Taylor attributed his enthusiasm for releasing their own development tools for modding to both his enjoyment of seeing mods for Total Annihilation produced years after its release as well as the lack of negative consequences to John Carmack and id Software's historical tendency to release the entire source code to their games.
Segundo Taylor, este entusiasmo á hora de liberar as súas propias ferramentas de desenvolvemento para a comunidade de modding debeuse ós mods producidos para Total Annihilation anos despois da súa publicación, así como á falta de consecuencias negativas que vía na tendencia histórica de John Carmack e id Software á hora de liberar o código fonte ó completo dos seus xogos.