Mod of the Year - Question of the Day
Greetings, companions of Edain!
Mod of the Year 2016
The first round of the votings for the Mod of the Year 2016 on Moddb ended and thanks to your support, the Edain Mod reached for the seventh time the Top 100!
This is again a very big achievement and a great honor, so we would like to thank the entire community for this support! This would not have been possible without your votes and we are really proud to have so much fans around here. Of course, we will continue to do our best so that you can experience a truly great Middle-earth feeling in Battle for Middle Earth.
Now the second round of the Mod of the Year 2016 begins and we need again your votes for the Top 10! You have to select the Edain Mod from the list of the Top 100 and then click on "Vote". So that your voice counts as much as possible, we ask you to register an account on Moddb or to use your existing account before your voting. Even if we can't reach the Top 10 anymore as we have won last year, we still can get a honourable mention.
You come across to the list of the Top 100 with the following button:
Question of the Day
As a special thank you for all of you, we will daily answer one question of the community for the rest of the election phase. You are allowed to ask any question concerning Edain, as long as it does not involve any plans or contents of future versions. We know that this is quite a restriction, but we don't want to spoil you or ruin the suprise at all. Nonetheless, we are sure that you will be able to ask many interesting question.
At the end of each day we will give you a detailed answer to the question that is most upvoted by the community. Please consider that we need some time to answer the questions, so post your questions until 21:00 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
Please leave your Question for Tuesday as a comment below.
Your Edain Team
Was there any plans to make a evil men/Harad/Rhun faction or any new faction when you still had the old bfme 2 system? (before 4.0)?
Hello and congrats to top 100! I have never doubt of you and was always loyal to Edain mod :) How many makers is in your team?
Hi, how are you ?
We are mostly fine, but all of us are quite stressed at the moment.
okei... I can ask anything...
When will misty mountain be released?
Congratulations for the votes, you deserve this and more. I have just voted. Good luck
Sorry for my english. I am spanish.
I would say that a release date definetly concerns plans for future versions. So, this question won't be answered.
Is though any confirmation or even a hint that this would be the faction included in the next release ? Thank you in advance
We won't give any information about that until we do a proper announcement.
How have you guys managed to keep the team together and running for such a long time? I mean, it's been years!
Was or is there any plans to flesh out the naval warfare system?
So many questions, choose the one u want to answer:
1-How does the team take the fact that some of you have left recently for various reasons?
2-Will it take longer to finish the demo then?
3-Do you search for new team members ?
4-What are the real plans after all the factions are done?
5-And why the siege update taking so damn long??? kidding. Maybe.
BTW Congrats again for last year, and I m sure this year will be honorific too.
U rules edain team.
What's the real job/career of each of you?
If it is any question what you guys doing in real life? I mean your works, social life, sex life maybe :D
We will obviously only give as much real life information as each members agrees with. So this is maybe not the best question.
It was no serious question I wrote it just for fun I cant believe I got an answer for it :D
The original game is inspired by the models from Jackson's LOTR, for this reason I love the fact that you have used many models from Jackson's The Hobbit (especially Dain, Thranduil, Kamul and rams).
In this way the game is inspired more to Jakson's Middle Earth. And I like it!!!
MY QUESTION IS: what is your opinion about the six movies by Peter Jackson?
PS: I loved all of them, even The Hobbit (despite some flaws). They are undoubtedly my favorite movies. :)
No question, just made this account to vote and say thank you guys. Seriously, thanks, this mod is amazing and must take up some serious labor! It really satisfies the Tolkien nerd in me!
Will you ever do a full Arnor faction? like so you can play them on all the maps?
No, the Team has stated they are too similar to Gondor.
Exactly. The number of possible faction that can be implemented is limited by the engine. And Arnor is far too similar too Gondor, to be worth making it an own faction.
Do the members of the team ever play the Edain mod for fun and if so, which member of the team is the best player?
As Modding takes really much time, we sadly haven't as much time as we'd have liked to play Edain ourselves. But even if it is rare, we play Edain also for fun.
I would say Prinz von Dol Amroth is the best player, as he was a Balance Tester before. Also, Gnomi and Lord of Mordor have played Edain quite much in Multi Player.
Last year, when we had a team meeting, we also played Edain against each other, that was really fun.
What are some impressive things (modding based or otherwise) that the team or individual members of the team has done apart from the Edain Mod?
As far as I know, none of the team members has larger experience with modding other games.
Will Angmar ever be rebalanced? I had a multiplayer with a friend who never played before & lost every time til he used Angmar. I've tested with the AI and it was obvious that a Medium Agmar could crush brutal Gondor and Dwarves That I tested.
Note: The second most expensive hero wielding frostmourne is really overpowered especially aginst other heroes. My experience was him at level 2 killing a level 6 Dain Ironfoot without a struggle.
Love Your work Edain Team, I hope I am not over-exaggerating or being too critical, just bringing my issue to your attention, Thanks!
frostmourne?? LOL, wasn't that in Warcraft?
So far, we haven't got many complaints about Angmar, so we don't have any bigger plans for Angmar at the moment. The only thing would be making some units which are too rarely used more usefull.
Angmar is a faction with really much potential and different and various aspects. Maybe your friend just has the perfect play style for Angmar in contrast to the other factions. Or Angmar has the possibility to counter a strategy of yours easier than other factions.
Playing against the AI honestly doesn't tell much about balance at all.
WILL WE EVER GET THE ROBOT UNICORN FACTION!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
#make_it_happen_Gnomi ;)
seriously though congratulations for the awesome mod. Being definitely one of the best mods ever continuously for years and years absolutely deserves a party.
Drinks on me!
btw the question: what was the most weird bug/situation that happened during development?
I like that question, let's get you to the top :P
#MakehohoGreatAgain
Greetings Edain team,
This is my question of the day. What RTS's played the biggest inspiration in how you designed the Edain mod in terms of gameplay. As well as what RTS in particular does the team consider to be the best overall in terms of gameplay.
Good day and congratulations for your excellent mod. Only one question, how do we zoom out the camera? Thanks!
You can zoom with the mouse wheel.
Guess I was already at maximum.
How do you increase command points and what is the maximum you may have? Thanks!
The maximum depends on the game mod. In a normal skirmish, it is 1800 and you can increase it by building and upgrading resource buildings.