This is, indeed, very sad news. Anyone who has lost major work knows the feelings you currently have. What I really want to say, mostly comprised of 4-letter words, which you have probably already said many times, is totally against list guidelines!! I'd say to take a break, work on something else if, and only if, you are in the mood, and not to make a hasty decision on what to do from here. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:52 AM Subject: [Audyssey] STFC sad news.
> Hello gamers,Hello gamers, > It is my deepest regret at this moment to announce some very sad and > unhappy news about STFC which will put development of that title back by > countless months. Even worse I know I am to blame for that setback do to > my foolish complacency, and lack of backing up the code as often as I > should have. For that mistake I am paying a huge price. So here is what > happened. > As you know in July I split STFC in to branches. I have the original > source for 1.0 beta which is thankfully backed up to my USB backup > drive, and then I was working on a STFC 2.0 with all the features I have > announced in previous posts with dynamic menus, better sensors, updated > enemy AI, etc... > Anyway, I had taken my USB drive off my desktop to backup some stuff > from my laptop, and never got around to hooking it up to my desktop > computer. Since all the work on STFC 2.0 was being done on the desktop > there was only one single copy of the source code. Well, while working > on STFC 2.0 I was updating the Main.cs file when I discovered somehow > when deleting some code I had deleted most of the file, and at some > point had saved the file not knowing most of it's contents was deleted. > As a result all of the enemy AI, dynamic menus, etc is gone. The code is > simply destroyed, and there is no way to recover it. I can't even guess > as to how long it will take to rewrite all that. No less than three > months damage. > Needless to say I am extremely upset from this crisis and now I can > garentee that USB drive will be connected to my desktop almost > perminitly from now on to backup every single update daily in hopes of > preventing a similar crisis. However, you know as I know that will not > solve the immediate issue. I have to decide where to go from here. All I > can think of is make some miner patches for the STFC 1.0 beta, and > forget about all the dynamic menus and stuff for now. I can not bring > myself to rewrite all that stuff right now. It would be to stressful on > me emotionally to try and recreate two or three months of code again if > not more since it will all be from scratch this time. In fact, at this > moment I am so stressed I would rather drop STFC completely for months > until I can feel ready to take on that project. To say I feel miserable > is the understatement of the century. > I'll probably work on something else such as Montezuma's Revenge since > that at least won't be as stressful to work on. > > Howling like a wounded Klingon: > Thomas Ward > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
