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Fred, here you must be talking about Clockwatcher, although I'm not sure it's the case: although he started the BoB map thread he very soon disappeared from the landscape, long before the disclaimer issue came. I don't care about detais, just miss this M8 which have contributed with ideas to map development.
Currently the forum is pretty dead with regards to new ideas. It's more like a question->answer forum. And I feel that new ideas ideas are needed to push the map development even further.

There was a falling-out about the Disclaimer and property rights to the maps and mods here...so they are staying at their own site...but they said they will post here when the maps are available for download.

I think that Clockwatcher is active soldier and that he is deployed somewhere.
Niel is around, I saw his name on the list of people browsing forum.
Spud is too busy in RL at least that's what I heard.

You are right that there are no new ideas but that's normal. Those exciting days when we were discovering new things every day are gone. Map makers now have all of the necessary tools, map
making techniques are developed and refined and now it's time for workers not the pioneers.

As you was one of the guys who laid the foundation for map making you should enjoy the fact that this section has become best example of what modders can do to improve this game.

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