[Rockin Robbins]

Ducimus believed that gameplay is king. Eye candy takes a seat in the trunk. Whenever he tested enviironmental modifications he affected gameplay in a bad way. He ended up with a crippled version of one of the environmental mods (Pacific Environments I think) that left gameplay unaffected.

If you change environment you will change gameplay in a bad way. He's a smart guy and he put way more hours into figuring this out than you or I ever have. Mostly eye candy sucks up computer resouirces that would be better used to optimize the gameplay.

The premier eye candy mod for SH4 is Fall of the Rising Sun. It's stunningly beautiful and the gameplay is full of ideosyncracies. But I heartily recommend it because is is so beautiful. And it's a lesson of what price you pay for eyecandy and environmental prettiness.