Distant Worlds has been one of my favorite game since I started playing in 2011. Back in 2016, I had a mod with 30 additional races (there was a limit of 50 shipsets).
In 2023, I started working on an updated version of my mod for Distant Worlds 2. I learned how to use blender and stride. Kevin and Q from Discord were a big help ! I'm finishing 10 shipsets with different models (40 with different textures).
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In the latest roadmap, we can read :
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I would like to use code modding for 2 main changes :
- remove the hardcoded limit on the number of empire at game creation. At launch, there was not a limit. I understand that it may have caused a problem for some players, but I was able to run the game with 50 empires. At the moment, I can bypass the limit by using game event to spawn empires at the beginning of a game, but it would be much more elegant to remove the limit altogether
- racial biases are in the race file of each race. When I add a race, I have to modify each other race file to include my race in their racial bias modifier. That brings the problem that I have to update my files each time another race is updated for balancing purpose. It would be much better to append lines to the existing race files rather than modify
- could someone point me in the direction I should take to modify the code of DW2 please. I'm willing to learn. And I guess that my first change (remove limit) could easily be done by changing a "20" with a "1000". It would be a great help if someone could give me some pointers
- It would be good for the community if someone from the team would help people with their mod (1 hour per week).