I'm a bit late checking in on this. My only excuse is a general malaise due in part to the absolute absence of any activity from Cyan that has kept me away from the forums lately. I've had experience primarily with Microsoft Project, although I've looked at many (commercial) project management syste...

I'm obviously late to the party, as usual. I just don't do well reading forums. * Average number of hours per week that you can devote to MORE development Currently, 4-6. After May, 2009 8+ * Whether you are a student, employed (part/full time), or both Employed full time, will be retiring in May, 2...

I just ran into this posting on Slashdot that has some interesting comments on the complexity of a player's first impression of a geme.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 03/0534216

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One last question/observation - is the intent to keep Yessh/DRC disciples forever separate, of just for the early stages of play? Put another way, would DRC devoteed be forever banned from the original 4 ages? Would that make any sense, since we know that some of the DRC have already taken Yeesha's...

Very well thought out and clearly stated, Alahmnat. I guess I'm over simplifying things or not understanding them. I really like the idea of starting in the desert. I never really understood why the change was made to starting in Relto in the first place. It seemed to me at the time that it would on...

OK now I have a major headache from trying to absorb all of this! Thanks, Alahmnat for clarifying much of the confusion - and for a great analysis of the descent. I really can't add much except to say that it was always a minor source of confusion to me as to why everyone had identical but separate ...

All I can say is you guys are AWESOME! I had some concerns about the preservation of the D'ni saga when Chogon announced the Open Sourcing initiative, but my faith in the core of talented people committed to the D'ni canon is obviously justified. I'm eager to help in any ways that I can - my talents...

If we're considering a commercial host (for a production environment) the Windows and Linux platforms are competitive. About $120 a month buys * Windows Server 2003 Standard * IIS 6.0 * Celeron CPU * 512 MB RAM * 80 GB SATA Hard Drive * 2000 GB Data Transfer The Linux and Windows platforms are withi...