[Kaperstone]

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Originally Posted by Everything0 It's sad, but there's nothing you can do. People just demand too much and whine over anything, have no respect, no patience.

I take my words back actually, because many people here are young and many lack knowledge.

I do agree with you, don't get me wrong, but I think it comes from a point of view that is less understanding or knowledgeable to judge.


I'd like to comment on the first post about this-so-titled "surprise factor"

imo, this isn't surprising at all.

Of course many would first jump on the truck and rage quit "numbers aren't justifying to put on the main release? what?"
But if you'd take a cup of tea, sit and think, you'd understand that this is actually very reasonable and legitmet.


Yes, I also think 0.3.8 servers are doing great things like the Vice City thingy, but the testing done on this is very little.
If he were to put this on the main release and some randomy would find an exploit in the release, that would effect everyone on the same version, an exploit in the mods as of now, would mean danger to the -DL version only, not to all the servers.

As an example, you can take a look at the cookies feature, it was a fix for one exploit, but then it was very quickly discovered to be very vulnerable and became a problem of itself.

Same goes here.


So to avoid this, we need more testing, the more people test version 0.3.8, the more exploits can be found, the more Kalcor can patch/fix bugs and the less attacks/problems we may encounter.

But because the numbers are very little and people mainly focus on creating mods for 0.3.8 rather than exploring and testing how stable/vulnerable the mods are, we can know only little about the safety of the mods and only mostly know how to create them.