But we
do share freely, and I understand why a guy working hard making something for HLA would want it to be available in it before anywhere else. And by doing so, making sure it works as it should before anyone else starts messing with it.
And BSM isn't really in competition with HLA(BSM is the quirky little brother
), and those who can usually play both since they offer a wide variety of additions and gameplay. This might change once BSM 2.0 is released and translated to Russian tho, at least then the number of players playing BSM might get closer to the number playing HLA, mostly due to the long periods between HLA releases.
And for the record, BSM wouldn't still be developed hadn't it been for the support we have gotten from the guys behind HLA. They have spent many, many hours educating me on how to mod the game. Learning the language of the source code was a very steep hill for me since I had no prior skills in programming, Deadhead's patience when teaching me was a monster task.
So I guess from the outside it might look like there isn't much communication between us, but that's wrong. And just because there is little activity in some of the forums doesn't mean there are noone playing the game. There are still thousands of people playing the game, and that number seems to keep growing steadily.