Empire: Total War

Originally posted by Batu I wonder about the system requirements,and if Turks would speak Arabian again.

I can't wait until ETW. It will be awesome. Musketmen, light cavalry, dragoons, and fusiliers. 

Empire Total War teaser trailer
http://uk.gamespot.com/video/942966/6193647/empire-total-war-official-trailer-2

I'm sorry, the lure of the TW series was the ancient warfare aspect, it gets zzzz if it's all pike and musket

Well for example you can get your artists to make promotional/advertising stuff for your mod - like highpoly models, concept art etc. In order to expand mod's popularity.
Or you can ask them to work on some in game models like swords, helmets, shields, bows etc. No skinning just plain modeling. And when the game comes you will have whole array of useful equipment to import for existing human figures.

Originally posted by Copperknickers Blue lotus!

One of the most beautiful units and animations were made for this mod. The creator was professional artist.

And Nap 2 doesn't even have a campaign iirc.

So what! They are multiplayer mod. To make Napoleonic warfare mod on Rome engine is huge task which requires highly skilled team, which the Lordz modding collective certainly were. Afaik they were offered to work on Empire Total War by CA, but declined and now they are game developing studio of their own and making their own game.

I dont really think it matters how long it will tkae to make, EB2 will take a couple of thousand years to reach 1.0 yet you are sl*gging other mods for that reason.

True, but what makes EB2 different from other mods is their proven background of  major released mod in the past.

Originally posted by Copperknickers What on earth makes you think i don't have any usable skills? I can't very well mod a game that isn't out yet, so i don't have any modding responsibilities right now, but i am quite capable of getting all the work i need done when the game's files are released.

Well and what kind of skills you have?
And if you have then why didn't you list them on your mod proposal post, for some people it might be turn off if they read that only thing that mod leader does is -
"quoting from your post
Team:

Me- Project coordinator and researcher"

Of course there are more for RTW now, its been out for about 4 years now, and we only in the past month or two are in a state of being able to mod Kingdoms.

Many of them were released in the first two years before m2tw came out.

As for Med2 mods that are unreleased:   Broken crescent, which is coming along quite nicely considering it's still BETA and one of its leaders left.

Broken Crescent released long time ago, no longer a beta. They are past 1.0 version iirc.

Originally posted by Copperknickers   1. Thats not entirely fair, they gave us the unpacker with kingdoms and a couple of other things. I do have a quote on this subject, from the very same person i was talking about:

Unpacker hardly counts since you can edit only text files just like in RTW when you unpack the files, but modders had to crack the code just to be able to skin, to model, to animate, and to edit some files.

"Whilst it may have taken more work to modify MIITW, there was more opened up to modders in terms of modding AI, diplomacy, settlement and campaign mechanics etc. Unfortunately as games become more complex, making major mods will become harder as well. We're opening up quite a lot of the game to modders for Empire. As for tools, I do not kow what we might be doing in regards to that.

Well no tools are confirmed, thats the point.

2. There are huge amounts of brilliant mods for M2, its just most are for kingdoms and are not released yet. Not to mention EB2, which if it lives up to its predecessor will be the best ever mod for total war. There are a lot of modders out there, they are coming in just as quickly as they are going out, and there is a lot more to come in terms of Med2 mods.

There are lot more high quality mods for RTW than for M2TW. I don't know where you see huge amounts of brilliant mods for Kingdoms. For me there are only two worth mentioning (from unreleased)- (EB2, Peninsula Italica) - the rest will hardly release anything, that would be miracle.
And no, there aren't many modders at all, just that someone edited some text file and called himself a modder doesn't mean that he actually is one. I see you joined TWC in this year's march so how can you can't really compare the modding activity changes.

3.Jack Lusted is regarded almost as a god in TWcenter, with credits such as Lands to conquer and Terrae expugnatae featuring entirely new AI scripts utilised in a lot of major mods as well as his own. As for his job, you have to start somewhere, and hes still young. :)

God at twcenter, oh please! Don't look at his post count and that little image next to his username - thats just extended RPG they are playing there on TWC. I wish him all the best in his work at CA, but his mods aren't the top ones both for RTW and for M2TW

Originally posted by Copperknickers I don't know about that, CA have said they will be releasing a lot of files and programs to help us.

If I recall correctly they said something similar before M2TW, but we know how it turned out. The thing is that CA's track record of releasing tools for modders so far is zero (save for cas converter which was released for M2TW, but why not for RTW?). Do you have a link to the quote where CA says that they will release tools?

They know the Modding community is big,

The modding community for MTW2 is smaller than it was for RTW. Many RTW modders left TW modding, because they were fed up with non existing support. Just compare the scope and quality of released mods for RTW and MTW2 - the difference is noticeable.

and indeed they recently hired a new employee based  a lot on the fact that he is a prominent modder, so they do care about mods.

I think I know which one you mean, but I wouldn't call him "prominent modder", anyway he works as a tester for CA not developer afaik. So thats hardly a proof that they care about mods.

Originally posted by Copperknickers I see a lot of u are concerned about historical innacuracies. There are couple of mods in development that are aiming to fix them. A lot of them could use some help. Here they are:

To be honest, since the CA has risen the required skill level to mod ETW (mostly graphics, etc), I doubt that any of those mods have a chance (especially those who will try to convert to modern war, ww2 or ww1).