Summary: this is good news, because Netrek was shortlisted instead of discarded. Your quote was from page 5 of an academic paper, which was based on research done in 2008. It isn't bad press. It isn't even bad academia. It is an accurate comparison between two very different games. It is good that Netrek reached their shortlist. We could have been omitted much earlier on. Take that as a positive. > 1. It had better graphics. Certainly true. > 2. It's forums were more active than that of Netrek. Certainly true. > 3. Its source code had better readibility. Netrek source code came from an era where readability was not as important as it is now. So it would be surprising to find any current game with worse readability than Netrek. > 4. It had versions for various systems-macintosh,windows and linux > thus offering us greater freedom to choose our base operating system Certainly true, if you consider only the server. There were no published versions of the server for anything except Linux, for example. Since then a version for Mac OS X was made available. While I like Netrek and continue to develop, I won't lie about it in the interests of promotion. Such a method of advocacy leads to failure. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/