So the goal we all share is to create and play the best possible civ game, a mod of mods that can encompass the goals and best parts of the other mods.
A 'ONE' MOD that will keep improving CIV IV and take the best ideas (not a grab bag or a collection of all the ideas) of the community and the other mods.
We probably agree on:
1. Using the best ideas that we all pretty much agree on.
2. Dream Team: give good reasons for the best modders to come together, and try to bridge the best mods so we don't have to completely start from scratch, for the purpose of creating the best possible mod and improving it.
3. Focus on a fast turn time mod that plays on older machines (probably have a lite core version)
4. Allow for the best ideas (like navigable rivers), ideas from ROM, AND, K-MOD, and C2C without having too much too handle. Take what we like and improve them, and remove the parts we generally agree that we don't like. Basically build a bridge between the best mods to improve them, and make a combined better mod. The reason not to throw away everything is because it is all potentially useful, and the reason not to include everything is because we don't want it to be bloated or overburdened. We want the ideas to improve the quality (not necessarily quantity) of the game. If the idea improves the game, it should be added, not for the sake of adding to add content.
5. Streamline it: Consider all the ideas but work hard to fit the best ones. People should be able to play a quick game or a long long game as they wish. Clear, useful options, and grouping could solve some problems. The game can be made deeper and better without getting lost in it, or removing all the ideas. Grouping and management can improve handling of many of these ideas.
6. Improved AI.
7. New expansion like major features to the point of creating a community Civ 6.
8. and much more I think we can agree on.
9. I honestly believe everyone's points and issues can be addressed you can have more ideas and content as long you don't get lost in them and as long as you can play them, have better gameplay and make it more fun.
I think every concern should be addressed so please keep your ideas and thoughts coming.
The goal is to bridge C2C, K-MOD, Legends of Revolutions, AND2.0 and the whole Civfanatics community.
It will be a fusion and a combination of mods and projects as well as a pursuit of a Community Civ 6. We are not trying to completely replace these mods or outdo them, we are trying to bring them together and make something together. C2C, for example is doing much of what this project is aimed for. Many of the mods are reinventing the wheel, adding new features and new ideas, like terrain, ai, and game mechanics. We want to debate and work these things out so it is a community creation between all of these things that removes the negatives and include the positives. To make the best mods with the best things, so we all can have a mod that we can work on together, and that we can agree is improving. We want to debate the concerns and worries so that we can overcome them, not so that we can disagree and fracture into thousands of different project. It is our purpose to unite so we can all figure out how to overcome those disagreements and have a game that we can more and more agree upon. A game that gets better and better because we are giving our best to improve it. A game that is the best Civilization and more that we can collectively dream up. Not a common denominator of the average of what everyone wants, but the challenge of coming up with the best decisions the best content, and the best choices of what to have in, and the best to remove.
Everyone should look at C2C to see what they are doing, because they are doing alot right. I completely support them. I agree with much of what people say is wrong with it as well. It is getting better. In most ways it is the best thing yet. I think we should come together to make the best game possible. Every effort should be supported. I think we get more done together. I think we should work with and bridge C2C as well as other mods. I think the whole point is to involve the best of these communities and mods so we can make something even better. Together with the best people we can solve bigger problems and make better decisions. We love many of these mods, and we even support each of them getting better. This is not a competition, this is a cooperation to make the best one, not to fight amongst them to see which one wins (we already have that). Isn't it time we collaborated, and shared our best. To cut out what we don't like and improve what we do. To share in the improvement experience. The difference in just creating a new mod with the people who want to, is that we are involving all of the best. The best people, ideas, and the best of what has already been created, so we can make it better. That is why we need the ONE mod. And that is why we should work out our differences. And that is why we should come together, for the love of Civ and for the desire to play a better game!
So I have gone ahead and set up a thread in the C2C mod-mod's forum to bridge the idea and engage the community.
Community bridge to create the Ultimate 'One' MOD and Ultimate Civ Game!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=484529[/B]
By no means is any of this set in stone. I think that no one has a perfect idea of what to do yet. We need to work together to come up with a plan better than any one of us could have made by ourselves.
Please check out this forum and help me get the plan together to further this goal. The goal should define the plan, not my interpretation of it. This is everyone's best plan, not the best compromise and average of all plans.
Ideas, disagreements we need them both. Let's focus on the positive, making this plan work, not poking holes in it. Let's build a bridge, not dig sinkholes. Let's try to figure out the best way to do this.
We want to aim for making the best game possible. It is the goal. The best of the old and the new.
Let's try to do this together and elevate the best ideas and best people, for the sake of creating the best!
