It gets to where a fellow cannot take a trip to go visit his octogenarian parents without half the unemployed jesters of the kingdom descending like jackals upon his unguarded reputation.
Please note that NONE of my detractors here chose to use any private communications until the end there, that one snarky message they chose to share in forum too. The choice of public sniping instead of polite private dialog is indicative of the intent; which is to attack.
A reasonable person asks for a LINK. Instead this wave of attacks on my work open with suggestions I should forward the URL, and jump right up to I should give you the DOMAIN.
Notice how they all ignored the two plus year old request for help with some required art pieces. Ignored the help request for two plus years.
Hensua, I am a curious fellow and must ask, who died and made you 'the community'? Helpful people help, unhelpful people do what you do.
Ever read the comic strip 'Dilbert'? RL is very much like that, full of people with a thimble full of lore and a bucket full of loud opinions. I worked for a number of them in my day, and they'd insist on things like 'deadlines' and 'features' and 'methods' with one major difference between they and you (posters bashing me in this thread), those others actually PAID me for my work. You are freeloaders in that for a fact you do not pay me, and pushy ones at that to make such grand demands.
neverwinterconnections.com is DONE, neverwinterconnections has been done since noted in that post here dated more than TWO YEARS AGO. At that time we (programmers) asked for some help from the community and 'the community' did not comply. In the face of such apathy on the part of the community, knowing it would be a lot like suggesting 'recreational dentistry' to even get the operational funding needed to host the thing, we chose to let the community have what it gave us to work with, which would be NOTHING.
Put down your thimbles, put down your buckets. I don't answer to you. I don't have to explain myself to you, most of what I'd tell you would be meaningless to you. I won't waste time trying to teach pigs to sing.
NICE people, we treat them nicely. Pascalbrax is one such nice fellow, the operator of
http://iscandar.ch
When he came to us last year and POLITELY put the question to us (Eriniel and I) as to why we did not comply with his system's requirements so our server could be listed on his (fine) service. We explained why and Pascalbrax understood. More, we explained, with code supplied, how to make his system work with all those NWN servers running with no changes from standard install on NWN. Thus, we enabled Pascalbrax to expand the support he offers to the whole community. Don't take my word for it (you never do), but look at the site linked above and see the note on the front page that reads "2014.11.24 Iscandar can now also scan GameSpy-disabled servers (thanks Eriniel & GM_ODA from Aldohral server)."
Yea, that 'app' you talked about making in this thread a few messages back. We did that already, for neverwinterconnections.com, its done and just sitting there. Because some in the community won't stop being a bunch of carping magpies and actually HELP when help is asked, it has been sitting there unused and unavailable for two years.
All I get in this forum is often a lot of bashing, negativity and outright vitriol.
Soup will be soup when it is soup. Get out of my kitchen and stop asking stupid questions.
Does it bother you that my server is in beta? Good. I am ENJOYING building it, enjoying layering in beautiful systems that work to enhance RP most of which can be found nowhere else. Why do we release so little of our scripted systems back to the community? Well, actually, we have released quite a bit (seasonal fruiting plants, size-screening alternate transitions,etc.), but that goes un-noted by the producers of the feedback we see here in this thread, and well, I don't feed carping magpies. When I am dead, Eriniel might release some or all of the work we have created to the public, I'll leave that to her either way, but to be certain, she is not in general favorably impressed with carping.
Want to see neverwinterconnections.com online? It requires art and it requires a server to host (a full server, not some craptastic shared hosting amateur level drech). I had recently (just in the last three months) among my own server's playerbase secured a pledge of funds to get such a machine started. With but a meager budget Eriniel and I began searching for the right server and contract arrangements, but do so knowing 'the community ' must bear the costs through donations in the future and frankly it is as disheartening to consider the dearth of support from the community as it is to look across the land of Mordor and know your destination is Mount Doom. We received no support from 'the community' here when we asked for help. The silence of the response was overwhelming.
Now this, friendly approach from 'the community'? Eh, I am leaning toward investing NO more time in neverwinterconnections.com having read this. We have been working diligently on zero budget since NWC closed. What have you been doing?
I had toyed with the idea of contacting my old friend Larry Elmore to do a deal to get some art to fill the need, still, even as a old friend there would be some money that passes hands. Ultimately I was at loathe to even discuss the matter since I had no base budget from which to work, anything negotiated would then have to be brought back to 'the community' whose response has been modest and never what was requested. Honestly, I think instead I'll hold that favor I would ask of Larry for a time when I need it and it would be used by those kindly and deserving. As evidenced in this thread, that would seem to exclude this group. I am presently looking at other game engines and may call in that favor for some fine looking art to go with the debut of whatever I craft next. If you are all jets firing to build a replacement for neverwinterconnections.com, that's OK, I can re-purpose my secure custom forum and game scheduling system to work with that new project.
By all means, go build your own site and your own app and know that I won't presume to tell you how to do it. I truly hope the whole community gets behind you on this, and by some crazy fluke of the universe the dark entities that grow daily in sophistication and number somehow overlook your effort, because historically they have pwnd the community, THIS COMMUNITY, again and again.
Best wishes.
