Poll: moving IA to EE-only Options

[critto]

Hi, everybody!

Lately, I have been considering moving Improved Anvil to support only Enhanced Edition, abandoning support for vanilla ToB.

Pros:
1) a better, more modern engine that is being actively supported by paid professionals
2) no need to deal with lots of hardcode, weird nuances and obscure issues of the old engine (tons of time is being spent on reading through forums and researching old issues that have been discovered and forgotten already)
3) the new EE engine has new features that would allow for some creativity, but it is not possible to reproduce them in ToB due to old engine's limitations
4) with great probability, any new-coming IA player would opt for EE these days

Cons:
1) potentially leaving old-time players behind

The only concern here our old-school players who can't or won't move to EE for some reason. To be honest, it's not much of a reason because BG2:EE is fairly cheap and light-weight, comes up quite often in GoG discount sales, does not require significantly more powerful PC, works on every platform (Windows, Mac, Linux). The practical decision here is that EE is better.

I do feel compelled, however, to ask for the community's input. Vote and share your concerns, please.

[ALIEN]

critto, from the amount of BWS reports, people seems to install IA without "mega-installation". It might be the fact that you mod drastically change core rules etc So instead of spending time for this patching madness for compatibility, just say that IA can't be compatible with "mega-installation" and put you effort into new EE Opcodes and new engine possibilities. EE Engine is far more superior than old one and offers amazing possibilities. Make use of them to create even better mod and maybe next move would be compatibility concerns. Bug-less EE version should be prioritized at this point.

This post has been edited by ALIENQuake: Sep 9 2016, 11:39 AM