zombare wrote:i also wish vni himself could do this
Sorry to tell you, but i've just talked with him extensively about this and there is currently NO CHANCE AT ALL that he will bring SMART back to live again!
Nadeo just made to much fails, wrong decisions, bullshit, crap and massive bugs in the ridiculous amount of betas, patches and release-time displacements and he and the whole team just invested too much free-time in this project without having any benefit from it at all.
Our own approaches towards quality regarding SMART would cost and require too much motivation, too much time and too much money to bring SMART back to live with the whole "original developer team" that there is no chance that this will happen again.
Nadeo just lost too much credibility and reputation to bring people like us back to "work for them" on a game some of us already and even lost the hope that it will have success or even make fun. Nadeo not even really supports server controller developer like us! So we do all on our own just to have them nice and smooth server controllers for the community?! no way. I think we have asked for several months or even years to bring nadeo finally to implement RPC-Callbacks into their game mode scripts which we hardly needed, nothing ... the did not, never. (Just to bring one example)
Sorry for this bad news.
zombare wrote:i also wish vni himself could do this, or give permission for someone, as now when shootmania is becoming more stable and the new version could carry on long time without need for updates.
First of all that is not possible and it is just wrong to think that any version will carry long time without needed updates. Let me tell you, as part of the dev-team, that nearly ALL updates from nadeo, every single patch of shootmania (if not just a small hotfix) and of course every new game mode or script changements will NEED and FORCE smart to be updated and adjusted. This is one of the reasons why we do not want and have time to keep smart alive.
But no matter to the license we have published SMART (as ManiacTwister is right), it is a matter of common decency to ask us or at least vni for approval if someone wants to start the development of SMART in future.
I have talked with him about this too and if there is someone who is SERIOUSLY interested and SERIUOSLY able and got enough programer abilities, he can contact me by PM and/or just start to do so.
So the only chance to bring SMART back to live and frequently updated is that there will be someone out there who got enough skill, time and motivation. Then i may be ready to help and support him as my time and motivation will let me.
Greetings
yamyam