Combing Efforts. Building Dream Teams for Ultimate MOD Themes

[rightfuture]

I am new to Posting, but have been following this forum for over two years. It seems to me that a lot of people are going over the same territory and i would love to see more people to work together to make mods. I have a few ideas; I'm curious to know what you think?

 

[rightfuture]

1st Key Gameplay enhancements.

I wish we had a single consensus forum for Extra - Altered gameplay enhancements. It looks like we are moving towards mods which are combining: The BUG Mod(unaltered gameplay enhancements), Dale's Combat Mod, Jdog's Revolution's mod, and ideas from existing scenarios; especially next war (Chiyu's Extra or JKP1187's NOT JUST ANOTHER NEXTWAR MOD), new resources, and better technologies.

This would include those people who want to merge these functions into stable, or modular forms.
It would also allow for group discussion on the best of the mod components.
Ultimately this would evolve a progression of a base combined consensus mod which would evolve. If made modular, people could remove what they disliked.
The VDRN Mod, Glider1's Revolution DCM, Nextwar Revolutions, are pointed this direction.

It would be great if we could lay out a roadmap of Ideas and mod comps to combine so we can form an agreed upon progression. Maybe this way we can have an influence on what gets in CIV V.

 

[rightfuture]

2nd Expanded Future Era - Consensus Of Near Future Technologies and Sci-Fi Concepts
With the included BTS scenarios of Next War and Final Frontier many people are looking towards opening up a redesigned future era. Newer mods like Chiyu's Extra and, JKP1187's NOT JUST ANOTHER NEXTWAR MOD combine these existing ideas, in a fun new way. Older mods like Dubmetender's Genetic Era for Warlords and VISA Mod explore sci-fi ideas such as sea colonies. Newer mod's like the Alpha Centauri remake of Planetfall and the numerous Star mods of Final Frontier explore technologies and units in common: ex) MOO2, Star Trek , Star Wars, Bablyon 5, and Stargate mods come to mind. It would be interested if these guys had a common forum to work things out together in. I believe i speak for a lot of people when i say that a Near-Future and a Far-Future era would be interesting. I for one would love to see sea colonies and resources properly worked out some time in this lifetime.

I would love to see an integrated techtree of existing mods and concepts, so that everyone could work on this together!

 

[rightfuture]

3rd MegaMOD - DreamTeam
Am I the only one who would like to have some of these guys with excellent mods work together on a consensus mod that balances gameplay and extends concepts to the next level?
Maybe there should be a megamod thread. I would love to see what the makers of the Extra Mod, Amra's Mod, History in the Making, Rise of Mankind, Overlord 2, Quot capita, and JKP1184, Dale, and JDOG can come up with as a team. Maybe i am asking too much, but they could work together a little towards a base mod that they mostly agree on.
We could at least map out what a mod as such should entail. Maybe it would encourgage Firaxis to throw a little help their way if we all supported this pursuit.

 

[rightfuture]

4th Themed threads for getting people on the same page.
Like have a thread for all Final Frontier Mods, or all Near Future MODs;
It would be interesting to have a thread for all the war enhancement mods including
common componant historical accuracy scenarios for every war and time period:
(i.e. Civil War, Rome, AD1000, Birth of Mankind. etc.)
Wolfhanze, and Avain - Varietas Delectat) could work together on graphics mods.
If we created generally agreed upon themed mod's together it would be easier for us to make a variety of expansion mod's of our own personal flavors.
Most people make mods for their own fun, I agree, I just think that we could coordinate better to get there faster.