@Bryan: As the creator of the mod you certainly have the right to
post in this topic. I was speaking to everyone, the audience, myself included, when I suggested that we let the topic sit for a bit.
Of course we create stuff!
Again, you're perfectly welcome to
post here - especially if you have substantial bugfixes/adjustments/quality of life stuff to add.
Derek Smart is a video game developer of a sort at best, a true pain at worst. He is very concerned with making sure that everyone knows how great his games are and what a visionary he is. Ordinarily this would not have been a problem, could have just been a passing joke really, until the day when Smart very much threatened to buy the Freespace IP. Given how much it has sold for, it was not entirely out of his reach, believe me. His condescending attitude, refusal to listen to any sensible advice, commitment to completely trample on common sense, the dignity of the IP, and everything that made the game what it is...
His games weren't that great anyways, to put it mildly. Derek Smart is probably the only person that the community could be said to
universally loath. Unfortunately no action is pending to bring that chump to justice - but we'd all be quietly happy if it were.