Someone said X-com total conversion mod? 

Nope. Someone said MoM total conversion mod.

I posted a PM to "Raledon" that proposed a master of magic MOD. He said that he is actually fusionning ideas with you "UltimateElemental". Meanwhile I'll write a document with my ideas in it to be ready to submit them when asked.

Thanks for the help, looking forward to your ideas.

Post any of your ideas to this forum:

http://www.ultimateelemental.com/forums/13-master-of-magic-mod.html

I sincerely hope your efforts meet with success.

Thanks KalGerek!

I am currently writting my rule draft document. I imagine the website above will be desicated to the mom Mod?

When my document is ready, I'll post the original PM message to place people in context and I will post the rule draft. It will be a very long post.

Thank You

With stubborn determination like that it's not surprising that you made a career somewhere. =P

That was offtopic but thanks for the work and marriage story, that was great!

I'm glad you guys like the story . 

Ok, I finished and posted my document. You can find it on your forum's thread here.

http://www.ultimateelemental.com/forums/13-master-of-magic-mod/16-offer-to-join-the-team-and-my-game-design-ideas.html#16

Thank You

Raledon,

Can you take a look at that document?

Thanks.

Raledon,

Have you had a chance to work on the mod lately?

Can you post your abilities spreadsheet on the MoM forums?

Thanks.

Probably not a critical item but if you're going for the MoM look...

https://forums.elementalgame.com/398250

So it makes the cloth map more colourful? Could be interesting.

Still, I was thinking to use full color tiles like if it was the original game. It would be interesting on the cloth map.

But it's true that when the map is not too colourful, it makes it easier to identify the objects on the map from the background. To the objects would really need to stand out.

It is a good start to a map, if anyone else has any ideas that can help us please let us know. We are still recruiting - would love to see artists and modellers/texturers come on board to help re-create the MoM experience!

speaking of which they are 2k is reimaing x-com into a frist person shooter.

http://www.xcom.com/xcom.html

speaking of which they are 2k is reimaing x-com into a frist person shooter.

 

http://www.xcom.com/xcom.html

Yeah, I was shocked when I saw the preview. Turning a strategy game into a FPS is like the worst blasphemy you can do.

The ultimateelemental.com site has been updated. Private messages and a wiki has been added for the Master of Magic mod.

There are also some great discussions going on there in the forums, if you want to get involved with the project please stop by.

I fixed it.

BTW, we are still looking for volunteers, stop by the forums in the first post and see if you can help us out.

Maybe it's the time difference, but I'm finding communication on the MOD forums to be a little slow. Or it could also be that there's not much going on at the moment.

Still, if Larienna is successful in his endeavour to get the new wiki and VPN up, I think it might help.

Things are a bit slow while 1.1 is being released, Elemental is no where near enough ready to be modded yet as there is much to be improved.

But I have released a few mini-mods, the most recent being an artifact one to make notable locations more interesting. Check them out while you are waiting.

Larienna is also doing the design document right now, it is a major undertaking and takes a long time. So 'visible' work won't move forward much until it is close to being finished.

Please keep dropping by the forums and responding with your feedback and ideas, it helps us a lot.

LOL Jshores - epic. Thanks for sharing.

Since some people might be curious of what we intend to do, I decided to post a link on my design document that covers civilization management. Take note that things can change during the development considering that we do not know all the limitations of Elemental's engine. But in general, that will be the direction we are taking. Here is the file

http://lariennalibrary.com/extern/momemod/Rules_Mommod_Civilization_10.pdf

As you can see, some stuff in the document are still undefined yet (like the races). And there are also some meditations about some concepts of the game. Some of these meditations has been moved at the end of the document when a decision has been taken.

In the weeks to come, we should start modifying the game. Since the map generator only works from the map editor, what I will try,in the weeks to come, to hack the XML so that the map generator generate the map like I want it. For example, I do not want any environments and I do not want cliffs and beaches.

Don't expect to have a running mod version anytime soon. If everything works well, probably the first few release would be supplied as a series of files that will overwrite elemental's game file. Which will make the original Elemental game unplayable. So you would need to have 2 copies of elemental if you want to play the original game. When the mod gets more consistent, I'll try to identify the essential files for making the game run and ask users to only duplicate these files. This way, the second installation will be much smaller.

Enjoy!

Nice work.

We'll have someone coming in in January who will be heavily involved in helping make sure the modding features in Elemental grow in the way they should.