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[Admiral_Aorta]

i had an idea for a water nation. then i actually made it into a mod!!! wow, what effort

[Admiral_Aorta]

heres an idea: make a thread of ideas with no intent of actually ever doing anything. you'll be the coolest dude ever

[Soyweiser]

Well, it isn't the ideas that bug me, it is the lack of work. Only one line isnt a good idea. It is just a random thought. I want to see results. [category:talkytalkproject]

[llamabeast]

I'm afraid, Gandalf, that I have literally no idea what you're saying.

The two forums should not be hostile towards one another. I think everyone agrees on that (Sombre just reiterated it over in the other forum). The only reason the forum split is because of mishandling by Shrapnel staff.

However, for people interested in modding or other content creation, there is far more going on in the other forum than here. So I would direct people interested in content over there.

Ideally people can check in both forums. I get more comments in the other forum, but there is also great feedback to be had here (thanks Valerius!).

Link to other forum for anyone for whom this is a mysterious conversation: http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php?act=idx

As for this thread: Theunderlord, it's great to have enthusiasm. However you're being met with sarcasm because in practice producing mods takes a lot of time and effort (for me a mod nation takes several months of obsession and working on it in every available scrap of time). The people who make them normally have plenty of ideas of their own. On the other hand, we have seen a lot of people turn up with tonnes of "ideas", who go on to contribute nothing. So there is inevitably some skepticism of "ideas" threads.

[Soyweiser]

Thanks llamabeast for telling theunderlord in words what I was trying to convey with sarcasm and skepticism.

Lesson #12 in propaganda, never talk about the lessons you had in propaganda.

s/propaganda/manipulation/ .

[Soyweiser]

Fyi, Gandalf, I think you can get the code for unitgen from Elmokki, so then it would be easy to add additional map data to the existing code. It is Java code.

Not sure if it is open source or whatever. But from what I recall, Elm was not against sharing the code. He is reachable on irc.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Soyweiser

Fyi, Gandalf, I think you can get the code for unitgen from Elmokki, so then it would be easy to add additional map data to the existing code. It is Java code.

Not sure if it is open source or whatever. But from what I recall, Elm was not against sharing the code. He is reachable on irc.

Thanks.
But as I mentioned, I had already gone down this road with my own program quite a while back. I dropped it because I could not make it work as only map code the way my SemiRand, allied AI's, and Chaos programs did. I was able to get mine to work in creating a mod. I probably should have released it at that point I guess

[Gandalf Parker]

Back to the OP...

Theunderlord: feel free to glance at my mods on Dom3Minions.com
Not much there and what is there is mostly as proof-of-concept hoping someone else will improve on it. In particular the Watcher mod could probably be improved based on changes to the modding capabilities in the game (altho the debug mod did a pretty good job of improving on it)

[Foodstamp]

Holy cow, are you guys freaking serious? That forum is devoted to trashing people over here. You get a couple of return comments to some negative comments you make over here and all the sudden you guys are being picked on. Sack up. If you are going to trash people all day long on your forum and then come over here and make disparaging comments under alternate accounts, expect some resistance.

[Fantomen]

As far as quality of discussion, I suggest this thead being used as a benchmark for comparison.

Flame on mothafokkaz!