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[Thasic]

Are there any sites up yet that are featuring mods for download? I realize there will likely be no actual mods ready at this time, but are there any sites set up dedicated to mods? I'm thinking along the lines of Nexus for Oblivion and Fallout 3 or the Vault for Neverwinter Nights.

[Eggdudegok]

I am curious about this too, I found this site from another poster that has three mods on it, albeit they are very simple. One adds a whole new form however, which is cool, a dragon. Not sure how stable it actually is http://dragonage.gul...g/doku.php/mods

[Fester Pot]

The Social Site is where all the mods will go, under Projects, once folks start making and releasing them. This is the dedicated site.

[Arkenor Oakshadow]

But the social site's project section is a horrible mess. It's going to be terrible trying to find what you're looking for. It needs far more organisation. It's mostly filled with projects of folks saying all the awesome things they're going to do, 90% of which will never be heard from again. Folks aren't going to use the official site if there are obviously superior alternatives that allow you to find what you're after without wading through pages of other stuff.

If you want the Social Site to be the one everybody uses, make it superior to ones knocked up by amateurs. It won't stay the main source just by by virtue of being official, it has to work for that honour.

Modifié par Arkenor Oakshadow, 09 novembre 2009 - 09:49 .

[Havelock2009]

Compared to the the Sites for modding communities like IGN NWN or Fallout/Tes Nexus horrible mess seems not sufficient to me. Some more categories (released mods for example) and some working search functionality would be a good start. It's an intersting idea to offer this kind of dedicated site but i can't see how it could work with the current functionality. Without some very quick improvement the modding community will migrate to an external site soon i think.

[Sunjammer]

Instead of merely criticising the site why not suggest what, specifically, needs to be changed and/or how, specifically, you would like to see things improved. Jesse and his team have been very receptive to suggestions since the goal is to make this site support the community and its needs.

Telling BioWare "this site sucks" is no use to anyone. Telling BioWare what they need to do to fix it, say as a list of specific bullet points (no essays please) would be very useful.

Modifié par Sunjammer, 09 novembre 2009 - 10:45 .

[Arkenor Oakshadow]

Umm, we did say what specifically needs to be changed. I think we were actually fairly precise, in fact. Not being a website designer I'm not going to be writing design documents for them. The actual website designers should know what needs to be done to fix the issue that for end-users the organisation is very lacking to the point that it will be unusable once more projects appear.



Also, I don't have a horse in this race anyway. I'm not emotionally attached to any of them. I'll use whichever site is better. If folks want to get upset about that, I'm sorry.

[Adinos]

You mean something like this: http://social.biowar.../8/index/119467 ?

[Sunjammer]

Arkenor Oakshadow wrote...

Umm, we did say what specifically needs to be changed. I think we were actually fairly precise

Not by any stretch of the imagination: in your post the only thing close to a suggestion was "... needs far more organisation".  So what's wrong with the current organisation?  How would you like to see it organised?

Arkenor Oakshadow wrote...

The actual website designers should know what needs to be done to fix the issue that for end-users the organisation is very lacking to the point that it will be unusable once more projects appear.

Yes because in addition to being web designers they are also psychics.  They built this site based on their predictions of what the gaming and building communities would want/need.  If it isn't what you want/need then you have to tell them what's wrong and/or what's missing. 

Modifié par Sunjammer, 09 novembre 2009 - 11:13 .

[giskard44]

I can tell you for sure that my site will be hosting my own mods.

Heres a link
www.theengineeringguild.co.uk/

The Guild is a mod makers guild, we have a voice actors guild and a writers guild and all the sections needed to support dragon age are already there and waiting content. Currently I am still playing the game through, once I am done, that content will start appearing.

I intend to add any missing lore based locations (with side quests). Plus any random lore based locations like entrances to the deep roads and things for the player to explore. Basically I want to fill the map with locations you can visit and explore. Providing quests and lore based background quests.

The first news of my intentions will be posted in my blog on  the guild site today. Ive been ill all week so im running behind in my duties over there.

Before i go modding the game or writting tutorials, I will be playing the unmodded game through once as a player. I find it best to do this before i mod anything in a game. After that I'll be learning as i go, I modded nwn1 but not 2, so i have much to learn and will be writting it down as i go for tutorials etc.

Watch the link above if your interested.

Modifié par giskard44, 09 novembre 2009 - 11:25 .

[Kellen Wolf]

I site like this, one stop shopping one would do nicely. http://www.fallout3n.../categories.php

[georage]

Bioware will get it right, have faith.

The Zyyna team is just getting under way, but we will be hosting our mod and forums at zyyna.com. We are planning a Christmas release of version 1.0.

Modifié par georage, 09 novembre 2009 - 04:46 .

[georage]

Sorry, double post.

