Natural Diversity

[Necora]

49 minutes ago, Bartender said:




I personally don't see any adequate solution to make the chains work together in an acceptable way.

The mod kit is very limited by the fact that you can only control the output of production through the resource, not the building. This means it is very difficult to blend two mods with different production styles as you said, because balancing is all but impossible with this method. It is also very easy to break another chain, like I did with <abbr title="Colonial Charter">CC</abbr> charcoal [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/cool.png[/img]/emoticons/cool@2x.png 2x" title="B|" width="20" /> .




At the end of the day, my advise would be to stay true to your course and make your mod the way you want it to be. Modding is after all a personal thing and we all have our own ideas of what we want the game to be. If when all is said and done it fits well with another mod, by all means make the link, if not well, as long as it doesn't break any other chains, then it isn't a problem. Duplicate resources can easily be managed by being careful when naming things. There is always the option of making a cross over version of the mods, like Kidd made a Forest Outpost Nat Div edition. I was thinking of making some 'RedNec' mods (I trade mark the name because I think it is cool [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/wink.png[/img]/emoticons/wink@2x.png 2x" title=";)" width="20" /> ), versions of mine that fit perfectly with some of <a contenteditable="false" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/3183-ketchup/&do=hovercard" data-mentionid="3183" href="<___base_url___>/index.php?/profile/3183-ketchup/">@Ketchup</a> mods where the two could. An example would be a RedNec Crystal Cliffs that is a re-designed crystal cliffs chains using Red's fodder... I can't do it as is now because the chains are built differently, but it would work as a different version.




Some Natural Martimes Diversity versions of my mods might be in order in the future, we'll see what you come up with!