Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26149161-20150731144946/@comment-27689279-20150801173947

CaptCaptain wrote: The thing is, we aren't going to go for PJ's designs just because they had experts working on it. Sure, I greatly appreciated the movies and it was all really great, but Mevans and the mod team don't really care.

When we're adding something we go for our own designs based on the book first, if that fails or looks wrong then we MAY get inspiration from the movies. If we don't like it, or think it won't fit, then we do own work. You forget that this is Mevans' work, and he clearly doesn't want to use BotFA designs for Mirkwood Elven armour. Why? Because it won't fit within the mod, it won't look particularly nice. Alright, so the discussion on whether the movie designs have the right to exist in the mod is over, and the facts show that they (the movie designs) are justified. But I do want to set the record straight, for those of you who seem like you didn't read my post at all (or didn't fully understand it).

I didn't cite the "experts" who worked on the movie to make the design seem better, just because they had dedicated designers. I brought up that point because I wanted to show that there was real work behind it, that they investigated the culture and lore (just as you do) to come up with that design (please read back to my previous post). Again, just because it's "from the movies", you instantly make it seem like they intentionally strayed from the book or made it gold because it "looked cool". No, there was a process that involved analysis of the book. Whether you "care" or not is irrelevant, because the point still stands that their design is also based of various book lore, like the armor currently in the mod.

Practically the entire second part of your post proves my point of pure bias, and no fact. "If we don't like it, or we think it won't fit". Your opinion on whether you like it does not change the fact that the movie design has many book roots, and that both the design in the movie and in the mod are equally uncanon; therefore both have the right to exist. Which all boils down to bias against the movies for opinionated reasons, despite the great design in front of you (which is factually backed). I find it tragic that a select few would hold back the mod from a greater potential (that everyone else seems to like) just because of an already disproven bias.

But you're right, that it may never be added. I don't expect any change, because clearly you've willingly set yourself against the facts and the majority. Why do you think I created a resource pack in the first place? But, just because it won't be added, doesn't mean that I can't speak out on and expose opinion and blind bias. Oh, and you mods really "don't care" about the process taken to make the movie design? Well I could honestly care less about whatever "work" you do on the tragedy you call a "design"; because both you and the movie designs undertook a similar process, but look which one turned out better. Yet you choose the latter (your "design"). So keep on closing your mind to the facts, while the movie design (the resource pack) increases in adoption rate.

 Elvenking of the Woodland Realm  17:39, August 1, 2015 (UTC)