Excuse me, but I see an extreme lack of politeness and respect on all sides here.
Modders seem to think that because cdr gibs forgot / was careless about credits in a readme, that he's the new X1 Software and deserves to be flamed to hell and back.
This is lame. While credit should be given where it's due, whatever happened to just asking in a polite tone to add the credit? Or via PM? Instead of having a ****ing ridiculous flame war and creating huge divisions?
Some modders here seem to forget that unless you make a wholly original work (like a new texture, sound, or text), Ubisoft owns your work, you do NOT. This is why no-one has sued X1 Software and never will.
Therefore if someone forgets to credit you for discovering say, multiple skin textures or some fatigue tweak, it's not a legal issue. It's a moral one, if you feel you deserve recognition. But the way to sort this out is privately and with respect, in a spirit of cooperation etc. But I am not seeing this here.
This reminds me precisely why mod communities are at the end of the day a bad idea - people have the illusion of ownership and get the idea that they're some sort of real game developers. They're not - they're fiddlers and tweakers with somebody elses game and to develop flaming egos as a result is pathetic.
I'm sure people have noted that I try to be constructive around here. But if some people here are stirring the pot in order to suit their own personal agendas, I simply will not work in such an environment.
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