I'm not sure how I could have made it clearer
As stated in the FAQ entry, I have zero interest in project managing a group of developers or trying to integrate someone else's code. I'm not interested in Aurora having the best possible code or the best possible architecture or debating what that might look like. I simply want to have fun programming and playing. I do not want to share the actual code, which represents thousands of hours of work on my part. I don't want to waste time on bug reports caused by someone else hacking around and I don't want multiple potentially competing versions of Aurora. In simple terms, I want to maintain control over my creation.
Now it might seem 'weird' to you that I am not prepared to hand over my work to everyone and that's fine. I'm not trying to defend my stance on this, I am simply stating it so there is no confusion.
Okay, thanks for the clarifications, I believed those arguments to be about having people working on the actual game, not about open sourcing it.
While I largely disagree with some of those arguments its not up to me and you have made up your mind and I respect your wishes, so its pointless to debate, especially here. Weird simply because for me my default nature and thinking is to share things with others unless there is very good reason not to but people are different. Thanks for taking the time to answer and I hope you will reconsider one day as I would love to do some work expanding certain areas of the game.
Anyway, really excited for the release and appreciative of the hard work you are doing for us all!
Fer Cthullu's sake!
Steve is very nearly NOT releasing C# Aurora in ANY format to the public, because you all can't respect the mans property.
There will be no mod support. The source code will not be released. That's pretty clear from the MULTIPLE posts and thread that Steve created.
Imagine you had a boat, that you had built from scratch. It took several hundred hours to create. Now imagine sharing that boat with everyone, because you are proud of it. Now imagine everyone chopping that boat to pieces, changing things around to suit them. That boat that you built, suddenly doesn't look like your boat, your labor of love.
I would really, really, really like to actually be allowed to play with Aurora C#. I would like it to be released in a few weeks.
There is already a delay, caused by this community, with the repeated blatant statements that you will not respect the mans wishes, and will simply hack the source code anyway. This has led to an actual DELAY!!!
Please just respect Steve's wishes.
It isn't like its hard to figure them out.
Calm down buddy, I was just asking him to clarify since the post he made left me a bit confused about it, no need toget so upset over it. I am not going to get into a debate over the merits of freedom of information but suffice to say, a lot of of what you said I find to be incorrect of misleading and if you want me to explain how you can send me a message and I am happy to have a talk about it there, this thread is not the place. That is all I have to say about that, I am not demanding anything but please do keep a civil and respectful tone and don't treat me and others who have a different opinions and disagree with you and at perhaps Steve as if we are idiots. We, or at least I am, are fully aware of most arguments for and against open sourcing code, no need to be so derisive when making arguments.
There's a password for Space Master functions (if left blank Aurora treats this as 'no password'). You can lock each race behind its own password.
I can't remember if the current version supports locking time advance behind the SM password, but you can instruct your players that only the SM will advance time.
Now you can email the database to each player in turn (or use some sort of virtual drive and versioning support) and 'run' multiplayer Aurora.
(Note, however, that when two (or more) players start fighting each other the game is going to bog down to an epic degree. It can take days or even weeks for players A & B to finish a three-Aurora-hour fight during which players C through H can do nothing.)
Problem with that is its entirely honor based. Might work if you do it with close friends, but if you do some forum game or something its almost guaranteed someone will advance the game to know whats going to happen to get an advantage.
As for it taking a long time, well, hence the suggestion to make it multiplayer so one can do live battles and not have the battles bog down games forever.