In the version of BSG HRM v1.0 I run in my install, Chiletrek, I am using the meshes for Galactica and Pegasus you gave me about three or four years ago. The released version has Maj's ships in it and AFIK neither kjc733 nor myself have any reason to change this. We're dealing with fleets here, not individual ships. So whether or not the things have turrets on them does not matter. The largest number of battlestars and combat ships I've been able to build in game is about thirty or so. And battlestars only made up about six or seven of the ships. This means I had about fifty or so Colonial ships onscreen counting civilian vessels but not counting fighters. Since I only have a few of the poly heavy vessels on the map at one time LODs are not that important. I set the thing up so the Colonials would not have access to everything they needed to make a fleet of one hundred battlestars. Because this would not be true to the spirit of either the original series nor the RDM series.
LODs, schmods. Not needed. Not important. Only causing yet another delay in you releasing your BSG stuff. As to me helping out with the coding, did you not understand when I dedicated BSGHRM v1.0 to you? Did you not D/L the mod and look inside? Everything in BSGHRM v1.0 was set up from the beginning by me so if someone wanted to, they could swap out the ships in our mod for yours. Some simple ODF adjustments and people got to use Chiletrek's ships in our mod. I am a huge admirer of your work. I have said so sometimes to the point where I have deeply offended others. I cannot take back the words, although I wish I could. Because the people whose work I compared to yours are very good at modding also. But I knew my friend Chiletrek was and is a stand up guy. His enjoyment of BSG and the care and attention he places into everything he does means his models of Galactica, Pegasus, and the rest are truly special and worthy of praise.
The people who've I've offended? Their BSG stuff is out in the Community. It is being enjoyed as we speak. By fans of BSG who also enjoy A2 and Fleet Ops. People are playing with BSG stuff in A2 right now. And where are the wonderful meshes and things you've shown us over the years? Still hidden away inside your HDD and inside a mod which will never see public release. Because the people involved with this mod have no passion for modding. They reserve their passion for controlling and dominating others. For playing politics with this Community. For being selfish enough that when we do not fall down in shock and awe at their feet and proclaim them modding gods, they get their knickers in a twist and refuse to release things which people have wanted since the first day BSG aired on the SciFi channel.
Am I upset? Yes. Will you offer yet another in an endless series of sad excuses as to why you cannot release any of your BSG stuff because of blah blah blah and doo daah and besides there is__________________. I will bet a month's pay on it. Speak no more to me of releasing the beautifully crafted models you've done. Show me no more pics. Make no more promises to me about maybe someday it will be all be publicly released. because like most of the members of this Community, the silent majority who cannot mod at all, I am weary of brief glimpses of beautiful ships which will never find their way into public release. Because of yet another excuse or delay or problem or whatever. I gave you everything I have way back when and told you to do whatever you like with it. The things inside BSGHRM v1.0 which are mine are specifically pointed out to others to use as they see fit, as long as the ReadMe credits myself with being the originator. I told you a very long time ago you, Chiletrek, have carte blanche to do whatever you like with anything I have ever done. I did these things in order to get your wonderful BSG stuff out to the Community.
So you see, I needn't worry one bit about becoming unretired. And if you want yet another reason to delay releasing your stuff, please do not use me. I want no part of being in the group who has punished the BSG fans within the Community by withholding your meshes from public release. I'll not be a party to such petty politics ever. And I can only look on with shame and disappointment at those who are part of such a heinous activity. Me unretired? Exactly the same chance as you publicly releasing anything BSG. Zip. Zero. Nil. Nada. Da big goose egg. No, I do not want to help you out with LODs and coding for your meshes. Because I already did the coding you need. And if I do help you out, then I become another easy way to avoid releasing ships which people have wanted for years. Such activity makes me no better than Score1!_UK. I'll rot before anyone has the opportunity to say I am just like him.
Wrote it. Meant every word. Absolutely will not take any of it back. Don't really care about hurt feelings here because mine, as well as a silent majority of the Community, have been trampled in the dust by all the foot dragging going on about you releasing your BSG stuff. And if this rant gets me banned forever from the A2 Community and makes people hate me almost as long, well then, good. It still needed to be said out loud somewhere. And I'd be very surprised if only a few of us are thinking the same way. In fact, I am angry enough about this whole sorry pathetic mess, I think I'll just ban myself for about a month. Later people, Thunderfoot has left the building.
) beach somewhere sipping drinks with those little umbrellas in them to be beavering away on a 10 year old game. Wouldn't mean to imply otherwise. 
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