My first code contribution to AC was on April 25th, 2007. It was the "deaths" column on the scoreboard.
My last code contribution to AC was earlier today. It was a small code cleanup after adding an "undo" function to the map editor to restore deleted entities.
So, it lasted eight years and one month. It ended, because I have no support left in the dev team. Well, not "no support" at all, but with jamz gone, it's basically down to grenadier alone.
Congrats to Vanquish, G1gantuan and Marti. You've proven, that it's ok to personally insult me in the worst possible way, without any consequences for you whatsoever. X-Ray_Dog owns the forum, and he decided, it was my own fault that I was insulted. It is now official: you can call X-Ray_Dog whatever you want on #assaultcube - it will not have any consequences! You should try it out :)
Marti has been gunning for "anything but stef" for over a year now. Feel free to ask him for his reasons. And ask him, who'll be next...
Well, don't worry about me. I'll be getting several gigabytes of disk space and time enough for at least two new hobbies out of this. I really liked the game and had lots of new stuff in the queue for it - but I won't bend over for the forum mob, just because X-Ray_Dog says so.
Yes, I did want more strict moderation for this forum - because the devs needed a place to discuss game topics with the players. Did you know, that this forum has a secret section titled "A sanctuary away from the trolls.", that the devs use for the interesting discussions about the game? Because the main forum was not usable for serious topics? But hey, "Its how its been done in the past", so why change that.
Apparently, that is the reason, that X-Ray_Dog can't support me against bullies: I gave warnings to forum users, who insulted others, and, most importantly, I spoke out against servers who deliver broken content. I'll leave that one to you, to figure out... (I offered to write a small extension for the master server, so that bad servers would not have to be completely removed but instead could be just moved to the bottom of the list. X-Ray_Dog is in charge of the master server. He was not interested.)
Over the last year, I had a lot of discussions with contributors and interested players. Almost none of those discussions happened here in the forum (or in #assaultcube, for that matter). For the simple reason, that discussions in the forum were not possible. Several contributors refused to allow me to even bring their names up in the forum - because they didn't want to get dragged into the mud.
X-Ray_Dog is not really the owner of AC. He has simply taken over responsibility for the forum. He owns the forum. So it would be his responsibility to provide a safe working environment here for all contributors of the game. And moderation has proven to work: sure, Undead still only posts mindless nonsense, but he hasn't insulted anyone since his last ban timed out. But why would Marti have to start behaving properly, when X-Ray_Dog revokes even single-point warnings (for insults, btw) from his account?
X-Ray_Dog is sure, that there will be new releases of AC. One day. Eventually. There always have been, haven't they?
Good luck to grenadier, then. He's the last active coder who still commits code to the repository. But, of course, Marti is already gunning for him, too.
I want to thank all the players who walked in front of my shotgun or tripped onto one of my nades during the last eight years. It was the great matches with you all, what kept me here for that long. I also want to thank all the contributors of the game for the endless hours spent. Thank you all.
btw: my only condition for staying on the dev team was: that Vanquish has to keep his warning points for calling me "hitler". That was all I asked for.
My last code contribution to AC was earlier today. It was a small code cleanup after adding an "undo" function to the map editor to restore deleted entities.
So, it lasted eight years and one month. It ended, because I have no support left in the dev team. Well, not "no support" at all, but with jamz gone, it's basically down to grenadier alone.
Congrats to Vanquish, G1gantuan and Marti. You've proven, that it's ok to personally insult me in the worst possible way, without any consequences for you whatsoever. X-Ray_Dog owns the forum, and he decided, it was my own fault that I was insulted. It is now official: you can call X-Ray_Dog whatever you want on #assaultcube - it will not have any consequences! You should try it out :)
Marti has been gunning for "anything but stef" for over a year now. Feel free to ask him for his reasons. And ask him, who'll be next...
Well, don't worry about me. I'll be getting several gigabytes of disk space and time enough for at least two new hobbies out of this. I really liked the game and had lots of new stuff in the queue for it - but I won't bend over for the forum mob, just because X-Ray_Dog says so.
Yes, I did want more strict moderation for this forum - because the devs needed a place to discuss game topics with the players. Did you know, that this forum has a secret section titled "A sanctuary away from the trolls.", that the devs use for the interesting discussions about the game? Because the main forum was not usable for serious topics? But hey, "Its how its been done in the past", so why change that.
Apparently, that is the reason, that X-Ray_Dog can't support me against bullies: I gave warnings to forum users, who insulted others, and, most importantly, I spoke out against servers who deliver broken content. I'll leave that one to you, to figure out... (I offered to write a small extension for the master server, so that bad servers would not have to be completely removed but instead could be just moved to the bottom of the list. X-Ray_Dog is in charge of the master server. He was not interested.)
Over the last year, I had a lot of discussions with contributors and interested players. Almost none of those discussions happened here in the forum (or in #assaultcube, for that matter). For the simple reason, that discussions in the forum were not possible. Several contributors refused to allow me to even bring their names up in the forum - because they didn't want to get dragged into the mud.
X-Ray_Dog is not really the owner of AC. He has simply taken over responsibility for the forum. He owns the forum. So it would be his responsibility to provide a safe working environment here for all contributors of the game. And moderation has proven to work: sure, Undead still only posts mindless nonsense, but he hasn't insulted anyone since his last ban timed out. But why would Marti have to start behaving properly, when X-Ray_Dog revokes even single-point warnings (for insults, btw) from his account?
X-Ray_Dog is sure, that there will be new releases of AC. One day. Eventually. There always have been, haven't they?
Good luck to grenadier, then. He's the last active coder who still commits code to the repository. But, of course, Marti is already gunning for him, too.
I want to thank all the players who walked in front of my shotgun or tripped onto one of my nades during the last eight years. It was the great matches with you all, what kept me here for that long. I also want to thank all the contributors of the game for the endless hours spent. Thank you all.
btw: my only condition for staying on the dev team was: that Vanquish has to keep his warning points for calling me "hitler". That was all I asked for.