Author Topic: Improvements to the installation and to the use of mods  (Read 716 times)

Pizza90

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With this post i dont want to tease the work of guys that work on mg for free (i appreciate your work really!), i just want to criticize how actually the mod system works. I dont know if you guys play mg with mods or not, personally i do because i think mods add fun to the game. I noticed that not many people have installed mods (my opinion), so every time we play online we always end playing mg factions without any new mod. I think it's because the way to install and use mods it's confusing. I usually play the mods with the mg factions as most of people i  think (i dont think play 4 vs 4 all the same mod it's not so much fun).

this is how things should go:

a: hey let's play mod XX
b: i dont have it!
a: just download it!
b: okay
*b installes the XX mod*
b: i have it now!
a: okay let's play me vs you, i will use XX you can play the romans

this is how things go:


a: hey let's play XX mod!
b: i dont have it!
a: download it!
b: okay!
*b installs xx mod*
a:did you install it?
b:yes but wait i can't play it vs mg
a:yes you have to move the mod in the mg folder
b:where is?
a: in ....
b: oh.. let me try
*minutes later*
b: i did it
a:now you have to restart!
b:now?
*another player enters in game*
a: oh -.- let's play mg factions!

This is how things go, if you think it's not true, try to play a mod with other people! So what's the problem? The problem is that if someone install a mod probably he wants to play it with mg and not alone, so i propose to put in download centre just the mods that are mg compatible!  If someone wants to make a mod with another techtree he should also put one compatible with mg! And again please to those who make the mods: separate your mod, 1 faction 1 download, so people can chose what to download! Im sure the download mod centre can be improved and feedbacks are good for this right? I hope you will get my criticism as good and wont answer like "if you dont like the thing do it yourself" or "if you dont like it change game". Thanks for the time you spent reading my post :)
I translated Megaglest in italian and i keep the translation updated.