I fiddled around with the Omkar mod and its good but it has also got too big, I dont like all the features but just some of those. One of those is the monk civilization reskin, which is not a real re-skin but a skin reassignment (e.g. using imam hero skin for islamic monks, etc.). something light like this would make the whole experience feel a notch more real, I have zero experience in mod making otherwise id give it a go
The thing is that in order to do that, you need to do a data mod (to change certain units to certain civs) and consequently, it could not be used for playing ranked (only could be use if every other player is using it)
When I got DE, I WAS SO HYPE for the MODS MARKET and only for FINALLY GETTING NON-EUROPEAN UNIT SKINS!!! But I was so sad when I learnt of the only mods I care about being locked behind non data mod, which it was never before!!!
Yes, cmon devs, do this already! Just make the original data set into an independent unit dataset! I also made a thread asking for this, didn’t get much response, maybe if enough people make some noise about it they will change this?
there needs to be editing on hard coded stuff like monk with and without relic. you could have imam skinned monk pick up relic reverts back to western/meso monks because relic with monk for imam skin isn’t coded.
as soon as you pick up relic the skins are messed up, this applies to all other monk skins. maybe this can be a work around with task swap group but I havent tested yet but i doubt it.
also with non-data mod, they’d have to somehow prevent people from using same file name with graphics to avoid conflict i just dont see how that will work. UI non-data already creates conflict at times and this will just have more problem.
Of course they can do it without data-modding, like I was saying from months ago.
Which is why we must campaign to them to allow us to have optional (NON-DATA mod) REGION SPECIFIC GENERIC UNIT GRAPHICS
like I have said multiple times
Especially since for many generic unit-lines (6-7 of the major ones) we already have regional graphics in the game as I also showed
Yea the mongol houses are actually great and a step in the right direction. Its actually the only one of the unlockable contents I cared about. I wish they include more stuff like this down the line.
I was also disappointed about this, why bother going through the effort of making the graphics for those yurts if you are not going to include them permanently in the game?