Rate of feedback on nation mods

BandarLover · #1 May 28th, 2007, 12:30 PM

To be fair Gandalf, the maps of yours that I have are HUUUUUUGE and it can be really hard to spot a bug in them.

Love your maps by the way.

Foodstamp · #2 May 28th, 2007, 12:44 PM

I have come to the same conclusion as Xietor. If you want to mod for the community it is better to do something other than nations. It is why I don't release nations anymore. The effort is not worth it in the long run because hardly anyone downloads the nations. Mods that affect the entire game seem to be, and will continue to be more popular.

llamabeast · #3 May 28th, 2007, 03:04 PM

I at least intend to do what I can to encourage the use of mod nations in MP games - and having my own server now will help with that. I think so many of the mod nations coming out are so exciting, its well worth supporting them and taking an interest in them.

Gandalf Parker · #4 May 28th, 2007, 03:29 PM

I think modded nations is for people who are tired of the game vanilla. Ive played this game almost daily for a year longer than most of the people here, and Im still not to that point.

But, instead of a balanced new nation Id much rather see some unbalanced built for great AI nations.

Morkilus · #5 May 30th, 2007, 03:47 AM

I don't play too many nation mods because I've not even tried out all of the Dom2 ones yet, let alone the Dom3 nations. But the really wacky/cool mods I absolutely have to try, such as the insects one. I don't want to discourage anyone from making nation mods, though! They're pretty enjoyable, but I feel like I spend my time better learning the vanilla nations for multiplayer practice. The Epic Heroes mod and the Black Tome mods are neat because of their potential use in multiplayer. I'm also trying out global mods like the No Indies mod for increasing difficulty... it seems to work so far!

SlipperyJim · #6 May 30th, 2007, 10:51 AM

I think I said this on another thread, but my main problem with nation mods is that the "stock" Dom3 nations offer so much variety. There's really very little reason for me to play a nation mod until I exhaust the unmodded game, which will take a very long time....

Except for Ulm Reborn, which is just cool. Very, very cool.

Sombre · #7 May 30th, 2007, 11:06 AM

What about if the mod brought something which was already familiar to the game?

I'm making a mod based on the Tharoon from SSI's warwind game and I made one based on Exile by Spiderweb. Those aren't that familiar to people.

However warhammer or Lord of the Rings is, so would people be interested in seeing nations based on these in the game? I don't much like LOTR but I could do warhammer nations no problem, provided there's some interest (other than my own).

MaxWilson · #8 May 30th, 2007, 07:28 PM

I agree about the hugeness of the content available in Dominions. For instance, I'm really intrigued by the idea of importing Master of Magic units (was that Foodstamp's project?), but I haven't downloaded the mod, just appreciated the screenshots, because I'm so overwhelmed just playing with the three or four nations I've tried so far in vanilla. (EA C'tis, Helheim, LA Agartha, and that's basically it.) On the other hand, there's no reason I can't grab some mod nations for my AI opponents and maybe I should give that a try some time.

A single game can occupy me for weeks or months. Dominions is a BIG game.

-Max