The case for simplicity

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by buzzkill

No, it wasn't aimed at you, or anyone in particular. I couldn't tell you where the rings came form either. It's just the 'no it's not great, but we'll somehow fix it later' or 'players like early speed, so we'll force it to work and hope for the best' rather than 'this is causing other problems, we'll get rid of it until we sort it out' attitude that seemed to permeate V development in recent years.

You guys accomplished did a lot of good work on V, I just wish v4 happened earlier. I wonder where we would be now if v4 didn't happen?

FWIW I too wish v4 had happened earlier. It was suggested about six or eight months earlier by d_m & Gabe Cunningham, and I very much regret arguing against it then. Still, better late than never. It is now possible to 'fix' V and still experiment with riskier 'improvements' in v4, and hopefully we'll get the best of both worlds. We are in a fallow period at the moment though - fewer active devs than at any time in the past three years. I'm guessing things will pick up around or after xmas.

And yes, I accept the charge of being too reluctant to remove things - I did most of the arguing against doing so, which exacerbated the problem.