LuftWolf and Amizaur's Weapons and Sensors Realism Mod

[OlegM]

First of all hats off to LW and Amizaur - you're doing great job to improve the game, and I will be using your mod.

Having said that, here goes my criticims - it's not going to be nice, so watch out

Well call me shallow, stupid, boring or what have you but I am documentation freak, especially when it comes to modding...

I must say I've never seen more confusing documentation than the one that accompanies this mod. Authors really tried to explain everything, I give them that, but it's so confusing, perhaps they went too far.

Good part of the documentation is actually directly copy-pasted - warts, typos, smileys and all - from author's e-mail correspondence, ie. they, sorta, argue whether something should be done this way or that way. Instead of making authoritative decision privately among themselves (hey it's your mod after all) they copy-pasted their dilemmas and diverging opinions directly in the readme?! Hello?

On couple occasions red-letter guy (Amizaur I think) says something directly opposite to the black-letter guy (LW). Hey? Can't you guys, like, agree among yourselves privately and then implement the decision, and document it in a simple manner? I I'm not really interested in reading your e-mails

First of all, are you two sure you understand each other, and that every change intended by guy A is received and implemented by buy B? Just checking guys... after reading the mod docs, and reading about your e-mail problems here on the board I really can't be sure everything you two intended is really "in".

Come on, you have e-mail for that. Once you settle on how some problem should be dealt with, put it in the mod, document it and let us know. It's incredibly confusing to have to sift thru your correspondence badly disguised as "readme" in this way.

Note or paragraph that describes Mk46/Mk54 change or swap has to be among the most confusing paragraphs I ever read in my life Seriously I think it takes phD to understand half of what you wrote there.

Also, I agree with whoever said MS Word format should not have been used. Use RTF.

And I agree with whoever hinted at the idea of making mod changes be listed in USNI database, accessible during the game. It would be handy and should be easy to do, and there are LOTS of changes in this mod, which will seriously affect the gameply (which in itself is a good thing, as long as players understand what goes on around them).

With documentation this confusing, I feel unable to comment on the quality of the mod itself. I am not always quite sure what you intended to do, or how you two think certain problems should be solved. Once I get thorough understanding of your ideas and intentions, I will be capable of judging the mod for what it is.

I should add I'd be using your mod even in this IMO confusing state simply because I like what you do (at least the parts I *do* understand LOL) - and doctrine changes seem to be quite good (again, those that I managed to test in play).

Keep up the good work but please improve your decision making process, and mod documentation

Oleg