I'm holding out hope that there'll be a bunch of awesome things waiting for us that noone expected.

Occasionally post in GD or MR, but less so now that modding activity has pretty much fallen off the charts.

You crazy? 255+trans is a huge palette!

Also: I doubt the community will vanish, it'll just do what it always does, drop back to the members that're here for things other than a million free mods or help with getting started, and by the time the next build comes out we'll all be a tad bitter again and punch any dumb new kids in the face.

I think we were forced out of the "punch the new kid" phase by weasel, and now we're into the "Reluctantly putting up with the idiots and waiting for the next build" phase.

Well that's unfortunate. I loved to 'punch the new kid'.

Eh, I can see it coming full circle. We're never that bad anyway, just a little coarse.

We can always hope.

To be honest unless the new stuff is incredible and game-changing (and I doubt it, it's just going to be the metagame and some content made by hired modmakers) I think it's been so long between builds that I doubt I'll even play the new release more than once.
This has been such a long stretch of nothing that I've pretty much lost all interest in this game :(

You're always such a let down metal :/

He has a valid point.

How can anyone be expected to keep renewed interest in a game even its creator doesn't carry?

Honestly I hope sometimes that an actual game publisher comes along and buys up the rights to the game and gives it some proper treatment.

I agree. Even if they completely ruin the Indie spirit, at least we'll get some progress.

And Metal Chao is right, there isn't really going to be anything new. perhaps some new lua attachables for cavecricket to play with, but honestly, I don't even expect a full metagame.

Fixed.

But yeah, progress tends to be slow when you have a relatively small team of developers fragmented across the globe in different timezones trying to work on the same project while simultaneously doing everything else in their lives. They are not a full-time professional team, guys.

Here's where I would make some kind of comparison to 3D Realms to make everybody feel better about the slow progress, but ♥♥♥♥, even Duke Nukem Forever has a release date now.

Fixed that fix for you that you fixed.

Trying to comprehensively list the modders which would benefit greatly from easy attachable script execution and otherwise better implementation would be near incredibly difficult.

Indeed it would. We could complain about all the silly issues for hours though :/