My view: *I am concerned about whether or not Quintus will get enough help with the rewrite. He has been doing a massive portion of the work on TSC himself for a while. *We need to get new features into the game again. We have largely held off on new features during the SDL -> SFML port and Cegui port and have spent large amounts of time on bug fixes for these upgrades and release 2.0. Doing a complete rewrite will again put features on hold as we spend a lot of time laying groundwork again. The rewrite will most likely take 1-2 years, assuming non aggressive features and adequate participation. This would still be true with reuse of some code that the TSC team introduced. I know this, since it has taken me a lot of time to write a Unity game, which uses an existing game engine. *A lack of new features does not help user growth. We need to have user growth in order to have new maintainers when we all leave the project. *Most people (myself included) will be hesitant to spend much time on the old code for features or even bug fixes if it is going away. We do not have the manpower to support both versions well at the same time. *Level development will largely halt during the rewrite *Some systems, such as the modern OpenGL system I was interested in possibly working, cannot be easily developed within the rewrite until other systems are in place. Personally, I also feel like modifying the old code makes use of it by allowing it to evolve rather than dumping our old work, but that of course is a non practical argument and only a personal one. It's questionable how much time I will have to commit either to the rewrite or an incremental approach. If the team decides to proceed with the rewrite, people will need to step up and contribute as much as Quintus is contributing, consistently. If Quintus does 90% of the commits on the rewrite, he will be forced to cut features or just take a lot longer to get it coded. @xet7, if you will likely be contributing, this will put 2 of the potentially active programmers for the rewrite and one against. We will have to see where Kirbyfan64 falls, which at most could land a 50% split. Are you certain you will probably be able to contribute? I in no way want to discourage you, as we could use your help.

There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with some or even all of my points; I was worried if I came across a bit strong in my last post. I am worried about whether we have enough people for the rewrite and about making progress of features; Quintus and I both have valid points. It's just a question of what the team wants to do. If the equivalent of a second person contributing as much as Quintus, consistently, can be found, I will be a bit less concerned about a complete rewrite than I am now. That is good to hear. I'd especially like to know if TSC detects it at all. TSC is not detecting Quintus's Chinese gamepad, which appears to be a bug. I need to try and provide him suggestions on this when I get some time again. Any help on the rewrite is appreciated, but we are very thankful for your leadership as a systems administrator already.