Apologies for English. It is my main language, my Russian sounds like childish grammar at best.
I think one of the barriers for Paradigm Chronomancer to be translated to Russian language is that it is for now a moving target. I kept putting up changes every few days on Steam, and every 2 weeks at Moddb/NexusMods. I think most of the support here came through NexusMods. I plan to be more active at NexusMods SPECIFICALLY because this audience is more interested than the Western European audiences for anything Paradigm (or Phantasy Calradia for that matter) related. So for me this audience deserves more of my time. I do reward loyalty
The thing is: I will have a new version "stage II" that will be a big merge of both Phantasy Calradia and Paradigm Chronomancer. For now I call it "ChronoTest" but that is just a label I use for a separate folder on my computer, and not really a name. Th one thing about it so far is I dropped about 700 items and merged the Phantasy troops, dropped some heroes and otherwise left most of the text alone. It will need a good translation of Phantasy Calradia 2024 (which exists!) and a complete translation of Paradigm Chronomancer (which sort of exists if kludged from Paradigm Worlds (translation exists) plus parts of Paradigm Chronomancer.
I was hoping to have a proof of concept for Christmas (this Christmas, as in December 25th for the West, but with my timing maybe Orthodox Christmas after New Years
Either suits me, I am Orthodox anyway.
But the key is getting access for translators fairly early. Steam depresses me because one in ten that even find the workshop instantly downvote it, keeping anyone else from even trying it. I understand I need to write a decent manual (or even indecent, looking at some mods here). I just do not have time to do everything at once. I have always been focused more on proof of concept mods than chasing some "end user" audience. My chronic poor health and weakness from a variety of old age issues keeps me from putting in more than my usual 50 hours a week on these unpaid, free mods. I get nothing from it and I don't even bother to try to leech something via lua or whatever the next paranoia is. It is all free, gifted as LSP, and with source you can compile youself. No need to trust me anyway.
I do hope my health permits me to work at least 3 more years in modding Warband. But I do plan to get the ideas I have floating around my head quickly to a framework I can share. I am honored that this audience even likes any of my work. I understand like kvas it is an "acquired taste".
- gsanders
