by MagicManICT » Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:09 am
@Tanchist: you do realise that loftar has made the client open source for a lot of reasons, one of those being that "professional modders" will often provide a better user interface than a systems and server programmer will, which is what loftar is. (From what I've gathered from conversations around the forums... the client coding is something he's done out of necessity, skillfully, but not with the panache of an expert user interface designer. There's a reason people specialize in this stuff.)
Look at games like World of Warcraft, other major MMOs, and even single player games. Quite frequently when the chance to legitimately mod the game comes around, the players come up with better stuff than the original developers. Sometimes the developers co-opt the mods and make their own versions to improve things (loftar has done this on many occassions), and other times they just let the modders keep plugging away at updates and such. "Launch day compatibility" is an issue they all have, too, because of last second tweaks and bug fixes.
In other words, get over the rant. If you're using Amber, romovs is exceptional at getting updates out for his modded client, even if it's a bunch of small things. Either learn to use the standard client for playing and be thankful that you have mods to make life easier, or just log in and do what is necessary to keep the cows from dying and the steel from going out until the update is pushed.
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