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fr0stbyte124 wrote:We're pretty much it right now.

Danice was working on power distribution and some computer stuff. Nothing much came of it, and I'm pretty sure his hands are full IRL.
Keon is supposed to be working on the shipyard drafting interface. Pretty sure nothing has happened with that.
Iv121 is taking a shot at designing tech trees, but the content phase is still too nebulous to do any detailed work.
Dr. Mackeroth, or whatever the dragon with the red text name is calling himself now, is the actual leader of the project. Mostly does odd jobs.

MonsterTeddy was doing music. Currently inactive, will probably come back.
Cascaid was messing around with ship controls for a little bit. Currently inactive, might come back.
Ectrimble was experimenting with server communication. Disappeared without a word one day. Very unlikely he's coming back.

There's also a few people messing around with models and textures, but nothing much has happened with that, either. Mostly, I think people have been waiting on me, and I've been really busy with my job the last 5 or so months. That will probably continue to be the case until the end of November, when the time crunch is over with.

As far as completed work, it's pretty dismal. There's an old occlusion culling algorithm which I'm repurposing for a side project, and some flying ship proof of concept that's about a year old now. My current code is handled outside of minecraft, and the environment held together by twine and chewing gum, and the rest of my work mostly exists as detailed notes and algorithms I keep in a notebook.
In there I have, off the top of my memory, stuff for collision physics, entity interfaces, a ton on netcode schema, even more on the rendering pipeline, world management, compression, some outdated stuff and some other stuff I can't remember at the moment, and some strategies for 3D planets. Most of it either works or should work, but it's going to be a while before I can get to most of it.

The rest of the codebase keeps disappearing when its respective developers go awol.
Objectively speaking, we don't have a hell of a lot to show for the past year of work, and it's disappointing, but progress has been made. Around this time last year, I don't think we were even going to do real space, much less the MMO concept. The mod is much bigger now, and more importantly, we actually know how to do most of the stuff we've talked about, at least in theory.

catsonmeth wrote:*Raises hand* I know, I know! It's because most people have pretty much lost interest in vanilla minecraft, have almost given up hope for FC, and is generally damned with just being a community and Flan's Mod pack. We lost all of the devs because no one ever actually organized them. We lost most of what little progress we had with the devs.

Tiel wrote:saying you retain the most devotion to the project

Icelandic Perehelion wrote:And he's correct. While we may, in jest, toss around suggestions and such, we're all aware FC is less than vaporware at this point. While your determinator status is approaching the level of astonishing, frankly, we're going nowhere on the mod.

And I do feel we've missed our window. But in all honesty, I doubt many of us are here for the community (personally, having people to argue with keeps me sane), so I'm not sure what's tying us together. A hope for the mod? Flan's pack? The RPs?