I wouldn't take it too personally Montavious. You stated you rarely visit the forums so a little explanation is needed here
Gab wasn't trying to aim that comment at you more like a vent. The issue seems to stem from a fair amount of people asking "Hey Gab could you add _____mod to [insert Gabs mod] it would be great if you could."
While it is a great idea many people after several explanations by myself and Gab that its simply not really possible with Gabs mods since Diplomacy (and many other excellent mods) are all done via
PYTHON whereas Gabs Mods are all done via
TEXT there's a huge difference. an example:
NOTE FOR THE EXAMPLE BELOW: The TEXT is from Gabs Items_kinds1 in his 1860s mod the PYTHON is from M&B python code V 1.153
In the Gabs items txt you see:
Code:
itm_tutorial_spear Colt_Revolver_New_Navy_1861 Colt_Revolver_New_Navy_1861 3 coltnavy61 0 coltnavy61_inv 1152921504606846976 nothing 2305843009213693952 279781113865 481842102272 1000 0 2.000000 30 0 0 117 0 0 17 117 0 6 431 0
0
1
-51.000000 4 389 2 48 1152921504606847102 720 2 1 -18 721 2 1 24 1969 3 1008806316530991133 1 7
Pretty difficult to figure out what # does what right?
In Python:
Code:
["tutorial_spear", "Spear", [("spear",0)], itp_type_polearm| itp_primary|itp_penalty_with_shield|itp_wooden_parry, itc_spear, 0 , weight(4.5)|difficulty(0)|spd_rtng(80) | weapon_length(158)|swing_damage(0 , cut) | thrust_damage(19 , pierce),imodbits_polearm ],
as you can see Python is the "easier" way of working things but it gets more complicated as you try to do other things (I tried to learn it but I couldn't quite get it right) But Gabs mods are all done with the text. Now how he figures it out is by using Morghs text editor and make these amazing mods happen. There really isn't a way to add the code for Diplomacy or any other mod in general without undue stress to Gab.
IF 1860's was his only mod AND he has a team behind him (like many other mods) he could in THEORY have someone convert his mod over from Text to Python since most of the code is still native. But Gab doesn't have the time to commit as much as he did way back when I first met him when 1755 was his only mod and have the awesome team he had then to create that. We did try Python with 1776 but that fell apart, the code was never completed and abandoned.
Again Montavious this isn't aimed at you (but i hope this explains why we can't) I hope that someone later finds this post via the search function and helps them understand why we can't do that.
~Dellivis~