Mod Idea

[hawkenstein]

Hello Modders,

As someone with no coding knowledge, I was wondering if someone wanted to take my idea and have a run with it?

What I'm thinking is a Mod set in America at the very least, about 20 years in the future. In this mod the current climate of politics have caused fast instability within America. Causing everything to faction off. I'm thinking about

Pacific North West (Washington, Oregon, Idaho)
The California Republic
Not Sure for a name, but thinking Las Vegas would be the capitol (Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico)
The Holy Land of Latter Day Saints (Utah)
The Lone Star State
The Frontier States (Colorado, Wyoming, North & South Dakota)
Montana
The Viking Union (Minnesota & Wisconsin)
The Great Plains (Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma)
The Rust Belt (Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana)
The Southern Confederacy (Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama , Georgia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky.)
The Bayou Republic (Louisiana & Florida)
The Free States (The Virginias, Delaware, Maryland)
The Union (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Conn. Mass.)
Not Sure for a Name (Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine)


Of Course willing to discuss with the mod maker/s and make adjustments as needed, The Southern Confederacy has the most land, but the population and tech may not be as high as say The Union or the California Republic. We can also have Hawaii and Alaska as single areas (though Alaska would only make sense if we add Canada) Also possible can be Puerto Rico and Guam. Anyway this is a loose idea and would also be open to adding more of the world, but I figure with adding major cities in the states, we can make a pretty expansive map for this. As for why the tech is all low end swords and shields, instead of guns. This is a fantasy mod of the USA failing so a simple explanation. Over the next 20 years, mounting pressure makes gun control a major issues, and the government revokes the rights to have guns. With the government collapse, all military equipment, becomes locked out. (20 years from now, all weapons used by the military would be bio locked and rendered unusable in the case of a government collapse to prevent tech from falling into the wrong hands) And EMP's have been a major source of discussion with tensions mounting with North Korea, and so a few well placed EMP's and we can explain why their is no power, and again a collapsed infrastructure would break down supply lines for things like gas.

So, if anyone is up for giving this a go. I'd love to talk with you!

 

[tribnia]

What about trying After the End?

 

[hawkenstein]

I have, I'm looking for something a bit more close to recent times, and having the kingdoms be more realistic as to how they are set up. AtE is great and I love the work they did, but it isn't scratching the itch of the idea I have.

 

[Rags17]

Something I've wanted to make for a long time is a mod that allows the player to click on any title then on any character to give that character the title. That way the player could literally completely rewrite the map at any time. You could then fire up ATE and click away until you got the map you liked.

I'm sure that you could mod this kind of easily.

 

[hawkenstein]

If you could make something like that, it would be pretty awesome for a lot of people I'm sure! Does anyone know how to get in touch with the team that works on AtE Fan Fork?

 

[CFH1985]

Something I've wanted to make for a long time is a mod that allows the player to click on any title then on any character to give that character the title. That way the player could literally completely rewrite the map at any time. You could then fire up ATE and click away until you got the map you liked.

I'm sure that you could mod this kind of easily.

That's a cheat, not a mod. Though easy to do

Hello Modders,

As someone with no coding knowledge, I was wondering if someone wanted to take my idea and have a run with it?

What I'm thinking is a Mod set in America at the very least, about 20 years in the future. In this mod the current climate of politics have caused fast instability within America. Causing everything to faction off. I'm thinking about

Pacific North West (Washington, Oregon, Idaho)
The California Republic
Not Sure for a name, but thinking Las Vegas would be the capitol (Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico)
The Holy Land of Latter Day Saints (Utah)
The Lone Star State
The Frontier States (Colorado, Wyoming, North & South Dakota)
Montana
The Viking Union (Minnesota & Wisconsin)
The Great Plains (Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma)
The Rust Belt (Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana)
The Southern Confederacy (Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama , Georgia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky.)
The Bayou Republic (Louisiana & Florida)
The Free States (The Virginias, Delaware, Maryland)
The Union (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Conn. Mass.)
Not Sure for a Name (Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine)


