in the post if you follow my link I say...
"from what I have noticed it seems if it does not authorize, the combat related things are broke. The nav and autoloot were working fine for me though."
to which he replies...
"
ou are correct Vellus.If there is a 'work around' I'll give my permisison for it to be published....
...so long as it doesn't involve altering the ELTank DLL or any of it's associated files.
I'm no longer hosting the Auth as I refuse to keep paying the server costs to support a company which conducts business as Turbine does."
So he is killing the auth servers, which effectively kill the combat uses of his plugin. But his plugin does more than just that. So Elgarl is killing the combat portions of El Tank, not the entire plugin. He is also leaving it open to someone being able to figure out how to get around the auth problem, but if someone really wants combat ability, they would use Lifetank.
So I am still of the opinion that he would not want the killbit way. There is no secret what Gouru thinks of any Tanks. But to try and put words in Elgarl's mouth as to wanting it killbitted rather than just owning up to wanting to kill a plugin due to personal issues is wrong.
But if the decal devs want to make the conscious decision to kill Tank, it is their right to go killbit. But I was sure I read that this would only be done if asked by Turbine or the plugin author (as seen when the Lifetank version without the alarm wsa released). And I still beleive the devs and Gouru are people of their word, so unless El comes out and requests the killbit, you should not read what you want into what is being said anywhere.
