Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26094198-20170102150005/@comment-26088681-20170102202520

Mevans, you once said you had decided to focus of improving every single faction, choosing depth over width.

The community approved this decision. Still today, if you were to ask to the community, on the Facebook page, if they preferred you to improve factions rather than adding new ones, I guess their choice would not have changed.

I follow you since beta 8. Since beta 17, I have played as a high elf and never changed. However, when each update came out, adding content to other factions, I enjoyed it so far. What I love in this mod, and I hope most players will agree with me, is to know that the world is "full", and not empty. I am not sure if you get what I mean. I can spend hours exploring the biomes, just to can find how "full' the world is, and how specific each biomes are, trying to imagine how new players would feel when exploring the world, and what they would think of the mod after several hours of gameplay.

Is it too boring? Are factions, biomes and terrain generation too "generic" in the end? I fear that the answer is "yes". At the beginning, you are utterly amazed by the new terrain generation and the new features. But finally, you get used to it, and then, you can get bored. Beware! I said "can", for many players, such as the community on the Facebook page or on the forum, still enjoy the mod after all this time.

However this is probably where the mod might lose some players. When they realize that the biomes, factions, and villages, are, in a way, all similar. The fans on the Facebook page, on the forum or on the server might want you to add new factions.

But new players or players that just play the mod without giving it too much attention, and I guess they are a majority, might get bored and stop playing it. If you aren't a big fan of the lore, you might want to stop playing it after few times. For instance, many popular YouTubers who did let's play on this mod stopped their playthough without finishing it.

However, the work you have done so far is huge, and no matter what you will do, there will hopefully still be plenty of players to play this great mod. You deserve respect for your creativity, for your talent, and for your dedication.

Couldn't you recruit other talented people, even only one or two, to help you with the mod? However I can understand that it would be difficult since they would, obviously, have a different style from yours. Otherwise, could you take the time, each update, to add a few new mechanisms to one already existing faction? Or new mechanisms such as new crafting, forging, or improving relationships between factions?

Maybe you could do a poll on the Facebook page to know the community's opinion.

By the way, thanks for your time ^^