Suggestion for Nation Modders...

[Singularity24601]

Since it'll soon be hard to keep track of all the mods posted on the forum, I'm maintaining a summary at www.freewebs.com/singularity24601/index.htm (hope that wasn't against forum rules). Let me know of any errors, change requests, etc. Later, I hope to include monster numbers, weapon numbers, etc.

[Amos]

Blood Elves
Hamadryads (think WH40K Dark Eldar without Chaos corruption)

Singularity24601 actually that was changed during the creation of the mod "think Dark Eldar with Chaos corruption" .

Blood Elves:
-Nation 70
-Units 2100-2126
-Weapons 680-689
-Armor 260-264
-New Sites 760-761

Trade Confederation:
-Nation 71
-Units 2150-2173
-Weapons 700-703
-Armor 270-274
-Sites 765-766

Stigian Corruption:
-Nation 72
-Units 2205-2233
-Weapons 714-720
-Armor 281-286
-Sites 767-768

Angelic Crusade:
-Nation 72
-Units 2305-2333
-Weapons 725-732
-Armor 287
-Sites 769

[Twan]

Machaka Spider cult
-nation 68
-units 2650-2668 (...2675 as I'm going to add heroes)
-sites 800-801
-no weapon no armor

High Guild
- units 2980-2985

[DrPraetorious]

Actually, this is a good time to bring this up - since I used to recover old code (in an academic context, not professionally), it'd be pretty easy for me to fix everyone's mods so that they run together by renumbering stuff.

I wasn't going to do this until it became feasible to add nations without replacing existing nations at all - the Mod I've been working on has to remove mid-period Ermor, which is my favorite position.

Anyway, I was going to (with the permission of the other modders) produce a single "Seven Nation Army" mod, with every expansion nation included at once, along with more spells, more sites and more independent units. If there were numbering collisions (as inevitably there would be) I'd just fix them.

Do people think this is a good idea or no?

[FrankTrollman]

What I think would be a good idea is to have a separate mod file for each of the three eras. You load up the era mod and it throws in all the mod nations for that era. Right now, the only way that a nation can get National spells is to plunder an existing nation - if the nations in question were always robbed from a different era you might not notice.

So the "Early Mod" would torch a bunch of late and mid-era nations and give out fully functional early positions. The "Late Mod" would plunder middle and early positions to get appropriate nations in the late period.

Since you select your mods and your era before you even see the nations, it wouldn't cause any hardship.

-Frank

[Singularity24601]

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Although I can find the modding numbers myself, I'm rather busy at the moment, so thanks Amos and Twan (and therefore, the critical thing is that I be kept aware of new versions).

I'm sure the current nation slots won't be enough for all of us, so eventually, either users will need to know how to edit slots, or modders will need to distribute multiple versions of their mod for different slots, allowing for various combinations.

[Turin]

I´m using monster numbers 2800+ for my new worthy heroes mod. I guess I will end up with ~30 new heroes.

[Daynarr]

Ballbarian, stop reading my mind.

Actually, soon we will need a way to easily access what nation, weapon, monster, etc. numbers are used so that moders can be sure their mod won't be conflicting with another.

Personally I was thinking of making a sticky thread where everyone would post numbers they used in their mod. It should make Singularities job easier too (big thanks from me for that effort!).

If anyone has better idea or objection, speak up. I'll probably wait a day or two before I make that thread.