Update on Progress

[Gyrfalcon]

Every time I see there is activity in this thread, I get excited...only to realize it’s just more people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are. 

Or when you see activity in this thread, only to realize it's more people complaining about people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are...

and so it goes... (and yes, I'm fully aware of the irony of my own post.)

[Tikigod]

Every time I see there is activity in this thread, I get excited...only to realize it’s just more people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are. 

Got to do something to pass the time given the approximate timeline Steve has given is between now and March 2020 at the earliest. 

Then I would suggest going back to school to get a degree, enter a trade program to learn a valuable skill, or perhaps come up with some brilliant idea to make millions. Posting labor complaints about management in the aurora forums seems like the absolute least productive use of passing the time.

Apologies for responding to someone else's comment Mr Rees-Mogg.

Side note, having a degree and learning a valuable skill doesn't magically create jobs..... would be nice if having attended university did mean anyone got handed a well paying job with a good employer though.... but such things are the dreams of those removed from actual reality.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Every time I see there is activity in this thread, I get excited...only to realize it’s just more people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are. 

Got to do something to pass the time given the approximate timeline Steve has given is between now and March 2020 at the earliest. 

Then I would suggest going back to school to get a degree, enter a trade program to learn a valuable skill, or perhaps come up with some brilliant idea to make millions. Posting labor complaints about management in the aurora forums seems like the absolute least productive use of passing the time.

I was unemployed back in the 1980s so went on a 3-month government-sponsored training scheme to learn to program

It was C in UNIX, but somehow I managed to translate that into get a job using C++ on Windows 3.1. Unfortunately, I was made redundant but soon got a second programming job using C++ with DEC. They needed me to also learn VB3, so I decided to learn by creating a program to help me play Starfire, which eventually formed the basis for Aurora. So, in a way, Aurora is the result of government-funding

[Garfunkel]

Hah, that's funny! Kinda like how the UK government paid for Harry Potter because JK Rowling was on welfare benefits when she wrote the first book.

[Tikigod]

Every time I see there is activity in this thread, I get excited...only to realize it’s just more people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are. 

Got to do something to pass the time given the approximate timeline Steve has given is between now and March 2020 at the earliest. 

Then I would suggest going back to school to get a degree, enter a trade program to learn a valuable skill, or perhaps come up with some brilliant idea to make millions. Posting labor complaints about management in the aurora forums seems like the absolute least productive use of passing the time.

I was unemployed back in the 1980s so went on a 3-month government-sponsored training scheme to learn to program

It was C in UNIX, but somehow I managed to translate that into get a job using C++ on Windows 3.1. Unfortunately, I was made redundant but soon got a second programming job using C++ with DEC. They needed me to also learn VB3, so I decided to learn by creating a program to help me play Starfire, which eventually formed the basis for Aurora. So, in a way, Aurora is the result of government-funding

lol, that's kind of awesome.

[Jarhead0331]

Every time I see there is activity in this thread, I get excited...only to realize it’s just more people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are. 

Got to do something to pass the time given the approximate timeline Steve has given is between now and March 2020 at the earliest. 

Then I would suggest going back to school to get a degree, enter a trade program to learn a valuable skill, or perhaps come up with some brilliant idea to make millions. Posting labor complaints about management in the aurora forums seems like the absolute least productive use of passing the time.

Apologies for responding to someone else's comment Mr Rees-Mogg.

Side note, having a degree and learning a valuable skill doesn't magically create jobs..... would be nice if having attended university did mean anyone got handed a well paying job with a good employer though.... but such things are the dreams of those removed from actual reality.

Herein lies your problem...you are expecting to “get handed” a well paying job. That is not how it works. Go out, work hard and make it happen. That, my friend, is “actual reality.”

Or, you can keep waiting and hoping for that perfect socialist utopia, where unicorns roam and rainbows will fly out of your butt.

[Tikigod]

Every time I see there is activity in this thread, I get excited...only to realize it’s just more people complaining about how overworked and underpaid they are. 

Got to do something to pass the time given the approximate timeline Steve has given is between now and March 2020 at the earliest. 

Then I would suggest going back to school to get a degree, enter a trade program to learn a valuable skill, or perhaps come up with some brilliant idea to make millions. Posting labor complaints about management in the aurora forums seems like the absolute least productive use of passing the time.

Apologies for responding to someone else's comment Mr Rees-Mogg.

Side note, having a degree and learning a valuable skill doesn't magically create jobs..... would be nice if having attended university did mean anyone got handed a well paying job with a good employer though.... but such things are the dreams of those removed from actual reality.

Herein lies your problem...you are expecting to “get handed” a well paying job. That is not how it works. Go out, work hard and make it happen. That, my friend, is “actual reality.”

Or, you can keep waiting and hoping for that perfect socialist utopia, where unicorns roam and rainbows will fly out of your butt.

The irony of you pointing out the very fallacy of your own previous post.

[xenoscepter]

Take care ye who quarrel on teh interwebs, lest the mods show up, for where the mods are there also is the Banhammer whose fury is swift and terrible...

[Erik L]

Take care ye who quarrel on teh interwebs, lest the mods show up, for where the mods are there also is the Banhammer whose fury is swift and terrible...

Yes. Yes I do have one of those.

No real world politics please.

[Deutschbag]

The only acceptable politics is veneration of the almighty God Emperor of Mankind. Go and pay heed, ye unworthy ones.

[xenoscepter]

THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!

[Tikigod]

The only acceptable politics is veneration of the almighty God Emperor of Mankind. Go and pay heed, ye unworthy ones.

Do love the current series, though also leaves more desire for C# seeing all that juicy functionality whilst left playing the VB version and its quirks, so I try to space out reading the updates for fear of suffering full C# lust symptoms.

[NihilRex]

I have not seen a single post from the C# series, because I fear the waiting shall become more intense.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

A minor change. I have updated the new resupply rules so that a maintenance facility can act as a cargo shuttle station for the purposes of transferring maintenance supplies to and from ships. It just felt odd that ships couldn't resupply at a population where they could be overhauled.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg109593#msg109593

[waresky]

A minor change. I have updated the new resupply rules so that a maintenance facility can act as a cargo shuttle station for the purposes of transferring maintenance supplies to and from ships. It just felt odd that ships couldn't resupply at a population where they could be overhauled.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg109593#msg109593

Dear Steve...its from 2016 (First Shot so far...wow..time passes really fast??)..am waitin for...