Its not that noone has released a game yet, y'know.. I think we're talking to people, who know fairly well what it takes and what to expect and who also learnt at some point to deal with frustration, eventhough I dare postulating that one-man modding teams use to get frustrated much, much more, than a proper game developing company, that does the engine from scratch and thus knows it pretty well and has team members dedicated to specific areas so there is a certain development speed, quality and success to be accepted as realistic, even if not expected or anticipated.

I don't mean to sound overly enthusiastic, but just scanning over the latest posts in here I get an impression of that our community is tired and in fact somewhat cynical. Its not even constructive criticism here where we'd be pointing out likely obstacles, but just a general notion of "you guys even know what you're talking about?". Gentlemen, please. Be nice.

Goading? As in having them use the search function so that there is a reason to keep it at all? Guilty as charged

Though really, we've been there and we got this far and not everyone who happens to get to work on a mod is in fact merely a "modder", and we've seen that before, too. Seriously, we've been there, we got this far, so why couldn't anyone else who happens to work with games anyway? Besides, the ambition is less in an uber-mod or let alone a decent player base but really in getting to know what it takes and how it is like to work on a game in the space-sim genre. If you ask me, Freelancer is a very good start and regardless of just how far they get with the FL mod, they'll quite likely get what they're looking for just through the process of trying. You wouldn't expect anything less, would you?

Now that sounds good ! I'll be lurking around to see it