[Paddylsrp]

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Originally Posted by TommyB makes me wonder if any 0.3.DL owners were spoken to at all. i know i wasn't

Been quite a while since I seen you Tommy (Patrick here from ye olden days of "The Gathering Area"). Funny how times of crisis can bring people together after 9 years.

Yet further testament of course to the fact that the decision to rid 0.3.DL from the community doesn't just affect one server here, or one server there (which would be farcical in it's own right) but effects a great many servers, on which some players have invested time across a multitude of them. I am not a developer. I wouldn't know the first thing about it, but I have played on TommyB's server in the past and more recently and seen how 0.3.DL has enabled it to grow, just like other roleplay servers like LS-RP. Given the number of people from other servers I haven't mentioned, I would estimate that such a decision effects an unthinking number of developers, testers, and even well and above those smaller groups, players.

You may well be correct. Perhaps the non-DL servers do have bigger numbers than that of the 0.3.DL branch, but there are a great many mitigating factors included in that, not least of all that 0.3.DL is not an available client on the main website (which was a questionable ploy in any case). Sure, some people simply aren't interested in custom skins; perhaps the gamemode just doesn't demand it. That's absolutely fine, the uploading of custom content is by no means mandatory in a 0.3.9 that includes the DL features. Some servers though — primarily the roleplay servers — do rely on custom skins to continue to deepen immersion, and establish a level of practicality that suits their law enforcement setups, political setups, and broaden neighborhoods that have a positive impact on what players can do. This even stretches out to the most fundamental things such as being a Deputy Sheriff and successfully roleplaying as a black man, or a black woman, or a hispanic man, or a hispanic woman, or any combination of race and gender not encapsulated in the base game skins. Beyond that, there is no logical reason that I can put my finger on that justifies the decision to devastate any percentage of your community. At what point does it flicker across your mind that it would be a good idea to expunge a massive portion of your work (and by extension expunge a massive portion of other people's work — which includes modders, not just developers) with no benefit of any kind? The posts since last night outline the issues here. Yes, some have vented with a tirade of abuse because they're angry. I think though that the main emotion going through the minds of many who have been using 0.3.DL to great benefit of their servers is nothing short of total despair and devastation.

Whatever your motives, and whatever the political landscape of today surrounding you and others, please do not set out to punish the hundreds of people who will be struck down and driven off by this decision, when a calm and level head, and the decision to amalgamate the best of both worlds can be achieved. We're all sat here with baited breath Kalcor.

Thanks.