Rate of feedback on nation mods

[HoneyBadger]

Honestly? I try very hard *not* to give a lot of feedback, just because I have so many ideas of my own, and ways of looking at things in my head that, if you ask me for suggestions, most of the time I'll just end up telling you how to create an entirely different nation from what you had in mind.
I've done it before, and I'll probably end up doing it again, but I really try to avoid it because it's obnoxious and impolite-and really serves little purpose other than to confuse people.

If I see something I like-and the mods here are absolutely fantastic-I will try to say something, *if* I see something specific that I can compliment on without rambling on about it (like I am now). At the same time, there are mods I like just because they fit my own style and ideas. For instance, Amos's mods are absolutely professional, works of art, BUT they're not balanced for vanilla (or so he says) so they're not ones I pay the most attention to right now, because I'm still trying to learn the game.

I have favorite mods (Amos's among them, even though I don't use them that often), but that's just my opinion. I haven't seen any truly lousy mods.

The worst one I've seen was Uh-nu-buh's Hive mod, and that was very clearly and obviously a work in progress that he never completed, and I liked the concepts and ideas behind it so much that I redid the artwork for it and asked his permission to complete it and release it as a finished product. He hasn't answered me back about that, and it's been about a month, so I am going to assume he doesn't care and release it under his name when I get a chance.

So, yes, everyone is doing brilliantly. I am very *very* appreciative of the hard work that's been put into the mods-and I'd really like to see them taken a little more seriously than they sometimes seem to be. I only compliment sparingly because I don't want to seem to be judging some mods as better than others-mind you, some *are* better, but that's like judging one gift as better than another because one's more expensive.

All the mods are gifts, and I recognise that.

I don't know if this is true, but I believe some of the mods from Dom2 were incorporated into the Dom3 game by the Devs? I think that's the right attitude and direction.

The Devs *do* put in a lot of work on the nations they release, and it's wonderful that they do-we wouldn't be here without them-but atleast some of the mods have had just as much, or even more, work put into them, because they're individual labors of love compared to the labor-as a whole-that is Dom3.
It's an effort on a smaller scale, but one that we as a community can be proud of for each other and for ourselves.