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[Captain Spider]

Each time I return to play Baldur's Gate, I get frustrated with the amount of mods one has to test, research, and explore.  Often, the game becomes ridiculously difficult from the hop (Improved Battle's Illych), or so item driven, rather than character driven, that one wonders why anybody has to work when they could sell all those +5 swords of slaying lying around.  Some mods would keep fedex busy for a month; some let you have strange encounters with alien vegetable in strange places; some modify scripts, areas and items for the better, making the game a whole knew experience.


The sample poll above, perhaps, with a little attention from you more experience players, can begin an in spellhold evaluation system whereby the poll is pinned to each mod forum, there to be voted on by those who have actually played, loved, hated, and generally tested it.   Then others could get a quick idea of what testers have voted on, or have clarified in the posts below the poll, and decide for themselves more easily what's right for them - for their style of play.


Then less time, perhaps, would be spent trawling through old links to try and find the best mod to use.  And Oh!- So much less time spent installing, reinstallling, and slaying those nasty alien vegetables who like to take you to those oh - so very strange places.

I hope this makes sense.....




Captain Spider of the Gnome Dance.


(Note: to non spellhold mods, a special poll area might be used, with polls for each of those mods.)


PS.. this post might need to be put somewhere else... for other reader's attention?

[the bigg]

\me scratches his head
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uh? what does this have to do with Refinements?
If these were questions about the mod, I refrain from voting, since, as an author, I'm biased

(also, my and Ggib's project will be able to make player comments readily available without browsing the forums, but that'll take a bit of time before it's ready).

[SimDing0]

I am against player comments. It results in people recommending TDD. A better solution is for me to announce which mods are worth playing.

[Salk]

I don't understand what this poll has to do with Refinements actually but having some more precise indications about what a player can get from a Mod is always welcome.

Reviews of Mods would be great but only a website has done some once every few months. Too little.

A very well written Read Me is also a big plus in my opinion.

[Seifer]

I'd agree with the boys here, this isn't really relevant to the mod and has already been duplicated here: -

http://www.shsforums...topic=20254&hl=

Any further comments are probably best said there.