Make your own commanders

How about player generated content ? Let users create commanders in the style of SPORE creature creator? and then let people download it as in SPORE or sell it, similair to TF2, dota 2?

Not sure if posted on correct forum section.

What do you guys think?

Making your own commander is a thing.. but for people who backed a pretty hefty amount.

I think it'd be amazing, but I fear it won't happen.

One of the high tier kickstarter awards was something like this, where you worked with Uber to create your own commander. If they allowed everyone to do it, the kickstarter reward would be that much less valuable. In the words of Syndrome, "when everyone's super, nobody is."

Certain parts of the commander are planned to be customize-able, but as far as spore like commander design I wouldn't hold my breath.

We'll be able to mod in our own commanders.

Yeah, you could create a commander and replace an existing skin. Only you would see the replacement, but it cosmetics up your game a bit.

The backer amount for custom commanders in vanilla was a high reward, but their cosmetic is in vanilla game so by default others can see it. Which is a large percent of others to see a custom model commander.

Well server mods are a thing now, I know at the moment it doesn't extend to models however I'm fairly sure that is in the works. So eventually we will be able to make commanders and add them into the game

well i understand that it would be unfair to the high tier pledgers. I was thinking more of like Dota 2 style, where the best ones get chosen from the community and included in the game or something similar like that. Steam Workshop to host the content? A mix of TF2, dota 2 and Spore solution However in a way that the higher tier pledgers don't feel screwed.

Not strictly true.

*shifty eyes*

no, not to a certain extent.

Ah wasn't it they requested to keep the mods small as everything gets transferred at game start?

So in that case custom models *are* possible already?!

With server mods we can.

... kind of.

Though RCBM's efforts so far have given mixed results.
I'll show you what I mean once we get it working properly.

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However, you are correct. For the moment Uber doesn't want us to do any crazy all-model overhauls and such-like.

I mean the devs have said they didn't want us to : https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...to-x-common-commander-mods.57017/#post-882891

That's in relation to "unlocking" exclusive Commanders. There's nothing wrong with making your own model, texture and JSON and then allowing everyone to use it for free... just don't be a d**k and "steal" the exclusive Commanders.

well it kinda undermines the whole "I payed you 1000$ to get that privilege" thing, doesn't it?

Yeah it's understandable that they don't want all the exclusive commanders unlocked and given out for free

No. Why do you think so?

The $1000+ backers had an official model made for them by Uber. That's what they paid for.

All other Commander models will be unofficial. I don't see the problem.

Attempting to save from 3Ds max and then using papatran to a .papa then importing it into blender makes all the bones broken, the model comes through, but bones go out of wack in various ways.

Actually, we've made that hurdle ok, but we're stuck on something else. MadSci is the one to talk to. I'm not sure he want's to show off anything until it's working properly though.

Well an idea is that the ones created by the high tier pledgers can be branded as premium have some extra abilities like more firepower or something like that, and that they get them for free while the rest have to pay for them or that they just are exclusive to them with no in game benefits. That way we can still have user generated commanders but the not that premium or something like that. And the simplest way is to not allow people to copy them, just make a report system and the community can report them so Uber can investigate and remove the model.

it's really hard, there must be someway in order to both let people make their own commanders and keep the high tier pledgers happy. I personaly dont want them too feel fooled for pledging such a high amount.

Have a very nice design for a commander, like a gundam suit 00 crossed with gundam X style
Thinking of actually making a model of it in Maya or something when im done with my master thesis and have time

edit: On kickstarters it says "We create a custom unique commander just for you, that only you can play! Working with you, we'll design and conceive of the ideal commander to best represent you on the field of battle" so does that mean only they can use this commander? If so then i don't see a problem if this is not available to the rest of the community since theirs is custom build by uber and the rest can't have it.

Did i misunderstand anyone that can explain regarding this?