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Hey iKing,

I don't want to sound like one of the typical annoying people who pester and whine "when is this being released" as I would much rather wait a long time for a really amazing mod over getting it quickly and crappy.

However, I do have a question about the release date. Do you think a version of this mod might be available to the public by Christmas? If not, I would totally understand as you people do have lives, and you want the absolute best for this mod (as does most other people). I was just a bit curious.

Thanks for your time,

Tippydaug

Well, there are already things that do this though. (Slime blocks and water)

You say because the wool would look nicer and not bounce you, it should be added. I disagree. Just use water for no bounce and a resource pack for better looks.

No support, sorry.

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This is a really great question and one I've always been willing to answer whenever someone has asked it in the past. Simply put, the programming of this project has never been an easy task. I am not a programmer, this means that I alone am not responsible for the completion of the DWCM.
Our lead programmer for the majority of the 3 years work had his life become incredibly busy with college and now work at a silicon valley startup, from time to time which meant that he would be gone for months on end and unable to work on DWCM regardless of how much he wanted to. Of course we brought on new coders from time to time but none of them really quite knew exactly how to get our key features done so they pretty much just added blocks and items.

It was only within the past 6/7 months where we brought on another incredibly talented programmer, isteinvids who has since taken over for yof as lead programmer on the DWCM. With istein we have been able to get so much done over these past few months but he and I still have an incredibly amount of responsibilities. He has his job and I have college, they are huge time sucks. We aren't high school kids with nothing to do but some homework and household chores.

But regardless of all that, the simple truth is that some things in DWCM right now infuriate me beyond belief. There are some elements of gameplay or lack there of that **** me off to no end haha. I want to see those things fixed before we unleash the DWCM upon the world. One of these such things is the fact that through the history of the DWCM updates from beta 1.8.1, 1.2.3, 1.2.5, 1.5.2, 1.7.2 so much content was left behind for stupid reasons.

Believe me, noone wants the public to be able to play more than anyone than myself. But if even I get pissed off and want to pull my hair out regarding some things, what do you think would happen if you were to attempt to use the same thing? I've seen accusations from...a certain other group of people....that I'm delaying this for ad revenue and patreon funds. This simply isn't true, more than half of the patrons of our campaign are false or havent pledged since their very first month nearly over a year ago. Our ad revenue is **** poor, by law i cant say how much but I can say that it takes about 5-6 months to get a single google payment at the minimum required amount haha. There is no money to be gained from this project, it cost's us more than we bring in. I myself am thousands of dollars in debt from college and cannot even pay our webhosting, but thankfully Yofreke (before mentioned former lead programmer) who owns the sever, is a great friend and team member and doesn't request blood & pieces of my soul in exchange for keeping the lights on. Doesn't mean I dont feel like **** when I can't pay him because the site doesn't bring enough money to pay the bills.

But yeah, back to DWCM itself. It's taking so long simply because we do not have the programming manpower to get things done at lightning speed.

I really don't know if I answered the question here. I rambled on quite a bit didn't I, well, im sure there's some nuggets of something that makes sense in there lol. But yeah, I hate the fact the public doesn't have access to DWCM yet, it's something I talk about daily to the team. 3 years is an absurdly long amount of time and I hate that fact.

Thank you for taking the time to answer me. This answered my question perfectly!

For what you described, you guys are doing a phenomenal job!

Also, thank you for giving a real answer. I've had many people (from other mods and things) be extremely rude when asked questions.

Good luck on the rest of the mod! I can't wait to see what all you have to offer!

Hey iKingSGC!

Before you quit reading, this isn't another "when will this be released" post. I know you have a life and you want the best for this mod.

I do, however, have one question. Why has it taken nearly four years so far? Many mods that offer similar amounts of content, though not Doctor Who related, have come out in much shorter amounts of time.

I know you want this bug-free, but a few months ago on the stages of pre-release form, this was said by you: Please note that testing has not begun yet however we hope to have the alpha being sometime soon and a open beta public release a few weeks after that!

I wonder why that hasn't changed in a few months now. It doesn't seem that it would take that long to actually start the testing process.

Thank you for your time reading this. I know this mod will be great! I just hope it doesn't take another four years.......

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I didn't plan it, but somebody did...
But Who?!?!?!?

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hey dude. it seems as your map will be another map with boring towers and not a thorough, beautifal city such as Tazader 10.1 or industria....

i think you need to either give up on your hopes of a famous map that represents a city or not have so high hopes I belive that will be crushed.



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