This is an open thread, aimed at brainstorming what could be a good way to review/revamp the Modding Awards here at TWC
It's been a while now since we started to talk about this, and some steps have been taken already, at the least to make the awards more varied and interesting (the classical modder/mod, the tool/resource), still many problems remain, such as:
- the big gap between the quantity of mods/tools and in general of the material produced for Rome and Med 2 compared to the other titles, it makes it very hard to come out with rules that can be valid for both engines
- some games (such as Empire, Napoleon and Shogun) never had many mods, and now they have even less
- the new titles of WH have very little mods on TWC, most probably because of Steam
so, it is evident that we need to rethink the rules to make them more in line with the actual situation, keeping in mind that
- we need to grant a fair competition
- we do this to award modders for their contributions and to rise more interest around mods and modders
- we need new members to keep the site alive; happy modders means a lot of mods, which in turn means a lot of new members
my first inputs:
- I think that a sitewide brainstorm could be useful, if anything to let the modders know that not only the committee has a voice here, but that everyone can voice his concerns
- I think that the committee should be doing more in terms of AD, both at TWC and outside of it
Feel free to drop down ideas; keep the discussion polite, we are not going to decide anything right now, rather I just want to see what's the flow here and then study a proposal/group of ideas