Originally Posted by
Jadedcat
I am going to step way outside the role of Global Mod: Everything in this post is a personal opinion and in no way reflects the feelings of FTB
Frankly I find the drama annoying. I also think many people are misusing the word "better". "Better" is subjective in all ways the average player can measure. Things like ease of use, ability to understand its function etc are different from player to player. Different players value different things. Which means what one player finds "better" another player does not. Subjective statements are personal and frequently lead to personal feelings getting injured. This is because people can't prove from an objective standpoint why they feel something is better. This ends up with arguments that are basically the color purple is better then the color blue. This is not in fact a valid argument. Its a statement of opinion.
The people who can make objective claims about "better" are people who can read and understand the code and it influence on the resources required to run the game. In the case of resources used by a server or computer a mod can be objectively "better" then another mod. These would be people like mod devs, coders, mod pack makers, and server admins. The down side is that anyone who can read a tiny bit of code seems to think they are an expert. And then they weigh in on xyz mod behaves in xyz way often totally missing half of whats going on. And some mod authors may be admittedly biased towards their own mod. So again "better" is not the best word. More efficient is the use of computer resources sure. "Better" maybe maybe not.
So basically "better" is a personal opinion. Personal opinions are not worth people arguing so rabidly over. However it seems people do and I am going to venture an opinion on why.
Attitude.
If I start a stream using GregTech very few people will tell me I am a horrible person. If they don't care for it they will tend to be like "better you then me" and enjoy the show. I do a stream with IC2 and no GT and the GT fans come out of the woodwork to inform me I am a crappy player and lazy and stupid etc because I am not using GT and as GT is harder it is obviously better and anyone not conforming to that is a noob that should be playing in creative mode. People who like it to be a bit easier don't tend to gripe at people who want it harder. People who prefer a harder style of play do however frequently attack people who prefer to play easier. Easier and harder aren't even the right words. Its one group of players calling another group of players names because they prefer to play the game differently. Frankly the players that don't like hardcore changes to the game didn't start the drama. The players that want a more "balanced" "hardcore" game are the ones that started the name calling and started saying their way was better. This got the crowd that liked the status quo fired up and insults were thrown and now instead of having one community of players that play differently , it frequently feels we have 2 communities at war over how they want to play a game.
And here we come to the main topic. GT and its creator. I will note I think the mod is fine as an IC2 addon. It adds some stuff to IC2 thats reasonably interesting. That said, where it started and where it has come to are seperate things. Instead of working with other devs for compatibility or refusing to install alongside mods he doesn't want to play with his mod , he reaches around and fiddles with how they work. This leads to mod devs getting "bug reports" when in fact the item is working as intended. Just as intended by Greg not the mod dev. Greg on the other hand just laughs and goes yup I made it better. And his fans buy into this and feel they are somehow morally superior to players who don't see his genius. Personally I dislike the innate arrogance in the presumption that he is a better moder then all the others. He made a mod that plays the game the way he wants. He has then decided that other mods that don't do it his way are inferior and must be changed.
Anytime one group believes they are "better" then another group it leads to conflict.
Different dos not equal better. Harder does not equal better. Easier does not equal better. All of it is personal opinion. The only better that can be proved is hardware resources used. Anything else is just opinion.
TLDR : Unless you have empirical evidence of a mod being better on hardware resource usage then your argument for or against any mod it the equivalent of me saying: "I dislike lima beans , therefore lima beans are bad therefore Lemming you are not allowed to eat lima beans"
Different is not better. Personal opinions are not fact. Play the way you want and let me play the way I want.
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