Essential Mods for New Modder

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking to get a few "essential" mods going for my game. I'd appreciate hearing what the general consensus is on what is "essential", but overall, I'm interested in: graphics changes (especially in battle), ship components (and ship design), gameplay alterations (particularly in making the game longer/more immersive).

Thanks for your time.

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Also, I'd love to hear about good mods for Races/Government types.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

everything except the battle graphics is easy to do I don't think they can be changed.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'm not looking to do them myself, though. Got any examples? :grin:

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Things on these forums have been winding down for a while I'm afraid. Just to clearify, did you mean you wanted to create a few mods, or to find a few already created mods that you could use?

 

The Star Trek total conversion and the Babylon 5 Total conversion are both excellent mods worth playing with.

 

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Looking to find "already created" mods in the following categories: Ship components, gameplay alterations (like the slow start mod, which is nice), and race/government mods.

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'd have to plug some of mine;

X-Worlds #06A (Forum Link + Library Slot) & CoSH (Forum + Library) ... both of which aim to alter gameplay in different degrees. Note that there are supplemental files of other assets for these too in the library.

The first makes extensive graphic, race & political & etc changes (for DA & partially for TA) and the second is more like a swift total conversion along with a Minor races package (for TA only).

Right now i'm mostly in temporary idle-mode for modding - but, if Life (as in personal issues and stuff) gets a lot better i might return later to update them with even more features (as seen in the readme files & folders in their zips).

Mods are kinda tricky and it's "difficult" for anybody to suit everyone's hope for whatever they want or need... XW is in fact a clear immersion attempt into the Mythos X-Com franchise (including Apocalypse) and who really doesn't know Super-Heroes with CoSH. Understand also that such mods take HUGE amount of time & resources to make. Just the ships & fleets for the XW 39 races has proven to be quite challenging & complex, for example.

Essentially, *You* have to try out anything just to get an idea.

I'd say that each & every uploaded mods have their potential, some are obvious while others offer much more than simple features.