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Donation driven development
Visalos:
I'll throw some cash here pretty soon; i figure i owe you and biskup a few bucks each :P side note: Dwarf Fortress is epic, yes, but have you ever checked your system resources while the game is merely 'idling'? My Vista machine, box of rocks though it may be, can barely run the thing; CPU maxed out, 75k memory usage. I haven't tried it on this comp, but i expect similar atrociousness.
ParaSait:
--- Quote from: Visalos on April 07, 2009, 10:53 ---I'll throw some cash here pretty soon; i figure i owe you and biskup a few bucks each :P side note: Dwarf Fortress is epic, yes, but have you ever checked your system resources while the game is merely 'idling'? My Vista machine, box of rocks though it may be, can barely run the thing; CPU maxed out, 75k memory usage. I haven't tried it on this comp, but i expect similar atrociousness.
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Well, I'm happy that I'm not the only one who has that. I thought it was some kind of error that only my computer had, which made DF a big useless resource user.
But it's still a nice game; Except maybe for the fact that I'm not really the realtime RTS type, I prefer the turn based tactical shooter actually (Hint hint, DoomRL ^^)
Oh and I'd really like to give you a donation, Kornel, but I'm afraid I'm not old and competent enough for that... Maybe in within 2 years or so? ;)
Visalos:
Take 0.9.9 hostage, and only release it if you receive some inordinate sum of money.
rekenne:
--- Quote from: Visalos on April 07, 2009, 10:53 ---I'll throw some cash here pretty soon; i figure i owe you and biskup a few bucks each
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I was all for donating to Biskup, until I discovered that he sorta ... fell off the face of the planet and never released the code for ADOM. He said, years ago, he'd release it when it was done.
...
Yeaaah.
Though, on this topic's, well, topic: I was thinking of donating again after the next release came out for real. As I'll probably have another dose of Financial Aid by that point. <_<
Kornel Kisielewicz:
--- Quote from: Visalos on April 07, 2009, 10:53 ---Dwarf Fortress is epic, yes, but have you ever checked your system resources while the game is merely 'idling'? My Vista machine, box of rocks though it may be, can barely run the thing; CPU maxed out, 75k memory usage. I haven't tried it on this comp, but i expect similar atrociousness.
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Considering the amount of magic it does behind the scenes, I'm not surprised :>.
--- Quote from: Visalos on April 07, 2009, 14:45 ---Take 0.9.9 hostage, and only release it if you receive some inordinate sum of money.
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Surprisingly this is one of the most effective donation-driven development methodologies. I was however thinking of something less drastic, like targets per feature.
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