Is it Possible...?
I've just posted a "mod idea" thread on a forum I use and I was wondering if the following would be possible.
- Bring back titles. If there is one thing I miss more than any other, it is the titles available to give to generals, making them permanent governers over a provinces rather than relying on whoever was in the castle for that turn. With this I would attempt to bring back Acumen and Educational buildings back into the game. This would also mean my Generals wouldn't be rotting away in their castles just so my settlement has a governor.
- Stationing armies on others land will lead to the worsening of relations and eventually a declaration of war. I would like to add a "Get off my lands" option to the diplomacy screen, among others. With Armies defending on enemy land gaining much less of an advantage from being the defnding army.
- Non military buildings which produce units (brothels and such) will create units at a base of 1 experience point at the lowest building quality and produce units at +1 unit experience per upgrade of the building. I'm mostly just sick of building these upgrades and it having almost no effect on the units I am creating. It feels like I'm paying 500 florins for a peasant to put on a suit. So this way the better the building the better the unit it will produce. (Maybe some variety for Spy's and Assasins as they are essentially mercenaries) Actually I'm not certain if this is already the case or not. If it is then ignore.
- In accordance with the above issue it may be neccesary to make assasinations harder. (I've seen this is possible)
- Non Military units appear outside the city/castle which produced them. Just basically so it's possible to keep track of them, and you don't have Princesses rotting away inside a castle for 10 years before you notice them.
- Make enemies less inclined to try bribing your armies. It's just really annoying and slows up the end of turn run through if you are watching enemy moves. Infact, I'd like to stop the game from displaying any failed subversive incidents because I may go insane if I have to watch these slow motion encounters anymore. Though I have decided to never tick the "watch enemy moves" option now, the problem appears to persist if they are doing it to me.
- Give rebels who pop up in your lands a greater ability to disturb trade and public order. The game I've just played I had two rebel armies situated in England and Wales and I just left them there because they didn't seem to be causing me any problems. This will force the player to enforce the rule of Law.
- Bring back the slaugther of POW's on the battlefield and the sound which used accompany it. I would like if I could get this to lead to a temporary, greater fear of your general and lessened enemy moral, dependant on the numbers kill. (unlikely I'd imagine)
- Removal of the Americas and shortening of the grand Campaign, with each move representing 6 months. They didn't even appear in the game I've played so I can't guage if they add anything to the game, but my belief is that they are a gimick. I would end the Campaign in the year 1453 (Or possibly earlier, but I like the year 1453).
- Introduce a new Campaign type which represents the life of your monarch. So it would end if he was killed in Battle. Refer to the bottom for the details on this.
- For the Kings Campaign (above), each turn would represent a season, so four per year (I have read that this isn't possible, pretty much nullifying this as a possibility). This would mean averaging about 120 - 160 turns for those campaigns.EDIT Just tried out alpaca's script for this, and many thanks. It worked really well from the few turns I tried. The main problem I see now with this, is that it would have many different campaigns (with one playable faction), all starting on different years (the crowning of the king) and I noticed that a lot of the scripting with regards to time was done as an offset of the starting period. I assume this will cause problems. I'm going to have a look into this tomorrow.
- Complete overhaul of the traits and Retinue system including : Effect, probabilities, causes and influence during battle.
Aesthetics
- Re-design of the GUI on both the Campaign and Battle map. I'm not sure if I'd actually change button positions, but I'd definately change the chunky surrounds. They just look kack.
- Darker terrain textures, less cartoony and vibrant. I'd make them dull and wet looking for western and eastern Europe, not sure If I'd change the Middle Eastern regions
- Removal of the cgi videos, replaced with pictures like in Medieval 1 or videos akin to those of Company of Heroes. I'll see if I can get the artwork that's shown at the end of Medieval 1 for proof of this over gay videos.
- Replace the English Castle mesh on the Campaign with the one they have in central Europe.
I propose a campaign based completely around the King available at that time. With the Campaign ending with the death of the King, your death. I believe this will create a much more involving experience and bring back the strong character elements of the game which have become diluted through larger family trees and random superfluous character traits. I remember in M1 I used to actively try and play the game a little different with each King, but in the end it was always at the preservation of the Kingdom, I hope this much shortened and frantic campaign would allow people to try something different and will lead to the latter game stages being a less futile experience. This would also make people more inclined to take care to have stronger children in terms of their traits. I remember in M1 I quite often killed my future heir if he was a "damaged", in M2 I don't even notice who is my heir. I'd like to make it so the player can spectate for a hundred turns after his death or something, but yeah not too bothered about that.
This is the main element of the mod I'd like to implement, so if that's not possible (and it would require a time scale of 0.25 to work properly) then I won't bother.
Thanks very much.
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