I see several problems with this unusual approach...
See here:
We have promised to not have our own Release, before TAC 2.03 was released.
1. I repeat, we have
promised to not have our own releases before TAC 2.03 is released.
So there is
no discussion about that even if TAC 2.03 still needs another year to be released ...
(Our internal version already contains parts of TAC 2.03 since I am merging on a regular basis.)
2. If TAC 2.03 is out, it is still our own decision / judgement, if we are satisfied with
quality of our mod and are ready to release that.
Although this mod is
really huge, currently our mod is
extremely stable.
But our features and additions are not yet "perfect" ...
We have already now added
massive amounts of improvements and features and are adding more every week.
However some of them still need to be improved (balancing, AI, graphics, ...).
After TAC 2.03 is out, we will enter a phase of finetuning, improving and balancing.
After that phase we will have our first release.
3. We are having a lot of fun with modding.
For me, this is pretty independent of having a release or not.
Summary:
I can really understand, that it is annoying for non-teammembers to not be able to play our mod.
But the community will have to wait until a few weeks
after TAC 2.03 for our
first release.
(It really does not make any sense to have further discussions about that ...)
I promise, it will be worth waiting.
Our
first release will
not be the
final one.
We plan to have
many more releases after our first one.
These might be on a much more regular basis then.