deniz1a

But neither Red Alert nor CnCNet is open source. OpenRA is free software so you can change it however you like. And this is the reason why it's a much better game, because lots of people are contributing to it and its development is out in the open. And why would you want the game to stick to the original? It doesn't even have basic rts features and since it's not open source it never will.

Hello, I just played the CnCNet game Red Alert and I have to say that compared to OpenRA, it was really bad. I used to play Red Alert when it was released but have since apparently forgotten how primitive it was. It is great that people are still interested in these games and made them playable over the internet and on modern operating systems. But how long would you want to hang on to a game that is closed source, not developed anymore and is out of date? Have most people here played OpenRA? It is a modern game and is very actively developed. The original early Red Alert games are a dead end, they're not going anywhere. And OpenRA is open source, runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. I really recommend everyone who is interested in Red Alert to play OpenRA. It is much better than the original Red Alert but what it lacks is players. From network statistics page of CnCNet I see that there are over 200 players connected at any time. OpenRA has much fewer people and we often have to wait for players before a game starts. So I invite everyone here to at least try OpenRA and play a few games. You will see how great it is and really appreciate it. And the best part of it is that it's open source and actively developed. Look at its issue tracker: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues?state=open . Bug reports, new feature requests are posted daily and they are fixed very quickly. If you don't like some aspect of the game you can post an issue and talk to the developers. It is a clean implementation and not a hack like CnCNet or other similar programs. And it will have Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun support in the future. Check out current developments at https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/36085-openra . And I guess most people who play CnCNet don't know about OpenRA. Otherwise I couldn't think of a reason why they would play CnCNet instead of OpenRA. So, in summary, I need more people in OpenRA so I don't have to wait for players to start a game :laugh: And if CnCNet community joined OpenRA to make it better we would have an even faster progress and everyone would benefit. It is much better to contribute to an open source project that runs on all operating systems than hack and make an outdated proprietary game work on modern computers.