New programming course

[Simbax]

I just want to focus on the essential part of programming course which is teaching how to program and tasks for the player without wondering if I can put an AlienAnt or LeggedGrabber or PowerPlant or whatever in an exercise... Right now even the first exercises are impossible to do unless someone provides a new enemy and a garage or whatever, or unless we could just stick to the first version and place there SpaceShip and AlienAnts and in fact don't care about the plot until later like we decided a long time ago.

I honestly don't care about the current plot. I said many times that I find it almost non-existent, unimportant and full of logical errors and I'd rewrite it from scratch. But it's a thing to discuss another time. Right now I want to improve the programming levels of the game and of course halting this improvement because of some stupid plot is driving me insane, because it should not matter in the current, or maybe even future, situation.

Maybe we should split the project and make two games instead: "Colobot: Gold Edition" and "Ceebot: Gold Edition", if programming course and missions can't coexist with each other! I'm sure they could if we cooperated, but it's impossible because some people care only about missions (and usually don't want any changes, good or bad) and others care only about programming and both have completely different priorities and visions which contradict each other.

If I was as obsessed with this game as some people in this community, I'd probably already forked the game and focused on the educational and programming aspects of it. But I'm not. I don't care what you decide to do, the implementation of this course hasn't been started anyway, I just want a clear decision. Clear. Right now nothing is clear, that's the main problem with GOLD currently. Everyone is scared of doing anything innovative, but the list of ideas and proposals to discuss is steadily growing. We already have a decent remake, but the technical issues we are working on are the "easy" part of the game development. Now we're getting closer to the actual game design and it's time to decide what we want to make or just forget about it and focus on fixing bugs, refactoring and other technical aspects forever. The choice depends on the whole TerranovaTeam. Do we want to change this game or not? Do we want to keep maintaining a technical remake or do finally something creative with it?

I'll leave this question for you to discuss. I've already stated my opinion many times (I want changes), also here, and I don't feel a need for repeating myself.