No modding confirmation in shacknews article - sept09

Meh. Outside of Warcraft III and Dawn of War, what was the last RTS with a really active mod community?

Yeah, i dont see a problem with modding. Just state that the game is a modded game + no matchmaking, like you said already. I can live without it, but modders can help a community to be stable imo.

@ Telefrog,  just because only WC3 and DoW got modders, this doesnt mean that Demigod will have none. If the game is great, and the folks like it, they will surely start to mod the stuff sooner or later. Btw, this is not a RTS like DoW or Wc3

Dota+Demigod are more a new gerne.. which has no name yet

So long, Aspartem

Supcom had a sizable mod community did it not?..

Dunno, i play/played SC only in Lan / Lanpartys with friends

That is some retarded shit since there is definetley a map editor.

I think its just frogboy failing here, his reasoning is okay to the point that you obviously shouldn't be able to mod ranked games or those in that persistent universe, but the conclusion to allow mods for singleplayer only is flawed as it doesn't take the existence of custom games into account.

I believe this statement makes clear that they, unlike SupCom, won't allow UI modding in Demigod for ranked games and I think thats good.

And yes there is an editor already, to really make maps we need exporters for Blender or if you own a commercial 3D-package to the format it can read though, but given the abilities of our fellow modders I doubt it will take more than a few weeks til we have that.

Even if they won't give us a "activate mod" option for custom games (which would be very silly and what I strongly doubt), we could still make mapbased mods (scripts tied to a specific map like in starcraft/warcraft)

Oh you definitely shouldn't be able to play mods in ranked game, for the very reason he gave.

But there should exsist such a thing as custom matches just like supcom had.

I would also be disapointed in no peer2peer file transfer, or transfering mods automatically via. impulse when yuo join a custom match.

I think it pure folly to ignore modding by the community for unranked multiplayer games.  I'm almost certain one of the first things that the DotA community is (or was?) going to try is adding their favourite heroes to Demigod.  Denying the ability to try would surely alienate the community who is drawn only by the fact that "Demigod is based on Defense of the Ancients" and not "Demigod is a new competative RTS game based on the popular Aeon of Strife style map Defense of the Ancients."

And really, that is the genre, if it were to have a name:  Aeon of Strife, the Starcraft map, kicked off this craze in Warcraft 3 with its many spinoffs, culminated in DotA.

Starcraft can burn in hell, such a horrid game, I hated it... WC series I liked, Starcraft got old, quik.

Of course you aren't going to have mods in ranked competitive play, that would be silly, unless everyone agrees to use the same mod, and then it might be very cool and would be the sort of optional additional fun I hope they reconsider.

I'm hoping they allow customizability of the user interface though.  I've grown used to that sort of thing.

SC2 is going to have great mod support i've heard.

They've even adding WC3 type hero code to it which won't be used in the game, it's just for modders.

It's SC2 gonna have hardcore drm....

My statement in the context of the interview had to do with competitive play.

The only area we're going to actively block modding is in the area of ranked games.

Everything else people can go nuts. But we're not supporting it, certainly not for release anyway. All our time is spent focusing on getting the game done. After release, we can take a breath and see where we are.

Very reasonable from frogboy tbh. They want this game to be competitive, that is their priority and what the game is designed for, so I see no problem in them not officially supporting mods.

Really like this theme of competitveness keep it up

Yeah so as long as later down the road we don't get "we can't change _____ for mod support because of how we coded _____" down the line

Words, that lack clear meanings: support.

Please define what you mean by support, It could be as simple as mods are fully functional, just with no formal documentation or help from the developers, or mod distribution system etc.

Thats what I'm hoping anyway.  TBH this is the most crucial issue I am concerned with at the moment.

Like in sins how you can't have different damage and armor types, something that's making me weep blood trying to mod sins. (I think that with about 12 armor types, we could do it easily, problem is we have about six.) It's annoying as hell and dealing with it is driving me nuts.

Yeah.. sins is a good example.

Sins is very easy to mod, and it's even easier to hit a brick wall in functionality.

But it seems with what people are doing with Demigod that it's already better for modding.  But the big issue is the ability to easily transfer mods online and play. :/

I dunno, I think for ranked games, ladder games and such, they should keep it mod free.  But for unranked games or free for alls and such, they should allow mods.  Like SupCom and FA.  If a mod is unbalanced, in your opinion, don't use it and don't join games with it listed.