Blade
14.02.2007, 03:16:21
I'm tired of seeing people demand backward compatibility. I agree that where the function stays the same, the tags should stay the same, but if some feature doesn't work correctly or causes some other bug, then yes it should be changed. The patch is a work in progress and as such ANY ONE who makes a mod based on it has their mod as a work in progress for as long as this patch is. If they want to finish their mods and move on, then just use vanilla YR.
My main 'suggestion' to CnCVK is that he just listen to the community a bit more on issues like naming. There was a discussion on using rockpatch.mix and it was decided that expandmd02 was the way to go (afterall, WW designed that mix system exactly for the purpose of future patches). Now rockpatch.mix appears to load before the expandmd##.mix files (the new info page helpfully seems to show the load order of the mix files), what if at some point the rock patch needs to override something in expandmd01.mix?
Personally I'm quite happy with the RPCE once I look beyond the changes of a few tags, it does seem more stable that previous versions and a lot of bugs with new logic seems to have been fixed. The new superweapons could do with being a big more customisable to overcome what I consider minor bugs with them, but its nice to have them. Not everything works perfectly, but once code is adjusted to meet the tag changes, everything that worked previously still works I believe and we have some more stuff to play with.
My main 'suggestion' to CnCVK is that he just listen to the community a bit more on issues like naming. There was a discussion on using rockpatch.mix and it was decided that expandmd02 was the way to go (afterall, WW designed that mix system exactly for the purpose of future patches). Now rockpatch.mix appears to load before the expandmd##.mix files (the new info page helpfully seems to show the load order of the mix files), what if at some point the rock patch needs to override something in expandmd01.mix?
Personally I'm quite happy with the RPCE once I look beyond the changes of a few tags, it does seem more stable that previous versions and a lot of bugs with new logic seems to have been fixed. The new superweapons could do with being a big more customisable to overcome what I consider minor bugs with them, but its nice to have them. Not everything works perfectly, but once code is adjusted to meet the tag changes, everything that worked previously still works I believe and we have some more stuff to play with.