I never said to play comps on mod night holy christ. I said I can't play on mod night because I have other things to do on saturday night; there's no one else to play with, so, derp derp durrrr I need AI to play with in SP.
100meg is not a large file size by any means, either. It's a 3-4 minute download at most for the majority of cheap broadbands out there.
Admittedly Mesk, I've never played your mods, but they've shown me nothing in their threads that would make them worth their download size. None of the models look like they fit in the game, and none of the races seem to go together. The mash up of custom, D2, and misc effects make them as confusing and messy as any kitbashes. And when you then find out how large the file is, and couple that with the fact that most if not all of it's MN matches are against AI, it has about as much appeal as eating broken glass.
Fair enough; that's AO which is only of the only mods I've ever used diablo graphics in. Yeah, they look out of place. That's what happens when you aren't a commercial modeler and you need custom characters. Kitbashes look much worse, though. I've seen all but 3-4 decent kitbashes in this entire community. None of my files are too large; get a decent internet or don't complain. Period. Not a single person I know scoffed at the 4gb size of 2042 and I don't know a single person besides you and thunderaga who second guess downloading a 100 meg mod when you're all software pirates and youtube whores. I don't give a fuck. If you don't want to download it, then don't download it, but when you start crying about the file size which is
insignificant you come off as a moron.
I don't care if you don't like AO. I
know most people won't find it to their liking. It's a proof of concept and a technical demonstration. But that is all your comment is; an attempt to overstate your disliking of a specific mod and then attempting to extend that to the other projects you've never even touched. I find it appalling you classify every single mod I've ever created in 10 years as exactly the same as AO. Either you're narrow-minded, ignorant, or emotionally drunk and need to sit down and think for a minute before posting this kind of garbage. I don't post often on SEN and I'm leaving as soon as AO is done - exactly for this reason. Out of all of the disrespect and narrow-minded stupidity I've had to deal with, it is here I have endured the most of it. I am sick to death of people like you. You're everywhere, in every freaking site and community in existence.
and couple that with the fact that most if not all of it's MN matches are against AI, it has about as much appeal as eating broken glass.
As I recall, every game in ITAS and HK were against people. Either state that you're talking about AO or cease talking out of your ass.
The attitude of some of the people here is pathetic, a further reason why I don't play with you. You have no respect and are little more than children who whine when someone tries something different. Some of the people around here are very nice and supportive, and I find it unfortunate that they're limited to this end of the community and haven't been able to open up to more mature, older, and organized communities before they started dying off. Many of your veteran modders have left you, and this is exactly why. I will be next, and I won't be looking back.
I've never even heard of WC3 modding tools, modders, or mods outside of the SC revolution mod that never got anywhere. Mesk you've said multiple times that WC3 presents a lot of problems for modders, and considering how much the editor can do, no matter how unfriendly it is, the coupling of the two dooms WC3 modding in the same way it will SC2 modding. The editors functionality coupled with the probability of SC2 facing the same problems as WC3 will most likely be the same. And it is a very long shot in the dark for it to be any other way with how things look now.
You're right - modding in wc3 is virtually non-existent. All custom content ever produced has been solely for maps and is of such low quality that it generally isn't worth using. Wc3 is extremely hostile to a mod environment for more reasons than I'll go into. But lets just say that unless you have an extremely strong grip of JASS, 3ds max 5 (the only version of max supported by blizzard's tools), and a variety of other programs, you won't even get off the ground. If you think a 100 meg SC mod is big, you have no idea how large a significant wc3 mod can get. A gig is easily attainable.
SC2 will be even more demanding. You will need incredibly powerful hardware to run custom maps much less a demanding mod.
I know MM isn't like other clans in a lot of ways. And in most respects that's been a good thing. We've seen other clans rise and fall, gain and lose forums on Maplantis and SEN, while we endured. Part of this was due to our lack of other-clan bullshit. But this is a double edged sword. We are so un-clan that we can't keep steady mod night attendance. As said above, most of the time we have attendance at all is when someone, usually me, takes the initiative to 'bother' everyone to signing on.
Well, guess what? Ricky has run Firebat Friday (that died years ago) and SS (wc3) longer than SEN has existed. Years and years and years. And yes, he personally pesters every single person every single day. It's a labor of love; if you don't like it, you aren't cut out for it. People are generally lazy and reluctant, which is why you need a schedule that fits everyone that is consented upon. MM's modnight is much less organized than our game nights are, and that isn't because our game nights are organized - it's because you're trying to just randomly choose mods at the last moment, you don't have dedicated hosters to my knowledge, and you seem to have a lot of problems with just getting connections and shit out. I tried helping you out and suggesting courses of actions but like everything else I've ever said it's just ignored and taken out of context.
I'm not a part of your clan. I'm not a part of your community. I am tired of the hostility and I am tired of the bullshit. If you guys really don't care to play AO, that's fine. I'm not telling you to. I'll take my business back to the shadows where I came from and no one will ever hear of me or speak of me again. When AO's complete, my days of modding are over for good. I have nothing to lose by saying goodbye if you want me to.
Show them your butt, and when you do, slap it so it creates a sound akin to a chorus of screaming spider monkeys flogging a chime with cacti. Only then can you find your destiny at the tip of the shaft.