Victor5 说:
Kolios 说:
I'm not angry, just pointing out some flaws so maybe they can be fixed. Constructive criticism is good.
Constructive criticism is indeed good. A large portion in your angry rant, however, isn't remotely good and/or helpful, let alone constructive. Historically accurate or not, your gripes regarding balance are purely based on your own
opinion -- most of which has been extremely condescending. Re-read these parts of your rant, and honestly ask yourself with a straight face if this sounds "constructive" to you:
How was my post a rant? That's all your
opinion. If anything your reply has been very condescending and aggressive but I won't play the victim.
If you want to argue against my arguments instead of resorting to personal attacks, then I welcome a debate. But it seems you're more interested in insults. There's a saying about how you know when someone lost the debate, it's when they are solely resorting to personal attacks.
Victor5 说:
Would *you* bother listening to anyone this blatantly disrespectful toward you and your hard work? I
sincerely doubt it.
As others have already mentioned, this mod is free for you to play. You are owed nothing. You're taking others' hard work for granted, with no concern of how many hours of hard work were spent on it, let alone all the thought that goes into every balance decision and how it all has to come together. If you genuinely want your suggestions to be taken seriously (let alone ever considered), then try showing a
little respect first -- rather than making some sad attempt at a political flamewar of sorts. Or better yet, you can take the time and learn how to create
your own mod -- featuring your own hand-crafted OP Muslim faction or whatever else you'd like to do.
That would be constructive.
But if the above suggestions sound too difficult for you, then please just stop. Continuing this course will likely get you banned anyway.
Again, how am I disrespecting their work? I even stated in the beginning that I like how accurate the Western part of the game is. It's done well.
I don't buy your argument that because it was free, therefore there is no room for constructive criticism. And no, you don't get to decide what is and what isn't constructive criticism. That's up to the mod creators themselves. If they feel like I've been attacking them, then I'll modify parts of my argumentation. But you're not the mod creators, so you can't speak for them.
>political flamewar
Now that's just funny. What part of "England has the best bowmen", "Mongols were the best horse archers" and "Mamlukes had one of the best cavalry" is a political statement that will lead to a flamewar? Does that make me an English Mongolian Arab Christian Muslim Pagan? I'd love to see someone who fits into those categories!

The fact remains, that in this mod the Muslim troops are so weak in this mod that it becomes a gameplay issue much more so a historical one. Again, this is criticism, learn what it means.
No offense, but your vitriol reads an awful lot like social justice warriors attacking anyone who wants to talk about topic X. This reminds me of a situation at my university where one of those people went on a rant against someone who made a joke about PTSD. And apparently, you can't say anything about PTSD survivors because they'll get offended, when it fact they rarely do. Quite interestingly, a veteran had to point out to the SJW to stop being condescending and stop speaking for others. Now in this case, it's even worse because I'm not even making a joke about disease, an ethnicity or group of people. I'm not even making a joke or an insult. I'm simply pointing out issues about the mod. If this was I thread about pointing out the good stuff about the mod, It'd be a whole lot longer but the good things about this mod has already been said. If you feel personally attacked by this comparison, well at least that's targeting something said by you and let's be honest, it's well justified attack on your opinion.
>Continuing this course will likely get you banned anyway.
Oh and this is just funny. You've made a new account, this is your first post and you think you're already familiar with this forum to know who's going to get banned or not? You're trying to derail this thread to cease any discussion about the mod. And before you claim "You're new to this forum too!", at least I don't go around acting like a moderator.
Let me quote the forum rules verbatim:
" If you disagree with what someone has said, debate the point, not the person. "
Don't you have somewhere else to act like the internet police? I heard tumblr is always looking for recruits (or hypocrites as they're better known)...