I'll work on porting that expansion. ^_^

I might need to add scripts to the companions so that at the very minimum they drink their potions responsibly.

i notice some flickering on parts of the shore, is this because the island is too low?

I added scripts to the companions, they now drink health potions responsibly, which'll help their survival. The battlemage will now drink magicka potions when his reserves are low, so he won't run out of magicka as quickly. I've also raised the landmass and fixed some of the placement around the atoll, as well as tweaked the pathgrids. Overall this is a big improvement, aside from the bland texture job on the landmass. ^_^

I'm pleased with how this turned out, I'll wrap this up and have it released soon.

can companions have companion share? good job!

You can use MGE to generate textures which can then be applied to the mesh.

I'll give that a try. ^_^

To get around the issue of relying on the shipmaster to leave & return to Firemoth, I'm going to add a teleporting amulet to the lich, which'll give a choice to teleport either to the tomb or the courtyard of the fort. I'll also add a ruined altar, or something along those lines, that can cast divine intervention on activate somewhere in the fort.

It'll at least give some way to get on/off the island if the shipmaster happens to get killed.

can you add companion share?

I won't add it, but feel free to mod it in. ^_^

Just spent a while dinking around with this, and I only encountered minor bugs, but a lot of new goodness.

The summary:
1) Companions were in the water drowning while I was talking to the Argonian shipmaster outside of the Seyda Neen Census office. Since I play an Argonian as well, it did not occur to us two lizards to be overly concerned about the softies taking a swim. As it turns out, High Elves may be a lot of things, but they are not good swimmers.

2) Reloaded and tried again, this time sprinting to see my Marshbrother, and getting to Firemoth in record time. All 3 companions made it. We commenced the assault on the weenie skellies. My companions were actually useful, and decently durable. YAY!. The mage played smart for once.

3) But the bloodthirsty Nord...the Nord. He would dispatch a few skeletons, then run at me with his axe out. And then just stare at me. But his axe was out. He would follow ok, even with his axe in hand. Just sort of odd.

4) Kitty was still useless.

5) Lich still killed me, even with TGM on. Ouchie.

So all in all, very positive play-through. Everything overall seemed to work as well, or better than the original. And to be honest, during the play-through I did not really notice the dearth of textures. It seemed to fit the idea of being a wet, muddy area.

:thumbsup:

I'm not sure what causes the followers to end up in the water. In the editor, and when I test the plug-in bare-bones, the followers have no problems staying on the boat. I'm guessing that there could be some conflict if another mod affects the same cells as the boat (which due to placement is in four cells I think). One solution would be to put the companions on the dock behind the shipmaster.


The mage and archer should keep at distance now, and whittle away at the skeletons while the warrior charges in with his axe. I changed the mage's attack spell to target just one skeleton, since any area spells would harm the warrior too (the original plug-in, the mage would likely kill the other followers before the skeletons would). I'm still playing around with what spells the mage should cast.
I think the Nord just gets bugged with all of the target switching in relation to disarming. It seems fitting though, he's just really into the moment. ^_^
The Khajiit should probably be weak as he's been living in a damp cavern eating mushrooms for however long it's been. I was thinking maybe the Khajiit would rather just be led out of the caves rather than join the fight, and rescuing him would increase the player's reputation.


Grurn is one of the toughest opponents in Morrowind. I was thinking of tweaking him to have a certain weakness along the lines of Karstaag.



Thanks for the review! ^_^

one thing that always bugged me, if firemoth was a strategic hold, why isn't there a dock at the base of the fort? there's a ebony mine under the fort, yet there's no easy way to remove and ship the ebony. another thing was how the chargen captain just picks a random joe to lead a dangerous expedition.

I downloaded this and checked it, but the quest is already completed? Does this mean I have to start a new character? :confused:

Yar, I mentioned the lich merely as a flaw in the original mod, not your re-imagining it. Seriously, the Imperials probably could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they just gave Grurn Firemoth in exchange for him heading up to Red Mountain to have a "chat" with Mr. Ur.

I'm not sure how long Firemoth has been abandoned, it could be that the skeletons ruined much of the infrastructure, though it couldn't have been too long since there's a survivor.

I was thinking of having Sellus Gravius check if the player has enough experience to accept the mission, but couldn't come up with a good solution. I was thinking of a level requirement of 7 to be eligible, but this could conflict with any level progression plug-ins (like ones where the player doesn't progress in levels, which was likely the reason the Tribunal assassins attack at level 1 on the PC).



If your character has already completed the Firemoth mission, then you'll need to start a new character. Otherwise you could edit your save file to reset the quest. This plug-in uses the same journal entries as the original Siege of Firemoth.



I've balanced Grurn so that he's more in line with the liches found in Tribunal. Grurn'll still be a difficult fight, but will be manageable. ^_^

I really am looking forward to this mod, quorn.

I never played the original because it was deemed 'buggy' by most posters.

sieboldii

In its original form, the Siege of Firemoth had a number of dirty references, and it shows in some areas it was hastily put together, which made it glitchy. Grurn, the protagonist, was way overpowered in relation to the rest of the mission, and the followers were a novelty rather than useful. I'm hopeing to address all these issues, as well as make the plug-in consistent and believable. Making the plug-in completely interior is a plus too. ^_^

I also never played the original for the same reasons as sieboldii. A quick question though, does the original plugin display the island on the map?

In the original Firemoth plug-in, the exterior regions show on the regional map, the islands are roughly west-southwest of Seyda Neen and the Bitter Coast. This plug-in doesn't use exterior cells, so there's only the local map for the islands.

I guess I have to start a new character then, it'll take me a while to train a character for the fights though.

I should have this ready this weekend. ^_^

I ran into a glitch where the local overhead map doesnt show the water throughout the whole map, only a small portion, it may be an engine limitation to the size of interiors. It doesn't affect the playthough at all, but it makes it difficult to discern the coastlines with the overhead map.

Really looking forward to your work, quorn. The sole time I tried the plugin, I had "Big Yellow Boxes!" (as Grumpy put it) scattered about. Mystifying for an official plugin.

Also mystifying is fighting a lich for 30 minutes straight with my level 20, and getting nowhere. Here's to your good work, so I may finally plug the scumbag!

I'm going to postpone work on the interior version for now. However, I'll release an updated exterior version with all of the changes I've planned for this project. I've cleaned up the exteriors, removed/hidden all the seams I could find, and softened some of the jagged landscape. I've also added a few surprises. ^_^

Bump!

I've re-opened this project. As discussed http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1077296, the performance is now exactly the same as an exterior. The overhead map errors still exist, however, but aside from that, this is now perfectly playable! ( Special Thanks to Yacoby, Trunksbomb, and peachykeen for helping me understand collision and culling.)

Keep in mind that this is basically just the original Firemoth plug-in, and does not include any of the enhancements from my other Ward of Akavir project. I'm thinking I may just release this as it is for those that just want the Firemoth mission the same as the original, without the land conflicts of the original.

Let me know if you try this, and report the performance. ^_^