Dictionary of Modding, 2007 - submissions

**Duke John** · 07-11-2006, 12:53

Modding support, 1 Public definition, Official tools and documention to edit practically all files except the executeable; 2 CA's definition, Incomplete documention in text files, new file formats that can only be opened or generated with tools that are not to be released, and locking/hiding tools in the executeable that are not be spoken off in public.

Release date, 1 Whatever plus three months; 2 "Release in September!" - updated 6-21-2005 by first definition of mod leader; 3 When it is done!

**Lusted** · 07-11-2006, 15:41

Suggestions Thread. 1. A diversion advice used by modders to distract fans so work on mod can be done whilst fans request their wildest fantasies get included. 2. A never-to-be-included-in-this-mod list.

**Lentonius** · 07-11-2006, 16:54

fustration, when you receive 500 downloads and no thank you's.

**spirit_of_rob** · 07-11-2006, 17:14

Futility - Asking when the mod comes out

**Silver Rusher** · 07-11-2006, 17:26

Dream-mod: A mod where, despite having no skill in any area of modding or even any sense of grammar or spelling, the leader of the mod still believes that his chosen obscure time-period/fantasy setting which could never work as a mod will still take off and become hugely successful and popular. See also: dodo mod.

EDIT: True frustration: When you release a piece of work that you think is good that took you a very long time to complete, yet you still get very few replies for it.

**Dol Guldur** · 07-12-2006, 00:15

Modding Question, noun. A question that has been asked many times before but which the asker is unable to find despite the answer being two threads down from his own post containing the question. Acute MQs are often typified by the poster phrasing the question in one of two forms: (1) The I-can't-be-bothered-to-be-anything-but-vague-and-I-don't-care-about-future-thread-searches form which one must click on to find out what on earth it is referring to (a common example of this type is "I have a question", which really is not surprising as they are actually making a new thread in a forum called "Modding Questions"), and (2) the this-will-make-them-look form which tugs at a modder's sense of wanting to know something new by leaving the question mark off the end of the question so, for example, rather than reading "How To Mod the New Cas Files in Alexander?" we read "How To Mod the New Cas Files in Alexander!".