hey guys, just saying that ive got internets back

my "issues" revolved around moving and entering college (Freshman Illustration Major at the Maryland Institute College of Art, w00tz).
as for the issue at hand: there has been a ton of talk about the borders (even in this very thread

). At the moment, the plan is to do the 3 border crossings and to edit the landscape around the Brena river slightly so that Rihad and part of Goldmoor can be seen. Anything more expansive than that is 1) hard and/or labor intensive to do and 2) potential cause for tons of incompatibilities. Even with only three border crossings, each of which is quite tiny, we run into potential problems with something like 10 mods, including major ones like the UL's. editing the whole border would conflict with dozens more. Every conflict equals the need to either remove the conflict (through patching, editing the main mod, etc.) or the risk of loosing some players. In other words, conflicts boil down to even more work.
Our current solution offers the best of both worlds. On one side its fairly self-contained and minimizes incompatibilities, allowing you to use mods that take place across the border, for example. At the same time if feels like a natural solution, since most of the border is either a deep ravine or really tall mountains. Its not perfect, but we think that its the best possible compromise.
If youre not please with it when it comes out you are of course more than welcome to mod it to your heart's content, as many people have done with our morrowind releases

thanks for taking such great care of the thread JD~! :foodndrink: