
Originally Posted by
WhiteMoga
It's easy to say I have the files without proving you have them, but more power to those that do.
People who do not release files to a private server community and just claim to have them are counter-productive, this is a community created for people to create, use, and further develop private servers. I have gone on for some time just watching people say like, "I'm not going to release it, it's PRIVATE." The only thing I can say then is if you have nothing to contribute to the community, then why are you even here? What is the point of saying something like that? Does it make you cool? Not really. Does it make you look immature? Quite Possibly. Does it help further the community? No. Could it help further the community? Most definitely.
Now I understand the want to be better than other servers and create more traffic, but honestly how many servers attract even more than 100 members? Not too many. I used to be back with LGGunz waaaay back in the day, when all that we had was some December files, pre-Duel and TDMe mode, and a half complete database. It didn't even support quest mode. Keith let me VNC into the server to work mostly on the database, and I got the Quest Mode fully working, at a time when other people were like "It's private". I got Clan Wars partially working, but they were "Private" too. Except I love the fact that we actually released what we worked on. At the time I left the server, most of the public Gunz database downloads were in some fashion based off of the work of LGGunz.
Sure that's great, but do I get recognition? I did on every release of those December files, even after I had created a hack for it all. Was it much? No. Was I looked upon? Not really. But now look at the state of the Gunz community. Those releases were big in helping formulate a private server Gunz community, which is now a fairly decent community as I look at it. Anybody who hinders releases are merely destroying the community, and we had one of the most popular Private Gunz servers going there, even with most of what we had done available in the public domain.
Sorry for the block of text, but I just have to say to Lambda, that if you have the files, then I see at as being more beneficial for you to release, than to just hold on to them.