Yeah I'm not blind to the fact I put most of my modding time and effort into RICE over VIET these days lol. I decided the North African attire DLC was a good excuse to add in some more events. I keep telling myself I should do smaller VIET updates so I can add in more events more regularly, but we'll see if I can keep up with that, it is nice to work on VIET in between RICE sometimes since it's smaller and generally simpler.
GPT-4 and Claude 3.0 are plenty powerful. But these models are highly dependent on good input for good output.
I don't have time or energy to work on trying to create something custom when I'd have to spend a lot of time revising whatever text it spews out at the end of the day, or wasting all that time fine-tuning the prompts so much to create something I want, when I could just quickly write a bunch of events myself in the same amount of time or less, and find much more pleasure in that. If other people want to do that, that's their perogative, nor do I think these tools don't have other uses that might be legitimate (that a lot of the hype often downplays). But right now, I have am not a fan of that approach the slightest for myself personally - call me an old-fashioned writer if one must - and it won't improve my own personal productivity nor enjoyment by any relevant margin.
