Hi Taal
First I would like to say thank you for this answer. Only to get sure, you´re a member of 268bc development team, right?
There are a lot of people eagerly awaiting to play this mod and they are worried that focus goes to much on submods, instead of finishing the main thing. So thank you for explaining things, but there are still some points i don`t understand.
Taal said:
Firstly it is important to realise how big the task of creating this mod is. It is not merely a add-on to the original game but a total conversion.
This mod is surely one of the biggest. But not the only total conversion in this comunity.
Taal said:
So let's look at why we want to tackle this in smaller, minor beta mods. Instead of taking on the task above, lets focus on one faction, say Scythia Minor. We set up the scenes, we fill in the NPC's, we do the fluff, we add the weapons and Armour, and we throw in some spawn points for the surrounding nations. In this smaller environment we can acutely focus on the balance, and the interaction between the parties. We can set up region specific quests, fill in the scripts and make this region come alive. Finally, and here is the important bit, we can focus on making this region fun! Move on to the next region, the next faction, and make that fun. It is an exercise in starting small and expanding slowly.
I fully understand your approach on this, and I see other mods going the same route. But, I don´t see how C3rdC can help you this way, because it´s factions don´t appear in the main mod. There are different units in this timeframe, wich are not used for the main mod. Instead, to fit the timeframe, there has to be made a lot of new equipment, new units, new characters and even new scenes are being worked on. All out of the main mods timeframe. The concern is, that main mod´s development is paused to work on sub mod or at least many resources are pulled away from it.
Another concern is that Ealabor seems to be working on scenes for 3rd century (wich look fantastic), instead of focusing on the things you pointed out. I don´t know what is going on behind the scenes, but I guess I speak for many fans here, if I say that we would not mind to have scene updates later, but a playable version soon.
I want to say, that this is in no way meant as an offense against Ealabor or the team! But there are many fans of your work, waiting years for a release, disapionted because there is little progress shown on this forum (I´am sure there has been done a lot of work, just show us a bit more of it).
I know that you do this for your enjoiment and you owe nothing to anybody, but you have a lot of fans, just don´t disapoint them!
Greetings