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[mjolnir]

True, we are waiting that, but we aren't wasting time in the meanwhile. If Igiss doesn't approves it, we can just throw it as an OpenSP mod. And why wouldn't he want a spin-off? Do you think that everyone will run from Discovery .86 to DAU? Come on, DAU will be nothing compared to .86 if you do it right.

* Not quite, everything is getting replaced except for the vanilla models
** True, but can I really believe that the Discovery Dev Team will add this?
*** I've dedicated a lot of time doing this already, I've asked Frozenballs if he wanted some ALE. editing done by me some while ago, on the thread that he opened. But I didn't got replied back, so I didn't insisted.

EDIT ***: And to see all the community's / our ideas become vain smoke? No thanks actually.

Thing is what are you trying to achieve compared with discovery?

a) make different storyline - can't do your own storyline in disco just like that yes

b) add new features (i.e. cloaking, capital ship docking) - some of the things are on way while others should be added

c) completely changes some aspects compared with disco ("Space is now 500% more dangerous", "systems are 30% larger") - that's not likely to happen in disco

If try to do all this at once while at the same time while replacing everything but vanilla models it will take a LOT of work. However no matter how teschny might laugh discovery development always needs people, especially if one tries to add something new and different (like codenames achieved trough missions etc).
So there's a choice, make own mod (depending on what Igiss allows) and have to do a LOT of work and possibly having some great stuff, but ending with some small number of players (story of SW and Crossfire) or develop disco resulting in a mod where not everything is exactly what you would want but it gets used by more people.

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