Sometimes I feel like modders don't get enough credit. This is because if you post an aircraft, it gets 6 upvotes, you get 90 points. If you post a mod, it gets 45 upvotes, you get 90 points. In my opinion, this is hardly fair. It would perhaps encourage modders and help users find mods if we set up a new, nicely laid out mods section. We could upload screenshots, have official-looking download buttons use upload new versions and have users notified, and get a bit more reward. This would be a nice addition to the site, and it would help the myriad of users you get saying mods? where? and there being all sorts of ambiguity about it. Also, I would propose all existing mod forum posts to be moved to this section. This may seem a bit like steam workshop but that is
- not linked in to the site and points system
- not available for Android users
@NathanMikeska same problematic as other game modding. With KSP you have to expect in the year 1 to 2 times that you have to adapt his mods the new unity versions, without guarantee that this will really run. The reasons for mistakes are different, you just have to be patient enough in a lot of time when doing game-modding.
@Mod There are several mods that have very similar issues. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the issues until we had already committed on moving forward with the Unity upgrade. Really, really sorry about that... I think your mod appeals to a lot of players though, it would be a nice one to have working when we come out of beta. If you still have the original Unity project, I'd think it probably shouldn't be anything more than downloading the 5.3.4 version of Unity and rebuilding the existing mod. If a rebuild doesn't fix the issue though, let me know, as that would be a much more serious problem than I currently realize.
@Tully2001 well, the link would need to be in the comments and it would get buried.... and it seems a bit strange posting a mod in the aircraft section
@NathanMikeska well, I better just get on with my current project :D I will never rest
I can't really disagree with anything you are saying... you are absolutely right. The team has talked about doing something like this before, but there is always tons of stuff to be done and not enough time to do it in. We love our modders and would love to see the modding community thrive, but there hasn't been a whole lot of action there overall... so it can be hard to justify spending a decent chunk of time implementing something like this when we could be doing things that would benefit a much larger audience.
I suppose you could make the chicken & egg argument here though... how is the modding community going to grow without proper exposure... One thing we would like to see is the Steam Workshop really take off. Technically it is still in beta. We've been talking about possibly taking it out of beta soon and trying to get the modding community on Steam going. We've been a little hesitant to bust it out of beta due to only having a handful of mods on there, some of which we seem to have broke with the latest update (very very unfortunate...).
If we see modding really starting to take off and breathe new life into the game, it would start to make more sense to invest more of our time in to mod related stuff. The site changes you suggested could potentially happen... but there are no plans to do so right now.
Well, across the globe I guess@jpower
@flyingdj I'm making a news thing too because by the time your out of bed I'm almost asleep :)
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this must be implemented. it simply has to be. i cant stress this enough. petitions dont do anything. we need this here!
Yeah, because I only have found four of the ones that are out there.
@flyingdj I SUMMON THEEE!!!!! now make this part of simple news plz
SUMMON THE FIRE
@jpower :D
this is not a bad idea @HellFireKoder I SUMMON YOU
@iFalco yeah...
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