You know you're a modder when...

[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]

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

[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"

[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....

[Ilsamir Lord]

You know your not a modder when you spend more time typing recruitment notices than meaningful updates.

[Lucjan]

You realize that you are indeed a part of a rare breed, you're a gamer that simply cannot be happy unless he feels miserably about certain aspects of a game he loves.

[Dol Guldur]

I eventually got around to playing Alexander today...well, let me qualify that: I played it for 30-45 mins to check out if it offered any advancement - be it oh so small! - in modding potential. I then looked at the files and tested a few things for at least twice the amount of time played.

Yes, I know I'm a modder.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

when you know what a coder is, skinner, moddeller, animator etc.
when you post in this thread and give a reason
when you spend more than 2 hours on modding

[Teleklos Archelaou]

You can't take a vacation anywhere or just visit a friend or relative without checking on the forum a couple times a day and seeing if there are any problems or new screenshots.

[Makanyane]

There's no hard disc space left on your computer (which, err, was meant to be for business use) because of multiple folders of intermediate modding stage backups, and when desperate for space you finally remember to empty the 'recycle bin' its full with 100's of deleted map.rwm's

[Comrade Alexeo]

What the heck? I had a post in here! A big long one!

Come to that, it seems a lot of my posts are inexplicably disappearing!

[Lucjan]

You read this thread and can actually relate to these things.

[snevets]

You can't take a vacation anywhere or just visit a friend or relative without checking on the forum a couple times a day and seeing if there are any problems or new screenshots.

Hahaha, I'm doing that right now....

You know you're a modder when the better your team gets the more unsatisfied you are with their work, and timescales can't be created for the list of things you want them to do.

[Byzantine Emperor]

There's no hard disc space left on your computer (which, err, was meant to be for business use) because of multiple folders of intermediate modding stage backups, and when desperate for space you finally remember to empty the 'recycle bin' its full with 100's of deleted map.rwm's

I can relate to that!

[The Spartan (Returns)]

I can relate to that!

yes me too.

[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.

[Ciaran]

... you got fired because you yelled at your boss "When it´s done!" as he asked for a progress report for that project of yours.