Now then, I've received both an extensive application and some very in-depth recommendations, so as not to bore you I shan't ramble on forever about how worthy PeaMan is of the Artifex badge, but a little bit doesn't hurt. I first started talking to him in the Hotseating section of the site, where came in late and I played as his ally in TIOC2. Though that didn't last very long, as soon after a certain other Norwegian wiped the floor of both of us. (Him first though). Anyways, from there he proved himself to be both an enthusiastic forum member and a good teammate. His main contribution and work is his Fire and Blood mod, which I hadn't heard of before admining in a hotseat he launched based on his mod, and it all escalated from there. (He also has a currently running one. I was impressed at seeing what he'd done, and thought I'd check his work out further. After a while of following his work, where he has gone from knowing nothing to becoming quite the competent modder during his time on TWC, watching his interactions with his fellow forum members and the conversations amongst ourselves, I've come to have a thoroughly pleasant opinion of the guy. I am off the full belief that this guy (or should I say pea?) deserves the artifex badge.
"I have known PeaMan since he has joined TWC hotseating in the end of 2017, and he has been a reliable and active member of our community ever since. I had guided him through several of his first newblood hotseats, and later I was also giving him a lot of advice when he started modding. Afterwards, I sort of had not heard that much from him regarding modding, but about a half year ago I found out that in the meantime he had managed to become one of the most active modders out there. He has also just had a success with his ambitious FaB and he actively continues developing it. He has also been doing a tremendous amount of work for TATW Reforged and also some other minor mods. And if that wasnt enough, he has been working on some huge top secret feature for my TES UP mod. He is not afraid of getting his hands dirty with heavy modding, and he really spends insane amount of time on it. I have no doubts he deserves the badge.
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Athelstan, he was mine. I hate you."
And Mr. Nygren, whom is the reason for me not wanting to write too much on my bit, as to make this application too long;
Originally Posted by Mr. Nygren
I do think Peaman is a nice fellow, he has done an impressive amount of work on Fire & Blood in which he has ported over all the GoT Enhanced units, worked on more than five campaigns simultaneously, learnt how to create strat-models out of the battle-models that VltimaRatio created (including the new ones from the summer of 2019,) and he has edited a lot of old models and made minor house variations, he has expanded the Westeros 1.0 map to include all of Essos, he has added more factions to Essos, he has worked on the gameplay, moved over the custom settlements and he has made a vast number of strat-model minor house variations. I'd say he's done even more to his Fire and Blood mod - which is a mod based on Badger'Dudes old mod - but using stuff from Westeros 1.0 and GoT Enhanced as well. He even made new skins for the Warhammer: BotET: Alt-Cut Dragons. I do think he is very ambitious and has the drive and passion for Game of Thrones that is required to make a very vast and amazing mod. There are many mods set in this world - but Peaman's mod is the first to combine the map of Westeros 1.0 with the awesome models of GoT Enhanced - and then add to that many campaigns from the old Fire and Blood mod by BadgerDude. Then on-top of that he is making new content by editing the old content.
Based on this work alone I think he has proven himself a promising modder. But what I didn't like with his modding is that he is releasing multiple versions during the year. So the mod is far from stable, polished or finished just yet. If i were him I would have waited with the release until every bug had been polished, or at least until every gamebreaking bug had been fixed - I've heard that in some of the campaigns you can't play as certain factions without a crash. I don't know if it's too early for him to become a citizen? I had released a lot of stuff when i became one. A lot of more polished stuff. But then again some modders get citizenship without modding - because they are helpful tot he community. So maybe that talks in his favour.
He did also be kind enough to port the campaign map by SoulGamesInc to game of Thrones: Enhanced - which has enabled me to continue work on GoT Enhanced where I am now adding content to the vast new map. Peaman's willingness to help certainly talks in favour of him becoming citizen. My final judgment is that he deserves citizenship for his modding work and willingness to help others.
A very thorough and insightful discussion back and forth above ^, but with an important conclusion
Anyways, if all of this hasn't been enough to convince you then this surely will be . Anyhoo, thanks for your time and I look forward to seeing this fine pea-man mutant join the citizenry.
The only reason to oppose that come at my mind is that I want to patronize him myself
Anyways, if I may expand on some contributions a bit, for example adding the Essos map to WTW 1.0 Westeros map shows how insanely hard working he truly is. I dont know much about mapping, but from what I gathered that was more difficult than if he just created a new map, as he had to expand the "old" map somehow, and in addition to that manually paint every messed up pixel. And there were many of those ...
And in my TES team he has already spent like 30+ hours without hesitation on something that might need 30+ more hours...
So of course yes, support. Perhaps I later convince him to leave his unrightful father and join his true father in my house
I resent the fact you made me read things and I resent the fact that you're making me memorize the name of another nephew yet I have to support based on the strength of the application. Now come smear laminine oil on my back
Neither is this the dawn from the east, nor is a dragon flying above, nor are the gables of this hall aflame. Nay, mortal enemies approach in ready armour. Ravens are calling, wolves are howling, spear clashes and shield answers