Forlarren said:
How about doing it in a way that dosn't piss people off. If your going to contribute, please do so in a meaningful way. Try offering suggestions instead of; its wrong try again. How about some quoted excerps from the references, or a hyperlink or two. Not all of us have the time to obsess over every detail. Apperently you do have the time, so providing condensed refrence info should right up your ally.
Eh, Brad can jump at people, but he's offered suggestions
and quoted references in this thread specifically, as well as providing sketches of established Kilrathi looks. Your reply doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in that context.
I'll also point out that this isn't an 'every little detail' issue. It's not like you could play
any Wing Commander game and not see what the established Kilrathi look is. Dan's pictures don't remotely look like any of them. Changing one of the instantly recognized things in the game to something completely unrecognizable isn't really the best of ideas. Huge amounts of the gaming community, Wing Commander fans or not, recognize Kilrathi. Even people who maybe once played a Wing Commander game ten years ago are going to go "What the fuck?"
I don't care all that much if you go and make up ships or locations or anything of that sort. I'll likely grumble if I see them in a game, but there are times when you need to do things like that. I don't tend to get into these sorts of discussions with fan project people because they're the ones doing the work and if they want to do it some other way, it's up to them. However, changing one of the most recognizable aspects of the franchise is shooting yourself in the foot. The most recognized part of Wing Commander, probably more recognizable than the Dralthi, is the face of the Kilrathi.