I’m pretty sure being too lazy to develop your own plugin API and let a private third-party handle it, then giving them legitimate authority over it. Of course, talking about RMod and Sven. In fact this has been discussed since 2018 and all you, Nelson, have done is defend Sven’s actions.
First, Sven writing a code into RocketMod nicknamed flying mushrooms which was something, when read backwards, was a way to hard-ban anyone he personally didn’t like from all RocketMod servers through the users S64ID. Server hosters running RM has no choice and essentially no hosters even knew about this. Infact, to this day hardly anyone knows about this.
Second, Sven writing an arbitrary plugin/website nicknamed “Observatory” which was a consentual service server-hosters could opt-in to where moderators of servers would ban a hacker from their server and submit evidence to the Observatory website for a jury of users to hold a trial on whether or not that user was hacking. It sounds great in practice, and sounds consensual. Except Sven turned it from a downloadable plugin to something that is fundamentally built-in to RM, and was by by-default enabled. Hardly any server hosters running RM knew what Observatory is, so they had no reason to switch it from the default “true” to “false” (or enabled to disabled).
On top of forcing Observatory to be apart of RM (when nobody asked for that), he decided to abuse his unique power, or ownership, of Observatory to ban people he personally disliked without any trial, no other jurors, and no photographic evidence required.
As you know, because you defended him, he banned a popular figure named @ItzEdInYourBed because he was vaguely associated with hack-client developers, and never helped them develop hacks nor used their hacks. You blatantly defended his actions publicly on the SDG forums.
“I have no control over Rocket because it’s entirely separate from Unturned,”
You had every ability to make a good plugin API apart of the base game instead of officially handing over this power, that you may or may not have known could (and evidently was) abused.
“but even if I did I would be glad to retain Sven as its developer. While it’s possible to bring up some examples of rude behavior on his part I’m sure that’s true for all of us at one point or another, and it can be especially difficult to keep a cool head”
Then you defend his blatant, intentional abuse by saying we all “lose our cool” aka “make mistakes”. This is not a mistake. This wasn’t a one-time thing. He planned this out, coded this out, and abused his unique privilege that you both indirectly/directly gave him.
Third, not to mention the hellhole and joke of a Discord you let him officially run on your behalf, possibly one of the worst official game-discords I’ve ever attempted to participate in.
There are a few other minor examples, like Sven’s personal character, as he has endlessly and historically been a major ■■■■ to almost everyone, but I think that goes into the realm of being too subjective. Everything so far has been objective, and undeniable.
If you don’t consider these things totally anti-consumer, then I think there’s a problem. Even if you never expected or anticipated for these things to happen, they happened, and instead of acknowledging the problem, you decided to, @Armaros take it away
While yes, this is very pro-consumer, there is a lot more than that.
The reason a lot of these things I write about are “inevitable” is because as far as I see, you aren’t learning from these things that don’t exactly directly involve the game like the code, but things that can mold and shape the game, it’s community, and how the game is enjoyed or used. Things beyond and outside of the box that need to be accounted for.
I don’t blame you, I don’t mean to be passive-aggressive, but this is just one facet of the anti-consumer, anti-player things that I am talking about, and I make these posts to shed light on them, then get shit on, and then don’t have the time or mental capacity to deal with the endless toxicity, aggressive memes, harassment, stalking, death threats, doxxing, impersonation, abuse, and other things that I’ve endured.
“I’m sure that’s true for all of us at one point or another, and it can be especially difficult to keep a cool head when dealing with other rude comments.”