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cmcastl Jan 17 @ 11:31am
Where is the Stark Trek MOD for Distant Worlds 2?
Where is the Star Trek mod? That is what I bought this game for? (After the original mod for Distant Worlds.) Until it has one, you won't live long and prosper.
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Bethencourt Jan 17 @ 12:33pm 
Instead we will make Cardassia great again.
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ZumZoom Jan 17 @ 12:38pm 
Originally posted by Bethencourt:
Instead we will make Cardassia great again.
:LLAP:
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SgtScum Jan 17 @ 1:48pm 
Game isn't mod friendly enough for say a trek team from sins of a solar empire to port their stuff over here. Afaik a dev pass for modding is going to be one of the last things they do since its a tiny team and all their time is spent making the game itself.

Maybe sometime end of next year the game gets a modding pass. I really think that the devs should reach out to those modding teams when they are ready and enlist them to help with what the modders would want to be able to freely edit. Making the game mod ready does take input from modders after all.

But what would really allow the mod scene to take off are tools to edit the game. Things like a ship editor so you can plug your compatible fancy new mesh and textures into it then assign the different ports for weapons and such and allow for easy editing of the ship stats themselves. Atm its a nightmare of multi level xml files just to edit a few basic stats and its not all that easy to figure out what does what. While I understand this allows for infinitely greater flexibility its orders of magnitude more complicated than the simple one file edits of ships and races etc in DWU.
Last edited by SgtScum; Jan 17 @ 1:53pm
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AngleWyrm Jan 19 @ 5:00am 
XML was a bad idea, a language designed for document presentation not data storage. JSON files are way better for the task, and much easier to read
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SgtScum Jan 19 @ 12:47pm 
I think they use a mix of json and xml but thats not really the issue. We lack the tools needed to easily mod the game.
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Demiurge Jan 26 @ 5:18pm 
If you want a star trek 4x go play stellaris, it has some of the best trek mods I've ever seen
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Space_elmo Jan 27 @ 9:35am 
The ST mod for DW1 was amazing. Would love one for DW2. The stellaris ST mod is polished but that feels like a very different game.
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Kruenpiper Jan 29 @ 6:27pm 
Why don't you make one?
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