Request for Baronius post to be stickied, Improved Anvil and BG2 Fixpack Options

[Ymarsakar]

I found his post to be a useful explanation of the arguments, so to speak, and I would like to see his post stickied/pinned.

[Baronius]

When I played Vlad's mod and IA, I used Baldurdash 1.12 weidu.

Which of Vlad's mods did you play? I might have missed something earlier, but as far as I know, no one has reported yet that NEJ (or TS?) and IA worked in practice -- you would be the first, if I am correct. (They are assumed to be compatible, just no one reported anything yet.)

Your experience with BG2 FP and those nice big mods also confirms the theory I partially introduced (which simply some people pretend not to understand, or just throw it out.) I promise I'll make a more solid text from it as soon as I can get enough time.

So why all this had to be discussed here? Their usual practice, i.e. that people are quickly sent to the G3 FP forum, is unsatisfying for most people. Why?

• You get 10 replies / hour...
• ... they explain to you how they are right OR how you can solve your problem by replacing 259 lines of TP2 in 19 different positions

I don't blame most of these posters, because they are really confident. A problem (well, it can be an advantage as well as a disadvantage) at FP at G3 is that too many people rely on too few people's knowledge, unconditionally. As I've said in the other thread, even the best modders can be wrong sometimes. It's not good if everyone closes his or her eye and only listens to a few people unconditionally. (On a side note, I was against Tutu a few years ago, I supported BGT. I refused to consider the other side's viewpoint, and it was a mistake. CamDawg was one of those persons whose arguments convinced me eventually. Now I equally support BGT and Tutu, though my time usually doesn't allow to ensure compatibility with both.)


OK, I'll now contact Sikret to ask him where I can pin the "The dread fixpack" topic or whether it should be splitted.

[EDIT] Sorry Ymarsakar, I just realized I should close this thread, or tens of replies will arrive very soon. Sikret closed the other thread, and I've no right to override his decision.

[EDIT2] SimDing0, I didn't notice your reply because I was posting (and went away for some time). However, my post probably gives an answer to your doubts as well. On a side note, I don't think it's "disingenuous" to talk something on a public forum that can be read by everyone. Everyone knows it very well that G3 FP developers got informed about it in minutes, considering today's communication possibilities as well as the fact they were online. So it isn't like speaking behind someone's back; it's just not going to the house in question to discuss the own problems of that house. And I must really add this: it's not about "how much I hate it"! It's about "It should be corrected, because...". I spent several hours to write that post, do you think I would have done it if I hated the mod? I would have just made a pinned topic "G3 Fixpack may break mods". Do you think I spend my limited time because I enjoy this much?!

On a side note, when jastey implied there are users whose accounts are suspended and can't react in BWL forum, no such suspended account existed. Not after she said: before that time, even.

This post has been edited by Baronius: Jul 31 2007, 06:19 PM