Awesomness

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Just had to start a topic to praise SAI! The new campaign map, the 2D art, the battle environments, the ancillaries, and so on - I have only just dipped in and played a few custom battles and some of the first turn of the 361 AD campaign but already I am blown away by it all! It feels as if I am playing this mod for the first time -

So congrats to everyone involved

My weekend end has just become the first day of the rest of my RTW/BI life!

AND THANK YOU!!!

[juvenus]

i second SBH! especially for the map and 2d art, those are great!

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Yes! But just noticed I can't spell 'awesomeness' . . .

[juvenus]

Yes! But just noticed I can't spell 'awesomeness' . . .

no prob, that's what the stress do to a man

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

You have no idea!

[juvenus]

Oh, my poor child!

[Flavius Vegetius Renatus]

Hello gentlemen and what a pleasant surprise. I come visit here after a weekend and what awaits me, new SAI. Can't wait till i get home from work and load it up. What r your thoughts and first impressions, any pics??

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

Damn you, moderators. I can't rep JH for his awesome mod, due to all the infractions.

[Gäiten]

JH has done a great job! Play the mod!

[Joar]

I must confess I feel a strange sensation of... emptiness. Although I'd been looking forward to the day when SAI was finally released, I now find myself sort of drained, and left with a feeling of "so now what?"

I know this feeling. I've felt it before. It kicks in after the completion of a project, when all is said and done. When the purpose is gone. When the goal line's been crossed.

Although I had done some things for SAI earlier - like some new buildings and the set of ancillaries - my real work began with a conversation I had with julianus heraclius about the Guptas and the Kidarites, and how it was a shame that they wouldn't have some unique features, like portraits, event images and so on. This conversation took place almost 3 months ago, january 5th, to be exact. I slowly drifted into committing to the cause, and to try and create some. I proclaimed: So, if I had a 6 or 7 days, I believe I could do it. Julianus herclius answered: ...6 or 7 days would be fine as I have to wrap up things and check optional instals etc which always takes longer than expected, so I can wait.

Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him? This old Obi-Wan Kenobi quote fits very well if one consider the naive conversation above. I don't know which one of us was the greater fool, or who followed who, I guess it was probably more a case of two fools joining hands and walking gladly in the direction of that dreadful yet wonderful abyss that is modding.

I started making the portraits and the other things, but all of a sudden, I don't remember how, I found myself doing all sorts of things that wasn't planned in any way. Things that clearly wasn't part of my contract. I got carried away, and julianus heraclius pushed on. Make it so! There were times when part of me wanted to reply: For God's sake, I'm a modder, not a magician! But I never did, and the simple reason why is because I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the work and the challenge. And now, when we've reached the end of the road, when others may harvest the fruits of our labour, I shall remember the time we've spent working on SAI. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

There you go, a little piece of IB history.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

I must confess I feel a strange sensation of... emptiness. Although I'd been looking forward to the day when SAI was finally released, I now find myself sort of drained, and left with a feeling of "so now what?"

I know this feeling. I've felt it before. It kicks in after the completion of a project, when all is said and done. When the purpose is gone. When the goal line's been crossed.

Although I had done some things for SAI earlier - like some new buildings and the set of ancillaries - my real work began with a conversation I had with julianus heraclius about the Guptas and the Kidarites, and how it was a shame that they wouldn't have some unique features, like portraits, event images and so on. This conversation took place almost 3 months ago, january 5th, to be exact. I slowly drifted into committing to the cause, and to try and create some. I proclaimed: So, if I had a 6 or 7 days, I believe I could do it. Julianus herclius answered: ...6 or 7 days would be fine as I have to wrap up things and check optional instals etc which always takes longer than expected, so I can wait.

Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him? This old Obi-Wan Kenobi quote fits very well if one consider the naive conversation above. I don't know which one of us was the greater fool, or who followed who, I guess it was probably more a case of two fools joining hands and walking gladly in the direction of that dreadful yet wonderful abyss that is modding.

I started making the portraits and the other things, but all of a sudden, I don't remember how, I found myself doing all sorts of things that wasn't planned in any way. Things that clearly wasn't part of my contract. I got carried away, and julianus heraclius pushed on. Make it so! There were times when part of me wanted to reply: For God's sake, I'm a modder, not a magician! But I never did, and the simple reason why is because I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the work and the challenge. And now, when we've reached the end of the road, when others may harvest the fruits of our labour, I shall remember the time we've spent working on SAI. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

There you go, a little piece of IB history.

Wow. You just caught everything I ever felt with modding in one post
+rep!

[Joar]

Thanks!

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

Well, that emptiness can now be filled with IB:RR Joar!

[Joar]

Well, that emptiness can now be filled with IB:RR Joar!

Yes, well, you're misunderstanding me. It's not that I don't have enough projects to work on, it's more a feeling of melancholy, or rather lack of satisfaction. We have a kind of saying, or sort of expression really, in Sweden that literally would translate into "the road is everything, the goal nothing"...

[Gäiten]

Yes, well, you're misunderstanding me. It's not that I don't have enough projects to work on, it's more a feeling of melancholy, or rather lack of satisfaction. We have a kind of saying, or sort of expression really, in Sweden that literally would translate into "the road is everything, the goal nothing"...

In Germany we have a kind of saying, or sort of expression really, that literally would translate into "one finished, next, please!" ...

You know what I mean

[Joar]

In Germany we have a kind of saying, or sort of expression really, that literally would translate into "one finished, next, please!" ...

You know what I mean

Comply!

[juvenus]

judging by quality of the mod itself, JH & Joar are quite a match (not "that" kind of match....as the modders i mean). i believe that i speak on behalf of all of us when i say that i hope you people will join forces for the RO too.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

Touche, Salesman...

[juvenus]

ah, at last, Joar enabled his reputation! now, we can rep him all day long

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Rep done!