Are we influenced by mods?

So it sort of depends on what you mean by influence.

If you mean are we influenced by ideas that the modding community has come up with, not too much because we've been working on this game for years and years before you guys even knew it existed and so we have like

pretty much any idea you can think of in our backlog.

So when a mod comes out with, you know, that seems like a new idea because it's not currently in the game, it's probably something that we've already thought of.

It's super rare that a mod comes out with something that we haven't thought of.

It is super, super, super rare.

No, we don't really get influenced in that way so much.

But there are a couple ways that we are influenced.

So we are influenced by feedback.

So when people use the mod a lot and love the mod,

you know, then we get a good idea.

Okay, well these people like this mod and these features.

So that's a data point for us when we decide to think of like what features we're going to be adding in the future.

However, that is usually sort of like mirrored by just community feedback in general anyway.

So like if you took the mods out of the picture, we'd probably be getting the same feedback anyway.

The other way that we can be influenced is just by seeing their implementation of things.

You know, sometimes we check mods out and we just see how they do things and

that sticks in our brain, and maybe in the future we can pull inspiration from those kind of implementations for our own solutions in the future.