[Beery]

X1 certainly is using mods that the original authors say they never authorized. I have seen one of them - the *.tga file with the AOTD logo. Anyone who has Seawolves can easily check this by going into the game once Seawolves is installed and looking in the Textures\TNormal\tex folder for the *.tga file with the AOTD poster featured in it. It's one of the boat interior shots. According to members of the AOTD clan, they never authorized that X1 could use this mod. X1 says the AOTD clan did authorize its use, or they say that it was an error - the story seems to change depending on what the X1 folks think they can get away with.

The AOTD logo is only the most apparent of the mods that are not authorized to be in Seawolves. The others involve placement of ships and other more complicated stuff. This is why more testing needs to be done to confirm 100% that these mods are stolen. But the fact that X1 is using mods that were never authorized is not in question - I've seen the proof, but I can only prove it to others if they get hold of the Seawolves expansion, and given what I've seen, and what I've experienced in regard to X1 (i.e. how they tried to use other non-authorized mods in the past by cajoling modmakers and holding them to deals that were made before X1 told anyone that their intent was to use the mods for financial gain), I'm not going to suggest that anyone buy the Seawolves expansion.

If X1 didn't 'steal' mods, then the folks behind X1 must be incredibly stupid. Perhaps they simply never thought to ask the modmakers. Perhaps they just modified their own game to their liking and naively decided to just publish the result. Either way, other people's mods were used in Seawolves and X1 is making a profit from mods that were never intended to be sold.