Over the last hour or so, I've found out there's yet again been unauthorized conversion of my assets into another game. Given the frequency of this happening, and in spite of all my warnings and notices, this behavior persists.
I would like to share how I feel because you guys deserve the transparency. I am seriously considering a downgrade to the retro civilian car pack. Maybe we don't need that many car variations after all. There's no point in putting in the work if somebody else will just take it for their own uses anyway. This isn't final or set in stone though; I am still looking (yet again) for ways to remedy my situation. Regardless of the situation, the mod will still continue to be worked on but not with the as many vehicles as I initially wanted.
Once again, don't send hate or harassment or abuse. This is to be handled as adults.
I also stress that Steam and other platforms like Patreon, etc aren't making it easy to report this sort of thing, which is why I feel the need to speak out. However, me speaking out isn't license to go hunt down Cities Skylines modders. Not all of them are lazy, in fact it's a very small minority. All I want is for our content to be left alone for Em4/Em5 players to enjoy. At the minimum can we have that, please?
What this means moving forward is that instead of scratch models, I'll be making civilian versions of existing playable cars. It won't look as nice, but it will do the job. I have most of what I need anyway so I'll stop here for now until some kind of resolution is reached.
Still, it is disappointing that certain game communities outside of here continuously choose to treat me more as a content farm and less as a person with ownership and rights to my creations.
I won't blame other games for it entirely either. The root cause of this is Em4 does not allow us to lock our models fully, and that anybody can unlcok them using the same tools we have.
Unlike last time, I'm not stopping or taking breaks. You still are getting an update for the submod. However I'll probably start putting my time in other games where I can actually lock my content.