Beppo wrote:
I do not disagree, only for a little aspect... if you want your mod to be this or that way and not another and someone changes it to become that other, then it comes close to hitting the original mod authors right into their faces. Not all mods out there do wish to fit for every player around the globe. Some want to attract only a specific type of player and so will not change their basic rules to allow the 'unwanted' folks to join the party cause this will most times ruin the gameplay for the others. Fixing obvious bugs is another thing of course but only if they are really bugs and not features someone doesn't like. New additional features should first be presented to the mod authors themselves. Maybe by even showing them first hand. But the decission to include them in the next release or 'granting you permission' to release the modification to players/servers that want to use it is up to them. New features often ruin the balance within the game or add features that the original mod authors simply don't want to be integrated. Again, if your changes are good and in the lines of what the original mod authors want or plan to do, then there shouldn't be any reason for them to not listen to you.
And if you then still want to do it, then I would consider you to make your own mod with your own ideas instead of ripping the work of others.
I see 4 players
Valve -- Modders - Plugin Modders - Players
Players have not choice, because will cheat. So cant pick his own map version, his own textures, etc..
Valve -- Modders - Plugin Modders >> Players
Valve dont need to enforce rules about what-a-mod-will-use-for-model or wath-health-a-explosion-will-substract. Becuase If valve enforce that, you break the chain, and no modding will be posible.
Valve << Modders - Plugin Modders >> Players
So the disccusion is here. Who rulez games? the final decision of what-to-run on servers its a plugin modder decision:
Valve << Modders << Plugin Modders >> Players
On singleplayer mods, no server exist so modders can rulez everything:
Valve << Modders >> Players
Or
Valve << Players << Modders
With a 5 players game this can be expanded:
Valve << Modders << Plugin Modders << League Admins >> Players
Or ..reordering.
Valve << Players << Modders << Plugin Modders << League Admins
Wellcome to a world where the host (league admins) can change sv_gravity.
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