Minecraft mod scene rant inbound!
One thing that irritates the fuck outta me is the author of GregTech, GregoriousT. Ya see, in his quest to make the game as teeth-grindingly difficult as fucking possible, he decided to nerf the vanilla recipe to get wood planks: you'd only get 2 planks per log instead of 4. Why? The likely reason is because nobody was using his useless fucking sawmill machine, and instead of making the MACHINE better, he fucked with a core mechanic of Minecraft itself. However, that's not the end of it. Ya see, another mod, Tinker's Construct (made by mDiyo), relies quite a bit on wood, and when these two were mixed, GregTech badly fucked with the progression of Tinker's Construct. So, mDiyo added code in to detect if the plank recipe has been altered, and if it has, to return it to normal. Again, may not have been the best way to go around it, but whatever.
What does Greg do in response to this? Does he act like a rational, sane human being and ask mDiyo about his mod interfering with GregTech? NOPE. He throws a shitfit and injects malicious code that causes Minecraft to crash if Tinker's Construct is detected. Again, he decided to punish the PLAYERS for the decisions of a fellow mod author. The same shit SirSengir did when Technic refused to remove Forestry. Except, after the bullshit blew over, Sengir removed the malicious code, and people were allowed to add it to Technic should they desire to. The malicious code in GregTech is still there, its just turned off.
Greg, apparently, has it in his head that, if he wants to fuck with a mod, then he can without ever talking once to said mod's author(s). From what I can recall, this bit him HARD in the ass when he tried it with RedPower and Eloraam, one of the fucking authors of Forge, the API that damn near every mod in existence uses, rightfully kicked his ass for it. He's the one person I'm leery of when it comes to creating and releasing my mod, should it become popular. I don't want him to fuck with my mod's balance; he can add whatever he pleases and can suggest balance changes if he thinks some need to be made, but I don't want him fucking with it without at least asking me, first.
Am I right in thinking that, since its MY fucking mod, I have a right to say what is and isn't done to it?