ex_ottoyuhr
Sergeant at Arms
Merentha, yeah, I was sort of suspecting you might be one of my big repeat players. 
I'm very glad to know how you, and others, have remained so interested in the mod despite my long period of fumbling and inactivity. There was a time there where I thought I'd give it up completely... I'm very glad I didn't. (On an unrelated note, when's the next Darkmod? )
I'll probably try to release the first full story once I've got it built, and may go for several smaller releases prior. I'm also aiming to add a lot more in the way of mechanics, with a romance system (and NPCs and personality traits to use it on) being one of my higher priorities in the best FE4 fashion -- so these may well get released without story material, much as how the current release had its storyline stuff excised.
(Also, how do I get Armagan to swear a solemn oath that he will never again change terrain codes without provision for backwards compatibility!? I lost six or seven hours' worth of Baheisir-building to the latest revision -- though at least the ability to edit terrain within the map will make restoring it, not painless, but at least possible. Good thing I didn't build any other cities yet...)
So, as to whether I can come through with this, and when -- it may be a year or two before it's finished, or even before a first arc is finished, but, yeah, I'm shooting for the moon. Mount and Blade gives us the resources to make games of a really formidable scope, on the level of the SNES-era RPGs; I intend to use those resources, and I hope I'll have the mental stamina to do so.
(Also, as a side note, what time zone are you on, and what time zones are characteristic of everyone else here? For myself -- and I hope this'll explain my baffling posting habits to some of my players -- I'm on Central Time, in the United States; this is almost 1 AM, and I ought to be getting to bed, while my post earlier was done at about 9 AM.)
I'm very glad to know how you, and others, have remained so interested in the mod despite my long period of fumbling and inactivity. There was a time there where I thought I'd give it up completely... I'm very glad I didn't. (On an unrelated note, when's the next Darkmod? )I'll probably try to release the first full story once I've got it built, and may go for several smaller releases prior. I'm also aiming to add a lot more in the way of mechanics, with a romance system (and NPCs and personality traits to use it on) being one of my higher priorities in the best FE4 fashion
-- so these may well get released without story material, much as how the current release had its storyline stuff excised.(Also, how do I get Armagan to swear a solemn oath that he will never again change terrain codes without provision for backwards compatibility!? I lost six or seven hours' worth of Baheisir-building to the latest revision -- though at least the ability to edit terrain within the map will make restoring it, not painless, but at least possible. Good thing I didn't build any other cities yet...)
So, as to whether I can come through with this, and when -- it may be a year or two before it's finished, or even before a first arc is finished, but, yeah, I'm shooting for the moon. Mount and Blade gives us the resources to make games of a really formidable scope, on the level of the SNES-era RPGs; I intend to use those resources, and I hope I'll have the mental stamina to do so.
(Also, as a side note, what time zone are you on, and what time zones are characteristic of everyone else here? For myself -- and I hope this'll explain my baffling posting habits to some of my players
-- I'm on Central Time, in the United States; this is almost 1 AM, and I ought to be getting to bed, while my post earlier was done at about 9 AM.)
