Keep it separated for now. If your teams have models or skins to share, then share, but no joining up. I think that it would cause to much trouble in the structure of the two teams in terms of who is the leader of the group, lead coder, lead animator and all the other decisions that would create delays.

That's why I made a suggestion to keep the current teams working on their current projects, but at the end merge the two together to form one mod.

As for bf2 having several ww2 mods, well. I don't agree. FH is by FAR the superior mod if you look at popularity. There was several ww2 mods back in bf42 days, only FH really managed to get popular. THe others failed due to FH getting popular. There's several other examples of this where mods with the same style as one slightly more popular mod gets lost due to, well, the other mod having the strongest playerbase and everybody moving over there instead. (thinking about DC and the other DC styled mods, etc etc.)

But, this is something we should discussed between the teams and not on here, allthough you guys has given some good points

Holmes wrote:

I do not believe a merge is neccessarily... neccessary.  I believe more of a cooperation.

We think in the same way, Un-Co has proposed to us a fusion, it was a good idea of its share, but in interest of our two mods (and thus so that empire rising remains), an alliance or rather a co-operation between our two team is preferable.
I do not know what you think, but it exist well several mods on the World War 2, then why not several mods on Starwars?

thanks

Well, the problem with two Star Wars mods is the limited fan base for Star Wars, especially in Battlefield 2.  It would be possible that both mods would have the exact same fan base, and the same people playing after they both release. 

However, the mods would probably both get a lot more people if you didn't have to load up a seperate mod just to play in a different era of the Star Wars universe.  Personally, I'd stick to just one mod because I'm too lazy to constantly have to leave Battlefield 2 just to rejoin it through a different means.  And, knowing my luck, in doing that I would just find that all the servers are empty or full, thus meaning I would then have to just leave anyways and go back to playing the other mod, which the server I will have just left will become full and I will have to join another one which is not as fun because it is with people I do not as oftentimes play with.

I do not believe a merge is neccessarily... neccessary.  I believe more of a cooperation.

We think in the same way, Un-Co has proposed to us a fusion, it was a good idea of its share, but in interest of our two mods (and thus so that empire rising remains), an alliance or rather a co-operation between our two team is preferable.
I do not know what you think, but it exist well several mods on the World War 2, then why not several mods on Starwars?

thanks

As I said in my last post, lets leave the merge Idea alone for now. It is something to be discuseed between the two teams. (I was hoping no-one would discover them, until a decision had been made). Various diffrent ideas have been already suggested in private, Just give it some time.

What I mean is that I believe both mods could merge together, and would release as one final mod, however the two teams stay seperate within development.  That way, everyone stays where they are at, in their normal working environment with their normal working peers, they work with the era and skill they always have, but in the end it is all put together.  Two teams working on different parts of the same mod.  The ER team working on the Clone War era, the FS team working on the GCW era. 

This would also lead to a sense of differentiation in style between the eras, which is something that did happen.  The style of the Clone Wars, the armor and ships and such would change (In character, mind you) over time, which would be brought by the unique style of the FS team, compared to the unique style of the ER team.  They both have seperate unique styles, both perfectly in line with the time zone they are working with.

Now comes the true question though...  if the merge were to go through...

What would it be called?