yeah I havent played with forge yet.. I have the copy NMS source already decompiled and deobfuscated. And sadly the only reason Im even playing with such a notion is due to Mojangs refusal to even remotely apply fixes to older versions. (and 1.8.8 is soon to be considered one of them versions).
I just appreciate your team here and other 3rd parties that actually do patch and fix/mod stuff at the NMS level. If I ever came up with such a thing Im just trying to look into how hard it would be to share with all 3rd parties like you and other developers. And offer a PR for anything that might be of worth...
I mean one perfect example of even if this was a personal change for myself. Blazes have a player tracking range of 45m. not to mention even their crappy targeting algorithm that was majorly changed in 1.8.x