Announcement: It's alive!

**guyverlance** · June 16, 2013, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Landil

This person is pretty much not reading.

We are still figuring some things out. Just because everything's going at a slow pace doesn't mean the mod's dead. Give us some time and hopefully we'll be back to normal in a few weeks. Thanks to everyone who's still with us on this!

Been following for almost 3 years now. When Meneth (one of your modders) was just starting and proposed a submod for SS to be named "Menethian Steel" LOL that was quite outrageous.

Ermmm so where's Hross, Ressurection and other members of the original DOTS team? They call it quits. And sorry to blow your candle honey but it's the end of the road. So much for the hype.

Disappointed FAN

**TLG** · June 16, 2013, 11:28 AM

Is there a facepalm smiley on this forum?

**Jupiter93** · June 16, 2013, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by TLG

Is there a facepalm smiley on this forum?

Unfortunately not. Just use Jesus facepalm, that's the optimate and suits very well at this moment.

**kiskompi** · June 16, 2013, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by guyverlance

Been following for almost 3 years now. When Meneth (one of your modders) was just starting and proposed a submod for SS to be named "Menethian Steel" LOL that was quite outrageous

Ermmm so where's Hross, Ressurection and other members of the original DOTS team? They call it quits. And sorry to blow your candle honey but it's the end of the road. So much for the hype.

Disappointed FAN

Sorry, but there are two chances:

You have a very bad English, so you don't understand what are we talking about.
Not your English, but your perception is bad. The conclusion is the same.

Hross is the team leader, even he is not active on the forum nowadays. Resurrection have a baby, so he doesn't have time for the mod, but he oversees our work. Meneth is the only one who is completely inactive in the mod.

And a mod is not dead, even if it has a completely new team. It will be dead, if it won't have a team. So please don't be a troll.

**Landil** · June 16, 2013, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by guyverlance

Been following for almost 3 years now. When Meneth (one of your modders) was just starting and proposed a submod for SS to be named "Menethian Steel" LOL that was quite outrageous

Ermmm so where's Hross, Ressurection and other members of the original DOTS team? They call it quits. And sorry to blow your candle honey but it's the end of the road. So much for the hype.

Disappointed FAN

If you had actually read the announcement, you would read that it says the following:

Originally Posted by Landil

With the recent event of our beloved mod leader, mapper, programmer and most important of all friend, Resurrection, leaving the team due to personal reasons

Originally Posted by Landil

Hross, Landil and the rest of the Dominion of the Sword development team

As you can read, Resurrection left due to personal reasons that have nothing to do with DotS. Hross, on the other hand, is still leading this mod together with me. It is just so that we have agreed that I will manage the personal relations, as I have more time than him right now. That is why it is me posting the announcement and responding to your questions, not him.

The thing is: when you say the mod is dead, it's an opinion. When I or Hross say it, it's a fact. This is because we have the authority over that, not you. So, you can be disappointed all you like, but know that this disappointment is based on ignorance and not factuality. There is no 'hype', there are no people 'calling it quits', just an announcement stating exactly the opposite.

To quote a meme, because that seems like the thing you would like: "Deal with it.

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EDIT: Oh, and we could play the game of you repeating the same things over and over again and me riposting it, but that would be against the ToS (on account of spam/trolling/off-topic posting, you name it) so I will be deleting any negative, unconstructive posts that may follow.

**guyverlance** · June 17, 2013, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by kiskompi

Sorry, but there are two chances:

You have a very bad English, so you don't understand what are we talking about.
Not your English, but your perception is bad. The conclusion is the same.

English is not my first language sir, so deal with it. I guess you're taking it too personal. My bad.

Yeah Landil, I understand, and sorry for the bad post.

**kiskompi** · June 17, 2013, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by guyverlance

English is not my first language sir, so deal with it. I guess you're taking it too personal. My bad.

No, sorry, my exam was today, so I was very nervous and not so patient. And than I logged in and saw that.

But what is important: mod is alive.

**karaislam** · June 17, 2013, 12:58 PM

turkish and arab unit roster finished or not?

**kiskompi** · June 18, 2013, 09:35 AM

Most of the unit rosters are done, but if you know Turkish, Turkic and/or Arab history well, your help and check would be useful.

**karaislam** · June 18, 2013, 10:47 AM

i know some history about muslim factions.i ve also some modding and 3d modeling knowledge.i would like to see the units and the mod itself before joining or helping the team.if its posssible i would like the test the mod first of all.

**Landil** · June 18, 2013, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by karaislam

i know some history about muslim factions.i ve also some modding and 3d modeling knowledge.i would like to see the units and the mod itself before joining or helping the team.if its posssible i would like the test the mod first of all.

Offering us assistance is one thing, demanding to have full access to a mod in development is something entirely different. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but you certainly present it as such. In any case, we don't really need any help with the Islamic factions. Of all factions, those are probably the closest to completion and what is left can be handled by me. If you really think you have useful information for me that I might lack, send my a PM about it and I'll see if it's useful.

**mr_president** · June 24, 2013, 04:05 PM

I am glad that this is alive and seriosly hope to play it someday.

**Cyprian2** · June 24, 2013, 05:34 PM

Thanks, Landil, for keeping us informed over here. DotS is very close to my heart, indeed. I only wish I weren't faced with certain hardware limitations that have prevented me from helping.

**Celtoi** · July 01, 2013, 07:25 PM

I fully agree thanking Landil for keeping us informed and responding that well !

Cheers & keep that up !

**k/t** · July 11, 2013, 10:31 PM

"When Meneth (one of your modders) was just starting and proposed a submod for SS to be named "Menethian Steel" LOL that was quite outrageous."

I remember that.

**Hengest** · July 12, 2013, 02:52 AM

If people want to help all they need is time and energy willing to spend helping us copy and paste into various excel sheets, it doesn't even need knowledge of how to use Excel. I've been saying this for years but the community "fans" can't be bothered; which is give it's our project we signed up for it, it's just amusing when those people under that we are lazy or provoke us by screaming "the mod is dead" every five minutes/ for seven years despite us clearly producing more and more.

**raven63** · July 12, 2013, 03:19 PM

I've worked on long projects before, and nothing can as disheartening as running into fresh problems shortly after a huge effort. The work the team has put in over the years is probably comparable in size to that of a PhD thesis

Anyway, what I found helpful in such circumstances is to take a nice lengthy break from everything. Best of luck to DotS and the team.