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Yesteryears Publicly Canceled

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Avon

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Well, I'm late to the party as usual (or is it a wake?). I saw the other thread yesterday on FF. Still kinda taking it all in. A shame its come to this so soon, but if I had put as much work into projects as you guys, I would feel the same.
I hope you guys do stick with it and find a way. This is one of the few mods that will actually get me playing the game again.
 
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I'm sorry to hear about this. I was hoping that Yesteryears, Zero Hour, and Parallels would breathe new life into Armada 2. But don't fret too much. A lot of your stuff is original and it would be obvious if people were stilling your stuff.
 
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Eek! So, this is what I get for not keeping up with events on Filefront and Majestic forums . . .

While I have to say that I'm disappointed - and worried that I won't be able to access the Yesteryears mod - I suppose that I can't really fault you guys for not wanting all of your hard work stolen. After all, you've put how many hours into making these mods?
 

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and worried that I won't be able to access the Yesteryears mod

Why worry, you've been here supporting the mod for a long time.

I suppose that I can't really fault you guys for not wanting all of your hard work stolen. After all, you've put how many hours into making these mods?

Thanks. Hours, lots and lots. Lost count long ago. :lol:
 

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Thanks. Hours, lots and lots. Lost count long ago. :lol:

for entertainment, make an educated guess lol...

oh you could run a competition lol... come up with how many hours spent, and have people make guesses. closest wins.... well whatever lol :lol:
 

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Educated guess? I wouldn't know where to start. Does that just count the time I have spent on it or the time Syf and I have spent on it? :lol:
 

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Educated guess? I wouldn't know where to start. Does that just count the time I have spent on it or the time Syf and I have spent on it? :lol:

just to be awkward, anyone involved in the project lol :lol: , how many hours combined its taken to bring it to where it is now :)
 

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Too many. With both of us easily over 1000 hours. Started it almost a year ago in September I believe.

There are roughly 34,500 hours in a year. So 1000 might not look like much but there is all that sleeping and working so 1000 hours would be a fair guess. I will have to talk to Syf about it but I would estimate it to be about 3000-5000 hours worth.

Remember it's only an estimate. :confused:
 
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hi majestic i aint gona go on but i personally think if some one is such a big loser to rip of someone's work as there own well there not worth the effort and i think you should finish the mod so at least you and your team can play on it and i one day that file link is removed from the modding community then you could release it out to the world as i agree with marsneedswomen in saying these 3 mods you were doing would of brought new life to the game as all mods that are out have been out for years and it needs a breath of fresh air before the oxygen runs out.

Anyway i agree on your decision all thou i don't like it, it is your decision to make and i can only commemorate you on coming to a final decision i only wish that one day i can be as good a modder as you

thanks for all the hard work you put in and good luck in the future

Lagit

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Hi i know i havent been on here much lately, but sad to here yy isnt going to be reasled. Didnt know about this importer thing until now. Just asking if i could play the mod when its finished. I have no modding skills at all and wouldnt be givingit to anyone like. This was the only mod i was looking forward to for armada 2. Kinda fed up of any others i was looking forward to or had.
 

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hi majestic i aint gona go on but i personally think if some one is such a big loser to rip of someone's work as there own well there not worth the effort and i think you should finish the mod so at least you and your team can play on it and i one day that file link is removed from the modding community then you could release it out to the world as i agree with marsneedswomen in saying these 3 mods you were doing would of brought new life to the game as all mods that are out have been out for years and it needs a breath of fresh air before the oxygen runs out.

Anyway i agree on your decision all thou i don't like it, it is your decision to make and i can only commemorate you on coming to a final decision i only wish that one day i can be as good a modder as you

thanks for all the hard work you put in and good luck in the future

Lagit

The link won't be made public, as the damage has already been done. 90% of the community have the importer now so there is not much anyone can do. One man took it upon himself to make a decision for the community and push this values onto the community. He actually said he didn't care if it was released and caused some mods to cancel, showing how much he thinks of the community.

I and Syf have made our decision, it now will be privately released.

Hi i know i havent been on here much lately, but sad to here yy isnt going to be reasled. Didnt know about this importer thing until now. Just asking if i could play the mod when its finished. I have no modding skills at all and wouldnt be givingit to anyone like. This was the only mod i was looking forward to for armada 2. Kinda fed up of any others i was looking forward to or had.

Actually YY is going to be released, just privately, to those who I and Syf trust and who we know respect a artist's rights and would not re-release the mod to anyone.

I request people not ask will they get the mod or not. I won't be answering that question sorry. The only way to make sure you are on the list is to spend more time here and allow us to get to know you better.
 
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The link won't be made public, as the damage has already been done. 90% of the community have the importer now

I'll say it again.

27 people downloaded the importer while the link was active and visible. Given the lengths of time it was up and relative to the amount of time it was visible in the sig, I'd say maybe another 10 downloaded it (that is to say, if any did download it from there). I'd hardly then say that 90% of the community has it. You're also persuming that of those who did get it, they all have malicious intent to go out and harness your work, plagurize it and deface it. So far, we've had nothing in the inbox that has been stolen and I suspect that will stay that way for a long time, or, indefinitely.

I don't mind your decision on publically cancelling your mod, even if I disagree with it, but there is an issue, I think, when you're getting numbers from seemingly nowhere and saying those. I could be wrong, in which case, I'd like to see where you got those figures from, but considering we get more people each day visiting the main site from MoD DB then who downloaded it, I can't see where 90% comes from.

Finally, just one question. How can you be 100% sure that people you give the mod to will indeed keep their word and not re-release parts or the whole? Not saying they'd get away with it, simply saying whether or not they'd try.
 

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No offence, but I am unsure how many have the importer, you say 27, how do you know there weren't more? Then there would be people who give to to someone and that someone gives it to someone else and so on and so forth. And those who have who knows what their intentions are, I can't tell, you can't tell no one can. Syf and I made this decision a few weeks ago and it's how we are proceeding.

The size of the community is small it's an estimate, thats all an estimate. As far as being 100% sure I can't no one ever can, we will be giving it to those we trust. If we find someone has gone against our wishes, we will report them to the community over at A2files just to let them know what is happening and they will be banned from here asap.

Its then up to the team at A2files to make a decision on what they do with that member. As far as I would see it it is almost as serious as stealing ones work.

And finally, the decision has been made, and to be entirely honest with everyone I am getting tired of explaining myself. I made the decision with full support from Syf, we are the YY team. It was ours to make. People have openly attacked me on A2files about it and got away with it, which really ****ed me off. Name calling and so forth and nothing was done about it. That is against the rules over there as far as i am aware and nothing happened, here they were given stern warning as I had the power here to do so.

Lets just drop the topic shall we. No bringing it up again and again will do any good but just **** me off. I have personally had enough of it as I am sure everyone else has.

For the sake of peace I will be locking this thread. Any further discussion on this topic can be taken off site or moved to a private location (PM/Email).
 
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