First whatasnipe is the PR guy for the game and lore writer!! He only posts the deves progress that they give him!! Matt designed most of hidden hill!
Second code is something Vreg wants to do himself! I think the idea behind it is to limit the conflict between opposing ideas on core machanics... witch makes sense!! Less bugs and lest time debugging that way!!
As for models and assets I think the community could contribute but there’s no garintee there work would end up in the game.
And if we did this we would need at least 11 modelers not including Matt. Because each would have there own style each could do a village ,1 could focuse on equipment assists and Matt could then focus on mission design and connective territory between villages!
However even with this support if vreg codes this game get myself it will still be over 15 years if he writes 1000 lines of code each day, before all the code for the game is finished! If vreg could devide the work in to separate fields such as:
combat,
character design/development,
and economic/carriers.
And the people doing it know how to leave space for the overlapping elements then we could get it down to 2-5 years!!
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