Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

I know it is hard to guess what the ETA of UMS2 is. So realistically what could it be? (people might be saving up or running something else before)

I'm sure it won't be less than 2 weeks per stage in building, etc, so more than 4 months in the future, but also not more than 8 months. That would put it in the timeframe of June (best case) and October (worst case)?

I'm basically looking at trying to work on DMSI 3.3.3, UMSv2, MLS and an experimental, all pretty close to simultaneously.  

DMSI has languished for too long.  Maybe focusing on it a bit will help me find the solution.

UMS v2 needs to be built, but it's a beast to build.

MLS will make us a lot of money, and be a relatively easy upgrade (I hope).

The experimental is potentially groundbreaking, if the concept actually works IRL - so I can't ignore it.

So I'm going to be working round robin, but I am going to have to focus mostly on MLS in the short term.  Then it'll be DMSI and UMS v2 for a while.  Then back to making subs for funding.

I don't know specifically how long it will take.  It'll be nice to get to a point where I'm not trying to do everything at once.  Going as fast as I can while doing this right.  But I would not say your estimate is a bad one.