If this is done all games currently in progress are now unplayable due to a different file structure. Ah, but in my many years of data processing work this is easily handled also. The programmer writes a conversion program to convert the old file format to the new file format. Now in the case of Personal Computers, where every user has the complete program system running on their own machines, this means that everybody's personal file saves have to be converted. Well, that can be done "automagically" during the install of a new release with the execution of the "file conversion program" rather than having each individual user trying to execute it himself."
And then: "Andrew's main post on the subject is in the thread "Possible suggestion/question for CHS", post #10. I do not know the fine art of importing comments from another thread (or this one, for that matter), so unless I write down what was stated and then retype the info I am out of luck with quotes. It does seem fairly clear to me that he said he was no longer doing CHS but would still maintain his beloved map, and that he would like an individual or individuals to come onboard to maintain CHS. Joe Wilkerson indicated above that a selection (Lemurs) has been made.
If that is so, all is well. If any help is needed, I'll offer it. Just wanted to make sure CHS was not in the process of "fading away". Those of us with too much time on our hands worry about little things like this.
And then the last of your posts in that thread:
...and so DD696 lowers his banner and trudges slowly away, a small and faint voice not understood....
...on past more important things such as "the three dumbest things I ever did"...
...on past the eager players of WITP....
...on past the occasional players of WITP...
...on past the "should I really get into this" group...
...on past the gawkers and lurkers...
...on past the howling denizons of the forests and oceans...
...and yes, even far past the incoherent mumblings of the dwellers of "The Thread"...
...yes, way past them...
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Maybe time to dust off the ol' '60 Vette and go burn the tires off....
More important things to do........
Hey don't blow smoke up our A**es. You "jacked me up" with all your hype and I think others too. No I do not have the ability to assist in any way, color me old and dumb but at least I'm honest. Look you got a total of 97 posts and you want me to hibernate. Your support appears to be only in the role of cheer leader. Put up or shut up, I say. If this cause is important to you then quit back peddling.
