Rebalance Mod game now running on a 24h timer.

[Saber Cherry]

Arralen said:
May I ask you a favour, Cherry? Could you keep Ulm out of your Rebalance Mod? Ulms Inf should be very special anyway. Furthermore, our mods wouldn't be incompatible then. I really hate it if we both put a lot of work (you considerably more than me ) into it and one makes the other invalid ...

Mmmmm... While I agree that there's a potential problem, I don't really like that particular solution. The intent behind the mod is to apply certain principles to ALL recruitable units of specific categories in the game; leaving out any nation, theme, or indy type causes balance problems or inexplicable irregularities (like, why do indy cavalry get bonus strength and HP, but not those of Nation X?). Unfortunately, this philosophy can cause incompatiblities with all nation mods, and the only way to solve that is to leave all nations out of the mod - which defeats the purpose... or leave out nations that are specifically being worked on by other people - which ends up being a lot of nations - and which again defeats the purpose.

I'm not trying to make a giant conglomerate mod in order to render all other mods worthless (like the "One Ring"), and I really doubt my mod could have that kind of effect. Look at Space Empires IV, for example - there are a huge number of mods out, many of them partially or totally overlapping, without particularly hurting each other.

Here's my proposed solution:

I took quite a lot of information, opinions, and ideas from your Ulm mod thread, and I'll be more than happy to credit you (and other thread participants) for them. However, I'm pretty sure that the final version of "my vision for Ulm" will be different from the final version of "your vision for Ulm," even though there will also be some similarities. So if you want, you (or anyone else with a nation mod) can take my mod, delete the Ulm units from it, add your Ulm units, and release it as "Recruitable Rebalance with Arralen's Black Steel of Ulm" or whatever, which would eliminate any incompatibilities.

I never really thought about accidentally treading on other peoples' toes, and I hope that's a reasonable response, because I don't want to invalidate anyone else's work...