The whole point of putting a URL to this thread in the map itself is that anyone who really wants to check the provenance of a map simply need come here and look.
The other thing is that if you take 2.22 and compare it to 2.24 and 2.32, which one do you think has had greater work put into it? Rebalancing a bunch of units, or an entirely new spawn system that adds new strategy to the game? I'm the only one who fully understands the triggers involved in this map, because I created them. I also have lots of comments in my original version that describe various aspects of the triggers. The complexity of my triggers has actually made the map quite fragile, as evidenced by the number of bugs I put into 2.22 and now 2.32 due to re-working the trigger systems. Anyone other than me, who doesn't have access to my original version (which no one apart from me does) is going to have quite a lot of work ahead of them trying to expand or implement new systems in this map. This means knock-offs are almost never going to be able to make the sorts of changes that I can make to this map, so they'll always be playing catch-up.
One other thing that I've found rather interesting, is that a lot of people (prior to having seen 3.30-3.32) have mentioned or asked if 2.24 and 2.23 were legitimate, of if they were hacked/knocked off. So it seems that this is fairly common knowledge in the DS community. How this became so wide-spread I'm not sure - either a few people have gone around and told others that it was fake, many more people read this thread (and lurk) than I suspected, or people look at the balance and general changes made in 2.23-2.24 and recognise that they're not quite right (all of my protoss building costs always end in 0, terran always end in 5 and zerg is some other number and they broke this scheme in 2.24 by making stalkers cost $195 for example). Probably it's some combination of all 3.
I actually wouldn't really mind if they ripped it off and called it something else, the problem is that they've taken my map, upped the version number and pretended it was one of their own releases. If they renamed the map to "Desert Strike Night Fixored" or just any other name, it wouldn't be a problem, because people would know it was a different map. But naming it DSNight Fixed 2.24 makes it look like one of my own releases, when it really isn't. Basically it's like trademark infringement. I don't consider my version to be a rip-off of DSNight Final for this reason - I renamed it to DSNight Fixed, and I also credited theo_ua and Queengambit in the mission briefing as being the original creators (and I've spent over 400 hours working on it, by now).
Please share any other rip-off versions you come across, especially anything that has been based on 2.30-2.32.
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