Quote Originally Posted by YourLordandConqueror
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.