On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:59:17AM -0600, Guangcong Luo wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Per Inge Mathisen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Easy mod support is not that important. There may be vocal forum users
> > that want it, but they are rarely a good representative sample of our
> > users. In my experience, the overwhelming majority of users will never
> > touch a mod and just play the core game.
> 
> Forum activity has gone down significantly, and I miss many formerly
> active members. 

I can think of at least 3 people who have stopped participating in
the last couple months due to what they perceived as hostility on the
forums.  No mention of autoloading.

> Good mod support is key to an active community, and I
> fear our current mod loading situation may have something to do with
> it. I would not have released Rebalance Mod and eventually become a
> developer if not for the ease of autoload folders.

Mod support is a nice thing to have, but a working game that does not
crash is even more important.  It should be embarrassing that we are
up to Beta 7.  The techniques for producing working software are not
rocket science.  All it requires is a little bit of process and
some personal discipline.

-- 
Stephen Swaney                  
[email protected]


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