Quote Originally Posted by Hell-demon View Post
Also we are getting a very bleak view of behind the scenes. Are you working a dev team or a cancer ward? Seems like everyone is fucking miserable and has a tumour and is screaming " I just want this over with!"
I'll give you my view on what behind the scenes is like.

Earlier in the thread I saw the "challenge" that Xortag laid down for the conversion tool and then saw your first question on the task (About which language to use) my thinking went like this.

So we need a tool. I could write it in .NET or maybe Python? Ruby? Go? One of those languages may be the right tool for the job or not. Now that's the first question you asked, but what will be the next question on the task? Soon you will realise that potentially a simple task will have lots of questions and issues to make the task a lot harder.

In software engineering terms, Neocron has a lot of technical debt. Frequently we have a discussion on slack for a simple problem, that turns out to be a lot more complicated. However I do feel the willpower is there to solve the problems.

Here's something I'm working on with Trivaldi - sorting out the email problems. I would have loved to have fixed this problem weeks ago, but when you are changing around with critical part of the Neocron infrastructure (And I'm not talking about the mail server itself) you need to tread very carefully. Tonight there is an issue with syncing in game. As I type this, Zoltan has found the issue (A log file was taking up space) and I can stop worrying that it's not connected to what myself and Trivaldi did last night.

Here is the negative side of things. Put yourself in a customer support role. When you read the forums you see complaints, negative feedback etc, how would you feel? We do have to step back from time to time, otherwise you could find a pissed off team member closing this thread and banning your account - we don't do that. If we did that, we would loose the community.

I would very much love to work on NC full time, but practically that's impossible. I need a job to keep the roof over my head and pay for the equipment to make NC better.

What keeps me going and not walking away - the community are a fantastic bunch when they are at their best.