TLR Game and Mod Development Forge
Last week we started on plans for a new community website and started contacting various groups to see who would be interested in joining us. A list of possible site names/domains was passed around and a site outline was drawn up. Over the weekend things changed. I discussed the details with sycho warrior and she asked me to put the new site on hold and post a thread on here to discussed it with everyone on TLR. Then one of our project members made a fool of himself in this very forum but received some unexpected feedback while trying to make amends, so I feel obligated to clarify the situation.
Everyone working on Openlancer was under the impression TLR had no interest in supporting Openlancer, much less its sister projects. I have tried to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement twice before via private discussions with TLR staff. Openlancer cannot be completed by the group working on it now, its a mammoth project and the sheer volume of work is impossible. Its designed as a community project to build a worthy sequel to Freelancer and needs a couple hundred people working on it, not the dozen extremely dedicated (and some would say crazy) developers working on it now. These projects need a community to call home with all the support that goes along with that. To be blunt, if TLR doesn't want us then we will build a new community, because if we don't all three projects will fail and no one will ever get a FL sequel.
So, this brings us to the current situation. Out of respect for the Lancers Reactor I'm here one last time to find out if there is some way to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement. This time rather than doing everything via email with varying levels of secrecy, I want to know what the TLR members have to say about it. The Openlancer team can spearhead building a new “game and mod development forge” expansion for TLR but we need a firm commitment from TLR to work cooperatively. Please give me your ideas, suggestions, honest opinions, and any other feedback.
Do you people want a community development site?
Do you want to work on developing Openlancer or general community resources?
Are existing mods willing to release their content as general community resources?
To be absolutely clear:
We take the excuse “show us something and you might get support ” to be a polite way of saying “we won't help you ”. This is not about hosting resources, we have the resources to do this with or without TLR (requesting the wiki a dozen times was for TLR's own benefit, not ours alone). This is not about competing with TLR, if we wanted to compete with TLR I wouldn't be posting this now, nor would OL maintain a policy of forwarding all donations to TLR. Finally, this isn't about site/community politics, this is a last ditch effort to salvage this situation. I think TLR needs OL as much as OL needs TLR, there are significant benefits in working together and uncertain futures for both groups if we remain independent.
So, that said, what say you?
-MegaBurn,
Project Leader and Lead Designer,
Openlancer Project
Edited by - megaburn on 9/25/2006 11:19:39 PM