The solution couldn't possibly have been not to yank all the developers off of the project to work on ST.
You know, it is interesting how much bad feeling still remains over something I wasn't that emotionally invested in[0]. There's a lesson somewhere in there for me as a computer and systems engineer I think.
[0] The existance of character creator features I'd sorely wanted in CoH and the nice way character names were handled built up a lot of expectations for me I think. Which is why the hard crashes right out of creation hurt so much.
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Right, I'll stop complaining now.
--
"Something that only time will bring you is a nice round candy box full
of lock washers, metric bolts, spare studs (that maybe you left out of
the engine), miscellaneous bits and pieces like starter bushings and,
as they say, etc." -- John Muir, "Idiot" manual.
You know, it is interesting how much bad feeling still remains over something I wasn't that emotionally invested in[0]. There's a lesson somewhere in there for me as a computer and systems engineer I think.
[0] The existance of character creator features I'd sorely wanted in CoH and the nice way character names were handled built up a lot of expectations for me I think. Which is why the hard crashes right out of creation hurt so much.
...
Right, I'll stop complaining now.
--
"Something that only time will bring you is a nice round candy box full
of lock washers, metric bolts, spare studs (that maybe you left out of
the engine), miscellaneous bits and pieces like starter bushings and,
as they say, etc." -- John Muir, "Idiot" manual.