[HoneyBadger]

How about this? what if Illwinter offered unit-expansion (and maybe some other nice bits they aren't comfortable just adding to the game) in a nice supplimental "Dominions 3, the Goddenning!" modder-friendly expansion pack, and charged us $9.95 for it? I'd pay.

Kristoffer could add maybe 3-4 new nations to the game, along with some supplimentary graphics, and we could hold a contest and vote for the 20 or so mods we'd most like to see added to the expansion-pack, purely for the community "feel-good" factor.

This way, the main game still works on an abacus powered by a gerbil, and nobody is forced into dealing with all those icky mods that apparently make certain people feel very uncomfortable, and the rest of us aren't punished?

And it's not a patch, it doesn't fix anything that's wrong, it just adds features that noone really needs all that very much to have a good time, so nobody has to feel ashamed of making money.

And it doesn't even have to cost a fortune to publish it. Just make it a pay-for-play download off Shrapnel that you need your serial number to access.

I'm sure there's atleast a hundred people here who would eventually spring for it. Atleast a hundred more would probably feel a little better about purchasing Dominions 3 for it being there.