Proposed development of YR 1.002 Community Patch

[Blade]

@Blade, I see you're right of course. Very well, I shall include your fixed bio reactor shps (but note that your ygpowr_a.shp is clearly using the arctic shadow. I have fixed this and will include it in the YRCP).
Regarding the Weather Controller - great! can you fix it?
I still need to check out the polish flag loop blip.
But once that's done, the TX should no longer need to include any shps (if you still want to include them in the TX, could you at least replace ygpowr_a.shp with my fixed one?)

Regarding the animated gap gen, it's not really a bug so I don't think it should be forced upon the user. I suppose it could be included as a resource that modders could make use of (provided we had the author's permission) however, it would essentially be providing it with the YRCP instead of with the mods that want to use it. If someone never plays a mod that uses it then they didn't need the resource.
Similarly, I love your new yuri sidebar and I plan to include it in my mod, but not the YRCP, given it's filesize.
If PixelOps or some other central-resource-site gets picked up then such resources should be made available there.

Finally, Blade, what's the score ragarding that TX ini idea I had several posts again?

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Did I miss something, when did this patch go from considering including the entire TX to being some ultra minimalistic update? If we are not going to put in some extra eye candy to at least make use of the modded exe, what would be the point of including it at all? I would think a unique UI for Yuri would be one of the first things to be considered for the patch for example and the animated Gap generator would again be something in that vein. I was also going to suggest adding all the new turrets me and cannis worked on and using some of them that don't need adjustments to the actual weapon behaviour itself. Yeah, lets fix some bugs, but lets also add a little bit more variety into the YR experience as a value added feature of the patch. I appreciate many people are still on dialup (particularly in more rural areas or less developed nations), but I'm sure they will be willing to suffer a few more minutes of downloading for an enhanced experience out of the box that will automatically work with everyone else who uses the patch.

As for the TX .ini idea, I don't really have the means to test it and I've never experienced a reconnect error when using the TX against non-TX people myself. I believe you can add the .ini files without any adverse effects so long as no one tries to use a TX map without the art assests themselves. I do think that a few of the TX tiles should be included as standard in the patch too, such as the NewUrban paved road ramp that has the wrong slope facing set on it so units lean the wrong way as they use it.