No, don’t worry, I won’t be titling each post with a 2009 Week # title. I just couldn’t think of a better name write now. Blog titles are not very easy for me.
Anyways, I will be cutting the cord on the DPnP CRM this week I hope and releasing a press release with an official release date. This means, I am calling it done, wrapping up a few more things, and cutting two features for release but hopefully will have them in a future patch.
There are two features I really wanted in the release but they are taking too long at this point to resolve. Furthermore, are just gimmicks. One is the XML output which will be a feature some people will love, but others won’t care about at all. So it is getting cut for the time being. The second feature is an auto-poster I wanted that would allow you to create a post to automatically share your content on the sagasrpg.com community website with no interaction. Basically you simply press a button and you will have a post with your exported content in the attachment and the description as the post body. You would not have to do anything except leave a checkbox checked in you application settings.
These two features are important to me, however, they do not change anything with the core function of the program. I could spend the next week trying to finnish those up, or I could add in Modern Sagas Wizards and call the package done. Then I build the character generator with the generated campaigns and tie it all together. So, it was a choice of what would be more benifficial to the end user. While having auto-posting would be good for Ironwood and the community web site, it won’t do anything for you as a customer in the long run. However, it is much more likely that you would miss being able to create vehicles or computer systems in the CRM.
The same goes for XML. While this is important to some, it is not a game breaker. I am cutting this due to time constraints. There is a lot of silly and redundant code for this that can be built when I have the time to do it. Its one of those things that I can build when I am up late due to insomnia or when I only have about 20 minutes to code something before I have to run off and do something else. In short, it is something I can code between actually coding in-depth features.
So, I am sorry for those that want this in the final product. They will get installed in a future patch, but for now releasing with the features just doesn’t seem probable.
