Mod EA Nation: Atreus, Rise of the Dragon Emperor

Edratman · #1 June 24th, 2008, 01:03 PM

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Atreidi said:
When people download your mod and dont make any comments it could mean two things: That the mod is really really bad not even worth comenting on, or that they liked it and are still experimenting with it. I hope it is the later. (it is for me)

Another possibility for lack of comment is that the unit/weapon/etc numbers clash with another mod that is in current use and I haven't gotten around to modding the mod to slip it in. (Acually I lost my master list of numbers, so I an SOL and face a long tedious task to recompile the list.)

HoneyBadger · #2 June 24th, 2008, 02:01 PM

Sorry, I'd download it happily, but I don't have a proper computer to download it to. It looks really interesting though, and I'm glad that China's getting more representation-China's legends and myths are an awfully big subject for just one set of nations-even a Dev set.

Atreidi · #3 June 24th, 2008, 02:14 PM

I never thought of that.... Conflicting unit/weapons/etc numbers... The same thing happens with all other mods. This limists the ammount of mods from different users u are able to activate.

Edratman · #4 June 24th, 2008, 03:21 PM

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Atreidi said:
I never thought of that.... Conflicting unit/weapons/etc numbers... The same thing happens with all other mods. This limists the ammount of mods from different users u are able to activate.

That is a big one. I'm running nine or ten mods in my present game. Some, like improved AI, don't pose any conflicts, but new nations almost always pose conflicts. I started to change numbers to avoid conflicts, but as I added mods, more arose, and now many are a mishmash which requires me to scroll through the dm files and record them.

I've selected the mods I'm playing mostly on the strength they are as AI nations. Your mod looks good, but it posed conflicts with my own mod nation which I'm playing because it is terribly unbalanced and it gives me edge I require.

Sombre · #5 June 24th, 2008, 04:09 PM

ID number conflicts are easily resolved.

That isn't the real limiting factor on mods. That would currently be the vanishing magic paths bug. Last patch it was the descriptions, before that it was sprites,...

You get the idea.

Endoperez · #6 June 24th, 2008, 04:28 PM

Next patch, it's probably spells.

Sombre · #7 March 31st, 2010, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Endoperez

Next patch, it's probably spells.

As it turns out, it's actually explosion sprites and spell graphics that got broken this time.

Edratman · #8 June 26th, 2008, 01:26 PM

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Sombre said:
ID number conflicts are easily resolved.

That isn't the real limiting factor on mods. That would currently be the vanishing magic paths bug. Last patch it was the descriptions, before that it was sprites,...

You get the idea.

You are correct, but because I had to bastardize many of the mods to get rid of conflicts, I no longer can rely on the unit/weapon/spell numbers the mod developer listed. Last time I tried to sneak one in without comparing id numbers, Tomb Kings I believe, I was able to recruit some sort of skelton scorpion in my mod nation.

Last mod in seems to overrule any other mods in the case of conflicts.

Atreidi · #9 August 20th, 2008, 02:03 PM

I just hope the next patch does not decrease the number of unit #s we have left.

Atreidi · #10 June 25th, 2008, 01:23 PM

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HoneyBadger said:
Sorry, I'd download it happily, but I don't have a proper computer to download it to. It looks really interesting though, and I'm glad that China's getting more representation-China's legends and myths are an awfully big subject for just one set of nations-even a Dev set.

It is now a Zip file. Just for you.