For the love of Mod

[klammy]

I find the excuse not to have mod support because you "cant touch the code" is like a possessive girlfriend. I have yet to see a game dev not support and update there game because of mods. Modders understand they have to update their mods along with the game. Especialy when it is a new game or current. No modder thinks they can make a mod for a game thats new and never touch it again or I at least hope not. Better yet enable the workshop that way its all verified on steam. I wonder if they will come up with anymore excuses.

[Inardesco]

Uhm....

You can touch the code
You can go and alter the code
No one from Frontier will care if you do
Sharing your alterations publicly however, is where they step in.


Also, its not the modders that complain about updates. Its those people that use a mod and then throw dung at the devs for "breaking their mods".

[Inardesco]

Quoting an article that's from June isn't really helping your argument.

The file structure used by JWE is the same file structure as used by Planet Coaster. Frontier is giving full support and even answers inquiries into the file structure for people wanting to mod Planet Coaster.

There was a reddit post + videos from BeastinSlot showcasing how all the map boundaries have been removed. Obviously, for pc, that's not an issue. For consoles....Very much so. However, those posts and vids have been removed because it's not something either Frontier or Universal wants.

The general consensus is modding is allowed. Publicizing the mod isn't. They can't do anything about peer-to-peer distribution though. So go and mod all you want.

[Biervampir [AUT]]

There is a difference between a game which has mod support and a game where you can install mods.

It depands on the game engine and how the mods are supposted to be implimented. Are there tools or circles where you can interact with scripts or textures or other stuff. Sure you can modify every game to an certain extand or recreate half of the game to change stuff.
Dunno how much you are into creating mods for games or other programs (beside of minecraft and creation kit)

[Inardesco]

I've used mods for Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, using mods for Total War games and am making a mod for a Total War game. The mod I'm making myself is all very handy done with .txt files even though you still need to use a certain format or it won't work.

There are mods that came with an installer and there are mods that I used a 3rd party program for (Nexus Mod Manager) that did everything for me. Then there are mods that implore you to back up the original files before copying over the mod files.

People like to point out that Jurassic Park Operation Genesis had mods and thus, by default, Jurassic World Evolution must have mod support. They conveniently forget that the develops of JPOG didn't support mods for that game and that the first mods that were more than just .ini changes only started to arrive after the game was 2 years old.

When it comes to JWE all that'd need to be done would be to back up the original files, leave 'm on your desktop or anywhere you like and replace them in the game's folder with the modded files. That's all it's going to be. There was someone on the JWE steam forums back in June already having removed the boundaries from each island.

The moment you can open the files is the moment you can change the files. I've no intention of tinkering with the game myself because I start things and at 90% I get bored and do something else.

[Biervampir [AUT]]

My message was ment for Sir_klammy, but thanks for the deeper view.

I just wanted to show to him, that things might not as easy as he imagin it to be, in very short.
And I try to be civil about it and not to swear because that just shows incompetence, at least in my surroundings in my RL.

[Lora Craft69]

Closed because the OP clearly can not reply in a civil way, removed his toxic posts.