War3:Source

Hello,

I've not done any coding for W3S in almost forever as I've either been busy doing other things...or not close to a computer-I've been traveling for almost a month now and have no PC with me ( share my pain, computer friends ).

In any case, I've recently checked some messages and mail and whatnot and quite some people messaged me saying I've been stealing code and ideas from other people and selling them as my own. Now mind you, most of what I've done I've not sold for a dime, I've not even made enough selling anything to go out with friends, but I've NEVER ripped off ideas to sell them as my own.

Regarding ideas I don't even know what this is; last I checked this was an open source and generally 'open' community, so lending ideas and concepts and then expanding them is what we do. I've always strived to create races that astonish upon usage ( I've failed that task, haha ) but at least be original with ONE thing.

So either way, just wanted to mention it right here, because being called a scammer, liar and thief and whatnot is really upsetting. I sold a Gold Donation Plugin to someone last year, I made that thing years ago in very few time and I recently got accused of ripping off the entire thing from MACABRA - I didn't even notice he had the same thing. ( just one example )

Just saying, if you happen to come across anyone who accuses me of stealing, do me a favor and punch them in the face, this isn't APPLE, I don't see a reason to fight lol.

Also, I'll be coming back soon and I also wanted to use this post to say that. While my programming interest have shifted to way cooler things, but I've always loved this community and I never did anything that I can be hugely proud of ( always been shadowing Revan ;s).

So prepare for some cool stuff, I'll give it my best shot :p

Stealing ideas from others? lolwut. Great ideas are built upon greater ideas, and somehow I doubt you took a race and called it your own after all you did was modify values. That would just be stupid.

"Oh yeah look at this super human race I CREATED, the teleport goes 2x as far and has 50 more hp! I made all of it!"

made me lol

What the bloody hell is war3source itself? (Not quite directly, but close enough) A plugin based upon the idea of warcraft 3!

Addendum: I must say, however, that usually my races are completely unique, based upon my own ideas, but I completely understand that that is not possible for everyone. (And I'm not always a fount of ideas myself)

Lol I just read through my post; I should've maybe read it before posting it, I've fixed sme typos.

But yeah, I absolutely agree with you two. It's really odd is what I thought at first too, but it still is an insult to my honor when I do things for free and then get accused of being a scammer.

While my very first race was a copy-paste race ( had never coded until then, had to look at it and then learn from trial and error as well as having Revan help me), I've always been looking for new things to do. That's the main reason I've not released lots of races here. Most races are based on ideas by other games, or tv shows or whatever.

Oh well, it's ironic how people can still complain that much in an open-source community ( and yeah one of the accusers is a regular on this board lol)

*cough* stole ideas from ALL the games *cough*
replace("stole","derived");

does HON and LOL steal from DOTA? *pinkie_shrug*