PF Prophet said:
well thats not how you come across in what you have said it sounds like you plan to "fix" the game and "evolve" it
to me a strate port (as close as possable) then adding content would seem like the best rout since it would allow your team to get the game as spot on to what we have as possable and allow people to test the game and play it as you work on the new content
this would be far better then trying for an all in one mod that has ALOT more stuff to debug
if you started by making as close to a 1:1 copy of xmp as possable then debug it and work out the kinks then add more content in update packages in a cycled relice patern that would allow you to fix issues with less stress trying to track them down
since you would know that they where added by XXX patch/update
also it would let you balance the changes with grater ease
just my thoughts
I think its been implicit that they were starting with the current XMP stuff and moving it over.
Honestly, how else would you port this?
I don't know exactly if they are planning on doing an iterative process as you have suggested. I assume they would like a bunch of new content to come out with the first release, in order to give the game some freshness.
Anyways, I think for the most part this discussion has died down. I have the fullest confidence in what FMI is doing. Its nice to see some Legend people giving them some backing as well. It also looks like some people are warming up to the idea as well.