[M2TW] Favourite Coder

[Ishan]

For the year 2012, there are 4 M2TW modders nominated as favourite coders. A coder is a person who modifies the game code in an extensive manner. Like adding a unit or changing AI's behaviour in-game requires knowledge of code editing. Vote for the one you like the most:

Toho


Toho has qualified himself in the 2012 coder category by working on CoW Revamp v1.4.4 submod. In which he has done extensive coding by adding several new units and rebalancing of EDU file or in layman terms unit stats values.

As for the EDU I rewrote the soldier values completely by myself and spent hours trying to balance the values for something more lore friendly than game friendly.

You guys view the full mod preview here.

Ngugi


Ngugi has qualified in the coder category for releasing working for the Sundering mod, a little work for DCI: Tôl Acharn, single submod to TATW as well as part of MOS and Withwnar's Submod Collection.

Details

For The Sundering I created: - accents [based on english] for High Elves for Dark Elves for Avelorn (female Elven faction) This meant sorting out, cutting, change place or adding strategy map voices for agents, diplomacy, captains/armies and generals (normal, chivaleric and dreadful), building of towers/forts and for navies. And battle map unit selection voices for all 13 factions units (and naturally there is a lot of them, including non-playable slave-faction units; I add not all units are unique to each faction but to a large degree), new warhorn sounds and selected voices unique to certain heroic characters. Also new fire and impact sounds to certain [artillery] attacks making it sound like the magic it is showed to be. added a few battle speeches and sorted the vanilla out from unfitting ones sorted out or cut all non-fitting english battle event speeches (used by all 3 accents) new end turn-sounds All in all I lost count when I had worked my way trough about 1000 .wave and .mp3 files/entries in my task to grant The Sundering players an enjoyable experience. Even if I to be fair did not intended such a work to begin with. When I was asked to lend a hand to this mod I had almost not heard of it, and while I agreed to at least fix some strategy map basics for them, as they was supposed to have another fellow who would take over, it went on to this, as they are nice folks working on a grand mod. For DCI: Last Alliance that is found in the TATW submods MOS and Withwnar's Submod Compilition I created: Tôl Acharn [jihad] event sounds. Loremaster [imam] strat map agent voices. Battle map voices for DCI: TA's mercenaries. regards Ngugi

Basically all the sound information of M2TW mod is stored in 39 vanilla sound text files. So any edit, addition or overhaul of music and sound effects requires thorough coding knowledge of these text files. Since Ngugi worked extensively in this area he's a suitable contender here.

TheFirstONeil


TheFirstONeil is the mod leader for Thera v4 which was released on November 2012. The new version consists of following key changes:

• New AIs
• Complete rebuilds of several factions
• Major overhauls for several factions
• Removal of more vanilla elements
• New Unit UI elements
• Large scale mapping changes
• New financial balancing
• Complete unit rebalance
• New Music
• New Active Disasters Mechanic
• Tech Tree rebuild/rebalance

All of these tasks require thorough knowledge of M2TW Coding.

King Kong


King Kong is the mod leader for Third Age v3.2 which was released on December 2011. The new version consists of following key changes:

Patch 3.2 notes

Playable Fellowship Campaign New Settlements - Cair Andros - Esgaroth - Erebor Improved Settlements - Minas Tirith (more place to deploy, better performance & textures, better AI attack/defense) - Hornburg (better AI attack/defense) - Moria (better camera movement) - Weathertop (better performance) New custom tiles - In front of the Hornburg - Pelennor Fields (In front of Minas Tirith) - Gates of Argonath Gameplay - Germanicu5's Battle AI 5.6 - Small Unit stat changes (morale, prices, bodyguards, others) - Population and financial changes - Campaign map balance changes - recruitment Changes (more logical replenish rates, some units can be build earlier, less penalties for recruitment in non-favored regions) - Osgiliath can be rebuild earlier - Tharbad split in North and South - Eriador owns the Shire from the start, loses the Weathertop - Amon Hen and Durin's Tower work as watchtowers - Sauron (and Balrog for the human player) finally have only one unit (thanks to moneybags14!) Other - New Menu (main background by cedric37) - New strat map models - New quotes (by Ngugi) - replaced english captains and generals with new models (based on units by Rusichi team) - Erebor in Custom battles/Cair Andros replaces Isengard in Custom battles Fixes - Possible crash reasons for isengard family fixed - unplayable battle maps fixed - fixed unreachable pirate spawn near Tharbad - Mayor of Dale trigger fix - Grey company ui fixed - fixed rhun general's helmet - Rammas Echor description fixed - Exheir trait removed - disabled tower construction on settlements without towers - more little stuff...

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All of these tasks required thorough knowledge of M2TW Coding. Therefore King Kong is a suitable contender in this category.

[Confederate Jeb]

Voted.

[paradamed]

Voted

[Flinn]

voted

[Hoplite of Ilis]

UGH-UGH-UGH!

[MIKE GOLF]

Voted - tough choices

[Macrath]

TheFirstOneil's work on Thera has produced the most refined TW mod available.

[Ishan]

• Winner: Ngugi
• 1st Runner Up: King Kong
• 2nd Runner Up: TheFirstONeil