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A fellow Aussie, welcome mate

It depends what you have in mind for the mod. There are many things that are necessary for minor to
major modifications.

You can change weapon gfx pretty easily, interface is a lot harder, quests are tricky and maps are easy yet hard too (oddities in the editor and such).

Please be a little more specific as to what you are planning

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Cheers bro. I've heard of the Bear Pit for sometime now, I only had the balls to register today

Interface isn't too much of an issue. I feel 1.13 has everything needed so far. I'm really looking for minor map cosmetic changes, loading screens, start up menu, quest start up, weapon/item changes and in game character model changes.

I'm really interested in making a mod based on a border war between a Mexican and Texan drug cartel. It might be difficult implementing a faction based selection (dicking around with two quest based story lines). JA isn't exactly going anywhere, so I'm happy to spend half a year/year+ planning and developing the mod.

Quest wise, what I want to implement is drug running, assassinations, political implications with town mayors etc with the ultimate goal of killing either one of the gang head honchos. Also, I feel that the implementation of a peacekeeping army would be fun too. I prefer more close quarter combat/urban warfare with outskirting farms as the basis of the mod with 3 or 4 major towns, and 4-5 one grid towns.

Pretty much the only barrier for myself is in depth coding. XML/Hex is easy enough to learn, but it would be the graphical/sound based modifications that are tricky. Game design wise, I feel I have a lot to offer.

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Gfx and sound are actually quite easy. The hardest part of gfx would be anims cos they are tedious.

The quests and coding will be the hardest areas. The DBB mod has almost every gun ever made plus a lot of HtH weapons too.

Looks like you are going to be playing factions off against each other, so you may want to have a Chat with Will Gates as he created the Militia Factions Mod, as well as some of the best maps this game has seen

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