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as well as complete modding tools (as promised) until i consider this game "finished" and ready for addon.

I wonder, what do you mean by "modding tools"? The devs have released fairly impressive documentation detailing how to do modifications to the various creatures, nations, etc. The only tool you need to use to implement them is a very basic text editor.

Is there a perceived need for a GUI that would help someone better output the dot-MAP or dot-DM files?