Strategy Guides for Mods

[ULC]

I think this was attempted a while ago...come to think of it, about the time I joined. I was thinking of possily starting a sub-secction (where ever you wish to put it Martok) for factions in mods. The factions could be sub-divided by mod (of course!), and we could have each mod represented (XL, BKB super, BKB AOW, Hellenic, SW, etc.). Who's with me?

[Tratorix]

I think this is a great idea and would love to see it implemented. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to vote in the poll

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

If I could guarantee that this would work, then I would be definitely in favour of the move. Unfortunately, if this was to go ahead, you have to query it's sustainability - would anybody write guides? I know that the main M:TW guides forum has slowed recently, as has activity here - are there enough active and willing people for this to work? Perhaps asking who would write guides would be a good idea before starting anything like this.

[Noir]

I think that its better to leave it at posters' discretion - whoever wants they can write one anyway. Having an "official" thread serves little purpose IMO. It might motivate some - but it might equally stagnate.

Many Thanks

Noir

[Martok]

I think this was attempted a while ago...come to think of it, about the time I joined. I was thinking of possily starting a sub-secction (where ever you wish to put it Martok) for factions in mods. The factions could be sub-divided by mod (of course!), and we could have each mod represented (XL, BKB super, BKB AOW, Hellenic, SW, etc.). Who's with me?

I'd actually brought up this idea myself several months back, although I was focused more on guides for XL (since it was the most popular mod at the time). Unfortunately, it didn't look like the proposed project was going to get off the ground, so I dropped it.

The problem wasn't really whether or not people supported the idea, as I think most MTW players here were behind it. The bigger problem was that there didn't seem to be enough people to write guides for all the factions. For example: I've played XL fairly extensively, but even I would've only felt comfortable writing guides for maybe 3-4 of the new factions XL introduces. There's no way I could've written guides for all of the factions, and not enough people had played the other new XL factions to feel comfortable writing guides for them either.

And of course, that's just one mod. After you factored in the other half-dozen or so major mods, the sheer scale of the project would be that much more daunting. Heck, even if you were to factor in only the other main medieval-era mods (most notably BKB SuperMod and Wes' MedMod), it would still require a huge collaborative effort to get guides up for all the new factions these mods add.

I don't mean to come across as pessimistic or unsupportive, by the way. I still think a sub-forum for mod faction guides is a wonderful idea, and I would love to see it happen. I just know from our prior attempt, however, that finding the players who are willing and/or able to actually sit down and *write* said guides would be a difficult task at best.

[ULC]

We could still set it up. It doesn't have to appear like magic in one complete peice, but could be made over time. We could select a few dedicated people (I would be one, considering it's my idea) and progressivly work from mod to mod, slowly covering the entire spectrum. We could then have each one go over and check each others work. Alternatively, we could cover the same factions first in each of the main mods (XL, BKB, Medmod) with just three people. We of course could have people select different factions they would like to cover, PM you Martok or post the faction they wish to cover, and write the guide, along with our dedicated team, covering one mod at a time. Whats more, we *may* be able to get the original mod developers to help us in such an endeavor.

[seireikhaan]

Well, Lord and Conqueror, I would be willing to put in some effort for the XL mod. I would support making this, just so long as we keep working at it and make sure the thing doesn't die. But as others said, the problem would be getting people to do it. I'd like to echo Martok in that I would be willing to do a few for XL, but that's still far short of what we need.

[Peasant Phill]

I believe that some guides are allready floating around on this forum from the previous attempt (Mine included of the XL Volga-Bulgars). It wouldn't be to hard for a Mod to locate them, bundle them and sticky them. The mtw guides are still growing because they are easy to reach, I think the mod guides will also grow if they are collected in one place.

[Gimli]

I'm also with Martok on this one... I can only write guides for a few factions in XL that I have actually played with a lot... Um, the ones that I could work on would be Byzantines, Novgorod, Kiev, Russians, Armenians... [maybe Lithuania, Serbia, Venice, Bulgarians] (well, mostly the Orthodox ones! ) If we can get a few people who want in on it, list which factions you can do and lets see if we can get a list of the ones that COULD be done now.

P.S. - What exactly would go into said guides?