Author: Wizardry Dragon (---.cpe.net.cable.roger)
Date: 12-07-09 07:18
I have been slogging away at TFL, as Marzo can attest to, but I've been having a lot of difficulty staying online for more than a few moments at a time so I haven't been able to commit. As well, working a retail job during the christmas season, well, it takes up a lot of my time, lets leave it like that. I really should be making a better attempt to fight my insomnia right now, I have to be awake for an 8-hour shift in 6 hours and Ive not yet slept :)
In either event, once Christmas has passed, I expect to release the Feudal lands - likely in Feburary, to give myself time for testing. And I dont mean a bugfix patch for the alpha as I originally intended - that wouldn't be very fair. I mean something that is actually playable (though probably not all the way through). I will refrain from making specific quotes as this just ends up either getting pushed off till later or as Ultima IX and Serpent Isle infamously proved, rushed to completion, or incompletion if you prefer.
I don't think I will ever complete the Feudal Lands. There will always be something I want to add, something I want to change or rework, in the realms. It's something I take a lot of pride in making, and a lot of care. Hopefully it shows the work that I and Marzo and others have put into it. It's kind of my baby, and I feel a certain attachment to it, and an obligation to make it the best it can be. And there's always some way or another to improve it. I have all sorts of ideas where to go after TFL proper is done - so much so, in fact, that I have to remind myself that I have to finish TFL first :)
I think it's pretty safe to say I'll probably be developing TFL far after the U7 community goes the way of the dodo, if it ever does. I enjoy it, and even after almost a decade fiddling with it - in fact probably more than a decade - it hasn't lost it's appeal. And I think that is one of the appeals of Ultima to people. There's a certain sense of timelessness to those games.
Ah, but here I am in sleep-deprived rambling. I best stop myself before I get renamed Iolo. :)
Cheers,
Wizardry Dragon
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