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    hi all, i have come up with an idea for an additional faction. Not releasing anything unless interested, I wish to keep it a secret. Unfortunately I have zero experience with modding . So I would need a team that could make a faction (or maybe 2). The only thing that I would do is post here and come up with some idea. I wouldn`t be the leader just a idea maker...hense the name. If interested in helping to make this please email me at ideaman77"hotmail.com or PM me thanks. I have to go to school daily so it wont be an insta respond thing. Thanks

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    Who are you kid? How old are you?

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    There's always a lot of ''idea maker'' or ''lore masters'' but when it comes to modders, there's a drastic decrease in number. Idea maker is the easy role, you let people do the work for you and impose your ideas.

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    If you want a mod, then start learning. If you dont have the time, and just has an idea, JUST SAY WHAT THE IDEA IS! Do you really think someone will read this and think; 'Hey this guy's got an idea! I'll have to e-mail him as soon as possible!' That's not how modding works
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    Well, the thing is... When you take someone with no modding experience as an idea-maker they probably don't know the limit of the game engine(s). And a modder would (in most cases) want to do it on their own with their own ideas. Not listen to someone who thinks something would be cool in a game when it's not possible.

    That's the great thing about modding, you get to craft your own ideas into reality. I'm a coder and I think that's fairly easy, just can be time consuming. Modelling? I never have, nor want to model/texture. The very thought sounds tedious, but... That's probably because I'm a lousy artist (but even at that, I no interest in it)

    My advice: mod some easy files first, (e.g. export_descr_unit, export_descr_buildings, descr_strat, etc.) read some turorials, make a mini-private submod doing, say overhauling the EDB system. Or maybe a small trait or ancillary project.

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    Two suggestions ideaman

    1) Listen to what the others have pointed out above, as that is how it works; if you yourself can nothing then its plain impossible to attract anyone who can and if you can a little still you need to give them a solid idea before anyone joins.
    After all energy, entusiasm and a lot of free time is always given a modding project - it has to be worth it.

    2) Learn something little before you goes on to big ideas, as Mhaedros & Trail say. Here are two pages containing tutotials in different fields, find one you like...
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=92488
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=273
    ...begin small, prove that you can unerstand some basics of modding, present an interesting mod idea to the crowd and any good idea can very positivly become true.
    (trust me, 9 months ago I had never modded anything in my life )

    Best of luck
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    As Ngugi kind of said, almost anyone can mod something. 6 months ago I started small, changing stats and that kind of stuff. Then I remade all coding involved with the factions in TATW 2.1, some name changing etc. And now I have knowledge in most of the forms of modding.
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    I have an idea too.
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    hi all, i have come up with an idea
    I have an idea too.
    Which are you ideas? I'm curious

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    now guys, don't be harsh on the fellow he had to ask somewhere or do something... just remember how we all started... not that different... so cut him some slack...

    and get this one closed...

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    Idea Before The Lock!
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    Mine is better...I need three teams to make it happen.PM me.
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    I love this post!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nemesis_GR View Post
    Mine is better...I need three teams to make it happen.PM me.
    My idea is still the best

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    No, your wrong MY idea is really great
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    Mine is more secret also...
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    @ideaman
    12 years old may be too young to start modding.

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    yeah very mature and great encouragement to start modding. You realize threads like this dont get locked because of the opener but because people derail them?
    The guy has an idea that he wanted to keep secret before release, youll find alot of modders like to do that. Trying to build a team like that probably wont be effective though. We werent born with the skill, i got hired on a team with absolutely no skills and learnt as i needed, i also suggested my ideas to other modders before that.
    The first few posts are correct though, tutorials are the way to go, try something small and move up. A mod leader needs to be the most skilled or hardest working on a team, its hard work, youve to manage all the other memebers and theyll expect you to be doing the most work.
    Modding itself isnt to bad though, it can be fustrating, but its good fun

    You know alreadyded took some abuse when he opened his thread and was told hed no chance to succeed, now his spiders are in 3.1
    Instead of mocking try encouragement.

    Good luck, hope you get your factions working
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    Thanks for the advice everyone. Let's wish him luck on his personal journey.
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