any news on what the editor can do?

[megakill]

Originally Posted by jake21

Will there be an area of 1cpublishing dedicated for hosting fan made campaigns or at least providing links to them ? Sort of like hevenly games for aow2/aow2sm.
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Of course oneconcern is most of them will be in Russian given the popularity in the region (only a concern because I cannot read Russian )

I am thinking (not a promise!) that me might want to run a proper affiliate program with the modders - maybe even pack several best fan addons into a special pack and help them distribute it. For example there is a huge number of people making addons for MS flight-sim.

Let's see first how many people are interested in playing with the editor and how elaborate those mods/expansions would be.

[Dwagginz]

Originally Posted by megakill

I am thinking (not a promise!) that me might want to run a proper affiliate program with the modders - maybe even pack several best fan addons into a special pack and help them distribute it. For example there is a huge number of people making addons for MS flight-sim.

Let's see first how many people are interested in playing with the editor and how elaborate those mods/expansions would be.

I've got an idea. How about a competition where, perhaps from November to December, modders have two months to create a small mod of a set number of islands (such as 5 islands) and the top 3-4 winners get packaged in a special addon pack and they win a special prize (King's Bounty: The Legend - Collector's Edition with an AP t-shirt, perhaps?) and all runners up get a special addon for the game?

Just an idea!

[megakill]

Thanks we will think about various ideas. For now we are working hard to make sure that game is out on the 17th and is as polished as possible.

[heron1]

Originally Posted by megakill

Thanks we will think about various ideas. For now we are working hard to make sure that game is out on the 17th and is as polished as possible.

Will we see a collector edition to Crossworlds?

*edit*

Oh nevermind, there's a GOTY edition.

[JQueue]

Really looking forward to user made content. Personally, I'm lacking a few attributes when it comes to seeing a full campaign through to the end. Mostly attention span and the ability to come up with good names for characters.

With enough exposure and development, an IGN vault might be a good idea as well. nwvault.ign.com has always been a particularly active one.

[Nike-it]

Originally Posted by JQueue

Really looking forward to user made content. Personally, I'm lacking a few attributes when it comes to seeing a full campaign through to the end. Mostly attention span and the ability to come up with good names for characters.

Get ready to create your own perfect king's bounty, the editor is pretty userfriendly, so I'm sure everyone will be able to create new content or just modify the existing.

[JQueue]

Seriously, I once created a dragon named Cragon. I know a lot of developers just head butt the keyboard a couple times to make names for dragons or various mystical creatures, but I wanted something more meaningful for the casual observer.

The ultimate result was that I was so disgusted with my character names and the daunting task of naming my NPCs that I stopped development entirely.

Programming and script modding IS something I am always interested in doing though. I like editing units and generating AIs and abilities such, I hope I will be able to do this.

[Metroplex]

Giving the editor away was like giving the hen that laid the golden eggs, surely people would have bought further KB titles, now since they have been given the power to create their own Mods of the game they are less likely to buy future KB releases. (if any)

[joasoz]

@Metroplex. I strongly disagree with your statement. The editor could give lots of replayability and attention for Kings Bounty. If there were a Kings Bounty 2 the fanbase would be large and sales would go up. As long as Kings Bounty 2 is a good game it will beat mods of Kings Bounty easily. Better questing, better units, better graphics and all that is good

The problem is that I see no and I mean NO result of the editor anywhere. It seems to be an ustable piece of junk software if this forum is anything to go by

[Saiko Kila]

Originally Posted by joasoz

The problem is that I see no and I mean NO result of the editor anywhere. It seems to be an ustable piece of junk software if this forum is anything to go by

I have no problems with the editor, so I'm not complaining. There are people who have problems. It's natural you'd see only complaints. Why anyone with working editor would want to post about it?