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How about this : what do people think about someone starting up a 'tech council' for an uber-mod.
Such a council would review suggestions for new technologies and then, after balancing, include them into a mod.
This way we could perhaps get a *huge* mod incorporating everything available.
Also, it could be designed in such a way as to allow Users to switch on/off sections of the mod (splitting it up into modular tech areas springs to mind)
There are only two problems (AFAIK) to creating an Ultimate Mod.
1) Many ideas are mutually exclusive.
Eg. P&N v2 propulsion, and Plain SE4 movement bonuses.
Eg. Shields vs Armor. weaker, stronger, by how much, etc. You can't do both, since players will just use the stronger and ignore the weaker.
2) Everybody has their own view on what is "Ulimate." At the very least you would have a fractured mod, divided up into "Plausible tech", "SF-TV tech" and such. Also, any mod trying to incorporate all reasonably good ideas would be a bloated, 100MB monster and take years to build.
Thus, I believe that there cannot ever be an Ultimate mod. Really Super Great mod, sure, but you can't please everyone. You can't even please one person all the time.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 22 August 2001).]