The Future... spin-off: Hosted Mod Forums

[spirit_of_rob]

I enjoy reading the moddding news round ups help me catch up on things ive missed/forgot to check the progress of :).

As for view compared to posts its depressing at time of writing imperiums lates update has 75 views not a single comment. Obviously everyone skips comment occasionally but i feel that a simple "well done" does not count as spam and indeed is often suffiecent to make the modder feel at least someone is paying attention.

BTW i am aware of the sillyness of someone with so few posts saying this so dont point it out lol

[Epistolary Richard]

Somewhat off topic, but I found this an interesting article on mod design and working with a modding team in the Half-Life universe.

[LestaT]

For me, when modding I mod the game to please myself. If I find it enjoyable then maybe I'll present it to others.

Regarding sub-forums etc, I believe only mods that have something like a playable beta at least merit an own sub-forum no matter how big or beautiful or how exciting those mods are, which unfortunately never seen the light of the day. How sad, and what a waste of bandwith I should say.

During our conversion project, only when we have a playable beta version do we asked for sub-forum in RTR's own forum. For me, the satisfaction is not seeing 100 or 1000 downloads, but to know that I myself will play the mod as long as it takes and hope others enjoy it too.

That's all I can think of.

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

Somewhat off topic, but I found this an interesting article on mod design and working with a modding team in the Half-Life universe.

They also have a wiki database for the Unreal series, which covers games such as Unreal, Unreal Tournament and so on. Here's a link:

Unreal Wiki

If the TW series does not yet have its own wiki, it would be a good idea to either request one (through CA), or for someone to setup their own TW wiki, and then submissions can be put forward to help expand the database.

[Epistolary Richard]

kdub looong ago did start a Romewiki. Didn't get very far though. Something we should all discuss when MTW2 comes around is the best way to catalogue our research.