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Originally Posted by bugs_
Tribes is relatively "open" in the software sense. We can change it and tune it.
Visionary design (or just dumb luck) the Tribes game model is still valid today. Ironman suits in 1998.
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It's not mentioned often but developers just need to leave a game the **** alone after awhile, and that helped tribes a lot. They didn't patch out skiing. They didn't patch out nade jumping, they didn't patch out air mines, they didn't patch out people getting good with the shield pack, they didn't patch out beacon stops.
They didn't even think of half of this ****, they thought everyone was going to need an APC to get from one base to the other. Everything just evolved naturally in the game.
The community kept evolving around it, and stuff that used to be a problem isn't even a problem, and if anything is really obviously bad, the community patches it or disables it.
Look at starcraft, the meta constantly changes because people shut up and git gud. You can't go whine to blizzard to nerf zergs 20 years after the game was released.