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While I kindof get what you're trying to say...that you think the only thing they're doing is xml edits is wildly off base. XML isn't a coding language- It's a glorified textfile that is put into the game engine, parsed, and has an end result- The engine itself is what does everything. But the engine itself cannot do anything with that input unless the engine has been built to handle it.
You cannot, for example, just write some xml edits to add working flowing water to the game- The engine itself is not built to interpret or create such a thing.
The vast majority of the work TFP does is with the engine. Tweaking, refining, adjusting, adding to- expanding the featuresets that can be used. Without that engine, The XML files are little more than simple text files.
And TFP have been going out of their way since a few alphas back to make basically every new thing available to xml modification- Because they know their users love to mod the game. They literally rewrote most of the engine to enable exactly that- There used to be a time when there simply wasn't any xml files at all.
So no, No PC user could do what TFP have done in a few minutes in their spare time. Some of it? Maybe. But that's the tile flooring on top- Not the foundation of the building.
You cannot, for example, just write some xml edits to add working flowing water to the game- The engine itself is not built to interpret or create such a thing.
The vast majority of the work TFP does is with the engine. Tweaking, refining, adjusting, adding to- expanding the featuresets that can be used. Without that engine, The XML files are little more than simple text files.
And TFP have been going out of their way since a few alphas back to make basically every new thing available to xml modification- Because they know their users love to mod the game. They literally rewrote most of the engine to enable exactly that- There used to be a time when there simply wasn't any xml files at all.
So no, No PC user could do what TFP have done in a few minutes in their spare time. Some of it? Maybe. But that's the tile flooring on top- Not the foundation of the building.