lost_civantares said:
Have you looked at Fall From Heaven?
What these people have done over many months is incredible. They have changed the game so much that it greatly outshines the regular game. You say that Firaxis has fewer bugs, but infact Ffh has been much more responsive and has patched their mod, even for the early stages of the mod. They have dived into the SDK and put in so many changes (just look in their forum and look at their code changes thread to see what I'm talking about) that the game is almost totally different. Because of this the FfH mod has even gotten a post of approval by
Soren, who has designed much of the game.
I will buy Warloards, but the claim that Modders are "amateurs" is just wrong. They have definitly proven themselves. If you don't trust people easily thats fine, but the Sevomod and the FfH definitly has shown that they more than mere amateurs (As shown in part by how FfH has its own forum).
actully acording to law the diffrince bettween professional and amature. is if you make a living off of it.
you half to do it for a living to be called a professional it has nothing to do with quality of your work or anything
its just if you get payed or not for doing it.
now if amature modder made a mode and then they where able to make living off of it they be called a professional
thats diffrince.
ameature modder is same as calling someone back yard mech.
or guy who fix computers for people out of there house a basement techy
there all still amatures just for fact taht there not making a living off of what there doing.
even if you work on job as a prefssional its still not consider professional work if you do it at home unless there is making of money involled.
but just beucase someone makes or dose something as ahobbie or as an amture dose not mean, thats its not good work.
it just means theres no acountabilty and no money has changed hands.
usally when someons consider professional theres supose to be an acountabilty there.
example is money was exhcanged for the product. software game and yets say the game turned out to have a virus in it programed in or that it blow up 20% of computers.
well every day modder be like huh worked on mine owell a professional making living off of this would be held acountable for this if it was in user agreement or not.
it wouldnt matter if you agree to not sue them or sue them beucase just for fact that by law there cosndier to be professionals there is a legal acountaiblty there period.
if you claim to be a professional anything then you open your self up to the legal world nad commerical world hard core.
i found that out when i opened up my store, 4 years ago went thro all this stuff with my lawyer. here in WI
when i opened up my ocmputer store to do repairs and house hould home calls and networks and all that great stuff for living, i now half to have people sign anything and every thing i do and even then if i **** up in any way shape or form i still be held acountable becuase i now make a living at it so im consider professional under law.
when i worked for RDS and i setup and installed all culver cash registers in usa i was consdier professional for that company. cuz i made living at it.
its all has to do with way law works and IRS dose there books and all that stupida stuff has nothing at all to do with quatilay of ones work or service.
but it is nice to have some type of acountabilty
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