Don't read more into this than I'm saying....
Blacklancer99 wrote:thedugan wrote:Blacklancer99 wrote:Besides, the way I look at it, me paying for Starmada products allows Dan and his band of merry men to get their creative fix and still manage to live somewhere besides their parents basement, or in a group home. 
what can I say...I'm an enabler.
Eh, so you missed the several posts where all the 'staff' of MJ12 Games all have day jobs? Like full time jobs with families in most cases?
Dont' get me wrong, it's enjoyable writing, modelling, rendering, assembling or whatever - but it's not like everyone is all in the same office (or even state) with their feet up on the desk.
There's a considerable amount of 'freelance' work in MJ12 products.
Nope, I didn't miss those posts. My point is that without others interested in what you are doing, it dies, and nobody knows or cares.
No, it doesn't die. Starmada will live as long as some boy (or girl - no gender bias here!) enjoys playing it. It might sit on some Geocities page, instead of being continually developed and sold as it is now....
Blacklancer99 wrote:The Starmada gang is lucky that people like what they do. I Never implied anyone was sitting with their feet up on the desk as I' not a naive teenager and know how things really work.
Yeah, we are. But, we'd do it ANYWAY...and that's the point of what I said.
Blacklancer99 wrote:Frankly, I was trying to be lighthearted, but you seem to have taken it personally. For that I apologize.
Nope, I was somewhat taken aback by the idea that we're all getting rich off this. Most (if not all) of what's charged for MJ12 pubs goes right into subsidizing this stuff. I wish I was getting rich off it, but that's pretty unlikely. The greatest thing that anyone's going to get out of this is some recognition which MIGHT lead to some sweet well-paying gig.
I thought it was pretty well-known that MJ12 was a one-man show with a bunch of amateurs helping.
...what I forgot is that not everyone has been here as long as I have, after about 40, all the years start to run together....
Blacklancer99 wrote:The yahoo group I pointed you to has a project that I did with a fellow gamer (from Ireland) for free as an expansion to B5wars. He did most of the artwork and we worked on conceptual stuff together, but I wrote the text. I worked on it in my free time for over a year. Did I mention it was for free? We all do stuff like that. I have a full time job, a house, family and a cat.
Like I said, "So, what are you writing?"...?
Blacklancer99 wrote:Hope I'm not too insubordinate Admiral, Sir.
You have to be subordinate, in order to be INsubordinate....
