I'm making a thread to look at what I still have to contribute to AND. I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but I'm running out of things to focus on. Eventually, we're going to wind up with a version of the mod where I don't have anything left to do except help ferret out bugs. I can't mod the DLL, and that's where the source of a lot of bugs actually lies. If we actually come to a conclusion of this stage of development and then decide to go in another direction, I will be right there to help.
I absolutely do not plan to stop modding. I have a lot of ideas that I do not want in the main AND mod to avoid complexity creep, but I plan to create and package as individual modmods that anyone can add to their copy.
Here's what I am looking at to wrap up.
I absolutely do not plan to stop modding. I have a lot of ideas that I do not want in the main AND mod to avoid complexity creep, but I plan to create and package as individual modmods that anyone can add to their copy.
Here's what I am looking at to wrap up.
- Civics. I'm not finished looking at civics and seeing if we can make them less complex, especially the starter civics. We also have not discussed incompatible civics yet (the mechanic is there, but only implemented for one pairing).
- Religious Wonders. I started this but haven't finished yet.
- Promotions. I want to specifically look at the promotions for Mecha units. I don't like some of them very much. The numbers should be more comparable to existing promotions.
- Unit Art. There are still some things I want to do with unit art. I want this to be done all at once so as to avoid repeating downloadings of the Units.FPK file. I want to try and merge a few more art styles (Asian/China, Roman/Byzantine), get some different art for the Colonist and Pioneer, and see if there are any ethnic arts that can be added. I have art for the African version of the non-core Executive units ready to go.
- Under the hood values. I'd like to look at certain non-explicit numbers, especially AI Weights and Flavors. I want to make sure that these are not out of line.
- Game Text and Civilopedia Text. This is one of the last things I want to do. Much of the Civilopedia text is out-of-date. Some of the game text could also be made more concise.