we are aware that 3 years is a long time - too long for sure. - there has been trouble with the organization of things for most of the time. - but really - considering that ppl sit all around the globe - don t know each other ... other than via some chats - live totally different lifestyles and for the exception of maybe cannon - are complete strangers to coding ... its actually rather amazing that something useful happens at all.
freeworlds .... is ambitious, looks fabulous - and is also pretty much ready to be shipped out. - i can only applaud them for what they achieved. - but it is not a race. - not even remotely a competition.
maybe they are simply better - most probably they are. - this is no ones fault. - freeworlds might - by the looks of it ... be a stepping stone for some amateur modders into the professional league of game designers - who knows.
all in all - we are damn happy and grateful that after so many years - we still have a huge playerbase - who DO enjoy our little discovery - even if its not the shiny jewel that some other mods are. - for some unexplainable reason - we do have the largest playerbase - still.
so i firmly believe that we DO some things right.
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oh - and its no sacrilege to play both - freeworlds AND discovery