Regarding quality and standards -- Making compromises or designing content with a half-assed attitude on Graal contributes to the stagnation in real Graal development. Development teams seem to compare their work to other servers in order to determine what is "good" or "acceptable" and because of this, Graal has barely progressed at all since 2002.
I'm not claiming my standards are super high or are going to promote change in other servers (there's only so much you can do with a revival while keeping it the same server) I just play a lot of real games instead of sneaking around other servers to make sure we 'live up to' them. I don't think it's appropriate to cut down just for a release myself, I really don't see the point in releasing a server that could have had a much better opening, hooks, and things to do.
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Originally Posted by maximus_asinus
I am kind of upset that Rufus has control of the server now. He has no planned release date, or even a schedule/deadlines.
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It was apparent in your other claim that you're pretty out of touch with the goings on in the server and I don't see why you would be in touch with it, but to say something like this makes me laugh. I've got a pretty good schedule, and we've imposed deadlines with the staff various amount of times, but it never actually works and never will. Problem is that in this developing environment on Graal, where nobody gets paid, deadlines are never met and why would they be? It's nice to have a target to work towards, but you should know as well as I do that they're highly unrealistic.
When I started my Olympics project, for a month release, there was deadlines, it was a rush and it didn't happen because of things that you just can't plan for. I announced a release for August, and I still have people asking me why it didn't happen, I'm not disappointing people like that over issues that are out of my control. I am never going to announce a release date again unless I am 100% sure that it is going to be released on that day, and it's not really my concern if that upsets you.
09-08-2008, 08:46 PM
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