Khor1255
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I don't think I heard anyone say that.jiduthie said:Please elaborate. You'd rather play JA2 without mods? Without 1.13?
Yes, but you are speaking purely from a players perspective. There are people who have been actively modding this game from the very start. Originally the 1.13 was like manna from heaven for modders because it externalized many things hardcoded in the exe and gave modder quite a bit of choice over what to add or subtract from their projects.jiduthie said:All I meant to say, was that 1.13 and all its incarnations has afforded me a lot more ja2 then I might have otherwise been entitled to. For someone to say that 1.13 has actively hurt the development of more interesting or fun experiences, seems ridiculous on it's face.
That was in the days when the development team was at least as concerned with making the game moddable as they were with adding new features.
Today, the idea is to introduce new features and leave the players to help with any bug regardless of how these bugs affect modders. Hats off to those who still plunge ahead with their mods despite this carelessness but I hope you can see where for some of us there simply isn't enough hours in a day to both maintain the momentum of our project and keep fixing the same aspect that gets broken repeatedly.
It's hard enough to root out bugs in your work when it's pretty likely you are responsible for them. Now imagine finding the same bug you had fixed three or four times being introduced by yet another careless feature.
From a gamer's perspective is the key here. And even that is a matter of taste when you have them screwing around with game mechanics. Some of us really love Ja2 but want new content instead of the same storyline. Others feel they have a better take on certain features and don't even care if their changes remove the possibility to play a truly vannile Ja2 game.jiduthie said:Who wants to argue that ja2 would have been better off, from a gamer's perspective, without 1.13? Bethesdalove maybe?
This is profoundly different from the approach that Madd Mugsy and co. had when they founded the 1.13.