You're right, Champ. I would've applied the sandwich rule if my dietary options weren't limited to canned beans and cornflakes. (lockdown *coughs*)
I'd like to mention that I have no quarrels with Rhemalak personally, but I singled him out on this occasion because he provided a prime example of what is wrong with this community.
He's been attacking Laz personally for taking an initiative that anyone else, even persons who never even heard of Discovery, could have taken anyway, and boasting about being a US Army vet, in the annals of a gaming forum? Like, how is that relevant to anything? It is, because it shows the "quality" of the people who stuck here.
I fell in love with Discovery when I started back in 2010, but over time, it's been turned into a mental asylum, here is why I chose to call it that:
This guy honestly believes that his real life job entitles him to special treatment, from a bunch of gamers, on a gaming forum that he chose to be a part of.
The sense of entitlement is disgusting, and plainly delusional, and he is only one of the many examples you can find here.
If this community is so fragile, that the mere idea of a new mod is enough to harm it, is it really even a community? Not as far as I am concerned.
Discovery today is not the same DiscoveryGC that I joined and fell in love with back in 2010, that is why you don't see me online anymore, and I believe it's the same case with the other 200 players that used to be online all the time.
Normal people who just want to be part of a gaming community and play space simulators already moved on to other games like Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, etc, because this game, with this mod started feeling less as a community and more like a religious sect that barely tolerates newcomers, and god forbid you have different ideas, that's asking to be torched, as this thread has shown.
If someone from the community that provided me with a decade of fun is taking on the initiative of creating something new and refreshing, I'm standing up for them, because I've seen people, on this forum, with less ambitious goals being shat on and this mod lost out on tons of exciting stuff because of that.
Coming up with an idea in this mod is like trying to grow potatoes in concrete dust.
But what of the people who really like the Freelancer universe in particular? Currently they don't have an alternative.
I stopped playing Freelancer entirely, because there is no alternative mod. (Let's be real, Crossfire is hardly even Freelancer)
Laz is providing that alternative, and people will choose whichever is better.