Successor game mod poll

[ULC]

What about the mini mod True Bloodlines, which makes the selection of the next heir logical and correct, and almost guarantees the nearest blood-related male inherits?

Their is a minimod that changes the death rate as well, in addition to making princess less bland.

Honestly, I find LTC a good base with little need to mod it, but ease of possibility of modding. DLV is a good mod, but I think we have issues modding things in or modding them out properly because of the sheer extent to which the game has been modded.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Unfortunately, the only experience I have with Deus Lo Vult is Cecil's post.

[Zim]

Ah well. My main concern is how many of the features sound cool but will cause trouble in our game.

At any rate it looks like those are the only two contenders for the game modwise, I'll post another poll to decide between them eventually.

Are those minimods for or compatible with LTC, YLC?

[KnightnDay]

In looking over DLV, the economics are such that it would be very important to have some uber-governors to keep the cash flow going in the right direction early on. Is there a feeling that there are players who would be comfortable playing out those roles? Considering how we got into that downward cash spiral in LOTR at the end, it seems just as easy to do the same thing if not easier with DLV. Is this something that will be an issue, especially with the lack of collective experience with the mod?

[TheFlax]

In all fairness, the crash at the end of LotR was more or less on purpose, but it does seem we would need governors. I for one would not mind playing one, but I suspect I'm in the minority.

[ULC]

I don't think we shuld restrict players to being generals or governors - having to fill a quota limits a players ability to RP to their liking. This is why I am in favor of LTC, because it is simple and flexible. The more you add to a mod, the more you would restrict players in this kind of environment.

[AussieGiant]

Governors would be an interesting move.

If implemented correctly in the mod a combination of character types would be another strategy to employ. You would probably find pacifist houses, war like houses and combo houses...that sounds pretty good.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I don't think we shuld restrict players to being generals or governors - having to fill a quota limits a players ability to RP to their liking. This is why I am in favor of LTC, because it is simple and flexible. The more you add to a mod, the more you would restrict players in this kind of environment.

I agree. All those things that would make your SP campaign more interesting will most definitely start working against you in a PBM game like LotR. Although, if players agree, then these special features could be brought into PBM game with it's mod(PBM game mod).