Hi, I am a developer working on Rise of Nations EX on Steam. We've been working very hard to implement full Steam Workshop support and weeks ago, was led to this particular mod as an example of the most complicated example to get working. Well we finally got it working with the Steam version and soon we'll want to get some experts involved to test it. We want to do this by deploying a Mod Manager beta branch in Steam soon.
While we never altered the mod, there were some clashes with primarily the interface.xml (the modded version was based on the original game including GameSpy stuff that no longer works). It was modernized for the Steam release, so I had to basically merge your desired changes into it.
A big change is that I finished implementing a truly dynamic system for mods. You no longer need to replace original files, and now everything is loaded dynamically, so I've restructured the mod directory structure accordingly.
New way:
mods\World In Conflict\art\*
mods\World In Conflict\data\*
mods\World In Conflict\sounds\*
mods\World In Conflict\scenario\*
mods\World In Conflict\tribes\*
mods\World In Conflict\info.xml
However our knowledge of this mod is quite limited and we've identified the following problems on our end -- and not sure if it is just the way the mod is set up or not, so please let me know what your thoughts are:
1. Nothing limits the players from choosing outside of the 4 factions.
2. We're not sure if the game is meant to be played only in the information age or from the beginning.
3. Not sure if the bhs file is being utilized or not.
So in any case, we're quite close and I just wanted to mention something here. When everything is officially out, I'd like the original author of this mod to publish it and own it. I think it'll be the tip of the iceberg for others that wish to make or port other mods to the new system.
kmarnes
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Developer of the Steam versions of Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, and Rise of Nations.