I don&#039;t necessarily disagree with Dew on this one. He has a fair point. However, I do believe Odamex has come along quite a bit, probably even further than Dew could anticipate unless he&#039;s played it recently. There are a few things that need fixed but as Ralph, Stall, Jenova, X-Ray, Saber and many others can attest to, they get fixed rather quickly when reported. <br /><br />Anybody with a brain would know the IDL&#039;s (if we even call it that when it changes ports) future is not going to take place on ZDaemon. ZDaemon, as is, is a dying port with a few die-hards still keeping it alive. Meanwhile, Oda is gaining more and more support and the future looks bright. So let&#039;s just get this out of the way and say this: the future of the IDL [b]will[/b] be on Odamex. <br /><br />Now, as for the present? Clearly, there is going to be a delay to the start of the season. Typically, you start to hear rumbling and discussion about the summer season around this time, which there has been none of. The board still has 4 vacant spots (that is, if they elect to fill them). People are somewhat burnt out on the IDL and a delay (or possibly even the cancellation of the summer season) might be refreshing. So, what does this do? It gives us time to play-test Odamex more. <br /><br />As I stated above, quite a few notables players have been vigorously play-testing Odamex for the past few months. For those who have, we can say the amount of progress made in that short time has been astonishing. Any sort of bug noted has been fixed. The netcode is boss and players who are notorious for having bad connections will do much better. The Super Shotgun returns to Vanilla Doom style, meaning the closer bursts do greater damage while distance shots aren&#039;t as strong (this can be overcome once you&#039;ve gotten used to it). The movement, in my mind, is infinitely better than ZDaemon&#039;s. And to the best of my knowledge, nobody has disputed that. <br /><br />Now, there is one thing I would really hope to have happen if the IDL were to immediately move to Odamex: an updated spectator view. As it stands, there is no animation whatsoever when spectating another player. It is completely blank. This puts a bit of a damper on it because one of the greatest things about the IDL is to simply kick back and watch two teams slug it out. I don&#039;t know how doable it is to have that updated immediately but I think it should be a priority in order for the IDL to move to Odamex. Else wise, spectating games won&#039;t be so great and advertising something with lame spectating is moot. But I have faith it can be done. <br /><br />In closing, this may have come off as bitter for someone who has been on the bad side of the ZDaemon administration for quite some time. I assure you that is not it. Odamex is really doing this well, this is not made up or fabricated in any sense. All I can say is what I&#039;ve said for awhile now: try it! You&#039;ll be surprised how good it is if you&#039;ve had your doubts and you&#039;ll be pleased if you&#039;re anxious to give it a shot. Don&#039;t take my word for it though, it&#039;s freely available to be play tested by anyone!<br /><br />irc.quakenet.org #odamex - do it up. 