For most mods it will be a one-line-change, that's not much work. You seem also to forget the upside - the consolidated VP will be much more user/modder-friendly and the team has fewer duplicate entries to worry about.
My concern is, that it is bit too late. Many modders left the modding scene of VP/Civ5 and went to Civ 6 or even quit totally. Who will update and publish their mods? Me? You?
I can only suggest making a thread, pinned by the admins, where all old modmods will be gathered, and after update made by people, published in one list.
@Recursive, what's your opinion on that?
I agree that such a drastic change is good and bad. Good from dev's perspective and bad from modders' one. Many people complain that VP changes things back and forth instead of making some "gold" version. I am in favour of what's
@Recursive is doing to the AI, diplomacy and other hidden stuff. This is what we should focus. Not the constant balance updates of stuff that was changed thousands of times. We once talked about adding two new civilizations to the pool. But how we can do that, if we cannot balance existing ones for few years? Instead of adding new stuff we burried ourselves under the balancing blanket. This game cannot be balanced ideally, and maybe it's time to understand that. There're too many factors to apply.
I can only hope, that this change planned for v1.5 (is it right
@Recursive?) will be last change from the hard cathegory. I'm not happy that I must update my modmods once and once again, because VP broke things up and users call me for help. The worst thing is I haven't played Civ5 for few years, because the stuff is changing all the time I wait for some stability.
And another hard pill to swallow is that because of your decisions
another modder decided to leave the community. That's also bad new for me, because we cooperted well and my some good updates for my modmod as well as his stuff. Good luck bro.
Devs, change your game plan. Do not kill the modding community.
@pineappledan What do you think about all I wrote? We're in this for so long that I would like to hear your opinion.