Community Expansion Pack
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It's not easy to play the original Baldur's Gate with a lot of mods. Not only do you have to spend time tracking down quality mods, you have to do a lot of research to find out if the mods are compatible with one another and what order they need to be installed in. This can take hours or even days. Then you need to install all the mods separately, following different sets of directions for each one. Then you have to pray that you haven't broken the game (and if you have broken the game, you might not know about it until you've been playing for hours) and if you have broken the game, you need to do more research to find out what went wrong.
I've been thinking about how Neverwinter Nights had the Player Resource Consortium and Community Expansion Pack. These were both "expansions" that were developed by the NWN modding community and added tons of new content to the game. If I remember correctly, they both received official acknowledgement from Bioware and may have even had some contributions from people who worked on commercial NWN releases.
Personally, I'd love to see something like this for BGEE. It would be awesome if players could simply download a single installation file, choose from a number of stable, high quality mods, and install the ones they wanted without any hassle or worries that they're breaking the game.
An expansion like this could include high quality fan-made portraits and voice sets, new quests, optional convenience tweaks and rule changes, and whatever else the modding community manages to come up with. It would also be a semi-official way for BGEE to include some requested features that Overhaul could not include due to contractual limitations like content restorations, banters for old party members, etc.
Something like this could potentially be handled completely by members of the modding community, but I put this topic in the Feature Requests forum because I think it would be preferable if this was an official or semi-official release that had at least some oversight/input from Overhaul to help ensure that the quality was very high. Maybe there could even be some type of contest to give the modding community even more incentive to develop new content for BGEE.
I've been thinking about how Neverwinter Nights had the Player Resource Consortium and Community Expansion Pack. These were both "expansions" that were developed by the NWN modding community and added tons of new content to the game. If I remember correctly, they both received official acknowledgement from Bioware and may have even had some contributions from people who worked on commercial NWN releases.
Personally, I'd love to see something like this for BGEE. It would be awesome if players could simply download a single installation file, choose from a number of stable, high quality mods, and install the ones they wanted without any hassle or worries that they're breaking the game.
An expansion like this could include high quality fan-made portraits and voice sets, new quests, optional convenience tweaks and rule changes, and whatever else the modding community manages to come up with. It would also be a semi-official way for BGEE to include some requested features that Overhaul could not include due to contractual limitations like content restorations, banters for old party members, etc.
Something like this could potentially be handled completely by members of the modding community, but I put this topic in the Feature Requests forum because I think it would be preferable if this was an official or semi-official release that had at least some oversight/input from Overhaul to help ensure that the quality was very high. Maybe there could even be some type of contest to give the modding community even more incentive to develop new content for BGEE.
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I'd be in favor of this being a part of the game's software, although if the community could create something similar I'd be all for that as well.
I am loving the idea of either a semi-official expansions made of mods or at least an easy way to add and remove mods like how Fallout 3 or Civilization 5 does.
Baldur's Gate has become one of those games I simply cannot play without mods and is a pain in the arse to get all the mods downloaded and correctly integrated into it. Since the team is fixing all the known bugs and externalizing many hardcoded features it's only going to get easier to mod the game as well as spark new interest in the franchise and maybe even a bigger modding community from on then.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for these features though I'm sure they're going to require a bit of negotiating with both modders and the legal owners of BG.
http://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/downloads.php?id=2
- It kills all incompatibilities and installs mods automatically in the right order.
- It offers you preselections of high-quality-mods so you don't have to plod through all the 400+ mods.
- you can easily add mods for your individual selection
Atm it works only with Baldur's Gate Trilogy, but i suppose there will be a version for BGEE too soon.
Jarl