Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26149161-20150731144946/@comment-25828188-20150803113127

You do realize your entire point is saying that you're presenting facts, but you're really not.

The movie armour may be the only design we have of Mirkwood soldiers in large-scale combat, but that doesn't mean any of it can be cited as a fact. We have more canon-designs of standard Mirkwood garb in the form of Legolas, and it makes more sense'''. '''I'm not saying this as "I think" because I KNOW that it makes much more sense. It isn't even about the whole "blending in" for large scale combat, but the fact that there is no way that Mirkwood can supply thousands of elves with that type of high quality armour. And you're forgetting that the War of the Ring also happened up north, and Mirkwood had to fight off Dol Guldur. I'm damn sure there was at least a couple large/mid scale battles which would feature at least some proper soldiers of Mirkwood, and not sentries. Since all those battles would have presumably taken place inside of the forest, green, brown or that kind of armour would make a whole lot more sense than shiny, bright gold.

Again, these are all opinions. Just like how the "experts" that you cite without a source had opinions of what Mirkwood armour should look like. We at the mod team and the large majority of people playing this mod disagree with that view. Sure, the current textures in the mod may look bad, but it makes more sense (at least in our opinion). If it really bothers you that much, I can ask Gruk, or even I myself can try at improving the texture. But that does not mean that you've been stating facts. factfakt/ noun #a thing that is known or proved to be true.

So no, since the movies aren't canon, you haven't been stating facts, just opinions. Even if those opinions come from "experts", that does not make them any more true. With that said, the mod isn't canon either,we just strive to not contradict canon in any way, and would prefer to follow canon whenever possible.

That does not mean we hate the movies, I think I can speak for everyone in the mod team when I say we like them a whole lot, but that doesn't mean we will copy whatever the movies offer when we feel we can do better. A few of the members in the mod team also like Shadow of Mordor, does that mean we will go around adding their random assortment of animals and beasts?

All that said, I DID agree with you on the other thread about blindly hating on the movie design, we've used some of them before, or at least drew inspirations, and I don't doubt we may do so again.