el cid again
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While it is impossible to proove a negative proposition (so Terminus could in no case proove his assumption were true), only a single example can disprove one. In this case, we have the matter of the cavalry art, present in both CHS and RHS, but only after the senior Matrix programmer informed Andrew and I by email how to do it. Seems it was always part of WITP, but never implemented. We had no idea what the unused code meant in the particular field, nor is it a field one can normally see to change. It was implemented approximately simultaneously by CHS and RHS because Matrix apparently decided to "have contact" with these specific modders - and no one else was included on that particular occasion. Our Terminous likes to make strong, hostile, negative propositions, presumably because he does not want to accept a positive working relationship might exist between productive members of the community, official and unofficial.
That in turn probably tells us much more about him than about the people he throws darts at. I note once again that he does not elect to respect the terms he agreed to about participating in the Forum. In another example of the alleged nonexistent communication with Matrix, a Matrix programmer wrote that I could never please everyone (for example by including different views in different scenarios), and that being visible I must draw some hostile comments, no matter how much I tried or wished to please everyone. I believed - or at least hoped - that opinion was incorrect - but apparently the programmer knew the Forum better than I do. What positive purpose might be served by such comments is beyond my kin? But possibly my error is to put positive and Terminus in the same sentence. I begin to think he likes negativity and hostility - and that is simply that. On the matter in question, I don't know what will be done when, nor if an effort to do it might work or not? But I didn't just make the comment out of the blue, and I do expect to remove the Shangra La Squadron in its RHS form because it will be superceded by an official version (just as I had to remove wierd RHS settings for RHS Soviet ships when Matrix released an official version).
The truth is that we are in the process of adopting a standardized ship art set as a result of much work done BECAUSAE we accepted an official proposition from Matrix that CHS, RHS and stock use a common set of art. Somehow our version of the art was apparently plugged into a less than current set of RHS art. But there are many technical improvements in the standard art package, and it will be revised in "5-6 days" - and one can change it during a game in progress. Meanwhile we can use the older art set. But the point is - this was a Matrix initiated concept (curiously Cobra and I had dreamed up the same idea but not yet told anyone about it) - and it surly qualifies as "some form of communication." We might have avoided some frustration by not cooperating - but in the end we are all going to be better off that this has been done - and that both standards were developed and implemented - and may different artists products are being incorporated. This is a great example of the way communications and work ought to be done - with a positive and cooperative attitude - and I know of only one other computer game company that does this sort of thing. It is a great tribute to Matrix and the community that "some form of communication" does exist, and is fostered by Matrix, and apparently was part of their design philosophy.
I am an eternal optimist. I believe that sooner or later Terminus is going to figure out that, while I can be wrong, I would never lie (off a battlefield). I devote far too much time to this to waste time spinning wheels. He is wrong so often sooner or later the evidence must become overwhelming - no matter how strong his desire to hold hostile beliefs may be. From that day forward we will all cease to waste our time reading things that don't contribute to anything worthy of our time.
< Message edited by el cid again -- 7/27/2007 7:12:03 PM >
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