Yeah its different with 1946, it was at the twilight of its run . . . and TD got the license. I liked what TD did though, lots of awesome. Some issues, but they did good.
This new series, it won't be until at least five years after the sequel . . . heck the devs themselves are trying to figure out the code.
Need to the code stable at least. For modding purposes.
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For fixing bugs, I'm sure TD and other amateurs have the skill, but the guys who made the code, have the best familiarity with it and stand to be the best ones to fix it.
And the devs have proven their worth in working to fix things, they have taken things far with this game.
There lots of logistical and tracking issues, if you have the devs and 2 or more community teams working to fix stuff . . . They would need some coordination and project management . . .
it would be just easier to bring them on board temporarily to ease the communication but that's not going to happen.
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someone's still mad at TD for the fuses thing
. . . LOL