OKAY THAT'S IT!
I'm the only crazy one around here.
Please take it to the Official Fight Thread
so we keep the rest of the board clean for actual work.
Now, more seriously:
"Retro" and "AWACS" generated as quasi-derogatory terms which were supposed to be a JOKE, much like "Autobots" and "Decepticons" started off as derogatory terms one faction would use to refer to the other. Take it with a bit of irony please... I've since stopped using those terms because someone was taking actual offence.
I don't know if there are two sides or how many... there's probably a side for every kitty who ever played WC. I for one didn't much like WCP (nifty game, just nothing to do with wing commander) and thought that Priv 2 had nothing to do with the franchise (which is something that even EA design docs admit) and thought that the only nice thing about the movie was the eye candy. This said, will we end up putting Bug ships in the game? Probably. Will we end up having the Tri System in the game (although in a less developed form)? Something like that. Will we have movie related stuff? Maybe (Just please do NOT replace the game Tiger's Claw... please....). Right now we're sort of building a SDK. Then people who create plots will do something like
import VS
vs.SetStardate(2680)
AllowAutogenNephs = "true"
as part of their storyline.
I'm VERY sure that this project will fork, that always happens, just in the meantime, can we work on the stuff that we all agree about?