The phpBB forums replacing the typical buggy slow and stupidly insecure Quantum Star SE phpNuke website are now online. Due to their temporary nature, and having some cleanup tasks elsewhere, they are hosted further down the document root with a redirection file at the domain’s home directory. Enjoy, or moan about QS – whichever suits.

A few other changes are being made. After giving on keeping QS versioning straight in anyone’s head (even my own) I am taking to calling the new version “Quantum Star SE Evolved”. A bit overly enthusiastic at the moment, but maybe it’ll prove a survivor whenever its finished.

So we now stand at Quantum Star SE Evolved 0.13 – the title length just keeps in growing, eh? ;-)

I swear the time to seeing a playable version grows just as fast. Even the feature freeze has done little to prevent new tasks rearing their heads. It’d be easy to simply drop the ball and just “do it”, but then the last “do it” version (0.6 – an inch from being playable) though it worked, was simply too disorganised. Unfortunately a working game lacks the oomph of a well designed and working game… And its a bitch to maintain.

I just count myself lucky in dodging the “Bug Mountain” phenomenon that gets too many good applications bogged down these days. I do not fix mountains, just the occasional ant hill.

Not that I have avoided being bogged down. I am quite bogged down, stuck in a maze of conflicting needs, user requirements, and the always present unknown factors. It’s a symptom of bad planning – I stopped writing my way out of trouble back in August so I need a free two day block to sit down, relax, sharpen a pencil and add to the mountain of planning already completed. Much longer as it is and I will end up doing some backtracking – which is such a total waste of time.

Anyways, I diverse…as usual. Rock on…

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