so how’s this coming along?
I always wanted to ‘try it’ but, the main roadblock stopping me is… well, something I am picky about. I want a completely (or almost completely) empty data mod. I have got pretty close but, every time I try to test it, the game crashes. (mainly from missing the required data. I would rather ‘start from scratch’ than have to deal with all that included data.) I know it’s probably not ideal to mod that way but, that is just my personal preference.
Yes, I know I can just “blank” the old data out but, the problem with that is, the updating the data… It breaks everything when there is a game update and I don’t want to have to deal with that stuff. I want to start at ID 0/1 and go from there. If only FE would implement a custom modifiable data mod… But, I don’t think they will ever anytime soon. If ever.
If they do though, I have had so many ideas… One being including the game “Battle for Wesnoth” into AoE2DE. It would fit so well. (Even though it’s more fantasy based.) I also wanted to work on my custom data mod with custom objects/graphics. (I put a lot of work into this but, it kept breaking every update so, I gave up on it.)
But until they do, I would not waste my time doing it that way. The classic way of modding is much easier to modify existing things and going from there. It’s just not for me.