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You will be hard pressed to find many (unprovoked) messages like this from our staff:
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Yes - instead you'll get blatant lies about content and what you've actually done. Hint: you've done a few quest scripts and modified a few NPC stats to make your game what you think is right. I'm okay with that, but don't call the base work your own, that's just insensitive as fuck to my team.
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The bottom line is, P2002 is closed source at this moment. That means any speculation you might hear about our server is just that, speculation. None of the TAK staff has ever played on our box (except for Secrets, who came online in one of the first days warping around and openly using hacks until he got banned, something I guess he feels he is entitled to, working on the netcode? I don't know) so they quite frankly have no idea what they are talking about when they are criticizing our progress and content quality
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It is not speculation. You took advantage of an open source project and threw their development team under the bus that made your server possible by claiming their work as your own. Just because you are 'closed source' doesn't mean it gives you an excuse to claim everything you have done as yours. Much like I can't claim that TAK wouldn't be possible without a lot of the work Harakiri and Yeahlight did on EQClassic/Trilogy as most of the structures were used as a starting point for the Mac client before I dumped the protocol from the client itself.
When you start saying that you can do a better job than us, it becomes something personal. So here's something personal back:
Shut the fuck up. No one cares. This isn't a competition and you are hurting the remnants of the EQMac community by splintering into p2002. Your server is what I was trying to avoid when I started this project; 'holier than thou' attitudes and competition instead of sharing code and content with each other. You're only hurting the players by doing this.
You cannot argue against this; you are refusing to give back to the open source project because you want to be 'the best' and this is going to bite the players in the ass in the end if they truly do like your server more than ours - you are removing the option for people to play where they please by closed sourcing your project, which was my only request with the project, is that you keep it open sourced, as you have quoted me saying, so people can choose where to play. What happens if your GM team is corrupt and someone wants to make their own P2002? Shit ain't happening because of you.
If someone says, "You can have this for free and I expect nothing but your contributions in return" and you say "I am not giving you anything back, thanks for the free stuff", does that put you in the wrong?
Yes.
You won't see P2002 GMs saying what I say because they don't have the balls to say it on a public forum; they'd rather talk about people behind their back and laugh privately, 'oh, look, Secrets posted another rant about our server, haha, how funny is that? look how mad Secrets is getting!' - You are cowards and attention seekers, and I find that despicable.
Requesting move to R&F.