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I think part of the core problem is that there are areas where it is obvious this sim needs work. I have heavily modified SH4 for myself and friends, I have used no one else’s code or ideas and yet inevitably I have made changes similar to others, while values may not be the same the ideas behind them are. If I were to release my mod I am dam sure some nub would claim it as his own and shout about crediting them for the work.
The bottom line is that it is inevitable this will occur from time to time, barking about having done x or y first and therefore being the originator of the idea is horse****. In my mods I have changed graphics files, worked on sub interiors and exteriors, replaced the map, map tools, messed about with cfg files to change escort behaviour and some of the sensor platforms, enabled some of this missing controls, changed graphics files related to particle effects, edited campaign layers and rewritten some of the shaders. Most of this I did within a week or two of the games initial release as it was obvious doing so would improve and build upon the sim.
Even 3d modders should stop and think before shouting about others ripping of their work as we are dealing with History, all the data is laid out before us, we know all the platforms involved and how they were used. Adding a platform missing from the original game doesn’t make you the originator of the idea, when all you are doing is adding something that History tells us was there.
We are all working with someone else’s code that being Ubisoft, I don’t release my mods to the general public anymore as I simply cannot always spare the time to support my work or update if and when patches are released. Nor can I be bothered with the idiots who always start whining that x is not correct or y doesn’t work as intended and to avoid the crap I have seen popping up in this forum of late.
Hats off to those that decide to release to the public and continue supporting your work, in some cases others who enjoy your work will be grateful and express their gratitude on the forums and that should be enough. But if all you are doing is trying to increase the size of an already over inflated ego, go write a game or sim from scratch then you will have legal grounds for attacking others who may copy, modify, emulate or cover the same ground as your work.
I am not having a dig at modders as I am aware just how much time one invests to modify a game like SH4 and to continue to provide support. It is a dig at all the over inflated egos who believe they have the right to claim ideas as their own when all they have done is modify a computer game released by someone else.
It is about time all this nonsense and childish bickering stopped, although I know it won't as some people just don't know when to shut up. This post is not aimed at any one in paticular just my own thoughts on the issue of modding games in general and this thread was as good as any to express them.
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