Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26149161-20150731144946/@comment-25101089-20150802142702

First of all, I would like to say, I agree completely with the point about how treating myself and the admins as some kind of gods is unncessary, annoying, and silly. And maybe even blasphemous!

However, that doesn't mean everyone's opinions about the mod carry equal efficacy. Because at the end of the day, I am the one making the mod. I'm the one putting the work in, and it is absolutely not a community project as you seem to be implying. This is still my personal project, regardless of how large the fanbase gets, and I do it solely for my own personal enjoyment. If I stopped enjoying it, the mod would stop.

That might seem selfish, or arrogant, but I honestly assure you it's really not either of those; rather, I am a real person with a real life who makes this mod as a hobby (as you have stated, yes) and I wouldn't sink so much time into something if I didn't enjoy it.

And since you like them so much, here's a fallacy for you.

(Advice: linking to logical fallacies doesn't really help a cause. Most people aren't familiar with 'logical fallacies', and linking people to a site like that will only alienate them. It's much better to explain in your response why what the other person said is inaccurate, and leave out any explicit mentions of 'logical fallacy' entirely, as I will now go on to do)

I think the gold armour in the movie is completely unfitting of wood-elves, being far more suited to high elves or something from the first age. However, I will also admit that I made the current texture years ago in about half an hour and didn't put a great deal of effort into it, since by then I had made so many armour textures that it was starting to bore me. There certainly could be a better option, but there are many other options beside the two that currently present themselves.

Your opinion that the gold armour is good is just that, an opinion, although you may personally think that opinion is more valid. Both the movie and mod armours were designed based on what some person thought would look nice. In both cases this 'look good' was justified with references to lore. But someone still had to decide which elements of lore to draw from and which to assign less importance to.

The point about Rohan chainmail is a good one. I had heard that occasionally before, but this has made me realise that it's quite important, and I will now go to implement that in due course.

As regards the bosses: a mod that ignores lore for the sake of gameplay would be an abomination; a mod that ignores gameplay to follow lore entirely would be boring and not suited to the game medium. I tried to find a middle ground, with bosses that don't explicitly contradict Tolkien. The mod at least does better in that respect than things like LOTRO or SOM which invent loads of completely new creatures.