I normally ignore people like you but since you already blurred the water I will clear it up. And I won't be nice, because why would I? I will post only one message since you are already derailing the thread.
First of all, I deleted your message and blocked you in nexusmods because you were being self-entitled toxic prick. You are not the first one and I'm sure you won't be the last. You were "disrespectful" not by your self-entitlement only but also by using words like dumbness, pathetic, childish etc about a free-mod and effort from a person who has nothing to gain out of it.
Let me say this in bold,
you have absolutely no right to tell me what to do and how to use my own code and my free time. Period. That alone is a good reason for me to ignore you completely but you also choose to be insulting with your snobby manners and hence the toxicity and ban. nexusmods page is not your "I stated my opinion" place. It's a mod thread.
You also either didn't read what I said in the sticky message or you ignored the part where I say the problem is not only TW but also the toxic community. Which you demonstrate perfectly.
Modders are not here to satisfy your laziness. We don't have to provide code or maintain what we did. And if you are getting mad at modders because we are not doing something in our own free time with our own efforts, you have serious issues.
It expressly says "with all due respect"
Just because you said this doesn't make your statement respectful. Then I can say "..with all due respect, **** you." but that wouldn't be nice, wouldn't it?
And "logically" the favor still goes out from TW to the modder as he does not pay for the access and it reasonably cannot be presumed that an individual modder will have a great impact on the games sales.
That's not how it works. I own the copy of the game which grants me the right to be able to reverse engineer its reverse engineerable parts and analyze it according to U.S. Code § 1201 - Circumvention of copyright protection systems. I made font bigger so you can read.
www.law.cornell.edu
Clause f
(f)Reverse Engineering.—
(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A),
a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may
circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the
sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve
interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b), a person may develop and employ technological means to
circumvent a technological measure, or to
circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure, in order to enable the identification and analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling
interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such
interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.
(3)
The information acquired through the acts permitted under paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2), may be made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means solely for the purpose of enabling
interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title or violate applicable law other than this section.
(4)
For purposes of this subsection, the term “
interoperability” means the ability of computer programs to exchange information, and of such programs mutually to use the information which has been exchanged.
hence it's perfectly legal. Moreover here is Bannerlord EULA
https://store.steampowered.com/eula/1393600_eula_0
1.3 You may not (i) display, duplicate, dismantle, reverse engineer, circumvent, repurpose or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or trade secrets embodied in any part of the Mod Tools or the Game itself without TaleWorld’s prior consent;
and modders do have Taleworlds's prior consent.
So your entire argument is pointless.
just a non-criminal/practical form of blackmail
lol No it's not? How's this different than a normal player saying "You are not adding any content to the game, I'm done" and leaving the game? Is this also blackmailing? As a modder and player, I did my best to show TW what players want and what I want personally as a player as well. And people were expecting Freelancer, that's why it got so many downloads in such a short time. But TW enjoys ignoring these facts. Not only Freelancer but many other extremely fun mods that should be in base game are not in the base game. And you are all dependent to those modders now. And because of that, you think you are entitled to say something - which you are not.
I'm just offering an opinion
No one asked for that.
How much does it really take to prepare your mod for 1.6.1? Could be a couple of lines, could be a little more.
Create your own mod from scratch. Then make "a couple of lines of change" if you want. Should be easy since you claim that you have 20 years of experience and act like you know it all
actively working to ensure that modding is easier for you that is a privilege
No, it's not. You are all thinking as if this is a free-to-use engine for game developers. It's not. It's an engine that TW and only TW owns and all the mods that people do are actually helping to TW in long run by providing more players and longer playtime for it's players by increasing enjoyment. "They are adding modding capabilities, all hail to TW" is same as saying "They added feature XX to game, all hail to TW" because both are useful for the game and for the company. Modders are not getting anything out of it. I know people who bought Bannerlord just to play Bannerlord Online, I'm pretty sure same will happen if Vikings mods are out or Napoleonic Wars mods. So now tell me who did a favor to who? If a non-profit bunch of people pouring days and months of their free time and effort into something and you are gaining extra players/profit out of it as a company, modders is the one who are doing you a favor.
You should see modding capabilities extension as a normal game feature that they are adding as an investment to game.
he should have released the source code if hes given up modding this game
I should? Why? As I explained, it's my code and I can do whatever I want and make a statement out of it if I want to - which I'm doing. TW should man up and stop relying on modders. And yes they are relying on modders in many areas right now and they are enjoying this.
For example, here is a nice short quote from our very own CM
...And even
if that doesn't amount to the changes that you and some others would like to see, at least you already have access to an awesome mod that provides you with the gameplay experience that you want!
So basically he says "Even if we don't fix the battle and armor issues, you already have access to mods. Rely on them", You can rely on mods if it's a total overhaul mod like Roman mod or LotR mod. But if a mod is "fixing" your game and used by everyone because otherwise game sucks, then you have issues.
I won't quote it here to send him notification because he will post something out of the context random stuff to prove he is alive but you can read it from here
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/real-battle.445307/post-9726326
