Well, it was great while it lasted...

[RedFox]

Yes, another chapter of another Diadochi mod is being closed. I'm afraid I don't have the motivation, nor time to continue work on the mod and v0.96 is not planned to be released.

With the end of school, come very important exams, after which comes university. I won't have any time to waste on this mod, since it has received little recognition and practically no feedback. I no longer see a reason to continue it.

Some members around the forums have access to the repository, if you feel like it, you can try and finish what I started, but other than that, there won't be any official releases planned.
Maybe we will meet again another time in another galaxy far far away...


Regards,
- J. Fox

[Fireward77]

I am sorry this mod died it had great potential!

[Dog Fart]

DAMMMMIIIITTT!!!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!
Hell no this mod is not dead. I will not allow it. I'm not much of a modder but I will do what I must to keep it alive. DTW will live on.

[Scutarii]

This is terrible. Honestly Redfox, don't believe that you're 'wasting' time on this mod. Many people (including myself, to be honest) prefer to wait for a stable 1.0 version of a mod, for whatever reason, and its probably the beta label of DTW that turned people off (although, to be honest, this subforum gets a lot of traffic for only a beta release!). I haven't played DTW but can say it was next on my mods to get list (which, seeing as I haven't played RTW in around a month, will take a little longer to complete than I thought ), and I was following its progress very closely.

Obviously, its completely your choice, and I assume you've already made up your mind seeing as you posted this thread, but I can't let such a promising mod die wthout chipping in my $0.02. Looks like you've got support too, if you want to continue DTW with some more supporting crew to help you out... *glances at dirty_m*

[Maraxus]

If anyone wants to take the reins, let me know. I will gladly lend my services to anyone willing/able to lead the mod in the same manner that I have helped Red. Plus I have some sweet units that will never see the light of day. I was developing new Thorakitai until this morning.

[Balikedes]

RedFox, I am sad to see you go.
Your insight and knowledge will be missed, I hope you find solace in the reputation and tools you leave behind to future modders and players of Diadochi: Total War.
Thanks for all the help and advice you've given me over the last year or so.
Much appreciated.
Balikedes

[Andy1984]

Sad to hear...
Good luck with your exams and university, and thanks for giving us such a great mod,

Andy

[Spartan198]

Well, this sucks. I was really looking forward to the next release.

[Stilgar CG]

I hate to hear that, RedFox ... And you just got your own forum ... Damn! But your reasons are admitedly rock-solid ... your are right about little recognition and no feedback ...

Diadochi is my favorite RTW mod. Best RTW battle system and the most intense game play. RedFox, thanks a lot for your time and hard work.
Good luck!

With that said, I still hope this is not the end of story.
If this is the RedFox's final decision, then the only thing that can save this mod, IMO, is for Zarax to step up and take over. He has the knowledge, drive to change things, and, importantly, appreciation and understanding of RedFox's work. Zarax, if you (and, perhaps, CV) could take over, that would be so great ... just think about this, guys: there is a great mod at an advance stage of development and there are your XC and SM ideas and plans.

Edit: I still cannot beleive it ...

[RedFox]

Guys, It's just facing the fact that I have barely had any time to work on DTW for the past 5 months. Barely any progress has been made, due to lack of free time. I'm just making it public that I won't be actively working on this mod any longer. The death of my working PC was probably the main reason, since I could no longer properly test the mod and I lost a lot of new graphics and files.

If someone can finish the campaigns in the repository, then this mod is ready for release. After Maraxus adds the new Thureophoroi and Thorakitai that is.
Good luck dirty_m and I hope you have more luck with this than I did.

That said, you might see me lurking around for a month or two before I entirely disappear.

[TM Is Back]

Nooooooooooooooooooo.... this sucks really. I love DTW. Please, when you have time to work on DTW again, come back. For now good luck with your exams.

[Cal20]

Argh you have to be ing kidding! Please say you are. This has came as a rather big shock. Was totally looking forward to this coming out. I think a lot of people valued DTW and your work put into it, you can tell by the distress you leaving has caused. So doesn't do any justice saying it hasn't had any worth while feedback or recognition.
But I know what you mean about university, in my second year atm and pre-university exams are hell. Shame you couldn't come back and continue after. I thought it was so close to release with all the bug fixes and just needed some new units on the roster. Extremely gutted to hear about you leaving, but hopefully others can continue the work and get a release.

Well, good luck RedFox.

[RedFox]

All the bugs have been fixed, it just needs a hard-working scripter to finish up the campaigns (yes, there are 4 campaigns in 0.96...). Probably around ~48 hours of constant work to have it release worthy. I just don't have such time and I probably won't have any either after the exams.

Real life and real goals are just much more important to me. If you guys can get a good team together to finish the work, I can offer some pointers on the sidelines, but other than that, I probably won't have time for much else.

[jakobh94]

This is like a bomb for me, DTW is the only mod I've actually gotten in to. All other mods, RS, RTR, EB, RB did'nt satisfy my needs. First time I played DTW I was thrilled, It was a beautifal combination of vanilla and new fresh things. I really liked that It is a hard mod to play, easy mods just sucks (Vanilla was easy -.-)
But I must accept RedFox' decision. The mod barley got acknowledged and the DTW modders werent that recognized, it's a shame that it is that way, but if someone else is willing "To pick up the sword and bring order to where it's chaos" (RTW - Greek intro quote)´I would like that.

[Athenogoras]

This is sad news for the community. As a gamer I wish you would reconsider. You have contributed so much. But you are probably right.
Real life comes first.

[Cal20]

Yeah, RL does come first.. sometimes .
Lets hope the rest of the team and others continue the work and get it finished. I agree with jakobh94 about how well this mod is to play, it should be up there with all the extremely popular mods with how well it was made with such a small team. Like I said prior - utterly gutted you have to leave DTW but good luck with exams and university.

P.S. hope you get some time to play SC2 when it finally comes out .

[Fireward77]

I would help but I don't really have too much time free myself to do coding and I don't have 3dsMax or Rome Total War Alexander to do any thing those ways but if this mod keeps going I can beta test it in BI even though I don't have the best internet in the world (Plus can't download from filefront.)

[Dog Fart]

that would be great FireWard Thank you.

[Spartan198]

I'd help in any capacity I could if I had the spare time, but I've got a full plate right now with Assyria and Persian Invasion.

[Mathais]

Damn well Redfox I am sad by the news but I can also see where your coming from but maybe consider this just keep it around for maybe one day it might get the feeling to bring it back to life. I love this mod and that a lot for me to say for I can say that out of 14 mods I have do I play with such joy as this. Thank you for your work it sad to see that there was not enough reconition for your amazing work. There are more out there that love this mod than you know they are just not members but thank you and good luck on makeing your life. Maybe if I get better at modding I will help out with this mod in bringing it alone it way to a full version. Good luck to you cant wait to see what happens with you and what happens to this mod.