Question for Devs about Mods

[Megas Stevros]

Hi guys, first off, I love this game and think what you've achieved is absolutely amazing.

I've read online that Egosoft is quite a small team and therefore it crossed my mind that there might not have been enough time or resources to perfect/implement everything that you'd wanted.

Assuming that the above is true, are you able to say whether there are any mods that you feel have added elements to the game perfectly? I really want to buy in to the Developers vision and play the game as they intended it to be played.

[Alan Phipps]

I think that must have been the case to at least some extent as they have recruited some significant modders to the dev team during their work on X Rebirth and X4 (ie the games using the similar game engine). The precedent was already set in that modders had been heavily involved during the further development of X2/X3 games, especially for Bonus Packs, X3:AP and X3:FL.

[magitsu]

Here's another indication, a list of mod concepts which were integrated to X Rebirth during it's cycle:
https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence ... +X+Rebirth

[alt3rn1ty]

Recently Bernd also hinted at Signed Bonus packs may become a thing for X4 in the future, traditionally these are modders work which the dev team think are good enough to be implemented (with a bit of their own expert tweaking), and become available on the Egosoft Homepage downloads https://www.egosoft.com/download/x3ap/bonus_en.php

[Treycore]

They are considering signing off on popular specific mods to enable for their online ventures mode

The only reasons to not use mods imo are

1.) Performance (Some mods add new AI fleets/ships/stations which can overwhelm older systems that are already struggling with vanilla)

2.) Online Ventures (Can’t participate in the activity at all with mods as of right now)

[Socratatus]

It would be nice if they helped certain modders that add old NPC models back into the game, not to be screwed up. That would add a ton more npc choices.

[Katorone]

With the switch to Blender, I wouldn't be surprised if the NPC system gets opened up more. No way to be sure, of course.