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The question asked in the topic for this thread, may soon be a question on the lips of many Civ/MoO/SMAC/RTS/TBS/whatever enthusiasts. Suddenly the project they had been checking out every now and then, appears to have disappeared or that it has died.
Today the Stella Polaris Development Team made its final decision - development of Stella Polaris will be called off. The machinery has stopped. There won't be any Stella Polaris 1.0. But there is Stella Polaris.
After today's development IRC meeting, the work on developing Stella Polaris, was suspended completely. The development team has refered to a multitude of reasons, but basically a longterm lack of developers has gradually caused that the current development team has lost interest and other issues have swamped much of their time. All this basically means that there will be no Stella Polaris released, but all the intellectual material will be collected and stored. Also the web services will continue to function and Stella Polaris Forums will be transformed into the new Stella Polaris Universe website.
We did get some attention last fall when we had our Stella Polaris forum (or area 159, as Frozzy called it) here on ACS Forums and for a few months all our Stella Polaris buzz was here. We were a part of the Apolyton community. The forum is of course left, but archived invisible. We moved most of the discussion over to the new Stella Polaris Forums and the ties to ACS were cut off, as my personal relationship with the other staff of ACS became bad, which was primarily my fault. Of course that's a part of the past now, but that's how we left ACS and I was fired from my staff position. We never returned.
The work did progress, but the reasons mentioned above for the closure, did get their roots planted as we were last winter close to a full closure of the project. However things changed and we did get some more hope. Nevertheless, we are in a dead end now and that's why the decision was made today. The official announcement has been posted on Stella Polaris Forums.
We want to thank all Apolytoners for their interest in Stella Polaris.
Today the Stella Polaris Development Team made its final decision - development of Stella Polaris will be called off. The machinery has stopped. There won't be any Stella Polaris 1.0. But there is Stella Polaris.
After today's development IRC meeting, the work on developing Stella Polaris, was suspended completely. The development team has refered to a multitude of reasons, but basically a longterm lack of developers has gradually caused that the current development team has lost interest and other issues have swamped much of their time. All this basically means that there will be no Stella Polaris released, but all the intellectual material will be collected and stored. Also the web services will continue to function and Stella Polaris Forums will be transformed into the new Stella Polaris Universe website.
We did get some attention last fall when we had our Stella Polaris forum (or area 159, as Frozzy called it) here on ACS Forums and for a few months all our Stella Polaris buzz was here. We were a part of the Apolyton community. The forum is of course left, but archived invisible. We moved most of the discussion over to the new Stella Polaris Forums and the ties to ACS were cut off, as my personal relationship with the other staff of ACS became bad, which was primarily my fault. Of course that's a part of the past now, but that's how we left ACS and I was fired from my staff position. We never returned.
The work did progress, but the reasons mentioned above for the closure, did get their roots planted as we were last winter close to a full closure of the project. However things changed and we did get some more hope. Nevertheless, we are in a dead end now and that's why the decision was made today. The official announcement has been posted on Stella Polaris Forums.
We want to thank all Apolytoners for their interest in Stella Polaris.
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