Hey folks,
some news. The mod's still there, and it's being worked on much more now, but I've had to cut some things out. It recently occurred to me that I had done what I wanted to avoid - blowing up the mod concept with things that had no place in it, planning too far ahead etc. That has changed now, and my plans are much more realistic.
With the recent decline of the modding community as a whole, me and Mike (Fireball) are probably the only people still working on stock TCs. (Well, I don't think we'll ever see The Ultimate Star Trek Armada II All Races Mod & More as 'promised' by JN, so that doesn't count.) It's getting cold out here, with so many people gone. I don't even know whether anyone but me will play this thing when it's done. But hey, that one person is enough for me. I'm determined. It's hard to keep up nowadays, with both Sigma and FO being wonderful mods. It's both inspiring and demotivating. Knowing that the very instant a new Sigma release comes out, you'll drop everything where you stand and run of to install because ASDFGHJKLNEEDTUNGOODNESSOMGWTFBBQ what is this sorcery? how does he do the awesome?.
I took a stroll down Dead Mod Lane recently, browsing through old FF news and stuff. It's hilarious reading "Is A2 playing and modding dead?" in 2004 or so. "This is the best mod ever, and it'll be released in a few months!" in a post about a mod I never heard of, and never will again, because the post is almost ten years old. God knows I've pulled enough of these. You always think you'll have enough time to do some serious work and to finish, and then a few days later something pops up and distracts you. Ah, whatever. Reminiscing and whining is not gonna do any good.
TL;DR: still at it, had to cut down the mod a bit, need MOAR COFFEH ****it :x