hey everybody !

This will be the official thread for the mods we are planning to rerelease (Fort Akatosh, Guards of Cyrodiil ) , new planned legion mods and as well for the new Resource Pack we will release soon.
As we ( firesparks and me...) are not supporting Giskards work anymore, news about our legion mods and the required Resource Pack will be posted here from now on.
Also we are forming up our own small team, which means all mods made by us, are not Dragon Captions mods any longer and will not be compatible with the DC CUORP anymore. Our mods will still be made as compatible as possible with other popular mods as BBC, UL etc etc ( just to mention a few) , cleaned as good as possible ( by using the Tes4 edit) and if needed we will try to provide patches ( as we did for example for new Roads and Bridges and Fort Akatosh). Of course we will still provide cobl versions of all our mods. Exactly these points has been Giskards red lines that I crossed so that he banned me from working on his old mods.

My RED Lines that most ex guild members know not to cross are.....

RED LINES that should NOT BE CROSSED!
(These are all ground for me revoking any permission I give out).

1) No patches, do the job properly or keep off my mods.
2) No mod cleaning, do the job properly or keep off my mods.
3) Test work properly or keep off my mods.

posted by Giskard on his new forum ....


For Dragon Captions...I do not have any bad feelings about DC and have still a lot of good friends over there , so I gave them full permission to reupload the stuff I made for the DC CUORP and Sutch Reborn, but as their members are very close friends with Giskard and as most of their members share Giskards modding philosphy, it is not possible for me ( and not only for me) to work in this team any longer.... Fair enough ..I tried to go a new way with this team and failed...end of the story...I wish them all the best...


the new Resource Pack :

before we can start to rebuild our mods (or create new ones) we have to release our own Resource Pack (I am currently working on this)
The new resource pack will contain no stuff made by Giskard and no stuff releated to any mods as factions, interiors etc...it will be just a resource pool used by us for our mods but as well usable a free modders resource..it will be organized in a better way than the CURP was, so that tracking down the single resources will be easier, it will be much more easier to dl and to install and last but not least it will be made modular so that you will be able to choose if you want to dl only the resources required for our mods or the full Resource Pack ( if you want to use it yourself for modding).

have fun

onra

I'm looking forward to the mods you and firesparks release, and an easier to use resource pack will be most welcome.

Er, Onra---not to make a big deal out of this, but you write:



So if I understand correctly, is Giskard referring to himself in the third person, above? Just curious.

+ 1, you really did help with Giskards mods it's a pity things happened as they did.


An easier resource pack will be better for all our sanitys sake




^^ that was the bit written by Giskard.

Fort Akatosh and Guards of Cyrodiil helped fill a void in Oblivion with quest mods involving the Imperial Legion. I'm looking forward to their re-release plus the new planned legion mods.

hey

..missunderstanding...this was me writing about my feelings about DC...

giskard's post was the one above about the red lines ...sorry for being a bit unclear

cheers

onra

Perhaps sticking his words in a quote box would make things easier to read there

Good to see these mods haven't died. :thumbsup:

will you create new joinable legion like the elder council had?
and this is awesome news!
cant wait to see what you guys will come up with!

Since your seperating FA and GoC from the Elder Council, how will joining the legion, getting promoted, etc. be handled in this mod?

the Legion will get new recruiting offices where you will be able to join the legion this will include as well a new legion faction, new legion ranks and a lot of new quests, tasks and other cool features
a lot of new features have allready been made by firesparks ...

cheers

onra

Ok , this is good . Hoepfully all will function with FCOM If you need any help pm me , I'd be willing to put in some CS time to help advance the mod .
I just hope , this is a fresh begining free of the previous tryannical behavoir

Welcome back from me as well I'm looking very much to seeing what you achieve

BTW does anyone find the 'do the job properly' part of Giskard's post rather ironic

I don't understand the thing about patches :wacko:

How is making a patch not "doing the job properly"?

Well anyway, looking forward to seeing what you make :goodjob:

It is very ironic, though not as ironic as his second "Red Line". I think that he means that if you make a mod and it requires a patch to work with another mod then you did the job wrong because incompatibility is a sign of the devil :huh: . This is completely idiotic because not everything is going to work with everything and patches are a godsend for a modded Oblivion. His third "Red Line" I suppose actually makes sense, but the first two and are just completely arrogant and idiotic.


Back on to the real topic, the new mods. I have a question: Are you guys going to rebuild them from scratch for independence from TEC or are you simply going to the edit the versions you already made? I ask because if your making them from scratch then we have a long way to go before we see 'em . It's cool though. You guys do whatever you want. Now that you aren't bound by any ridiculous shackles, I'm really looking forward to your work. Especially the updated resource pack. CURP always seemed to have the right idea IMO, but it just wasn't implemented well.

Best of luck :foodndrink: ,
-Francisco-

Good luck with the mods I hope to have my Nord warrior enlisted in the Imperial Legion at some point.

a little update:

The Elder Council used to have scripts attached to it, which made it possible to "join the imperial legion". Since there will no longer be a dependancy on TEC whatsoever, there will be (without going into technical details) a new system in Fort Akatosh to enlist in the service of the imperial legion. This won't take ages normally, but this is quite dependant on Onra's spare time. :goodjob:

Guards of Cyrodiil was released with two mods in mind (the elder council and fort akatosh) ..now it will be only fort akatosh. However it was pretty independant for starters, because you could enjoy the mod without any of these installed (visit the fort hist, play the quests). Which comes to another point;

The Dragon Captions CUORP resource pack. Most custom created object were in this package. Actually you had to download the big package to use Fort Akatosh and Guards of Cyrodiil, but this will be remade into a more optimized package with our two mods in mind.

Of course if we had an entry in our mods before guiding the mod to a model path, it has to be re-done properly. But this isn't really hard to do, just takes some time.

There is a game some might know called Duke Nukem Forever, but we're hopefully not heading this way. Because that game really is taking forever haha.. but personally i'll take my time adding alot on top of Guards of Cyrodiil. So you can't play it right now, but in the future it will only be better (i hope haha)

cheers.

As for joining the legion and ranks, how will you be promoted now? Are you going with the repeatable quests model from EC or are you going to make it a Morrowind-style thing?

Hi Onra, Hi Firespark,

The Dragon Captions Resource Pack (DCRP, before it was DCCUORP) is a public modder's resource that may be used by ANYBODY! That means you guys may still use the resource pack in your mods.

Rock On

Dbug

hehe glad to see u two are doing well... and re-relaseing the mods... very good mates

just happend to see this, and thought i would say helo, and good luck.

sounds like u two have already hit the gorund running agian

biulding

hmmm...does this mean i'm either going to have to clean save and/or start a new game when you update FA and/or GoC (since i'm already using the TEC influenced versions)?

O&F, Please let me know where you settle. And as always, I offer my services to work on any of your projects.
Regards,
- E

Thx doombuggie....but for reasons we explained now more than enough we will create our own resourcepack....

all the best

I fear if you want to play the new updated versions you have to begin a new legion career...tec can of course still be played beside our mods but will not interact any longer....

for the new ranks.. we will try to provide new quests and tasks to climb up the ranks...

Your coordination of voice acting, recording and mixing is one of the basics of our mods....

your are more than welcome mate !