Built-in mod system

**PunchDrunk** · July 19, 2012, 02:45 PM

I think this would be a great idea. Civilization V has this. The developers for Civ V made it super easy to make mods and get them uploaded to the in game mod library. All you had to do is pick a mod, enable it, and then you would be abel to use it in the game. Pretty simple.

Who else would like to see this for Rome II

**Lord Baal** · July 19, 2012, 02:57 PM

It would be really convenient.

**.Mitch.** · July 19, 2012, 03:04 PM

So basically exactly what we have now.

Download a mod, enable it (userscript), play.

Pretty simple.

**PunchDrunk** · July 19, 2012, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by .Mitch.

So basically exactly what we have now.

Download a mod, enable it (userscript), play.

Pretty simple.

No, it's nothing at all what we have now. Have you ever played Civilization V before? With an in-game mod manager you wouldn't have to worry about viruses or having to worry about where to place all of the mods' files.

**Lord Baal** · July 19, 2012, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by .Mitch.

So basically exactly what we have now.

Download a mod, enable it (userscript), play.

Pretty simple.

I was unaware of a mod manager/menu incorporated to the game as of now, 2012.

**Rasic** · July 19, 2012, 03:37 PM

If they go through the trouble to actually create modding tools, then I could see something like this coming about.

Right now it's just something people do, but not really officially supported. If they spend the time and money to make modding tools then it becomes a feature of the game, and something they'll want to advertise on the main page of the game.

**Ballacraine** · July 19, 2012, 03:56 PM

Other developers encourage the modding community by facilitating it in game to a certain extent eg. Taleworld's Mount & Blade & Warband.

As they are building it at the moment, it would be great if they could incorporate something similar.

Balla.

**windsupernova** · July 19, 2012, 03:04 PM

Would be awesome tbh

**Lord Baal** · July 20, 2012, 08:18 AM

Swords of the stars, Dawn of War....

**The True Roman** · July 20, 2012, 08:28 AM

I would like to see something similar to what they have for Skyrim. It might be just like what your talking about, you go to the Mods for the game click subscribe and then its part of your game and you can have dozens of mods working at once.

**Rorarii** · July 20, 2012, 09:01 AM

AH! Civ5 is menu driven too .. easy to mod .. yes, easy .. actually helps users .. yes, helps users ... hmm

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**Lord Baal** · July 20, 2012, 09:55 AM

In dawn of war you have a little menu where all the mods you have downloaded and installed are listed, you simply click one, click accept and the game changes to it. Having all the mods in a on-line repository manageable from within the game only makes it sweeter.

**Blatta Optima Maxima** · July 20, 2012, 10:19 AM

They could do it like mount&blade does it - add mods to the launcher. Come to think of it, with a simple app, kingdoms had this too.

**cevap** · July 20, 2012, 10:36 AM

M&B Warband has the best way Ive personally seen in any game, no mods work against each other you can have a bazzilion total conversions installed and none of them cause compatibility issues, main appeal- you only choose from the launcher what you wanna play it takes like 0 time and each has its own saves etc. Imo that is the way it should be done in every game

**T.C.** · July 20, 2012, 01:11 PM

CA provided us with a built in mod system, and have done since ETW. What none of you realise is that without the userscript file (which most of you never see due to programs such as Mod Manager) there's be no mods, just redistributed vanilla packs. Which would put the base size of even the simplest NTW mod at 2.7 GB, or 1.7GB for Shogun 2 (Yes, you could use packs in movie format but if there was no userscript there wouldn't be any need for different pack types = no mods). The current system is far better than Warband's of Civ's actually, as it allows people to use as many mini mods and customisations as they want at any one time. It's really not the mod author's fault that people get stupid and try and activate 3 or 4 major mods at once and expect them to work perfectly and with no bugs.