Morning all. We need to put what's happened behind us. Honestly I don't think things will go back to how it was, but hopefully we can move forward and become something better, with the knowledge we now share and experience we have developed.

With that said a modding competition has been discussed in the Supporting Mod Authors thread and I think we need to get some ideas down and make this happen.

So to start things off should we have categories layed out like script/feature, house/estate, quest/story, and so on?

What would be the best way to have it judged? A team of modders, a forum post with a poll?

I'm happy and willing to take the lead on this and put it all together if needed

Let's make it happen!

It...won't...happen...at least not they way you suppose it to happen. Sure, under the light of recent happenings people are motivated and want to put out more decent support for Modders, but in long terms the whole idea fill slowly fade away to the standard we're used to, which is: we, the mod creators, in our stupidity continue to make and upload Mods because it's fun and want to share some of the game experiences with others, while the Mod users continue to praise/harass us for doing something they can't be bothered to do themselfs and ontop of that think they have the right to vote anything against or in support regarding the matter of modding.

I must be a sadomasochist continuing to do this...or maybe I'm just doing this because some of the troll comments on my Mods over on the Nexus are so funny and I can't stand loosing this.

Learn this. People won't do anything out of free will if it means effort they don't get rewarded for...it's a only very low minority of people that are selfless enough to make such an idea big.

Mate I can understand your frustration but let's keep this thread on topic. There's been enough negativity of late and we don't need to keep walking down memory lane.

You're missinterpreting my words in the light of impression people over here would have any influence on how the majority of Mod users will now start to change their donation or goodwill policys. That's hilarious, because they won't. They do what they ever do, consume the game and then move over to the next product. What are 100 voices against 10 million voices?

Apart from that, any system that you propose needs to be administrated by Beth, and I don't believe they will try anything else in the near future benefiting modders. People don't read between the lines, usually if someone says: "we've learned from our failures", it means: "we are disappointed on how you, the community, reacted on something that we thought was a good idea".

Edit: This becomes specially true, because all the years Beth granted something for free, that others had to put effort on in order to improve the games of those that where recently complaining the most.

And regarding an idea...I'd start opening a new website handling any competition thingy whatsoever.

I would set up a website easily. I already run numerous comps for my podcast community, currently giving away GTA V on PC.

Will also do a Facebook group, and we can do game play video impressions of mods as well, adding them to a global playlist.