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Well, as a Saga team member my thoughts about it aren't exactly what you want I guess. Anyway, here's some random stuff: It is hard to talk about the game, its design and its philosophy as a whole without having lots of spoilers in it, so I suggest you play a bit more if you like the game...

I don't know, but too many to stay concious I think.

Cool find! Can anyone here read arabic? I'm curious whether the translation is true to the original. In the languages I know some things are always lost in translation, and IIRC someone said that translating into arabic (or from arabic) is even worse, it often doesn't capture the full meaning...

That's correct. And the main reason is marketing. IIRC I saw a figure for some AAA game once, and that game had some 60 million dollars of budget, of which 20 were used for actually making the game, and the rest was marketing, marketing, marketing, and distribution. For Call of Duty and so on...

Well, there's a good chance some of them won't be there anymore once the game is released, since everybody expects his dream game at the moment, and lots of people won't get that, everybody expects something different. I still hope you are right and space sims become big again, but I seriously...

Interesting question! I may be pessimistic, but I only see a few possibilities, and all of them sound bad. 1. Some mobile crap, think of WCP for GBA, just with prettier graphics, but much worse gameplay. Perhaps a rail shooter. 2. The same thing, just for PC and/or some console or the other. 3...

It's just a ****load of work. I guess that's the main reason nobody has done something like that again. Also live action means you have to actually bring the actors together, so lots of organization required (well, maybe with even more work you could film each actor individually and then stitch...

I admit that was a big problem for me as well in Standoff, but somehow I got used to it after a few missions. So yes, it feels strange when being used to WCP, but it's no big deal.

Well, I guess it is obvious that I disagree with you concerning the feel of gameplay. For me one reason to join the Saga team (in, dunno, 2005 or so?) was that for me their early version felt so WC3ish, and not like FS2, even back then. And it only got better when it was tweaked a bit. Some...

Yeah, maybe. I guess it is because I still remember when this wasn't a joke. :(

Sticking to something you are familiar with isn't the same as choosing something. Otherwise I don't disagree with you.

Well, @Dyret, you know that was 12 years ago. Also I wrote space engine, and I wrote accessible. I am a programmer, so I know what I'm talking about. Two of the engines you mentioned require lots of work if you want to build something other than a simple FPS. Unity is even worse for that...

Pardon my bluntness, but all WC graphics engines suck big time visually, compared to modern engines, and the tools to work with them and script things suck even more. The FSO engine was the graphically best and most accessible space game engine at that time, so it was used. There is a good...

I dislike the 3Dingo one, don't know why. Maybe because it looks like from Halo. Very generic. For me it was between Eris and VisionCut. I voted for Eris. The IXM thing is really cool. Although I also liked the more streamlined first version as well, minus some stuff. The second version is...

The Rapier has such a nice shape. I guess I'll never get tired of seeing new designs based on that shape. So many different possibilities, and all of them look cool. :)

I like that stuff :)

There's another point about Kilrathi warriors and their organization I'd like to hear your opinion about. We discussed mixed crews in the Kilrathi fleet and we seem to agree that they exist. I'm happy about that because that's an important plot point in my mod's story. But what about marines...

Capi, your idea with the simple English dictionary is great, that way it is much easier to construct words. I tried that. Insanity, second take: I am translating something that is called "music" by some, and "noise" by others, it's not really my type of song but I listen to it sometimes. It was...

Wow, it's really embarassing that I didn't remember you translated that already. But yeah, maybe another iteration is a good thing. Also keep in mind I am translating a text in a foreign language into another foreign language. I admit I maybe don't always grasp the meaning of the source...

Ok, so now I went insane and started translating the Gettysburg Address by the 16th President of the USA (and vampire hunter IIRC), Abraham Lincoln. I will do this in parts in order to be able to talk about it better. Here's the first sentence. I'm pretty sure the tenses are completely messed...