[WIPz] Balanced Scales: Grandmaster Quests : III

» Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:03 pm

Update 11/25/11: Argonian Mission Takeover!

Hello all,

Balanced Scales is returning with an expanded quest series!

During this past summer, we released the main mod file for Balanced Scales, launching the player deep into the Argonian Hunters' agenda. This time, players can experience the aftermath of the epic conclusion of the original mod! Additionally, players can embark on entirely separate episodic quests that do not require completion of the Main Balanced Scales quest-line.

To better address any concerns you may have regarding progress and any suggestions you may have to make our plugin better, we have decided to involve the community far earlier in development than we had for our first plugin.

Stay tuned to this thread, we will be updating it as development progress is made!

Update: Various progress screenshots including the Argonian Hunters' battle with the Argonian Mission! http://min.us/mbh8eYqPmL

A word of warning:

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While we made every effort to prevent conflicts with vanilla Morrowind quests with the original plugin, this will not be the case with our expansion! Some quests will deliberately alter some of Morrowind's buildings, NPCs (and therefore, quests). While we will not alter anything to conflict with the Main Quest of Morrowind, several side quests and Faction questlines may be rendered impossible to complete. However, these will all be related directly to Argonian NPCs. We are also actively researching ways to make some of these quests completable despite alterations we make.

A tentative listing of questlines that will likely be affected by our changes:

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Twin Lamps in Ebonheart including the interior cell(be sure to have either completed or decided you do not want to complete associated quests)
Skink-in-Tree's-Shade and his associated Mages Guild quests (same as above)

If you haven't played the original, we strongly recommend doing so to get the full effect of these expanded missions!
Original Mod Thread with download link:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1223546-rel-balanced-scales/

» Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:19 am

Things appear to be shaping up quite nicely for the early work on our expansion quest lines. As will be the norm, updates will be placed in the first post. Today's update is a nice set of teaser screens for the mission to start up a recruitment office...in the current Twin Lamps headquarters!

These little development snippets are likely to be rife with spoilers about the original Balanced Scales questline, just don't say we didn't warn you :wink_smile:

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To give a brief setup to this quest, Viguri, everyone's favorite surly Nord, has requested that you, as the new leader of the Argonian Hunters, entertain his suggestion to establish a better recruitment office. Unfortunately, the building we want to take over just happens to be infested with Argonian filth! Looks like an appropriate task for the Grandmaster Hunter, after all! Take a look at the screens in the main post to get a peek at this quest!

As both of us are graduate students, our time is quite limited. Therefore, don't be too surprised to find that updates are rather infrequent but substantial when they do occur. As always, comments, suggestions, and even the occasional complaint are welcomed!