While there are some outstanding mods for Morrowind, I find that most of them, even highly praised ones have deal-breaking flaws - not so little details that always give me the impression that the modder either didn't test his own mod or just didn't care. So in no particular order, what I don't want to see in a mod is:

- badly designed landscape: as in, shores that plunge at a 90% degree into the sea, showing that the modder, after enjoying landscaping the island, couldn;t bother with designing the outskirt. Or, large and bare areas full of nothing but 3 trees and 2 rocks and a bunch of flowers levitating 2 feets above the ground.

- copy-pasted interiors: especially when they include items with ownership tags.

-interiors that don't fit the exterior: and I don't simply mean that the inside is slighly larger than the inside ( Morrowind does that all the time).

-interior without ambient lighting: when modders live ambient/fog settings at their default 0-0-0 values, giving an overall bleak mood to the interior cell.

To me, it sounds like your criticizing a certain large mod project. Perhaps you don't realize it is almost entirely still in Beta form.

The only way to ever play a mod you think is perfect is to make it yourself. Looks like you better start making some mods of your own that don't have any flaws in them

Kalon this kind of thread doesn't help anyone & frankly shows you are a bit cluless to the whole MW modding scene.

A lot of mods get released while still in beta or even alpha form, some get finished some don't. As Pluto said "The only way to ever play a mod you think is perfect is to make it yourself" so I suggest you get to work.

0-0-0 isn't actually the default lighting setting. Personally, I like 0-0-0 so that the only light comes from actual lighting sources. Especially for caves. But it doesn't blend with vanilla Morrowind at all.

This sounds like modding critique.. It should be sent to the modder.

In all my years only once or twice have I had someone say to me.. "Hey ST, I noticed __________..."

I don't bite -very hard- Just tell me! But no one ever does...

-Lots of my interiors don't fit the exterior.. I've currently got one on hold because I'm being lazy about it and lost interest..Called Tardis house..-L-

Also ---If you feel you have more design talent, fire up the cs and do it!

You won't hurt my feelers at all.....

We were all new once. I copy interiors too.. So do other modders.. Use them as a base and change from there..

The mod I made that won Fliggerty's first modding contest was copy pasted interior and then changed from there..

Lastly:

If you don't like a mod, then don't use it..

I had some 0-0-0 cells in DNGDR to force the use of a torch or lantern .... but it turns out that 0-0-0 bugs some vidcard PC combos so I'm taking all of them out of DNGDR 2.

Too many fetch quests.

I thought we were going to talk about stuff we don't need any more mods for, then zero in on the stuff we DO want mods for.

Isn't that the http://wiki.theassimilationlab.com/mmw/Fogbug? Rather than ambient light settings.

Yep .. you are correct .... my bad

Sounds a lot like my mod DR2.

Yeah, I'm not a world-builder and Morrowind doesn't have object palettes or region gen like the later TES games do. Fun fact: I managed to detail landscape on the same heightmap on the Skyrim engine in a time which is much faster than I could ever do in Morrowind. Because I had object palettes, landscaping was 1000x easier.

Interiors are better but they're still things that require immense amount of detail and a fully ambient cell takes me 5 hours to make. In the same amount of time, I could write an entire faction questline and code it up (but don't usually do, because since that release, I only release storylines which I love).

So, I did test and I do care about the mod. It's just I tried (and failed) to do everything in one big mod. I now offer my writing skills to Morrowind modders, and for later games I just use region gen/object palettes and do the clean up afterwards. I tried to go back to detailing the landscape in DR2 by hand but my mind went blank after 50 refs. Not good.

I too have unreasonable expectations for what amateur video game hobbyists can accomplish in their spare time

I don't think I tried your mod, and in any case I was thinking about various mods, mostly older mods that add regions/islands. Having dabbled with the CS myself, I do understand that modding landscapes and interiors is awfully time-consuming.