god, looking back at this, it was such a s***-show. i had hoped that DDI had some self-awareness about how they were a shovelware machine, and at first it seemed like they did, but their concepts for this game showed more and more that nothing had changed and that rock raiders being as good as it was really was just a fluke. i mean seriously, a minecraft clone? god damn, if you're gonna rip off anything for a rock raiders game then make something like a 3D dwarf fortress, it'd essentially be exactly the same as the original LRR except that you could dig down through multiple layers and there'd be actual water and lava physics instead of them just being tiles. that's basically all the major changes i'd want in a rock raiders remake (besides better AI, easier modding, and more complexity in numbers, parts, and behavior of the various units, creatures, and ecosystems, but i'd assume that would be a given for a modern game - then again, with DDI, maybe not). but instead they decided to make a minecraft clone, and lift most of their "ideas" from the original game instead of trying to create their own stuff. and then just to top it all off, everyone from DDI falls off the face of the earth and we never hear from them again. i have more faith in someone here making the sort of game i want, even with all the remakes people have started making and then falling off the face of the earth themselves - it may take forever but at least they'd listen to feedback, and at least they've shown progress before disappearing.
god.