Alternative Story Progression?

To put things in some perspective, the site with the funny but by reputation unfriendly forum is run by a programming genius. I mean, given no other alternatives, the game with AM will for many of us run much better or at least quite differently than without. Twallan did base many of the earliest features of NRaas mods on what AM does with the extra challenge of doing so without using heavy handed Core Mods (ErrorTrap being an exception to that rule). There was much mutual respect between the two developers even though they took different approaches to many aspects of the game and to how they themselves interacted with players. This is why AM is actually programmed to detect NRaas SP and AM's Story Mode will step aside automatically in favor of SP if it finds it running and in charge of progression -- although the two mods can co-exist peacefully, they both cannot be in control of that at the same time.

It's AM's programmatic heavier handed approach and lack of more complete player control that caused me to test out NRaas SP for myself so many years ago, not the Shaddup and Search Moar mentality of its forum. Such as it was, I mean the place is pretty much a ghost town itself now. I wouldn't necessarily say that our forum boards at NRaas are the wild hotbeds of posting activity that they once were either, the game is after all over ten years old, but we are still quite active and there for players who need some friendly assistance. And of course the NRaas folks are the ones who noticed I was hanging around helping other players, later locked me in a room, and wouldn't let me leave until I signed an agreement to become a wiki organizer (or some such sequence of events like that). :)