It was pinned in his discord server (which i was banned from for asking a solution to the internet thing) that it helped with troubleshooting and that "it's something he wants".
I checked again now and it was changed to ensure compatibility between UB and STP which is annoying but i don't really think you need online for that? I'm not a dev, but plenty of people have mods interacting with each other without needing constant internet.
I suggested for the update check to be just at game startup not constant, i was banned for that, which seemed a little odd. I know he's not collecting personal info since someone already looked into the code, but it's just ridiculous how he's sensitive about this issue. No one should be forced to connect just to play LSPDFR. Just don't give support if they don't have the proper version and that's it, people have been doing it for a long time.
I ignored you because of that " if their connection is that bad they can't play with Bejoljo's mods, chances are they can't stream/view any form of media" comment. There's a difference between bad connection and an unstable one, everyone is different, you shouldn't assume that people don't have access to civilization just because they can't keep a constant connection just to please Bejoljo's awkward design.
I play with STP when i can, it's overwhelming to the point that you start to ignore some of it's features. Plus it conflicts with other mods that offer the same stuff (animal control for Wilderness Callouts and virtually every single service offered by albo's mods), sometimes it seems like a compilation of every other mod that came before. I don't wanna replace mods with Bejoljo's STP or Ultimate Backup, but since he left the website i think he's been on this "crusade" against i dunno, other modders or whatever. Considering his rude behavior against other fellow modders i wouldn't be surprised.
Also, telling people you're playing GTA or LSPDFR wrong goes against what this whole gaming experience is about, freedom.
Yes please, educate me on how to properly press the "B" button.
I don't use 2 mods at a time, but why should i sacrifice features from X mod so that Y mod can work without conflict.
This is a case of "we're replacing every other mod and fuck you if you don't use our mod" and it seems like a plausible scenario considering the circumstances.
He just reuses ideas already worked on by the community in an effort to absorb it's users huh.
Yes albo's mods are intended to work with each other. And i remember feeling weird about this back when they first started releasing, i felt like it was made on purpose to rack up downloads and it would be unstable. But it turned out fine, and when i'm talking about plugin dependency, i don't mean plugins of the same author, i mean people who make new scripts/callouts/whatever based around another plugin by another author. Because usually when for example, albo makes two different plugins, the way they're coded is to work together, there's a common workframe there. It's when someone decides to use albo's stuff of bejoljo's stuff as a base for their own mod that shit can get complicated because it creates layers of mods and that shit can be unstable as fuck.
A year back i remember messing up my albo mods and the fact that these mods held such an important place in my LSPDFR plugin file that i was unable to play. Same shit happens with Bejoljo's mods when my connection acts up, not only STP and UB won't work but several other mods too. This design philosophy is one that i virtually disagree with in every single modding community i'm part of (those of you who play S.T.A.L.K.E.R and every bethesda game out there will know the struggle is real).
You claim that i use STP wrong but in your case, you're using your eyes wrong if you got that impression on me.
I just disagree with a lot of what you're doing. Plenty of excellent devs putting out quality mods out there with no stupid gimmick and no over-righteousness, helping each other in every possible to create greatness. But Bejoljo's is being a child, with just a tiny bit of criticism able to make him leave the site and go cry in a corner, combined with his hostile behavior to other fellow modders and the fact that he hires you, a goddamn PR manager for a mod for a mod, to defend his public image is just funny to me. Dude has a "praise" chat in his own discord server and runs that shit like North Korea, albo's mods might have flaws but at his prime you could PM him for support anytime. There's a lot more to this than "features", there's a human element in modding. Bejoljo seems like the one on the high horse right now.