Hi everyone!

With this thread I'd like to announce me quitting active work on the project. My final exam is about to come (one part next April, the second next October). Which in law study means that serious learning effort is necessary (8 hours a day is recommended :( ).
While this consumes an awful lot of time, next to my other social commitments there will be no time for OC. So at least until next October this is the end for me.

This also means that my time overlooking the settlement development is over. It's been over a year now since I wrote the Design Document and almost everything is done. I will summarise what is left in this thread. Of course, there is no need to actually do these tasks ;)
Also, I have committed some stuff lying around in my repository. Maybe someone wants to make use of this (I credited Ringwaul and Matthi, just in case you two are wondering). But first, what is left with settlement?

I struck out almost all tasks in the DD. Only a few things untouched remain of which the bigger tasks are: Big Mushrooms, Cotton and the Inventor's Lab.
Ringwaul made his awesome sketches on the lab and I think Zapper already started on the cotton. Also, I left you guys with ugly graphics for cotton (the item, see Objects/Items/Resources/Cotton) and cloth (l.c. Cloth.ocd) which you might want to change.
I always loved the idea of the mushrooms as underground trees but alas, it never came alive!

I would also love to see the recycling option in the sawmill / foundry. Especially since the metal recycling was to play a major part in Raiders of the Lost Castle (see below).

Zapper also started on the mechanisms and really put some nice work into the energy system. What is left in the DD are vague concepts about what to come, more power plants, what to do with the mechanisms and crystal. Nothing big.
My last call would be to set someone start thinking about castle part like structures (castle parts as in the stuff from CR's knights pack) to cover up your base and actually make it look like a base. I always imagined this to be castle-ish rock walls enhanced by industrish metall plates and steampunky stuff. But whatever :)

A few notes on the three four committs:

Loom model: Matthi made this awesome model (watch the animation!) during the OC meeting but I never came to finish (or to be more precise: even seriously start with) the texture.

Hatch: Ringwaul once sent me this cute object. But I guess it won't come in handy unless we get some basements.

Raiders of the Lost Castle: The thread pretty much explaines everything. I never came far with it. :(

Flightless Bird: (almost forgot this one); another cool model I let Matthi down with! The flightless bird also explained in one of my threads. Hope someone will script it! (and please think of a cool name!)

What is left to say? I will continue reading the forum from time to time and even write things eventually but I won't start scripting anything or so. I will try and see that the remaining changes I made to my editor will be available soon but afterwards I guess that's done for now.

So long and thanks for all the fish!