When I came back in mid-July this year, I saw that TheLastBrunnenG had beaten me to the punch and uploaded a Descent mod. I downloaded it and took a look, and was quite surprised to find that he had done his mod up in a completely different way from how I envisioned mine to be like. Looking through the contents of his mod also gave me the motivation I needed to resume work on my old mod. But first, I had to find my backup ... if I ever had one.
It's not an easy task. Between two years of not modding and my extremely archaic way of backing up data (DVDs), the IBM that I used to run Transcendence 1.01 on - which also contained (at the time) the most recent working copy of my mod - died. I didn't even know if I backed up a copy of all my work and gave it up for lost.
One rather lousy day, I decided to kill time by looking through all my backed up data. It's a fantastic time-killer - 100 DVDs and about six thumb drives. I went for the thumb drives first.
And I got lucky.
As it turns out, sometime in early September 2010, I backed up a copy of my Descent mod. From looking through its contents, I knew it was a slightly outdated copy - the Mass Driver used no ammunition, and the Fusion Cannon was missing - but all of the other stuff was there. In less time than it took for me to walk down the stairs, I had it working on Transcendence 1.08.
A week after that, I considered uploading it onto Xelerus.
So I did. Development of it has not stopped ever since.[15:04:21] -> digdug joined the room.
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[15:04:26] <digdug> hasi
[15:04:30] <digdug> hi
[15:07:47] <Androgeos> Hello
[15:09:06] *Androgeos is experimenting with overkill.
[15:15:30] <digdug>
[15:19:31] <Androgeos> There are some mods on Xelerus categorised under "Development", digdug. What does that mean?
[15:20:24] <digdug> it means that they are unfinished mods or mods that have only part of the features that the original developer wanted to add
[15:21:18] <Androgeos> Really? That's nice.
[15:21:43] <Androgeos> I was thinking of uploading my version of the GX onto Xelerus, but it's not finished and I didn't know what to put it under.
[15:22:03] <digdug> what is that? a ship ?
[15:23:02] <Androgeos> Yeah. It's a ship with way too many weapons included with it.
[15:23:29] <digdug> cool, so add it under playership, weapon and development
[15:23:38] <Androgeos> TheLastBrunnenG beat me to it and uploaded his completed version of it last year. Mine does things rather differently.
[15:24:17] <Androgeos> If I put it under Godmod, can I remove it from that category at a later date?
[15:24:18] <digdug> well, we have more than one enterprise and more than one molotok on xelerus, I think we are going to be ok with a second GX
[15:24:26] <Androgeos> Okay
[15:24:39] <digdug> you can edit the tags of your mod anytime
[15:24:59] <Androgeos> Fantastic
This mod was initially called "Pyro-GX", but within two weeks of my first upload, I felt it no longer described the mod accurately, so with my pathetic skills at creating nice names, I mashed "Descent" into "Transcendence" and got "Descendence".
The rest is history.
This mod has been released. View the announcement here.
Download page at Xelerus.de
