The Maya exporter gets its own forum, but the launcher doesn't? Seems odd. Anyway. It's late here and I thought I would collate a number of items into a rant.
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1) replace_path support
This has been an issue since Imperator's release. It makes total conversions incredibly difficult. I still want to make my Exalted mod.
2) Prerequisite support.
As CKII has.
3) Load order preference support.
This should be a switch rather than a number - try to load at the beginning, end, or don't care.
These two are 'people should not have to sweat over mod order'.
4) The DLC and Mods 'tabs' should be cosmetic and checksum-changing presets.
Rather than toggling mods or DLC individually, instead, allow players to create presets for their modlists. These should be divided into two categories, based on whether or not the mods influence the checksum, or the DLC influences the game mechanics.
The cosmetic category could have a nice iron fist icon to reinforce that the mods it finds are all ironman compatible.
This would require an alert if a mod switched categories.
5) Checksum-changing presets should naturally list what the resulting checksum is, before launch.
6) Checksum-changing presets should be able to track an external source.
This could be used for a number of purposes - detect if you have a different version of a mod for whatever reason and alert you to the discrepancy, or if the source is Steam/Paradox Mods, retrieve the appropriate mod versions accordingly, as well as when the mod list itself changes.
7) With the Duplo (tm) modlist we are given, there is surely enough room to list some author-defined mod tags, and give us the ability to filter by them.
8) Separate mod uploading from mod updating.
I can't be the only mod author who has been frustrated by this.
9) Offer versioning support.
This could be done as subdirectories of the mod/ directory. So mod/2.3/ for Stellaris could be mods explicitly tagged for that older version, could be updated separately, etc. rather than forcing mod authors to choose in many cases which version to support.
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I've probably missed a number of grievances other people have with the launcher. Absence represents no particular lack of desire to see other improvements incorporated.
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1) replace_path support
This has been an issue since Imperator's release. It makes total conversions incredibly difficult. I still want to make my Exalted mod.
2) Prerequisite support.
As CKII has.
3) Load order preference support.
This should be a switch rather than a number - try to load at the beginning, end, or don't care.
These two are 'people should not have to sweat over mod order'.
4) The DLC and Mods 'tabs' should be cosmetic and checksum-changing presets.
Rather than toggling mods or DLC individually, instead, allow players to create presets for their modlists. These should be divided into two categories, based on whether or not the mods influence the checksum, or the DLC influences the game mechanics.
The cosmetic category could have a nice iron fist icon to reinforce that the mods it finds are all ironman compatible.
This would require an alert if a mod switched categories.
5) Checksum-changing presets should naturally list what the resulting checksum is, before launch.
6) Checksum-changing presets should be able to track an external source.
This could be used for a number of purposes - detect if you have a different version of a mod for whatever reason and alert you to the discrepancy, or if the source is Steam/Paradox Mods, retrieve the appropriate mod versions accordingly, as well as when the mod list itself changes.
7) With the Duplo (tm) modlist we are given, there is surely enough room to list some author-defined mod tags, and give us the ability to filter by them.
8) Separate mod uploading from mod updating.
I can't be the only mod author who has been frustrated by this.
9) Offer versioning support.
This could be done as subdirectories of the mod/ directory. So mod/2.3/ for Stellaris could be mods explicitly tagged for that older version, could be updated separately, etc. rather than forcing mod authors to choose in many cases which version to support.
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I've probably missed a number of grievances other people have with the launcher. Absence represents no particular lack of desire to see other improvements incorporated.
