Wow. Thanks for the info but my god, that just sounds so damn petty. So basically OP loses control of TLR's original domain and proceeds to split the community between TSP and his own version of TLR instead of promoting cooperation...
All this is kind of turning me away from Crossfire now. I originally wanted to try its singleplayer mode since Discovery became too multiplayer-oriented for me to keep spending time on it, but now I'm hesitant to play something associated with someone that volatile (and from what people here are saying, Crossfire's campaign isn't even as good as what OP makes it sound like).
I was really surprised at the amount of hate Discovery initially got on the Star Citizen forums. For a while, I legitimately thought Discovery had a bad reputation outside of this forum due to the one-sided-ness of that flame war, but a quick peek at the Star Citizen forums now shows that's not the case. A lot of people looking for mods are directed here now, leading me to believe all the haters from the flame war were people associated with OP, which is a little scary considering how many haters he managed to get on board against us.
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(04-13-2014, 08:26 PM)Klaw117 Wrote: Reading this made me really curious. What has Crossfire's lead developer done that makes many of you dislike him? All I know is that he instigated a flame war on the Star Citizen forums between Discovery Mod members and everyone else.
Okay, well, here's the story.
Once upon a time there was a haven for Freelancer modding called The Lancer's Reactor. This was a glorious place, where all modders came together to work together, find solutions, and discover new limit breaks. It was great.
Then one day, TLR got shut down because its hosting ended. It was rebooted by Louva-Deus, and Worfeh and FriendlyFire started The Starport. And all was well.
For a bit.
Things broke down at TLR. Ownership of the site was passed from one uncaring person to the next, until it reached the hands of a guy named AzzA. AzzA was not a nice person. At all. He was instrumental in several DDoS attacks against other Freelancer communities. Once AzzA had been banned from... basically everywhere outside of TLR, he gave the site to OPR8R (OP for short -- I'll use that for the rest of this article).
Important note: At some point in there, the lancersreactor.com domain was lost and TLR started using .org.
OP started out pretty chill. He restored TLR to some semblance of former strength, helped decrypt the oooold TLR database that was still being recovered, and started running TLR as usual. And then TSP acquired the lancersreactor.com domain in an auction to prevent it from falling into the hands of advertising companies.
OP did not take this very well.
When TSP started restoring the old (pre-2008) Lancers Reactor database as an archive on lancersreactor.com, OP's TLR and SWAT/Crossfire communities began slandering and even censoring TSP on their forums. As late as 2011, TLR was practically pretending that TSP never existed and that they were responsible for some of the brilliant advances developers on TSP had come up with.
And now we have cases like OP continuing the hate by slandering TSP and TSP-related communities (like Discovery and Freeworlds) on the Star Citizen forums. Oh, and OP never made AzzA stop the DDoS attacks after receiving control of TLR.org.
So there's your history.
TL;DR - read the bloody post or I'll link you to an even longer article by w0dk4 about it