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Rockin Robbins · 05-14-09, 10:03 AM

I love the mod, but I have to ask, what if Real Fleet Boat had renamed their mod to "Unofficial Game Patch 1.6" and claimed that future mods should be based on it? I have a problem with that, be it GFO, TMO, FOTRS, GWX or Rockin Robbins.

It also confuses the issue of just what a game patch is. The devs purposely made that distinction with 1.5, making hardwired code changes and leaving most moddable issues to the modders. Changing parameter files does not constitute a patch. Changing executable files is what a patch does. If we were to do this we would overstep our role of modders and turn into illegal hackers of Ubi's game code. Methinks we should avoid that.

Just my opinion that muddying the waters between mod and patch does everyone a disservice that we should avoid.

05-14-09, 10:03 AM	#4
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,899 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I love the mod, but I have to ask, what if Real Fleet Boat had renamed their mod to "Unofficial Game Patch 1.6" and claimed that future mods should be based on it? I have a problem with that, be it GFO, TMO, FOTRS, GWX or Rockin Robbins. It also confuses the issue of just what a game patch is. The devs purposely made that distinction with 1.5, making hardwired code changes and leaving most moddable issues to the modders. Changing parameter files does not constitute a patch. Changing executable files is what a patch does. If we were to do this we would overstep our role of modders and turn into illegal hackers of Ubi's game code. Methinks we should avoid that. Just my opinion that muddying the waters between mod and patch does everyone a disservice that we should avoid. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS Last edited by Rockin Robbins; 05-14-09 at 11:19 AM.