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>> They never made any progress at all. They were a bunch of losers. Try
>> http://www.projectxenocide.com/ instead.
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>I disagree with you here.  Until Koralt decided to disappear without a trace
>for a year, it looked like it was really getting off the ground.  There just
>wasn't anyone who could take his place and drop off a 400 page design doc on
>them.  I think their goals were bit ambitious, and that they should have
>just started off with an x-com clone first, but I really think it would have
>amounted to something if there had been someone to take Koralt's lead role
>before the people dissappeared.
>
>Well, that's my 2 cents anyhow.
>
>Thanks for the link btw,

A design doc never ever counts as progress. It's mainly Koralt's fault
for it being such a mess because he didn't keep the project under
control and at a realistic scale.
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