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  1. Phrasing and tone is often the difference between valid criticism and toxicity. There is a right and a wrong way to critique.

     

    I've been disgusted with the tone and entitlement of many posts and posters in criticising the game. If you genuinely feel that nobody dragging the UI in particular has been toxic, I can only assume you've managed to evade a lot of the posts about it.

     

    Was doing my utmost to remain impartial but tbh most of the toxicity I've seen the past few days has been from members defending the demo and attacking people criticising it, calling them whingers, accusing them of being fake accounts and bringing their "Forum join date" into the conversation.

     

    I don't want to derail this thread. I posted what I did in an attempt to offer some perspective and reasoning for what's occurred here on the forums. Instead of this Us vs Them mentality I was hoping some would see a lot is just a lack of communication not a lack of respect as others are making out.

     

    Tone is hard to convey and understand on the internet, I suggest looking at content posted and debating that if it warrants and not picking apart tone because it's a slippery slope.

  2. Concept art that does not take into account the limits of the programming language used for the TEW games.The programming language does not allow for scrolling with the colored lists turned on or transparent png files. How do you think it will fare rendering that concept without becoming an absolute graphic nightmare for anyone to mod with skins?

     

    By the way, the "artist" you speak of has a four year degree, has been designing for well over ten years, and has released various logos, banners, mods, skins, and whatever else for free on this board over the past fifteen years that have mostly been well liked and gotten a great reception. Not to mention the fact that he is a fellow human being, raising a family, and also going through a rough time with the world wide pandemic. Yay mental health! I get it if this skin isn't your taste and you have problems with it, but seeing constant posts like this is a bit much.

     

    Concerns are being addressed. It's much easier for artists improve upon an established layout and get a skin "released" a couple days after the game drops that addresses things that people do not like by changing buttons and borders (but is 90% the work of the original artist still.) Building it from the ground up is a whole other story. I'm glad users like Kam and even J Silver (whose little rant in his thread too contributes to the unwarranted over the top toxicity of this board) have put out versions that they consider improvements already. The whole modding section is supposed to improve upon the game and the community as a whole. Heck, I released a whole pack of assets to make it easier for people that want to make skins.

     

    I don't know if it is being cooped up due to the virus, but the toxicity across the board is overwhelming and the entitled attitudes here are just head scratching. Relax. There's no need for it.

     

    I've not seen any insults only fair and valid criticism of many obvious flaws. This is a product you're charging for, I assume Adam paid you for your work. I think a lot of this perceived "Toxicity" is a result of taking criticism of the game, UI etc personally.

     

    If you charge for a product, hype said product for over a year while dismissing all outside help and then produce such an underwhelming demo it's inevitable people will be upset. I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong here but can we please stop acting like this is one sided and the negativity is only coming from one small group of "new members" (Whatever being new is supposed to imply, like their opinions are less valid for some reason?). I've witnessed first hand both sides today being guilty of taking things personally.

     

    Here's a really good example of how just the UI drama could've been prevented, posting screen previews when hundreds were requesting it weeks ago. There are a lot of things devs could've done to prevent so much fallout and anger the past few days but instead it's being turned around and the finger is once again being pointed at the community.

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    Hi there :)

     

    My name is Genadi and I make mods. I will post my mods in this here thread.

     

    For people who know me from the Mod Squad and weren't aware, I have disbanded the group. This will have no effect on my work, and there has been no falling out or drama within, nor does this have anything to do with any future projects that I have been working on. I simply felt that the group dynamic had run it's course. This was decided weeks, if not months ago and has nothing to do with my return here.

     

    Thank you to everyone who's continued to show support, from all the MS guys that helped contribute and in particular the GDS folk who've shown such a huge amount it's often been astonishing. I look forward to providing more mods in the near future.

     

    Download links for all of my current and future mods, pic packs, hype videos, addons etc are now hosted here in a new Discord....

     

     

    Genadi Mods Official Discord - https://discord.gg/ayshdQH

  4. I'm struggling to login and join your page. Already have an account which I can't access as Discord keeps pushing for me register my jean-vic account, but then it won't take my e-mail as it's already registered. I'll try to login to my original account and join with that.

     

    Message me on Discord if you're still having troubles.

     

     

    Glad to see you back

    Out of curiosity do you still plan on doing a January 1999 mod

     

    That was Glennhammer making the Jan '99 mod and he's still working on it. If he doesn't continue for 2020 it won't be too hard making a Jan '99 from TAOW, only six months ahead.

     

     

    Thank you again for all the kind words and support :)

  5. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jean-vic" data-cite="jean-vic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47107" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Tremendously excited to see what you can do with 2020.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thanks very much Jean-Vic <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> I've updated main page with new invite link to Disc which is set to never expire now. I've also added some of the splash logos for each of my mods and will continue to update as I release more work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Thanks again to everyone for the support!</p>
  6. I've updated the main post with a link to my new discord where I'll be hosting all of my current and future mods, pic packs, hype videos, addons etc.

     

    I'm very sorry to the PM's I've not replied to here yet, if I haven't replied please don't think I've ignored you it's just been a super busy few weeks.

     

    Huge thank you again for all the support :)

  7. Thank you very much for the warm welcome back. It's humbling and sincerely appreciated :)

     

    Sorry but I have to ask. What does this mean for the Summer of Punk mod? Are you still doing it or was it a total team effort from the Mod Squad.

     

    It's always just been myself working on the SoP mod, with the obvious exception of a few lads like Togg and MrCreative who've been doing graphics and under the hood stuff for over a decade now, none of that will change. Work slowed down this year quite a bit due to personal commitments but I'm back at the modding station nightly now in an effort to have it complete.

     

    I will update the main page of this thread over the weekend with links to all of my existing mods.

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    Hi there :)

     

    My name is Genadi and I make mods. I will post my mods in this here thread.

     

    For people who know me from the Mod Squad and weren't aware, I have disbanded the group. This will have no effect on my work, and there has been no falling out or drama within, nor does this have anything to do with any future projects that I have been working on. I simply felt that the group dynamic had run it's course. This was decided weeks, if not months ago and has nothing to do with my return here.

     

    Thank you to everyone who's continued to show support, from all the MS guys that helped contribute and in particular the GDS folk who've shown such a huge amount it's often been astonishing. I look forward to providing more mods in the near future.

     

    Download links for all of my current and future mods, pic packs, hype videos, addons etc are now hosted here in a new Discord....

     

     

    Genadi Mods Official Discord - https://discord.gg/ayshdQH

  9. Sorry to hear that Matt. If you ever want to ease back into it or even just work on certain plug ins etc you know the team will always welcome you <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />
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