You know you're a modder when...

[wlesmana]

You feel like the guy at the medicine counter at a drug rehabilitation center because you got a horde of people trying to swindle you to get a little bit of info, screenshot, screencap, OMG ANYTHING PLEEEASE out of you every single day.

You kept the Google page on search for "Vercingetorix Total War CAS exporter" refreshed every few hours in case a new CAS exporter is released.

You nitpick the models of CA's screens.

You spent hours, days, weeks, making sure the vertices are weighed properly at the arms so they don't look odd when animated, fully realizing that no one else except you would ever notice it in-game.

You have opened (or TRIED to open) every single file in RTW directory.

[Woad Warrior]

You can't actually play the game any more because as soon as you see something you don't like, you have to change it. Then once you start a mod, you think you have a better idea for one, then start it, then drop it again, and on and on......

Before I found the Guild I done loads of full campaigns on RTW. Since I came here I've hardly even played the game.

[Dol Guldur]

when you're convinced that you and your team of 3 can do a better job than CA - fill up all the factions with unique units, make faction-specific that which was merely cultural or make all the cultures distinct with no overlaps, ad, change all the artwork, music ad infinitum - even though the vanilla game alone took 30 full-time professionals 55 man-years to complete. :)

[spirit_of_rob]

not on ly convinced but when you know it for a fact hehe

You know ur a modder when you consider making a PR staement along the lines of

"As it is now apparently acceptable to charge for mods there will be a £1 price tag attatched to this mod"

just to see what the reaction of everyone is hahahahaha

[UltraWar]

You actually spend your time writing a readme file which no-one reads

You spend your time updating the latest version of a mod you have released

[Dol Guldur]

You start scouring the Internet, old TW games, sound bites, bits of music you've heard over the last decade, your friends' voices, your pets' sounds, and anything else you can find just to put it into the mod and make it unique...

[Lucjan]

when you're convinced that you and your team of 3 can do a better job than CA - fill up all the factions with unique units, make faction-specific that which was merely cultural or make all the cultures distinct with no overlaps, ad, change all the artwork, music ad infinitum - even though the vanilla game alone took 30 full-time professionals 55 man-years to complete. :)

..when the general consenssus is that what takes those 30 guys 55 man years to make...is surpassed in all aspects by what takes you and your team of 3 a couple months.

[Mylae]

you understand you're a modder when you open RTW just to see if your scripts works properly.
you know you're a mdder when the longest campaing you play since months is 2-turns, to see how looks pretty the features you've included.
you know you're a modder when walking withfriends you get a marvellous idea and youwant to be on a pc to get just a stub; you looks absent for all the night repeating in your mind "yes, i could do it, an implementhing that", and when you get back home you switch on the PC and then you realize you've forget everything.
you know you're a modder deep interested in historical accuracy when in christmas time you get totally angry when you see some horrible outdated and wrong legionary stuff on people doing the "presepe vivente" (italians will understand).
you know you're a modder when you think "i will like to create a new mod"

[Lucjan]

You tell people computer files have more than just bmp's and jpegs...and they look at you like you're god.

[Lentonius]

lol yeah, once entering the world of modding you begin to tire of the game itself, becoming an ever hungry monster of mods, downloading every mod, and having fifteen RTW folders on your C drive.

[Agraes]

You keep modding even on a computer that doesn't run RTW properly...

[Duke John]

Good ones!

You know you are a modder when you've got this:



Oh my god, that was lame!

[Subedei]

...when you shout at a piket fence to "Lower spears & form Phalanx formation!"...well maybe that`s also true/truer for obsessed players of TW...anyways.....

[Burns]

You know you're a modder when the havnt played any game aside from your own mod for the last six months (or you play something for thirty minutes, get infuriated by it and promptly return to modding).

[LestaT]

You know you're a modder when the havnt played any game aside from your own mod for the last six months (or you play something for thirty minutes, get infuriated by it and promptly return to modding).

I can relate to that. You simply can't play more than 30 minutes without quitting the game thinking, the unit needs to be rebalanced, this faction buildings need to take longer turns, this skins is simply not right, this BI feature can be added.. and so on....

[Caius]

You are always waiting to a CA member, only for make questions about the game.

You are making guides about a things in the game who no-one understands.

You are talking about all the time of the mod.

[Byzantine Emperor]

Who dug this up? :lol:

[Neon twilight]

You're a modder when you think this word exists in the dictonary.

[Thorn Is]

you will not add your friends names to your game cause they aren't authentic enough

[snevets]

You almost miss your stop on the train as your mind drifts over an exciting theory you weren't able to test the night before.

Your team designed a t-shirt and you considered giving them out to people.