Sorry mate, I have to disagree.
I had the chance to look through all of the mod builds while they were being implemented into the master game. Each and every one is so independent that the question of us & them, no go.
Besides, there was enough co-operation between one or another to make it work, most of the time...
Mods apart, the 1st & 2nd map contest phases were a Jewell to behold, I have never witnessed professionally or privately such support from all concerned.
CC was indeed integrated into the system and the birth was very painful, (total crash).
DH, well, I've never been so scared in my life...
Lets see what Game2 can do....yes....
Thanks.
sorry i don't know if you're making new points, i don't quite follow them, but what i mean is -
DH was the 3rd announced mod yet had far more interest than the other 2 - both in terms of contributors and players - before any mod was playable.
I can't see the issue of quality being a factor because i think most honest ppl would have agreed that CC and MN were a lot more polished upon release.
I'm afraid don't remember CC having major long term problems upon release, i played it a lot while it was populated. I appreciate the team decided to call it a day and not build on the first release thou.
MN certainly suffered from not having armour on first release, but this was in no small part due to the modeler and lead texture artist abandoning the mod to make DH, leaving a small team remaining with no origional useable vehicles at all.
It was a new team member who, with the help of the lead coder, basically got all the vehicles up himself (modelled, textured rigged the lot), most from scratch some from abandoned ext models that still needed masses of work.
(Considering that he was learning the required processes at the time and had to rush these models out the achievement is absolutely outstanding.)
DH always had far more ppl involved then the 2 other mods combined - and like i say i was surprised and disappointed because the vibe i always got from RO was that it was played by ppl more knowledgeable of the rarer aspects of the war and who would like to see new, interesting stuff.