19-09-2005 07:06									#1
	Organizing Comunity Mods Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

With Civ IV's extream Moding potential and the wild enthusiams from the comunity for doing so I am wondering what we will do to keep things from becoming excessivly fragmented.

The senario I see happening runs something like this. Every person will see something in the game they want changed/improved. They will either make such a mod themselves OR download someone elses. Eventualy we will all be playing what amounts to a different game. Multi-player gaming will become incressingly difficult to set up as consensus on what kind of mod if any will be used. This often results in everyone defaulting to the official release out of shere frustration even though we all acknowlage to be inadiquite. Yet because we play lots of heavily moded single player games our multi-player game will be "off", this would greatly tarnish the fun of modding.

The solution might be to create an official "Poly-mod" that reflects an overall position of the comunity on issues of game balance for our elite play levels. Regularly updated versions of Poly-mod could come out ever few months with features determined by polling. Along side this official mod many groups would ofcorse create a plethora of narrower mods with unique goals, features and additions. Mainstream play could then be conducted on several parrelel mods of high popularity along with unmodified versions for new players.

	19-09-2005 08:05									#2
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Heh.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...threadid=138622

	19-09-2005 08:06									#3
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Great idea.

Can I request a "spell-check" Poly mod for all forum posts?

	19-09-2005 11:12									#4
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

a Gold Standard. I like it.

	19-09-2005 14:22									#5
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I'm for it.

	19-09-2005 14:23									#6
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Yup !

	19-09-2005 15:44									#7
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indeed

	19-09-2005 18:42									#8
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quote: Originally posted by LordShiva Great idea. Can I request a "spell-check" Poly mod for all forum posts?

I desperately need the spell-checker, and I can agree on the Apolyton Mod.

	19-09-2005 18:52									#9
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an Apolyton Mod can not be organized from day 1. things always come to 2-3 mods after the first couple of months when there are some general directions of what people like

	19-09-2005 19:07									#10
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Do we have any information on mod management (by which I mean, an easy UI to manage/install/apply/uninstall different mods)?

	19-09-2005 19:24									#11
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given the mod-friendly design, a in-game "load mod" feature is quite probable

an in-game integrator of the apolyton directory and a mod downloader/installer is not that probable
perhaps for the expansion pack soren?

	19-09-2005 19:29									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Lord Nuclear Heh. http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...threadid=138622

I want to echo Lord Nuclear's sentiment - we have what amounts to an official poly-mod for Civ3 in the work that AU has accomplished. I see no reason why the same activities cannot take place for Civ4 under the auspices of AU.