Players! You are not real!, Another disgusting lie Options

[Sikret]

While I understand that these people are really envious of Improved Anvil's quality and popularity, I really didn't expect them to go so far to write such disgusting lies:

He writes:

whereas this can't be proven unless I had access to the BWL database (to cross-check IPs), I strongly suspect that the fanbase is at least partially astroturfed.

Hilarious!

All of the people who have sent praising post about IA are known people who have used the same nicknames in all forums for years (see Sorcerer's place for example).

He continues:

As a semi-proof, you don't see people posting praise this often at no other mod forum.

Well, that's because:

1- Improved Anvil is the only bugfree big mod.
2- Improved Anvil adds so many new quests and new content to the game.
3- Improved Anvil has high quality (= no bugs, no CTDs, good tactical challenges, new encounters, new monsters, expanded strongholds, Item randomizer and so on)

Instead of deducing the natural consequence that players really like IA, the envious modder has decided to conclude that these posters are not real (i.e. it is me who is posting here with different nicknames to praise my own mod!!)

He also claims that we delete criticisms which is another lie. We have only deleted insulting or trolling posts in the past. Constructive and polite criticisms have never been deleted; some of the topics (a minority of them not all of them) have been closed after a while but none of them have been deleted (even a degree of rudeness has been tolerated and even though some posts have been tactless and insulting enough to deserve being deleted, we kept them).

Where is the modding community going to?

My suggestion to them is to make a better mod than IA if they can. In that case, players will send praising posts to their forums. No more disgusting lies and accusations please. I am fed up with such lies.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Sep 4 2007, 08:57 AM

[Sikret]

Improved Anvil is the only bugfree big mod.

I have noticed that some people (either deliberately or unwillingly) drop the word "big" from the abovementioned sentence (or just don't pay the required attention to it) when they want to quote from my initial post in this thread.

Of course, there are many small or medium size mods out there which have critical bugs as well (Unfinished Business comes to mind), but my sentence didn't imply that I was claiming that IA is the only bugfree mod. It's just a comparison between truly big mods. Maintaining a bugfree big mod is a difficult task and IA has been successfully maintained. (I also admit that my information about the degree of bugfreeness of NEJ2 is very limited. So, it's probable that NEJ2 also satisfies the bugfreeness criteria if its installation instructions are followed precisely by the player.)

I'm sure that others can also give us a list of mods which are not bugged in their opinions, but note that I'm just talking about very big mods in the scales of IA or NEJ2. So, please don't mention any small or medium size mods here (and by size, I'm not referring to the Mega Bytes of the download package, but to the volume and nature of changes the mod applies to the game.) Just check IA's forum for bug reports and you will be amazed to see that despite the huge content of the mod, there are very few bug reports and most of the reports are either about spelling typos or are not related to IA at all. Now compare it with the many bug reports you see on some other mods' forums (even mods which are much smaller than IA) and you will see my point.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Sep 15 2007, 06:37 AM