@phungus
1. The whole point is so work does not have to repeatedly be produced by an xml monkey. If you don't see the point of not having to change the Civ4DiplomacyInfos.xml in the main xml folder each time to add a leader. Or having relative art paths inside of the folder for leaderheads. You probably will never will see the point of the WoC.
You're pretty much right. I'm not one of those "Ohhh, Shiny" type people that sees a new leaderhead and has to add it in. If you're not an OMFG MOAR!!! type personality, this doesn't apeal to you at all.
Further, if some artist makes a new leaderhead, and you want it added, Someone out there has to write up the XML for it... And if you're a mod producer this will invariably be you anyway.
So all in all I give this a 3/10 for utility. I mean, if I see a new leader I want to add, and if someone already bothered to do the XML work on it, and if that work has been tested and works, and doesn't conflict with something else I've already done, then yeah, it could save me some time.
The question is, is this worth all the other crap involved. Simply put, no, unless you want 100s of leaderheads and such in your mod.
2.Instability based on what? Avian's test? You have not tried. Let me even say this Avain is the only one person that claims to have a CTD that has tried the Lite version. RoM has been testing and no CTD's so far. Strange how people who do not want the WoC can find CTD's right? If you are referring to Orion. If you use the wrong xml schema in the game then yes you will have errors.
Based on every thing I've ever seen about WoC...
But that's actually not much of an issue. If glider takes RevDCM to WoC and makes it manditory for using the RevDCM base, I have full confidence stability will be adressed anyway.
It's more I think it's a timesink to try to stabilize the thing in the first place. But that's just my oppinion, and it really doesn't matter. If glider enjoys working on it that's his thing to do, modding is a hobby after all, you're going to focus on the areas that interest you.
3. How do you know? A friend told you that WoC Full runs slow so every WoC incantation runs slow right.
Yep. That and common sense. I mean if you load a bunch of stuff into the dll, that's all gotta be processed... that takes more of the CPUs energy and RAM.
4. Well you should not be playing with the SDK to often anyway right? But most modular loading is not in a lot areas that you would play with anyway maybe CvInfos being the one?
You obviously don't believe this yourself. And you know it's a bull argument.
Look, I'm working on Legends, and I add a trait, Enlightened. I've made it so that
this trait grants culture from non state religions. This requires SDK modification to work correctly. No way around that. There are a myriad of other modifications that require the SDK to make work. And that's really where WoC falls flat.
It's really only plug and play for XML stuff anyway, which a monkey can do. The really useful time saving stuff that might make it cool, like Culturally linked Starts, or a Leonardo's Workshop -50% unit upgrade cost XML tag can't be done. Some of this can be hacked in through Python, but this often leaves the AI clueless as to it going on, and leads to more work in the long run, since you have to often change your code in Python when you want to tweak things, rather then just adjusting tags in XML.
5. Again you should try it beside just complaining based on hearsay you heard does not mean anything.
Yep, listening to other people's experiences certainly is a stupid thing for me to do
6. You do not like sharing modules? No benefit from to be able to just drop a civ in modules and not to edit any xml or art outside of the module folder?
You do not see the point of the WoC because you never tried it to see the work it can save. And that is fine if you do not want it. But please don't rant BS you do not know based on BS hearsay.
No, I don't see the benifit of sharing modules. Then again I don't want to add in dozens of leaderheads, and just don't see the point.
Functional effects I might want to add in, WoC can't do. Everything it can do is basically just simple XML mods anyway.
So like I said, I don't see the point.