The RUb Deck Gun discussion, since it keeps coming up.

[Beery]

I only just noticed this:

Originally Posted by oRGy

...to be constructive, what needs to looked into more is:

1) Getting rid of the red crosshair for deck gun aiming
2) Getting rid of the stabilisation
3) Reducing crew ai accuracy

As far as I can gather no serious effort has been made in these areas.

OH MY GOD! Serious effort HAS been made in these areas! I've done a LOT of work on these areas myself, and it just shows how little you know about it when you have no clue about these things at all.

The red crosshair, as far as I know, is hard-coded. I have looked, line-by-line, through the file that controls crosshairs, and it's not in there. This took me at least 8 hours of solid work, changing the file and testing the results.

Stabilization is, as far as we know, hard-coded. Many hours, days, even weeks have been spent looking into this.

Crew AI accuracy is probably hard coded. This is another area that has been looked into in great detail over many weeks.

If you think these things are easy to find and fix, why the heck don't you stop whining about the efforts of me and others, and go and find and fix them?

It is an insult to the mod community to suggest that these haven't been looked into seriously. Maybe if you tried modding yourself you might have some inkling about how *******ing difficult it is, and you might have a bit more respect for those of us who try to make your game better.

Jeez! I cannot believe I'm arguing this subject with someone who hasn't a clue what we've attempted, and who therefore hasn't any respect at all for what we've accomplished.

Honestly, why do I bother?