Yeah, at this point it's devolved into empty praise. While the listed modders are most certainly deserving of our praise, it serves no actual purpose, and they get plenty in the threads of their mods.

LFoW, that's pretty well untrue. There have been lots of crap mods over the years, and their authors aren't good at modding by virtue of being able to make anything work in CC.

We'd need an array of rising stars for that to be much fun. If you're looking for praise (something I do quite often) the best way to get it is to work a bit to create something you're proud of and show people. (getting feedback from people who know what they're talking about in PMs can be good too )

I didn't because I don't think he's fulfilled what he can do, yet. Most of his sprites in mods inthusfar have been vanilla gib mashups. Damn good vanilla gib mashups, but still essentially borrowed artwork, and while the coding behind them is pretty solid, I wouldn't call it stellar yet :/ He's definitely good, but I wouldn't call him great at this point.
...Considering how long it's been since I played a pile of new mods, though, he might've made a breakthrough that I missed out on. The last work I remember from him was that decent gun pack, I think.

I don't agree. I think that this thread offers a very valid way to offer criticism to modders wanting to be great at what they do. The original intent behind it is quite dangerous, but I think knowing where you stand in peoples expectations is quite rewarding.

I like to know what people think I do well and what I could do better in relation to all of my creative works. That's part of why I post them here and don't just let them sit on my HDD.

As such, should another thread be opened for some honest criticism for those who request it? I'm not sure this is the best place to do it from what it's developed into, but I think it would be a good thing to have.

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Haha, I remember when I used to make mods. Bubbalcious Industries. Psh.

I see the problem with my blanket statement, but my main point is that CC is too small a community for a list of "greatest modders" to really matter. It's quite easy to pick out what the good mods are and who their authors are.

I've never agreed with any threads like this that so often go the way of epeen fests and mindless self promotion.

I remember when I almost released a modified SMG when I first joined. Modified as in RateOfFire = 9001.
Also I remember playing with that light saber, those were good times.

I don't understand what you say man. You're just great.

And
Adasx - very good spriting
Zalo - inventor of CC water
Akblabla - developer of more solid (?) CC water
Abdul Alhazred - solid coding
Weegee - solid missioning and keyboardbreakatroning
Duh108 - all the medieval stuff
may also get my OSVANs (which happen to be like the Oscars but biggers because they are vans). I discovered the fine print and I overused it till someone got hyperopia

Edit: proper credits per Duh's lore.

I would like to point out that Zalo was in fact the inventor of CC water (at least the way that Akblabla did it), he just never made it quite as pretty as Akblabla did.

Yes zalo made the proof of concept. Then I made played around with it for personal use and made something i thought was somewhat decent and after a very long time I decided to upload it with exodus. Then later i made as a standalone mod, and lastly numgun made some epic spriting for the mod.

So yeah zalo is the epic one here

I also want to add whoever made that scene with two towers, and a bunch of custom stuff for it.
I think it was amrobotics, but I am not sure who made it.
Also, where am I on the list!?!?!?

DSMK2 also made very overpowered mods, but he put enough work and skill into his mods that he pulled it off.

That was me. The sprites for most of the objects in the towers were by BreenedAndScrooned, though. I'm not sure where he went.

Ah it was? I'm sorry, it just had so much epic in it that I just linked it to Amrobotics.
But it was a very good mod, great job with it.

Yay, sort-of a mention! Although if I remember, there's about four-way co-authoring credit* to go around. >.> I also made an omindirectional hovering 'bot... about a week before lua came out and made it easy and unglitchy. I consider it a moral victory anyway.

*The double-barrel gun, of course. Also someone mentioned making a three-way flamethrower before that, and some guy shortly afterward said he'd independently made a widelaser.

I gotta work out this lua buisness... so busy lately, though. Doing weird, clever things with ini was more fun anyway.

If I remember correctly, it was double barrelled gun>5 barrelled machine gun>widelaser (the big blue one).

There were multiple widelasers? I can't recall any except the one in AAL :S