AI generated shipping question for RSRDC

[Rockin Robbins]

Agreed! Capn, are you amenable to taking the point on this thing? SH4UBM with TMO and RSRD fully patched as a base. All submissions go to you ready for inclusion. You decide on any conflicts between submissions, consulting with the Indians if you so choose. No voting--no crying? I personally would like the SCAF to stay out and be available as a separate plugin for reasons we all understand, but you decide and I won't cry.

Webster, the naming fisco on your supermod came out in the best possible way. If you had given it another name it would be Webster's Whatever Mod and nowhere as memorable as GFO. In order to achieve immortality you or your work must have a cool acronym: FDR, JFK, LBJ, WWII, GWX, TMO, RFB, GFO. They all have that in common. Even long after people forget what the words that made up the acronym were, they remember the acronym.

I'm thankful that I didn't have a part in discouraging you from modding. Remember that those who do always have their detractors. They aren't attacking because they don't like what you do, they attack simply because you do things and they do not. Remember that and keep doing. Their very criticism is validation of your action.

If you do nothing, or something of little merit there is no reason for those non-contributors to attack. Take your lumps with a bit of a smile and a bounce to your step.

Oh, and I thought of something else. Unless we want to resurrect Jxte, which would really muddy the waters and make installation much more difficult, in order to mod, you have to insert an entire file in place of what already exists. If you're modding AI, for instance and you want to incorporate Duci's MAD sensor, you must first load up the RSRD file, then modify the parameters that make the MOD sensor. You end up with an entire file containing yours and Lurker's work. There's no avoiding this. But Lurker's work contains 89% Ubi work too. As long as the base is unchanged RSRD and you are installing your modified parameter file on top, you are not disrespecting Lurker in my way of thinking.

As long as modding is replacing an entire file with an entire other file, there's no escape and never was another way. We're doing nothing that every mod ever created didn't do. I think we have a non-issue.

I think this "intellectual property" notion of mods is silly anyway. When you release it on the internet it is community property as far as I'm concerned. My mods say PLEASE copy my mod. Yeah, it cuts my income in half but what the hay?