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Hello, forum members, I would like to discuss the development of General relations between forum participants. I see a misunderstanding between me and my comrades (Frozensoull, Dima1247, and psatkha). We have already discussed all the contentious issues with comrades zahar0z and Phoenix 2100 and reached a common understanding. It's unpleasant to hear many things about myself, that I am a cunning YouTuber, a parasite who disrespects the authors. And according to Frozensoull: "That's the whole point, it's nothing more than new content, in other words, just a parade of false hypocrisy under the guise of discussion." In the new year, I would like to end the hostility and words like "this goat insulted us." After all, a review includes not only negativity but also positive moments, which the authors of the messages above do not mention. I suggest contacting each other on Skype and discussing all the points. I already wrote a personal message to comrade Frozensoull, but unfortunately, it remained unanswered.

I'm getting more and more worried about 5.5.

Why?!

and all of this will already be 99% analogous to WoG! :smile13:

Well, maybe they are absent because of a monopoly? Think about it yourself: for example, how can I compete with 5.5 if everything I do is automatically dragged into 5.5 anyway?

Regarding the combination of different exes, I have nothing bad to say. But could you explain in a few words specifically how 5.5 increases the moddability of the game? I admit I'm not very familiar with the functionality of 5.5, but I suspect it's just another behemoth with a huge amount of everything all at once, thrown into one pile. For instance, Eva honestly repulses me because "twenty recolored minotaurs" is exactly my sore spot. In general, I've always been more for quality than quantity.

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I already said that I'm not for WoG, but for HotA.
I'm simply not interested in a project consisting of 90 percent of a large amount of motley trash piled into one heap. I would rather see, or create, a neat, high-quality project made with attention to detail, even if it is significantly smaller. But alas, in the current climate, this is simply impossible. Any potential HotA now will be brazenly swallowed in its infancy by your WoG analog, i.e., 5.5.
That's exactly why I say those guys are creating a monopoly.

And honestly, I never cease to be amazed by the indifference of our small community.
Large groups and streamers publish mods without links or authorship? Who cares, why bother writing anything.
They steal large well-known mods—everything that isn't nailed down—thereby preventing small projects from gaining an audience. Who cares.
Let's create our own resources to develop? No, that's not necessary.
I'm starting to give up because of such a reaction. Am I really the only one who cares about all this?

Moreover, sometimes such things are even praised.
Groups that stole resources without citing authorship—that's good, a good replacement for dead sites.
5.5 is good, it's WoG. For heaven's sake, look around; this attitude has led to the fact that there is nothing left except 5.5.

At the same time, it's not hard at all to do things differently. 5.5 could publish links to the mods it uses and create optional compatibility patches. Groups and streamers—as already proven by Remix and the admin of this group—can publish mods with links to the authors.

This is important. It's important that people who like mods for 5 know that our site exists and that we are here. And that modding Heroes does not end exclusively with Dreadnaut and his 5.5 mod. Why am I explaining obvious things again? And how can I make it so you don't give a damn about the development of our community?

To be honest, I also think that absorbing smaller projects is not the best way to develop modding.
Of course, in the full sense of the word, no one is "absorbing" anyone, but nevertheless, people almost never know where the material was taken from, especially when it comes to large projects that include many small ones.

I think it would be better for each party if, instead of adding one mod to another, work was done on the compatibility of modifications and links to compatible mods were provided.

Well, since your content was included in their MOD, it means the creator wasn't wrong to make it, but what they don't mention is that it's complete nonsense!

I think that not all modders aim to have their mods included in larger projects. Some probably want to forge their own path, and as it is, their projects remain in the shadows.

I'm not saying that large projects that include smaller ones are bad. I just think it would be better if, instead of including them, they worked on making the modifications compatible.