Hey everyone,
The staff and modding community at Emergency-Planet have determined the need for a differentiation between different levels of mods out there. Since the release of the LA Mod as an open sourced modding tool, the community has changed a lot. We see a lot more mods released, however we've also seen a lot more content sharing. While this is great in one way, allowing the community to have more to enjoy, there is the problem of content crediting.
Over the past few months, we've brought in some regulations to try to curb content use without permission and content theft. Those rules have been working good, but we wanted to make one more adjustment to make it clear to people looking the amount of effort put into a mod.
This is the reason for a submod/mod distinction. Now all mods that do not have a minimum of 25% content AND their own original structure (not based off of another mod) will be called submods of another mod, to provide homage to the original authors who put in the work to build the original works. One example is a mod that builds itself off of the LA Mod, including new models or scripts, but keeping much of the mod, mostly the setup of the folders (01 LA Police, etc). This mod will be called a submod. If the author decided they wanted to rebuild the mod with its own file structure as a full mod, we'd definitely be okay with calling it a full mod. That type of change over sounds like a lot of work, we know, but in reality it takes only a few hours and in the end, it shows the work you've put in.
You can read the full policy here:
http://forum.emergen...mod-and-submod/
