Calling All Modders!!great Mod Idea!!!

[dark_shadow89]

Imagine... a mod where all the factions are made up of all 'barbaric' tribes in history...ranging from the vandals to the vikings...the mongols to the britons...as well as the japanese, the aztecs, the american indians...

and only one civilised nation...the three roman families and the senate (remade of course...). These can be changed to become a fantasy civilisation...

the rest of the mod can be from fantasy too, the barbarians we know of in real life could be used as a reference to create the mod's factions...imagine charging into an enemy formation with your squad of jaguar riders, or having your unit of baresarks or ulfsarks hacking into an enemy phalanx...

this mod could occur in a fantasy land, in a fantasy time...

so to wrap up:

fantasy factions, based on real ones
fantasy continent
fantasy units, with some reference to historical units

cheers, dark_shadow89

btw: havent thought of a name yet...if this thing gets off the ground that can be worked on.
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[JakoTheOne]

and isnt greeks a "civilised nation"?
the idea is good, but the limit of 200 cities would made the map get divided in vast regions

[JakoTheOne]

what indeed would be a great idea is to make an all eras mod, where you could go on ages by develop technologies of around 50-100 years and where you have no money in order to make cities hard to build and armies hard to be built.
but I know this mod is only a dream, it would be imposible to do, too many buildings, units and models to make

[Mackaaan]

i think its an awsome idea, aztecs, american indians, japanese.....
all together on a large continent!

[Zharakov]

PANGEA TOTAL WAR! lol


I like the idea, and would like to help.


I can do a small amount of scripting *still learning the finer points of the art*.

And I can also give ideas.

[dark_shadow89]

ok, scrap the idea of every faction being 'barbaric'. there could be mainly barbaric nations, but there could also be a samll number of civilised nations, struggling to hold on to their civility in the face of ever growing barian hordes...

[dark_shadow89]

also, any additional ideas would be welcome, as this is still the ideas stage...

[dark_shadow89]

PANGEA TOTAL WAR! lol


I like the idea, and would like to help.


I can do a small amount of scripting *still learning the finer points of the art*.

And I can also give ideas.

great, thanks..

if more people get interested in helping out, i'll pm u eh?

also, if u could 'spread the word' so to speak, i would really appreciate it.

cheers, dark_shadow89

[dark_shadow89]

i think its an awsome idea, aztecs, american indians, japanese.....
all together on a large continent!

so u wanna help out???

[JakoTheOne]

so what about two civilised nations that expand their power in order to get stronger than the other? it could be nice to set the period on the trojan war.
year 1300 before christ, Troy, the most civilised nation and greece, an alliance of some cities. Both expand towards the barbarians in a race for power

[Mackaaan]

so u wanna help out???

PM'd you about it, yesterday.

[Zharakov]

Thanks for letting me help comrade!

Here are a list of factiosn that I think would be cool. We could base the better list later.

Civilized:

Rome
Egypt
Japan or China
India
Aztec
Miya
Greec


Un-Civilized:

Vikings
Mongols
Apachie
Zulu
Russians
Some other random European tribes

[dark_shadow89]

Thanks for letting me help comrade!

Here are a list of factiosn that I think would be cool. We could base the better list later.

Civilized:

Rome
Egypt
Japan or China
India
Aztec
Miya
Greec


Un-Civilized:

Vikings
Mongols
Apachie
Zulu
Russians
Some other random European tribes

yeah, those all sound good, though like i said, they are references for the 'fantasy' factions, so that there wouldnt have to be a massive world map (fantasy continent & faactions).

thanks for the feedback though,

cheers, dark_shadow89

[dark_shadow89]

oh, thanks to Zharakov and Mackaaan for your offers. if u could get sound other people to help out, then we'll have a real mod team...(i can only do design and text work right now, though i'm learning to model/texture)

cheers, dark_shadow89

[Mackaaan]

oh, thanks to Zharakov and Mackaaan for your offers. if u could get sound other people to help out, then we'll have a real mod team...(i can only do design and text work right now, though i'm learning to model/texture)
cheers, dark_shadow89

so, how would you like the map?

[JakoTheOne]

remember you have to divide all the map on 200 provinces, so will japan have 2 cities? i think that map is too big, and even more if you include America
remember that armies cant move too far and is not realist to make them going from portugal to germany in 6 months...

[Mackaaan]

remember you have to divide all the map on 200 provinces, so will japan have 2 cities? i think that map is too big, and even more if you include America
remember that armies cant move too far and is not realist to make them going from portugal to germany in 6 months...

have you seen the map for the mod already?

