You need to PAY for FREE things!!! - Page 2

Sombre · #11 May 1st, 2007, 01:39 PM

Well if you make mods it's a bit different. I was thinking more of people who just play them but don't remember/want to offer anything constructive.

Gandalf Parker · #12 May 1st, 2007, 02:26 PM

Mods are a great example.

Themes (background screens and color schemes) are another. Or anyone doing graphic help for the modders and mappers.

Maps are another area where people ask why more arent done but if you dont tell the people who made your map that you want more then dont bother asking why more arent done.

Servers. There were alot of requests for servers. Now we have people doing it. Have you thanked the ones you are using? (OK that one is selfish. I REALLY want MORE people taking the server load. I dont want to lose any)

All of the wonderful reference material out there which takes many hours to maintain.

These are all things that I want to see more of, Im too A.D.D. to do them myself, and I want to make sure that they get their "pay" for their efforts.

VedalkenBear · #13 May 1st, 2007, 05:30 PM

I am trying to get to all the mods to offer feedback, but I only have so much time to devote to that project in addition to all the others on my plate. ><

Kristoffer O · #14 May 1st, 2007, 06:46 PM

[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon44.gif[/img] Hi all modders!

I'd better pay some for the free stuff as well then

I haven't tried much mods, but downloaded all I could find a week ago. Only had time to try a few, but it was nice and fun . I was impressed.
Modding has evolved since the days of Dom2. Keep up the good work

VedalkenBear · #15 May 1st, 2007, 07:07 PM

Kristoffer: Mine just went up (in preliminary form) today. I'd appreciate it if you could download, if only to comment on the art (in the appropriate thread of course). Mostly palette-shifting, but it was still not the easiest thing in the world. (For the record, this is the Caelis Immolatum mod.)

</not-so-shameless self-promotion>

Gandalf Parker · #16 August 26th, 2008, 01:48 PM

Now that we have the new forums this subject has many new ways to be satisfied.

A) find the posts where people have told you something, provided something, helped in your appreciation of the game and hit the "Thanks" button on the post.

B) click on the scales icon at the top of a post and add to that persons reputation

C) and of course, the good old thank you note is always appreciated also.

You can help keep things rolling with your please and thankyous.

Gandalf Parker

Aezeal · #17 August 26th, 2008, 03:21 PM

I agree with this.. I'm modding a bit and while I can do without thanks I'd really like feedback.. I don't like doing the usual mod stuff so most of my mods don't get a lot of downloads so I need pplz using them to give feedback or there can't be improvement.

Also I think it's strange my things get DL so few times.. don't pplz like things different?

HoneyBadger · #18 August 26th, 2008, 04:10 PM

I'm not able to download anything, Aezeal, or I definitely would do so. Without being able to look at everything in the scope of a game, it's difficult for me to give you constructive feedback. People will download things, though, but in your case-since you're creating a whole new era/way of playing, and each Nation has to be overhauled to be compatible, you've got to expect that people are going to take more time to get behind it. When you have 8 nations-and I am trying to help with that, on a limited basis (because even I have a rational limit to the amount of projects I can work on at a given time-ability to complete them or not)-but until you have around 8 nations minimum, people are probably going to delay getting too involved.

Foodstamp · #19 August 26th, 2008, 04:22 PM

How do the scale thingies work and why are there 3?

Tichy · #20 August 26th, 2008, 05:53 PM

The top one tracks "level"
The second one tracks how close you are to gaining a new "level"
The third one seems to track some statistic about your amount of daily activity.

I have no idea how the level thing relates to the military ranks for number of posts.
I also have no idea how being given good/bad reputation affects them.

You get some info by hovering over the three bars with the cursor but there's more info on your profile page. Click on your own user name. On the page that loads, there's a "visitor message" window. On the upper right there's a ">>". If you click on it, something called vbExperience will pop up for you to click which will give more details.