The Mod Squad

[JerkyJerry]

What mods would you like to see?


Mine are

#1 Stop the day/night lighting changes on the map. I think it was Daniel playing as Japan when he went to the fastest speed and what we now see in the little box in the bottom right hand corner in HOI3 was on the entire map. I think I’m going to seizer if I have to view the map changing from day to night to day etc. I'm really hoping I don't have to see the day/night – light/dark/light/dark change on the map. For some countries I play I don't do much for years except put it on the fastest speed and let time go by. Maybe there is an on/off switch in the game? If not someone please make this mod A.S.A.P.

#2 I’m tired of the same countries with the same colors. I know it is a small thing but after a thousand hours of play I would once just once like to see a different color for the same country.

#3 Factory Slider. This is how I envision it. Before the game starts a window pops up asking me what factory bonus if any would I like to give. On the slide bar thingy I can choose from 0 to 100. If I chose a number higher than zero then a window pops with all the countries on the map and a box next to each one. The countries I put a check into will receive the %/number on the slider in factories. So if I chose 25% then all the countries I checked off will start the game with 25% more factories.

#4 Timer. I want to be able to pause the game at a specified day & time. Even better would be to have the ability to set multiple pause times (like waypoints).

#5 I want to be able to look at the build screen (or any screen) while viewing the map. Can a screen be minimized and have it float over the map so I can move it around where I want.

#6 I would love it if it were possible to have the ability for any country to build any tank, plane, ship etc. from any other country as well as their own.

#7 I want to be able to hire foreign fighters. Flying Tigers #1 on list.

#8 I want there to be a level of elite/commando soldiers that once reached is 100% guaranteed to steal/remove/knock-down/have start over, another country’s nuke program.

#9 Options. I’m going to be playing 4 more than 3 therefore any options at all will be nice. Different fonts, different colors of screens, backgrounds, font color, size, shape etc. etc. etc. Just any visual changes that I can make from time to time to change things up a bit.

#10 Mulligan button. I’m tired of having to exit out of the game completely then start the game up all over again after I commit yet another blunder. Just give me a mulligan and let me open up the saved game menu. Then I can start it up again a month or two earlier and try a different strategy!


Ok as many of you can tell I really don’t know what a modder can or can’t do or really what a mod’s capabilities are or aren’t. And yes I would fail any mod test. So if I hurt your eyes, sorry.
Feedback welcomed
Responses welcomed

 

[potski]

Yes, fail on:

#1 - there's an option to turn it off and on. It's always off on the fastest speed.

#5 - very few of the screens cover the whole map area. Diplomacy, trade, construction, production of equipment don't. Only the National Focus and Research screens cover the whole screen.

#10 - what's wrong with the menu button to take you the Load Game button?

 

[BrotherSurplice]

I imagine it won't be fixed before launch, so I'd like to see a mod to fix the bizarre British tank tree. And one that adds far more levels to the naval tech tree. The Nelson was far more than an upgraded Queen Elizabeth class damn it! And the Scharnhorsts were not a match for the King George Vs! RAAAAAAAAAAA-sorry, I'll calm down now.

 

[Axe99]

I'm going to be putting together a naval mod (tech tree, more units, other stuff as appropriate/possible), and helping out with supply modding as well. On the list above,

#2 - Should be very easy to mod - a basic setting I'd be guessing.

#3 - A mod to give a nation(s) 25% more factories at the start would be easy. A mod that dynamically changed settings files on game load not so much - might be possible, but probably easier to put together a set of events that grant extra factories (or not) and do it that way maybe?

#4 - Not sure about this - less likely to be possible, but you never know.

#5 - We can already, from the WWWs - the build UI only takes up about half the screen .

#6 - You could probably set up events that gave all nations all the variants made by other nations, or are you talking about enabling more than one model for the base unit (eg, Germany can built a 1941 German light tank, or a 1941 British light tank, or a 1941 Soviet light tank)? Second one much less likely. Not sure why I'd do either, tbh, but it's your game so you should mod what you want .

#7 - Unless there's a way to work this dynamically into civil wars or expeditionary forces, probably best handled by national focus or event. Getting it working generically in any situation probably possible but a fair bit of work.

#8 - Again, not something I'd do m'self, and potentially tricky to balance (what if both sides get top-level commandos?), but should be possible through NFs/events as long as we can use techs as triggers (can't imagine we wouldn't be able to), and event effects can include removing buildings and techs, although I can't imagine it would be popular in MP!

#9 - There'll probably be a limit to what you can do with the shapes, but I'd expect fonts, colours and the like to be easily moddable. There's a bunch of mods like this for EU4.

#10 - I'm pretty sure you can 'load game' within the game in EU4, so hopefully it'll be in HoI4. I wouldn't expect menu functions like that to be easily moddable, but could be wrong.

I imagine it won't be fixed before launch, so I'd like to see a mod to fix the bizarre British tank tree. And one that adds far more levels to the naval tech tree. The Nelson was far more than an upgraded Queen Elizabeth class damn it! And the Scharnhorsts were not a match for the King George Vs! RAAAAAAAAAAA-sorry, I'll calm down now.

Haha, don't worry, there's a few of us keen to sort this. I'll definitely be doing it, either by myself or with others, unless someone else does it for me first - but either way, it will happen .