didn't properly read stuff above, but i smell something burned in the bin :")

anyway, wanted to tell that this is awesome mod and i'm enjoying it so far (didn't finish all new maps yet). for those who like boring demos of me being stuck, killed and raped by cute monsters here's first pack of my first run demos:

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/8bjx/1mUpgydfj

please continue with the mod! :D 

Its time for me to move on and exit this thread. Time to find something else to do with my spare time that does not involve people throwing shit at each other. Arcane Dimensions was a fun ride while it lasted and now its finished, no more updates planned from me.

Hey, do you want to quit because of just a few trolls around here? It's internet, they will always be no matter what you do. There's a lot more people that are enjoying what you make. Think about them before deciding to leave. 

Think this is the best mod ever. Just saying. 

This was a most excellent mod. Great to see so much love put into a project by dedicated fans. Keep up the good work, and Sock can't quit until that last map gets added in... 

But I quite enjoy the update, it is very fun and a definite worthy addition to AD 1.0. Thanks to sock et al for the inspiring work, I appreciate it. 

Supporters of AD outnumber the trolls overwhelmingly. It's not worth your time even replying - these people are mostly just meaningless internet non-entities farting in the wind over some pre-existing and obsolete politics or beef from the past, that can - and should - be ignored!

There is literally zero reason to let the tiny minority of troll posts rumple you. 

Dude, have a chillax over christmas and consider rethinking your position afterwards. Or even put it on hiatus for a little while to refresh.

Nobody here wants you to stop working on it. It's the best thing that has happened to quake for ages and it would be a huge loss to the community if it were abandoned. 

That was unexpected.

For the amount of praise sock is getting, he seems to be rather easily upset by negativity. I can sorta understand, but, in my experience, creating anything worth talking about will inevitably produce at least a certain amount of drama. Taking it to heart is counter-productive.

While the things I said are somewhat representative of my position on such bickering, they were not meant as a serious insult, least of all towards sock. I'm sorry if it seemed otherwise. 

Nobody here wants you to stop working on it. It's the best thing that has happened to quake for ages and it would be a huge loss to the community if it were abandoned.

Inevitable toxicity is to be expected, take the holiday and come back and decide! 

just my two cents, for what it's worth :

When you publish something really worth it, of very high quality, it is inevitable that some envious, jealous persons, trolls, morons and douchebags manifest themselves to express their negativity. There's nothing you can do against this, whatever the quality of your work and your efforts. This is part of life.

Like many others, I personally appreciate your work ENORMOUSLY, and SILENTLY since my opinion have no value here. So I wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for your awesome work.

I know what it is, since I've also personally done some very high quality stuffs on other things (not related to Quake), and yet received some negative comments. I take it as a clue that my work had an real impact on others.

In the case of maps/mods done for Quake1, I can also appreciate the work you have done, since I'm still slowly working on a one square room map since the last 6 months (with a single dog standing in the middle) ! So I know how hard quake mapping can be. After some rare comments I've wrote on this forum, I mostly got very negative replies (especially from OneTrueAssHole and another idiot), but why should I care ?

Again, from all the (usually) silent quake playing dudes that outnumber the trolls/morons :

T H A N K Y O U S O C K ! 

Giving up is akin to letting trolls win. I can feel the pain though, the AD team and Sock especially have worked *bloody* hard on this mod.
It's difficult to remain pragmatic on such a passion project. 

I think that should be respected. However, other people aside from sock also put time and energy into this project and I think that should be respected as well.

Perhaps make one final release: add ad_sepulcher and one last round of bugfixes, put a bow on it and move on. 

Perhaps make one final release: add ad_sepulcher and one last round of bugfixes, put a bow on it and move on.

That's what the patch was planned to be all along. 

Hell, yeah! 

Sock, you worked on this because your passion for Quake. Don't stop because of the trolls 

Envy strives people act like assholes sometimes, you very well know the quality of your work, it is very solid and professional. Time to time we all want to get some recognition of our hard work and passion put into this community etc. Even new-comers has this same spark somewhere there.

Everyone on this mod did impressive job, no one can argue with that, except people I just meant; jealous or just trolls. Just ignore those kind of comments, that is only way to deal with those. After all look all these positive comments given by players who really liked what they got, it is too easy to stick only on negative comments. 

Patch was always going to be the end anyway, sad he got frustrated over one fucker, but whatever forget that. AD's pretty well wrapped up after this patch anyway, and there's plenty there to work with in your own maps and the source is there to take in other directions if people want to do that too.

But don't worry about Simon, even if he doesn't make more Quake, he'll make something fun and cool and awesome. Sock has too much desire to fiddle with things to not be cooking up something. 

Sock & other mappers,
you did a great job!

Don't care the ice below the iceberg,
let's invent a func_troll! 

So if 1.5 was/is the last patch (Which is nice, in some ways, since now we can do all kinds of kooky and weird things to the progs.dat), what does that mean for sepulcher and the missing entities it's supposed to add? I'd hope that when it comes out, we'll see a "1.5.1" or something along those lines that includes it so that people who want to use those new monsters don't have to tell people to download both 1.5 and a specific other map... 

https://twitter.com/SimsOCallaghan/status/810209707252154368

There's a patch tomorrow (Sunday). There just won't be anything after that. 

Technically, since 1.5 came out, that "fucker" is one of the contributors to AD, no matter how small and insignificant.

Unless you meant the proxy guy, who wasn't that offensive either. I've seen worse things being thrown around on this forum.

At this point it seems that sock is just very tired and needs a break. 

I had assumed the update with Sepulcher would be the last AD update, but I had also assumed sock would stick around and release a map or two now and then, maybe continue work on ITS as he mentioned once or twice. But it's natural that people come and go in these communities. Shit happens. It's a shame, but not the saddest thing in the world today by any means.

Cheers, sock. AD is part of Quake's legacy now, and I'm sure there will be many "third-party" AD maps in the future. If you decide to stay, all the better, but if this is really it, thank you all the same. 

"For the amount of praise sock is getting, he seems to be rather easily upset by negativity. I can sorta understand, but, in my experience, creating anything worth talking about will inevitably produce at least a certain amount of drama. Taking it to heart is counter-productive."

This, really. 90s FPS isn't my only hobby, I also spend some time in the poetry scenes near where I live, and also observing poetry on a national level. Let me tell you--the beefs that happen here make poetryland beefs look like the Eastern Front in comparison. You can't imagine the hostility, both justified and unjustified, people have for each other over the words they write. In comparison, AD has received almost universal praise from this (admittedly smaller) community, with most critics being people who just have different personal preferences (don't like huge maps or whatever) with as far as I can tell one or two real "haters." Like I said, as far as internal disputes within niche creative communities--this ain't nothing! 

*in the AD threads specifically, maybe not this forum in general. My point is, have some perspective! Though I know from experience stepping away from the keybaord forma while can help with that.

Sorry for triple-posting. 

for taking criticism to heart. I think it's part of why he is so good at this. I hope he'll be back when he has cleared his mind a bit.

Making something like AD in your spare time is very exhausting. I know this from my own hobby projects. Sometimes you ask yourself why you're doing this at all, esp. when faced with criticism that upsets you like in this case. But at some point you remember why, and you get back at this.