This should be shipped with Soldat.
Should be but won't cause of some blind dev.
Nope it shouldn't be shipped with soldat.
Here is why:It modifies the code of Soldat.
It's an external application.
It's not written in Delphi.
The developers don't have access to the source code
(even if they had, they wouldn't understand it, because it patches into Soldat and relies on workarounds which are not really fun to work with - or to code)
It's difficult to debug
(external application which changes Soldats assembly code)
New Soldat versions break chatMod
(working code needs to be removed, reimplemented, modified and/or tested again - this is a painful and would be a waste of time for the devs)
I don't want to have it included in official Soldat (read below why).
In fact I think chatMod shouldn't be necessary it's a sign for failture.
Someone from outside has to fix stuff for the dev(s), really?
There are a issues which made me develop chatMod:devs dont fix bugs in bugfix releases
releases take forever
feedback is ignored
the community is treated like it's worth nothing
contribution is impossible (people who want to help are seen as rivals who could destroy the soldat domination position of current devs)
Nice quote that fits here:
Gollum: It came to me, my own, my love... my... preciousssss.You see chatMod is not fixing all of them because it's not possible.
I'm very sad that I need to write
game hacks to make the community happy instead of helping with the real thing.
Asking to the allowance to help and getting rejected because of weird reasons is ridiculous but if someone thinks you are not trustful (and his enemy) it's hardly possible that he will change his mind and you will get the chance to support this project in any other way then writing game hacks.
However I guess have no right to complain from the perspective of the devs.
It's not my game, I paid for it but the current dev never saw any of that money so who I am to demand changes anyways?
I hope that something will change and chatMod will become unnecessary (because they fix the issues that made me code it in the first place).
This text is probably way to long if you read till here and you are a Soldat dev you hopefully will rethink your point of view and find some solutions for the issues I mentioned above.
If you are not a Soldat dev well you can at least go to your church (or wherever you go to pray) and start to pray for Soldat to do better.
Anyways you can help others by letting them know that chatMod for Soldat 1.5.1 exists.
