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Yeah, that was an eye-opener. Richard's been evasive and vague about this rumour for quite some time now, but he's never outright said it's not true. I'll be monitoring .dat's forums closely to see how they respond, but I suspect the cat is more or less out of the bag already...

Hey baby arm, nice to see you too And thanks for those links - there were a couple there that I hadn't read, and I thought I'd read the whole forum! (BTW, I'm on Bearpit too - but under my old nick. I took exception to a certain (now banned) poster calling you 'baby boy' in a JA3D thread recently...)

Thanks for the welcome. As a bit of a caveat on what I posted before, I read somewhere that the situation was a bit more complex than how it appeared on the surface, but it was just one post somewhere I can't remember, so I'm personally sticking with what I've seen first-hand until and unless something with a bit more substance comes out of the closet. I never played the sci-fi mode in JA2 and I probably won't in JA3D or JA3 either. But some folks loved it. And at least it's canon - I remember Ian Currie having a big rant somewhere ages ago about how he'd like JA3 to have more aliens and stuff; he wanted more than just humans as enemies. Scared me a bit at the time, I must admit. I'd also personally prefer development time and energy to go into the core game rather than aliens. But hey, each to his own. For every sci-fi afficionado there's a gun lover wanting more realism in range and ammo types and a reality freak asking for supply lines and somewhere to pee. If MistLand can pull off an even slightly convincing JA of any type, I'll be eternally grateful. From what I've been reading (and I've been following this saga for years), Richard really does care about the franchise and has veto power over the developers. If I'm right, I think we will indeed see something excellent coming out of this. If I'm wrong, well, another wonderful series goes to Oblivion I guess...

I'll be the first to admit that my memory is far from infallible, but I'm pretty sure it was MistLand, not SFI, that went off the rails into real-time combat ideas, wasn't it? I also seem to remember Richard Therrien (SFI) being quite surprised when the fans told him, and duly rapping MistLand's knuckles over the matter. There's a long thread on MistLand's forums covering the whole debacle. (It's an interesting read, BTW, MistLand's attitude is a bit of an eye-opener!) Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course, but as it stands that quoted statement incorrectly shows SFI in an undeserved bad light. Oh, and Hi!