Make a mod that allows one to change the starting point of the game…as in some way to push the events of Year=1 into the future (basically a mod that lets you decide what year a platform will launch and what year it will cease to be, that would allow one to have the game start in whatever decade they want then, like having 1977 as an option by simply having PC, G64, etc launch in year 6 instead of year 1.)
Just something to think about, i think that would be very useful to be able to control launch dates and retirement dates at the very start of the game (perhaps with sliders to simply set the 2 points, one for launch one for retirement, or a checkbox to make retirement random)
Just my two cents.
This, in my opinion, seems like more trouble than it’s worth. I could be wrong, but it seems to me like it would take an awful lot of base function hijacking to allow this, as the game was built around the idea of starting on a particular year.
@DeathRight You speak of it being so hard to do, you would have to override just two variables per each platform, launch and retirement dates. I have written overrides for both so its not difficult at all, i already have a mod of my own that moves around several platforms, the fun part is making a GUI to control these variables instead of them being hardset in a mod’s code, also making a way for it to ‘detect’ platforms added by other mods would be critical also.
(platform randomizer is far more complex than this mod would be, and it seems to be working fine, sure it don’t override the ‘news’ messages but it does work fine in randomizing platforms)
Anyways this was a suggestion to the modders who feel up to doing it, i know off the top of my head at least 3 modders on here who could do it easily. (like cough @kristof1104 cough…)
@nerdistmonk Starting the game at a different date would mean more than that. Infact, if done correctly, it wouldn’t change platform launch/retirement dates at all. This would also mean that certain research should also be available by default depending on the new date, as well as other things.
I wished i could delete my thread. @PatrickKlug that would be nice option to consider for the forum, let thread owners erase their own threads, unless i missed the option to do so somewhere.