Though this is being done without official notice from the main mod designer, Vehem, so should he show up and reveal that his absence was due to an emergency trip, or a fried harddrive, development may continue immediately and with a vengeance at that point. But it doesn't seem overly probable.
*cough*
Well, my timing appears to suck...
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I've been away from Civ for a while - a combination of the factors listed above. Initially my computer needed replacing which the team knew about shortly after I did fix it - then a period of RL troubles that I didn't tell them about (was more concerned with dealing with them at the time, but I should have at least told someone). I'm not keen on discussing those publicly however, so I'll just apologize for the lack of communication and hope that will suffice.
Xienwolf and WarKirby have both sent PMs over the past month to find out what was wrong, but having not logged onto the site since then, I received them today. Given the lack of commutation on my part, the decision here is fully understandable. The exact timing of the whole thing is just somewhat tragically amusing (my sense of humour may be a little off just now admittedly...)
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I'm actually going to say that the hiatus will be continuing a little longer whilst we sort out what exactly the next move is. I for one need to catch up with what has been done in the meantime (and reinstall Civ - never did get around to that) and I've posted a few thoughts to the team board about things we may need to do - which includes taking a few steps back and looking at what we've done right/wrong and how things can be cleaned up.
For that reason, you may find that 060 is actually a cut-down of content with the aim of improving stability/speed, which can then be rebuilt either through the improved modular loading, or over time as things are better refined and readded.
I'm waiting to hear back on whether that is thought to be the correct move.
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Sorry again - will try to make it up to people.