Modifié par georage, 09 novembre 2009 - 04:46 .

[NKato]

I agree, this site's social section is a mess. It is not very well organized.

It also doesn't help that the search function is not even turning up any results. It's broken.

Modifié par NKato, 09 novembre 2009 - 09:44 .

[thebuggiman]

kind of a shame, could be nice not to look on one site for mdds instead of 400, but i think they´ll fix it or i hope so

[Cambios]

I really think this sort of thing should have been left to the fan sites.



This forum software is absolutely HORRIBLE. It effectively has no search functionality, and it is a terrible mess.



I hope some fan sites manage to evolve and take the place of this abomination of a web site.

[Reiella]

Sunjammer wrote...

Arkenor Oakshadow wrote...

Umm, we did say what specifically needs to be changed. I think we were actually fairly precise

Not by any stretch of the imagination: in your post the only thing close to a suggestion was "... needs far more organisation".  So what's wrong with the current organisation?  How would you like to see it organised?

Arkenor Oakshadow wrote...

The actual website designers should know what needs to be done to fix the issue that for end-users the organisation is very lacking to the point that it will be unusable once more projects appear.

Yes because in addition to being web designers they are also psychics.  They built this site based on their predictions of what the gaming and building communities would want/need.  If it isn't what you want/need then you have to tell them what's wrong and/or what's missing. 

I think perhaps More organization is about all the suggestion that can be made.  I can't imagine using a single category to encapsulate all NWN mods, yet that's what we have.

As it is, we have 119 modules under DA Modules and another 79 under DA End User Modules.  Ya shouldn't have to use search to 'browse'.  And shouldn't have to rummage through a clearance rack   Although to be honest, it just looks like it was a generic DNN module intended for a smaller # of files.

On your last quip though, I'd expect web designers to look at the community websites that they are intending to replace in order to get an idea of what's needed to replace them.

[Thasic]

I agree with the general comments so far. The site needs far more organization. It needs a better search function. It needs much wider categories. The Fallout Nexus would be a good example. It also needs a way to rate mods, something simple like Nexus. On that site there is a function where one can say they endorse the mod. No ratings, no judgments, just a flat endorsement. There is also an area for every mods for comments and questions. I also agree that a site will end up being used more than others. It can be this one or a different one. Which will bw based on the sire design. All the others will whither.

[Cambios]

http://www.damods.com

This social site is absolute garbage.

Modifié par Cambios, 13 novembre 2009 - 08:09 .

[Scars Unseen]

Sunjammer wrote...

Instead of merely criticising the site why not suggest what, specifically, needs to be changed and/or how, specifically, you would like to see things improved. Jesse and his team have been very receptive to suggestions since the goal is to make this site support the community and its needs.

Telling BioWare "this site sucks" is no use to anyone. Telling BioWare what they need to do to fix it, say as a list of specific bullet points (no essays please) would be very useful.

My response?  I link you to www.tesnexus.com and say "pretty much this." 

Modifié par Scars Unseen, 13 novembre 2009 - 03:24 .

[Nagirdnul]

Cambios wrote...

http://www.damods.com

This social site is absolute garbage.

I haven't actually tried to download anything yet but nice site!  It's a good example of how a few simple, common sorting adjustments can make all the difference. I'm also one of those still scratching my head as to why there are not two seperate sections on the projects page for "completed" and "in-progress" projects.

[Arkenor Oakshadow]

Not sure I like the look of that damods site. Folks are uploading other peoples mods, but people are asking for support in the threads. The modders probably have no idea their mods are even there, so aren't going to be be answering.



Not to mention that if I haven't uploaded my mods myself, I have no idea if it's been messed about with, so I wouldn't provide support for a file I don't have control over.

[Toom316]

http://social.bioware.com/project/598/

Not exactly a Mod Site. But the plan is to have all the mods we can listed within it. All downloads within it will be hosted of our server(s) for fast dedicated downloads.

We have some big plans for the application and it will provide just about everything a Mod Website would provide (Built in forums for each mod, rating system, ect.)

While we don't have any plans to create a website side of it. But it's always a possibility in the future since a lot of the functions the tool uses are website based and is displayed within the tool.

If there is enough demand and such from the mod authors, we could create an authors version of the tool that they can use to upload there mods and track changes and such.

(We will also be contacting all mod authors for the files we host. Just to let them know and we will remove any mods from authors that do not want there mods hosted on our servers / shown within the tool.)

Modifié par Toom316, 13 novembre 2009 - 04:04 .

[Dark0ne-]

I have it on good authority a Dragon Age Nexus is currently in the works...

[Adinos]

The problem with sites like damods.com that take projects and make them available without even informing the authors is that they risk being eventually stuck with obsolete or buggy versions of the projects. Also, if people request any kind of support, the project authors may not even be aware of the requests.