Mod: Jomon, Broken Swords v0.8 RELEASED

[VedalkenBear]

... mm, I think your idea, Badger, suffers a bit from reading a bit too much into things.

For one thing, Japan in the 15th-16th centuries was _anything_ but complacent (that's the Warring States period). Now, if you were saying that Europe in the 15th-17th centuries would be complacent like Japan was in the 17th-19th centuries, that would be better. However, the Tokugawa shogunate focused _all_ of its energy into preserving itself, and did so by numerous methods. The one I am most knowledgeable about is the _sankin kotai_, or the system of alternate attendance. I really wouldn't call Japan 'complacent' in that period, even so, so much as 'peaceful'.

And I'm not sure, but I do believe you can mod a 'base' spell into a national spell, so that only certain nations have access to it. If you can do this for one spell, you should be able to do it for all of them.

And, really, if you took away gunpowder, you would also have to take away not only the consequences of it, but the steps that led to it. And that, really, is impractical to describe from our current standpoint.

[HoneyBadger]

Actually, VedalkenBear, and I mean no offense when I say that I think you're the one reading a little bit too much into my post .

It was just an idle thought-I wasn't trying to lay out 500 years of history as would occur without a crucial piece of technology, I was just speculating-brainstorming, if you will. If I'd been doing more, I would have tried to give sources and references, and I certainly would have researched more into it. I really was just aiming for conversation-and just maybe to get people who read it thinking in new directions, if possible.

And you're right, "peaceful" is a much better term for most of what I meant than "complacent". I just couldn't think of a better term at the time. I meant "complacent" in that they were happy with their culture as they had it, and were satisfied to keep it as it was-ofcourse, as you say, doing their very best to keep it stable-but not that they were apathetic or lazy about it.

[Sombre]

So anyway,...

ABOUT THE MOD,...

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[UninspiredName]

With the big 'mass undead' national spells, it might be nice to boost the Twisted Daimyo's undead leadership a bit. None of the recruitables can manage more than 40 as is. Of course, I suppose you can have Bane Lords for that...

[Sombre]

That's something I might do. I thought he was at 80 undead not 40.

[Sombre]

Ok, tonight or tomorrow I should have V6.0 uploaded.

As usual there are lots of little fixes - Twisted Daimyos get extra leadership, no more succubi etc.

EDIT: The sheathless were totally messed up - next version they will be fixed.

So any feedback you can give before that moment would be awesome. Really, anything at all. I'm kinda surprised that this mod hasn't generated more chatter.

Oh well maybe Arga Dis, which will be out next week, will take your interest :]

[Sombre]

v0.65 is up. This one is well worth the update.

Details and file at main post.

PLEASE TIP GENEROUSLY. Hahah.

[lch]

Sorry, Buried/Burned/Drowned still have case problems with the graphics filenames. For the CBM version, too.

[Sombre]

They do indeed, because I haven't updated JB recently. It's all fixed on my computer, but I didn't want to update until I had done a couple of other tweaks / content changes.

The CBM version is based on 0.65, also hasn't been updated and so has the same problem.

[Sombre]

Attaching a preview pic.

A new version with a couple of heroes will be up probably tomorrow.