Of Course willing to discuss with the mod maker/s and make adjustments as needed, The Southern Confederacy has the most land, but the population and tech may not be as high as say The Union or the California Republic. We can also have Hawaii and Alaska as single areas (though Alaska would only make sense if we add Canada) Also possible can be Puerto Rico and Guam. Anyway this is a loose idea and would also be open to adding more of the world, but I figure with adding major cities in the states, we can make a pretty expansive map for this. As for why the tech is all low end swords and shields, instead of guns. This is a fantasy mod of the USA failing so a simple explanation. Over the next 20 years, mounting pressure makes gun control a major issues, and the government revokes the rights to have guns. With the government collapse, all military equipment, becomes locked out. (20 years from now, all weapons used by the military would be bio locked and rendered unusable in the case of a government collapse to prevent tech from falling into the wrong hands) And EMP's have been a major source of discussion with tensions mounting with North Korea, and so a few well placed EMP's and we can explain why their is no power, and again a collapsed infrastructure would break down supply lines for things like gas.

So, if anyone is up for giving this a go. I'd love to talk with you!

You know mods like this are usually a group effort? If you wanted something like this to get off the ground you'd probably need to start it yourself. With a decent amount of high quality work you may attract other modders, though doubtful.
I should correct myself, though this is technically a mod, total conversion is more fitting

 

[hawkenstein]

I do understand that thank you. I don't have the coding knowledge to do it, so I was putting the idea out there to see if anyone would be interested in building it with me. No need to be condescending. Thank you.

 

[Rags17]

I do understand that thank you. I don't have the coding knowledge to do it, so I was putting the idea out there to see if anyone would be interested in building it with me. No need to be condescending. Thank you.

PM me - as I said I've been meaning to do this for years so it would be fun to get it off my to do list.

 

[Rags17]

That's a cheat, not a mod. Though easy to do
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The idea is to create a dead simple decision usable on any top tier landed character that would disappear as soon as the game started. Yes you could do a total conversion but that is a LOT of work (I know, I built a Stone Age total conversion mod and it kind of burnt me out), this method would work for Shattered Worlds too which is what made me first think of it - shatter the world then carve the pieces until you get the map you want, then play.

 

[CFH1985]

You built a total conversion by can't create a simple mod to distribute titles?

Also, point and click re-assignment wouldn't work for what the OP has described. The game mechanics may be the same but the flavour would be way off.

What the OP is after wouldn't be hard, just a lot of work. More for the flavour (without which why bother?) than the set up. 1 start date, no history to research, I assume existing mechanics. All doable if you're not defeatist. "No coding knowledge" should read "no coding knowledge yet". Some people may have relevant background, but for a lot it's self taught

 

[Rags17]

You built a total conversion by can't create a simple mod to distribute titles?

Also, point and click re-assignment wouldn't work for what the OP has described. The game mechanics may be the same but the flavour would be way off.

What the OP is after wouldn't be hard, just a lot of work. More for the flavour (without which why bother?) than the set up. 1 start date, no history to research, I assume existing mechanics. All doable if you're not defeatist. "No coding knowledge" should read "no coding knowledge yet". Some people may have relevant background, but for a lot it's self taught

Wow, you must have a lot of friends with that level of snark.

Yes I created a total conversion mod and Yes I can make a simple mod to distribute titles, that's what I said in my posts. Either you're willfully misinterpreting what I said or are a sad little troll looking for a fight.

All I said was that rather than reinvent the wheel the OP could simply use the ATE mod and use a simple decision micromod to make the map look like what they wanted before they started the game. Of course if they wanted to change localization, religions etc then that's a whole new ballgame but just changing the starting map around should be pretty simple.

 

[hawkenstein]

CHF as for flavor that I can do, it is the technical knowledge of making it into a mod that I can't do. I'd like to build a team and throw ideas around and make this into something more then a small nugget of an idea.