TDM/ Dev

[Tampa_Gamer]

Just so everyone is clear about our position, I posted our April 10th response to Devnul below. Obviously, he is spending a great many hours tweaking the TDM-ModPack races to use his compiled tech/component mods. We are happy to see that he is taking the time and effort to make sure the AI utilizes the techs - which is no small task. Looking forward to the beta Devnul!!

"On behalf of Mephisto, Daynarr and myself -First, let us say that your mod has some features that we really like and even use our own "personal mods." We would love to see a lot of them added to SE4 down the line by MM if they have the time and the inclination to make the AI use it to good effect. However, after discussing it among ourselves, we have serious reservations about giving you permission to use the ModPack races in your own ModPack.

Our primary concern stems from the quote you pointed out ". . .this Mod pack does not contain any modified tech trees, new components or facilities, just tweaks to get the most of the current Version of SE4" repeatedly, for the past 6 months since SE4 released we have all had the desire to add this tweak or that tweak to add new components or research, etc. and have actually chosen not to incorporate several mods that we felt did not muster up to the AI level that we sought. In fact, we each have our own personal "mods" to suit or own tastes - but we are always careful about how the AI is effected. The changes contained in your Mod would literally take hundreds of hours to make the AI races use effectively. From your description, it did not sound like you wanted to make major modifications to the race AI's in order to incorporate your tech/component changes. If that is not the case, and you are willing to take the time and try to incorporate the techs in, please let us know. Perhaps we can work something out with each AI author in that they can take a look at the modified file to make sure
that AI isn't at a disadvantage - but it will be an incredible amount of work and every patch that comes out would pretty much require a new Version.

Anyway, we wanted to give you a prompt answer. Please do not take this personally, it is just a dogma we are standing by for the time being and which we feel the mod community appreciates (at least for now). While we cannot prevent you from including the races (they are public domain and all), in the spirit of the modding community, we would prefer that you not use them unless you are willing to put the serious time into converting them and letting us look at them prior to release.

Note - we are not speaking on behalf of Alpha Kodiak (Rage Collective) he may feel differently.

Regards,

Tampa_Gamer
Mephisto
Daynarr"