Hey everybody,

This is Alcander here, if anyone actually reads this .

Long time no post, eh? Yeh, sorry about that.

I've been feeling quite guilty lately for having left the scene so long and disappearing, leaving many unanswered questions and unfixed problems. I felt a lot of you deserved an explanation as a well as an apology for my disappearance and lack of response.

Several things conspired to stop me from developing new things for Freelancer and improving the previous ones, namely:

1) Real Life.
-Yes, I know this excuse is overdone but it's true. I went off to college and everything went haywire. Free time became much more sparse and I had to budget my time better.
2) The Problems
-The problems in my various mods that I released that I couldn't quite pinpoint that cropped up on various people's platforms that I could not replicate left me perplexed. As well, some of the community's responses to some of the mods weren't what I was hoping for leaving me unmotivated to work further on them.
3) The Interest
-I lost interest in Freelancer due to a combination of #1 (lack of time) and #2 (the problems). Since you can't very well mod a game you don't have time to play or motivation, projects stagnated.

That being said, I hope to salvage some time in the coming months to help decode ALE files like I promised, and reveal other nifty tricks such as moving Nav Map text positions and the like and hopefully much more. I won't make promises, and I won't release broken patches. I'm going to test things out fully and flesh them out and do it right this time around.

So if anyone is reading this and if anyone cares, know that I'm still around and I'm trying to get back into the fold. If any vets are here reading this, please reply and let me know who all is still around!

See you in space!

-Alcander

Edited by - alcander on 10/1/2006 11:05:56 PM