Never forget the language barrier (sadly, some people tend to forget this all too often).
This is not a BAT-only problem. And should be made public.
Not talking about how "helpful" some mods are but: Depending on the linguistic/verbal skills of the modder, the mods can either be detailed and with polite wording/reasoning/descriptions of problems or rather short and in very basic english. Those basic mods sometimes may seem rude or lazy but they can be excellent mods!
I remember a mod of a Korean modder with excellent gameplay suggestions for a map I wanted to mod myself. None of their suggestions were explained in detail because it seemed their knowledge of the English language was very limited. Therefore everything was just ignored and the mod reply was only "changed something". I went ahead and tried all the suggestions from this mod and reposted some of them with a short explanation of why this is a good change gameplay-wise. Suddenly the same suggestions were used by the mapper.
This is not a BAT-only problem. And should be made public.
Not talking about how "helpful" some mods are but: Depending on the linguistic/verbal skills of the modder, the mods can either be detailed and with polite wording/reasoning/descriptions of problems or rather short and in very basic english. Those basic mods sometimes may seem rude or lazy but they can be excellent mods!
I remember a mod of a Korean modder with excellent gameplay suggestions for a map I wanted to mod myself. None of their suggestions were explained in detail because it seemed their knowledge of the English language was very limited. Therefore everything was just ignored and the mod reply was only "changed something". I went ahead and tried all the suggestions from this mod and reposted some of them with a short explanation of why this is a good change gameplay-wise. Suddenly the same suggestions were used by the mapper.
This. It should be the expected norm to reply to every legitimate point of a mod in the same manner as it would be expected for the mod itself. Sometimes I can't fathom how modders put up with the kind of mod-replies they are getting (if they get anything at all!). Applying mods and replying to the modder is almost the same amount of work as the modding itself...unless you are just looking at the obvious stuff like hitsound/NC- and "move-1-grid-left"-mods which take no time at all to check and implement. Maybe we should get this into the heads of mappers as well...UnitedWeSin wrote:
Also consider adding a section about replying to mods courteously. Too many people reply to mods defensively or with negative energy. I've seen people downright insulting modders because their mod isn't useful to them.