Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Can anybody tell me whats currently the best Pretender MOD?
Meaning a mod that gives you additional physical forms to work with.

I had high hopes for Cataclysmic Dragons Mod, but that seems to have been put away in a holding oven. No longer on a back burner.:(

Anyhow, whats the best Pretender Mod going?

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Two out the top of my head.

Mytheology by Psientist

and

Nova Deus II by Zepath

Search for those.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

My personal preference is Mytheology III. Lots of new gods, some are very thematic.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Conceptual Balance can be downloaded in parts, one of which is Pretenders. It doesn't add any, but you could say that it gives you more forms to work with, since it improves ones like Lord of the Gates or Lord of War.

Mytheology adds a lot of pretenders, but that's the only other collection I remember. I should try it again, now that it has Aku, I just realized I had forgotten all about that.

There are also few mods that add a single pretender, at least my Anansi for MA Machaka and the new Deep Dagon mod.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

was cataclysmic dragons a pretender mod? I thought it was a high level summons mod.

I'd go for CBM since the pretenders part of it is probably the part of CBM I like best.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

OK I've downloaded the zip file, but it's not obvious how to install it. Just dump everything into the mod folder?

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

I don't think exclusivly pretenders but HB did mention somewhere in that thread there would be new dragon pretenders.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Generally with mods yep, just unzip them into the mods folder.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

OK it was installed in it's own folder and it's NOT availible when you start a game in the mod list.

OH well so much for Mythology III

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Time to take it off the list of mods imo ;)

Just copy the contents into your "mods" folder.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

I did that.

It was in dominions3/mods/mythology

It made its own directory.
However it doesnt work.

Thats probably my biggest beef with modding.
Alot of the stuff doesn't work as advertised.:cold:

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Try putting the files from dominions3/mods/mythology to dominions3/mods/.

The important thing is having the file that ends in ".dm" in your dominions3/mods folder. Then it will show up properly. If there's a folder for images, it also has to go into dominions3/mods, but just moving everything all at once should work fine.

Sometimes the .dm is in a subdirectory, just open it and you should see the .dm and the image folder. Move them to \mods, together, and it hopefully works.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

That's the ticket thank you.:up: that .dm file was NOT in the mod directory.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

Many of the mods dont package standardly. Some put everything (.dm images text etc) in the MOD dir. Some start the package within its own directory (forcing you to move the .dm out), some start in the mod dir as the base path, some start in the dominions3 dir as the base path which causes it to create a MOD dir beneath the MOD dir if you unpack it in the MOD dir as you would many of them.

A menu option, or a third party program, would be nice for creating a standard package. Or even a section in the MOD FAQ with some recommendations. In particular Id like to see an effort to enforce a mod-name-README.txt with at least basic description in a nice standardized format. Maybe the CBM authors could set something up.
(yeah I know, ME of all people preaching standards)

But never the less, some of the best mods available need some understanding of the desired structure in order to move things around alittle bit to make them work.

Gandalf Parker
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What was that about the worth of it?
Funny but it seemed to match the cost.

Re: Whats the best Pretender MOD?
 

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That is what I meant, but I should have been clearer.