Why are we ever hosting vanilla games?

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by stuart98, December 3, 2014.

  1. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    It's become a bit of an inside joke with him, so I thought I'd bait it. It's all in good fun. :)
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  2. MrTBSC

    MrTBSC Post Master General

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    how about letting players host whatever they want ...
  3. thefluffybunny

    thefluffybunny Active Member

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    No-one is stopping you from hosting whatever you like, or joining whatever you like, that would indeed be highly annoying to individuals and damaging to the game as a whole. However, I think these type of things take critical mass to get some momentum going, they are multiplayer mods afteral, so a co-ordinated approach to create such critical mass seemed a logical idea.

    The forums are likely a tiny proportion of the player-base, so even if a good proportion of those reading this thread gave this idea a shot, (shamelessly stolen name @cptconundrum ) Mod-Monday would still only result in a relatively low % of games being mods, but hopefully enough to make them viable, and to encourage the modders to greater heights. Having made some crummie mods for starcraft 2, its quite disheartening to put many hours into creating these things only to be left by the wayside.
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  4. MrTBSC

    MrTBSC Post Master General

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    this thread gives a totaly wrong massage to people ...
    if you want to promote your mods ... not this way
  5. cptconundrum

    cptconundrum Post Master General

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    Just remember, everyone:

    We don't make mods for fame or to feel good about how many people are playing them. We make mods to help the game, give fun toys to anyone that cares, test out our ideas in ways we can easily demonstrate, and really just to give ourselves the mods we want to play. I think it shouldn't matter whether our mods aare popular as long as enough people play them to make it fun for us. Mod Monday would be a good way to get the people that care about mods all in the same place at the same time.
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  6. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    That's not to say we don't appreciate downloads and the users of our mods however. :)
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  7. Clopse

    Clopse Post Master General

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    Yeah this massage rubs me the wrong way. Hope we can work together to get a happy ending. :p
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  8. thetrophysystem

    thetrophysystem Post Master General

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    Not sure if serious, kind of hope you are. Not because I am a jerk, that isn't the reason I like this.

    I like this, because it was an idea for an actual community effort. That was a nice thought, effective, yet something nobody does anymore because individuality splits everyone.

    So please. Go ahead and make every "pa channel" named to modded on certain days. Making a community routine is an awesome idea.
    I thought the message was "vanilla is borked, why the **** not?", just in case the "why not" for anyone at this point is "I just don't know better" or 'I am lazy".

    No, just play mods, life will be much better.
  9. cptconundrum

    cptconundrum Post Master General

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    I will be participating in next week's Mod Monday.
  10. lapsedpacifist

    lapsedpacifist Post Master General

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    Realise this is a late reply, but just to be clear I didn't mean their support for modders: everyone says that is fantastic. I mean support for your average user who knows nothing about computing and likely never researches a game beyond booting it up from steam. In other words, a big majority of the playerbase.

    Uber said there would be in-game support for managing and publishing mods during kickstarter. I'm not going to complain about 'broken promises', I think uber's achievement has been phenomenal, but until this comes modding will remain a niche interest.

    I think an in menu mod manager should be one of Uber's top priorities: the amount of variety, usability and replay ability mods add is enormous and most of the playerbase are missing out on this.

    EDIT: ok just re-read this thread, looks like I posted without reading recent replies like a big idiot. Mod Mondays would be cool!

    My reply is kinda superfluous now, but I spent time writing it so I'll leave it there anyway.
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  11. stuart98

    stuart98 Post Master General

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  12. bluestrike01

    bluestrike01 Active Member

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    For me the downside is that I don't know whats modded in a modded game :)
  13. wpmarshall

    wpmarshall Planetary Moderator

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    Potentially, it all depends on my essay and my family situation right now.
  14. proeleert

    proeleert Post Master General

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    Pfff it's not called Mod Monday MAYHEM, so lame ! :p
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