... yes you're right, in fact the release of UV3 is a kind of a miracle, because in fact Tiger already got pissed about some comments when UV2 was released, so he decided to put and end to all this even though UV2 "Evo" (which later became UV3) was already on it's way ...
But one day I received a WIP copy of UV2 "Evo" from a modder friend, and it was such a shock that I decided to write a PM to Tiger, and well to make a long story short, I somehow managed to make him change his mind regarding the completion of his astounding sound mod that was around 80 % already completed ...
I can tell you that during beta testing (I was in charge of the 4.09 version) it quickly appeared that Tiger is very open to constructive (and documented) criticism, and we spent hours chatting about this and that, polishing details etc ...
After several months of beta testing and java coding and debugging, perfectionist Tiger, who's got a family, job etc and had spent all his leisure time, week ends and evenings working on UV3 (like many modders do ...) was very tired to say the least and needed a break ...
There was a moment of doubt, and it was not even sure UV3 would be publicly released, especially because of the adaptations needed for the different versions of the game, 4.09, 4.10, HSFX, and UP3 (Histomod would never see the light because of the stock sound code changes made in it) ...
But well as is fine now and I am really glad I could take part in this adventure and convince Tiger to share his work with us ...
Since Tiger didn't want to spend the rest of his free time doing what I call AGS (After Gift Service) I decided to take over, but not being a modder myself and "only" running a 4.09m version of the game, I very soon realised that it was the craziest decision of my life ...