[Zharakov]

I would geuss that we would make a pretend world map. That way, we dont have to wory about size.

[JakoTheOne]

what does geuss means?
what i mean is that dividing all the world on 200 provinces (limit of cities) is going to give vast territories to each city
are you going to give Greece 6 or 7 cities meanwhile rusia does just have 8 or 9? is a very unbalanced lands and too long to go across

[Mackaaan]

didnt know you had to have 200 cities.
dont really know how your thinkin it should be...

[ShadowStriker]

hmmm barbarians eh you could call it something like prehistoric: total war

[Zharakov]

We do not have to use the real world. We can simply make a new map that has no historical reality.

Those factions are just an idea for the factions we would use. We do not have to use them.

We noy need one continent.



Also, I am Russian... My English is not perfict.

[ShadowStriker]

lol right thats a good idea

THE STRONGEST FACTION IS mumblemumblemumble

[dark_shadow89]

We do not have to use the real world. We can simply make a new map that has no historical reality.

Those factions are just an idea for the factions we would use. We do not have to use them.

We noy need one continent.



Also, I am Russian... My English is not perfict.

thats right...the stated factions are to be used as REFERENCES ONLY!!!!The factions in the mod will be ficticious, as will the map (ie. made up), so there's no worry about an overly large map, etc...

anyone who wishes to help should post their credentials...

cheers, dark_shadow89

[dark_shadow89]

so, how would you like the map?

um, we've got 4 people in the mod team so far...once we get about 8 or 10, we'll start the actual work...though to build the map, we need to decide what the factions are gonna be, their culture, their lands, etc...any ideas about this would be nice.

cheers, dark_shadow89

btw, will it be better to have the forum for this mod-to-be here or at SCC? Also, if anyone is good at web design, or know of how we can get our own development forum, please speak up!!!

[Mackaaan]

um, we've got 4 people in the mod team so far...once we get about 8 or 10, we'll start the actual work...though to build the map, we need to decide what the factions are gonna be, their culture, their lands, etc...any ideas about this would be nice.

cheers, dark_shadow89

btw, will it be better to have the forum for this mod-to-be here or at SCC? Also, if anyone is good at web design, or know of how we can get our own development forum, please speak up!!!

i was just thinking, start showing work early and more people might open their eyes... tomorrow you cant reach me for a week since ill be in norway (so you know that i'm not dissapearing or anything)

[Zharakov]

Could we do it like human colonist on a new planet with aliens. Only the aliens are still in the dark ages, and the human colonists are also in the dark ages?

Human VS Alien

Human & ALien VS Human & Alien...

[Mackaaan]

Could we do it like human colonist on a new planet with aliens. Only the aliens are still in the dark ages, and the human colonists are also in the dark ages?

Human VS Alien

Human & ALien VS Human & Alien...

aliens are booring:P

we should have stuff like Inca warriors riding lama's

[dark_shadow89]

Could we do it like human colonist on a new planet with aliens. Only the aliens are still in the dark ages, and the human colonists are also in the dark ages?

Human VS Alien

Human & ALien VS Human & Alien...

for some reason, i dont think that humans in the dark ages can fly to another planet...

[dark_shadow89]

so, how many factions could we have???

i've narrowed it down to about 18 - 20 (is this the number of factions in the game???)

they are based on (in-game names to be thought of later, these are working names only):

-Vikings (reckon they have enough culture to stand on their own)

-Saxons/Franks (combination of germanic and frankish cultures and units)

-Celts or Woads (maybe a combination of both)

-Aztecs/Mayans (a combination of both, as doing each one will be difficult due to similarities in culture, etc, these should be civilised, but only semi-civilised i think)

-Bedouin/Berbers (basically arab nomads)

-Mongols (on their own)

-Apache/Comanche, whatever (basically the cultures of all the american indian tribes)

-Japan/China/Korea (a civilised faction)

-Russians/Romanians/Hungarians, etc (eastern european cultures, gypsies?)

-3 city states or princedoms ruled by an emperor (spqr and families, though i think their culture should be a combination of roman, greek and spanish)

-zulu/masai (african cultures)

-Egyptians (civilised african culture)

-south east asian cultures (thais, khmers, indonesians, these can have their lands on a series of islands, semi-civilised)

thats 16 factions, which i think is a good number, any other suggestions would be good. I'm now working on the faction's units.

cheers, dark_shadow89