Which Mod Nations are Ready for Prime Time?

Xox · #1 January 28th, 2008, 04:36 AM

I would say Ulm reborn is not at all derivitive of Ulm from a play style point of view. Just from a historical flavor point of view. It quite unique and a very good mod. Have you checked it out at all?

llamabeast · #2 January 28th, 2008, 09:29 AM

Velusion: Illwinter would have been sued for Skaven. But that doesn't mean they don't fit in well with Dominions games, so I'm not sure why that's a big deal. Sombre has been extremely creative in adapting them for Dominions, it's not like they're derivative in the no-effort sense.

Morkilus · #3 January 28th, 2008, 01:26 PM

Ulm Reborn is completely unlike the traditional Ulm in terms of how the gameplay feels. It's mainly the storyline (I think) that requires it to be Ulm. It's very cool in my opinion, and won the only all-mod game I've played. Sylvania is very high-fantasy Elvish, and might still be overpowered

Sombre · #4 January 29th, 2008, 04:34 AM

I don't think any of my MA nations meet your criteria.

I think Alugra by Burnsaber is well worth a go in MA.

Velusion · #5 January 30th, 2008, 11:04 PM

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Sombre said:
I don't think any of my MA nations meet your criteria.

I think Alugra by Burnsaber is well worth a go in MA.

What about your Agra Dis?

Anyone played Alugra in MP before?

As far as why I'm not looking for nations derived from other materials... I suppose it's just a personal preference. I like truly unique things. It's the same reason I don't read fan fiction or care for fan drawn art. I'm sure the modded nations are well done - but they don't really hold that much appeal to me.

I'd be willing to host an MP test game of truly *unique* modded nations...

Sombre · #6 January 31st, 2008, 05:29 PM

Arga Dis is arguably derivative of 300/Arcoscephale.

DrPraetorious · #7 January 31st, 2008, 06:09 PM

Arga Dis is *greek*. It has very little resemblance (other than in sensibility) to 300.

Assuming that Velusion and I share similar standards - a new, German-themed nation named, say, Teutanion, would not be derivative of Ulm.

"Ulm Reborn" is derivative of Ulm

Burnsaber · #8 February 2nd, 2008, 11:17 AM

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Velusion said:

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Sombre said:
I don't think any of my MA nations meet your criteria.

I think Alugra by Burnsaber is well worth a go in MA.

What about your Agra Dis?

Anyone played Alugra in MP before?

As far as why I'm not looking for nations derived from other materials... I suppose it's just a personal preference. I like truly unique things. It's the same reason I don't read fan fiction or care for fan drawn art. I'm sure the modded nations are well done - but they don't really hold that much appeal to me.

I'd be willing to host an MP test game of truly *unique* modded nations...

Hi all! Althought I'm serving my country, they're nice enough to give vacations from time to time. I'm keeping a eye on my "babies" with great intrest. It will be really intresting to see what will QM do with "burning heroes".

But, about Alugra. I think that it's close to being balanced, but it needs testing. It has quite odd gameplay and perhaps numerical balance analysis might not work. I did play a small duel with Folket, but unfortunatley it had to be ended premately and didn't provide much data. If you want my honest opinion, you shouldn't include it in the game since there is a chance that it's too overpowered and spoil the fun a bit. It would be really awesome if someone would be intrested enough to do a couple of quick games with Alugra and reporting to me (or tweak the mod themselves, I really don't mind). Then I could tweak the mod during my next vacation.

Don't know if you'd personally like it thought, Velusion. It has a lot of references to super-hero mythoes (althought they came after I had done the main concept).

llamabeast · #9 February 2nd, 2008, 01:02 PM

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The Tombkings mod was very well done as well. Since it is quite different than the fantasy world is it derived from have you (llama) ever thought of completely separating it and making it almost wholly original? The way you talked it doesn't sound like it would be that hard...

Yeah, I did think about that quite a lot while I was working on it. Believe it or not, the main thing that stopped me was that I couldn't think of an alternative name for the place that sounded as cool as Nehekhara! Also the Ushabti and the Tomb Scorpion (Bone Scorpion in mine) are very Games Workshop, and not things I would have come up with myself (nor are they derived from Egyptian mythology so far as I can tell). So it's definitely not just a remake of the Warhammer nation, it has more differences than similarities - but at the same time I really can't claim it's wholly original.