Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Happy belated birthday, Shannon!

Congrats on the impending store release as well. I know full well how hard this kind of thing is, believe me. I know it's a massive pain in the ass. It's insane the amount of crap that goes wrong during such things...

I saw your post about a possible release of DMSI for Oct/Nov now. I have to admit, seeing it constantly pushed back for "reasons" is frustrating beyond words. Given the history of it constantly being pushed back, even that Oct/Nov figure is very anxiety-inducing. You again mentioned the "need to keep the business going" thing, but yet I've tabled at least twice the idea of us paying full price to simply just have it finished once and for all. So I thought I'd bring that up again, given that UMS is finally being closed out now.

Trust me, it's BEYOND worth it to finally have it settled once and for all without seemingly endless pushbacks of it's release. I'm sure I speak for many others who are so fatigued with this. Let's just wrap it up, even if it requires another purchase to "grease the wheels" so it's finally done. Completely fine with this. To me, there's only one program that is more important to me as you know, that one is a ways off. Not counting ME of course lol, still eager to hear reports of that.

Shannon, I'm just trying to get DMSI done, AND give you another obvious winner for you to make that sweet $$$ off of. Since I've gone to the OF well twice and helped spark OF V2 and OF V3, I can't go back to the OF well AGAIN a 3rd time so fast, LMAO. I can't think of another sub than DMSI that can bring you in a good chunk of money, and it would also finally get it complete which is what so many of us are dying for once and for all. Please take this to heart.

All the best, my friend. Hope your birthday was good, and you had a boss steak.

Thanks for the input.  I actually had a great birthday, GF pulled one out of the hat for sure.  I didn't have steak, though, I had snow crab, fish, shrimp and scallops.  My other loves. 

There's no way I can start working on DMSI sooner than mid September no matter what I do.  I have to finish the store this month, get it going, get bugs worked out and so forth, and what I am working on right now in the background in the little spare time I have is an experimental prototype that will be useful for building DMSI.  This prototype is not intended for sale - it's developing an experimental technology and an experimental approach to solving something that's been challenging me for a long time.  I chose to work on this while the store was taking up most of my time because the result is going to be a more advanced skeleton script, and on top of that because the side effect is that if I can make this work the way I want it to, I should be able to translate that into useful for improving DMSI.

I guess when you look at it that way, I am working on DMSI.  Just not directly.

What comes out of this research and development experimental program may become 5.8G, also.  

I'm doing what I can, but the situation is really much like having my arm pinned behind my back right now.  The new store is going to free me up a lot and the end of dev on UMSv2 is going to free me up a lot also.