Of dumb bugs and dumber gamers

[Renegade]

I don't know the exact details, but from the code I've seen, it looked like Westwood was changing the guard command to accommodate for the Slave Miner (which has a gun, and thus can guard, but is a weird building/unit hybrid and thus needs special treatment) and fucked something up in the process.

It's a pretty logical chain of events, really:

• Harvesters in RA2 work fine, guard mode for armed units in RA2 works fine
  
• YR adds new, weird, armed harvester
  
• YR needs guard mode changes to accommodate for new harvester
  
• Westwood changes guard mode behavior for armed harvesters
  
• Westwood fucks up
  
• Bug affects only armed harvesters, because only those can guard
  

And yet, the cheaters and apologists want to tell you that's "by design"...because, clearly, one day, Westwood's game designers sat at the round table and thought "hey! wouldn't it be awesome if I could send commands to my enemy's units?! I mean, I'd send commands to his harvester, drain his resources, and then conquer him! Get it?!? Command & Conquer???".

(Did I mention RenProj's official policy on cheaters is "cheaters have small dicks and need to be castrated"?)