Thanks!  Feels pretty lonely at times, developing a mod for a game whose community expired long long ago...but, it will be worth it in the end.  As you say, I have a love of the game myself, so once I do finish Unstable Space, I am going to play it!  And mod it some more!  Maybe someone will even join in with.  Certainly a few people will be able to play it and enjoy it as well.  So I will press on! 

I just checked out the Unstable Space Beta, and I wanted to say thank you for coming back and doing this.

Do you have any literature about modding for I-War2 that can help someone learn to code?  I have been modding Paradox Interactive games for a while now and might be able to offer some help if I can learn this format.

Additionally, have you written to your old team members about the release?  I suspect some of them might have a week or two to devote to helping you clean up the project, especially now that they can see a result.

Paradox!?  That is just my favourite game developer.  I am currently spending most of my freetime on this, and Crusader Kings 2.  I've never modded Paradox games, so I can't say what similarities there might be with modding EoC, but I will lend whatever help I can.

The was an SDK released some years back, and is hosted at I-war2.com (I think) and here that contains detailed help files for Pogging(coding) with EOC.  If that is not available here, I will try to find it and add it to the downloads section.  Additionally, we have a wiki, through the 'development' link on the right, which contains important information for setting up a Developers' Environment for modding with US specifically. With those two bases covered you will be all set to leap into actual coding with Pog.  I think it is a easy language to work with, as I have no prior coding experience whatsoever, but have managed how to make rudimentary code over the past few months, fairly frustration free.

Let me know if you have trouble fiding the POG SDK, and/or setting up the Dev environment, and I will lend whatever help I can.

As for contacting old team members...I am in touch with them off and on, and they should know about the release.  It would be wonderful if they showed a renewed interest in the game, but I think they have just moved on to other things. 

I don't think I have ever posted at the Paradox forums, though I do frequent it.  I've played every EU derived game since the first, though none so much or as deeply as CK.  Touched on mods as well, but usually just end back up with the vanilla. 

Do let me know if you have any trouble finding any of that info for the SDK, etc., as I am always happy to see another EoC modder.  It is a lonely breed, but can be quite satisfying, as it is relatively easy to see physical results of your coding (represented in game of course).

I really need to create a whole package that can be grabbed, downloaded, and used to immediately get anyone up an running at modding US.  I don't want to lose any potential modders, as modding US can be extremely fun, and easy, once you get over the initial hump.