In all fairness; Once warned me from start about his way of working. Which is to code and test intensely during a short period, and then be inactive for a couple of weeks, until next coding spree arises. I have no problem with that, as long as some interesting code comes out of it, and it has. Each have their own method of work and I am not going to tell anyone when and how they should do things. Instead I think we should be grateful for the things that actually are produced.
It's another thing that worries me more.
During the last months, (and earlier too), our Forums have been very active, and a lot of ideas and suggestions come up. Some of those involve a total upheaval of our current system, others obviously need a lot of work, coordination and testing, yet others are possible to implement with a reasonable amount of work without interfering with the rest of the system. Some require the cooperation of both builders and coders, others are more pure coding, but require input and testing from players.
Here is what bothers me about this:
A lot of ideas get tossed around, many of them have potential. In some cases there even seems to be a total concensus that they should be implemented.
Then time passes, our coders have limited time or interest, or other things pop up that need to take precedence.
Then new ideas about new things pop up and get tossed around, and suddenly the earlier ones that did have potential are buried and forgotten. It's even hard to drag them up from the forums, since they are spread over so many different places, sometimes in a thread that started about something totally different.
So what we need is an easy reference that allows us to call up the ideas that most people seemed to like.
I'm going to start a new thread called Priorities, and list all the ideas that I remember and liked myself on it. Then I'll make it sticky, so it is easy to find. Others can add to the list and/or comment my choices, but I don't want the thread to grow into one of the usual megathreads, filled with even more ideas. That discussion should take place in other threads, and if it happens anyhow I'll just split the thread. The original list should be kept simple and short, easy to find and to return to.