Well it does feel more than ungrateful, considering how much work I have put into the mod recently. Not to even mention all the work in the past years.
Also, most of my time goes into improving exactly the quality of RFCE, not just mindlessly adding stuff - so it's exactly the opposite of what 'cranking out' implies.
I'm very careful about the quality of the work I give out of my hands, and do a lot of testing with most of my more significant changes.
Actually, a major difference between 3Miro and me (some fun fact for those who were also here when he was the main modder, in the first couple years of the mod's life):
He is a far more accomplished coder than me, he had learnt everything professionally, even did his PhD connected specifically to coding, in the USA, and now has a great job there. He is a great Bulgarian guy btw, born and raised there AFAIK.
But in his words, he is a "very sloppy coder"
He liked to say that about himself in our PMs about the mod.
And indeed, I have put a lot of effort in improving and revising most of his codes after he had left (he was in charge in all .dll changes before, and many of the bigger features like stability and provinces, then I had to took over those parts too)
His codes have great ideas and even better coding techniques in them, but also tons of bugs, and even logical mistakes in quite a couple times.
(having said that, I'm sure he would have also took it as an insult if someone thought his work to be 'cranked out' updates)
I have nothing but respect for him, without his work RFCE hadn't got as far as it did.
But back to the basic question: On the other hand, I'm very thorough in every modding work I do. Tend to aim for perfection, even if that's simply not possible in most cases.
I learned most of my coding through modding, so it was a much longer process for me, but by now I can safely say that I have also reached a fairly good level in everything connected to Civ IV modding.
ATM most of the big features have their parts mixed up either from Rhye, 3Miro and me (a couple of the vanilla RFC features, like plagues, spawns and respawns - most of the other ones had been completely rewritten though), or 3Miro and me (new or rewritten RFCE features - stability, mercenaries, provinces, reformation, crusades, inquisition, all the UPs UHVs and other civ specific stuff, etc.), with me getting an increasingly bigger amount in many of them.
All the smaller things and functions, and the art, balance, text and map updates are mostly mine (3Miro didn't care for those things, was mostly interested in the heavy modding part), with some help from merijn every now and then - and also from the community of course
And I keep trying to finetune everything even further to the specific needs of RFCE.
There is still a lot to do, but I like to think that RFCE got to greater heights in my lead, and hopefully it will raise much further.
