Time for a rant....

Its been bugging me. There are umpteen Mods out there for BF2 and if I got a dollar/euro for every time I was referred to them, I'd have enough for a few sups at least. Heres the deal, and some of you still don't get it. The likes of POE have many people working on there mods. Why? because they've been around since the dawn of the Battlefield series and YET it takes these goons more than 12 months to port their previous stuff and create some new stuff into a mod. Don't get me wrong, these guys are at the top of the shitheap when it comes to mods. They are the only mod team who've gotten something to market before the death knell of BF2. And what say of you about all the WW2 mods for BF2? Were the three mod teams that are currently touting their wares on totalbf2.com et al not producing similar content for previous versions of the battlefield series? It beggars belief that these mod teams in particular, whose leading lights are some of the most helpful and knowlegable folks at the editor site, cannot arouse enough interest in what they are doing to get their so called dedicated members to create, skin, and code content in a shorter time.

As a mod team, we must have the daftest CV 's when you analyse it. 1 member who is awake in stints of 60+ hours, another who can barely see, and another who cannot get anything done unless copius amounts of guinness are available. Hardly the calibre of people who would naturally attract other modding geniuses. Nevertheless, we work tirelessly to create new and exciting stuff. In the last three weeks, I personally have built, skinned and coded seven or eight new weapons, BigDog has done and learned umpteen new things to the existing weapons and vehicles and Cobra has been on hand to advise and produce relevant maps for all of this, and the man is not in the best state of health!

We don't have dedicated sound engineers, animators, hud specialists, or even someone solely dedicated to making maps. Our mapmaker spends his time babysitting and generally watching over things. In his "spare" time he produces a map or two. So this brings me to the point - we must be the hardest working under appreciated mod team out there. Plain and simple. We don't hand out a chore to some johnny come lately and expect him to return in two weeks with some half arsed weapon or vehicle only for us to spend another 2 weeks fixing it. No. We build it if we think its going to give us a reason to laugh or curse. Then I look at the level of contributions donated to the upkeep of the servers and ftps in the last three months and I wonder....What the fuck is the point....?

We'll be switching the server to host "Centipede" shortly at this rate.....