May 1, 2009 at 11:22 PM
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I completely disagree. I see no need to for a mod to be at least decent before it gets posted. And who cares how the mod starts? If the creator begins with a buggy, unoriginal, bad mod, without knowing how flags work, which then goes on to become an awesome mod, no one is going to remember the first release except maybe in a sense of "Yeah, he has gotten so much better since then."
And I would be very surprised if someone didn't get started and immediately ask "Wait, how do I do this?" because no one knows how to do it without learning it from somewhere. Some people prefer to figure it out on their own, and some people would rather get instructions from somewhere. But seeing how unfriendly this board is to newbies, and how little documentation there is on the basics of editing (TSC.txt is useful more as a reference then a guide) that leaves just figuring stuff out. Which is time consuming, difficult, and requires quite a bit of intelligence. Its no surprise that people make some mistakes their first time around.
And I would be very surprised if someone didn't get started and immediately ask "Wait, how do I do this?" because no one knows how to do it without learning it from somewhere. Some people prefer to figure it out on their own, and some people would rather get instructions from somewhere. But seeing how unfriendly this board is to newbies, and how little documentation there is on the basics of editing (TSC.txt is useful more as a reference then a guide) that leaves just figuring stuff out. Which is time consuming, difficult, and requires quite a bit of intelligence. Its no surprise that people make some mistakes their first time around.