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Originally Posted by Humudce
Personally I find programs like the UI Installer, and UI Switcher, and EQ2MAP updater very helpful. Sure they are not for everyone, but for those that want these tools they make things so much easier.
Back in the EQ1 days, I used the Garyik's INI Copier extensively, as many of the Complete UI mods I used required I copied the Author's INI file to my Characters so that the layout was correct. And the Maps well the Maps that were available for EQ1 well many times my Guildies had no Idea how install maps back in EQ1 they would download the map zip file from Mapfiend and then save the zip file in their Map folder in EQ1 it did no good having the maps zipped in that folder. With the tools Ger and Taco-Man have made it makes updating our EQ2 maps, and UI's so much easier.
I wish we had more tools like this back in the EQ1 days. I had to write installers for my Guild for all the EQ1 Map packs, and all the UI's. Tools like these would have saved me so much time and work. 
Great Job to all of the Tool Authors. |
The tools are great! Don't get me wrong! I'll be using them for sure.
It was just more of a comment and general woudlnt' it be nice down the road if..
fewer steps = fewer chances for mistakes in any thing a person does, so of course if we can combine steps, or do a couple extra steps oursleves before publishing the mods, I think that would be best over all.
I know there are some people that find it too difficult to get mods posted, or at least would rather just pust an attachment and be done with it, but personally I really like the layout of the Downloads section and get get a pretty good idea of what I'm getting before I try it, compared to the attachment method.
I don't think there are many end-users that would not like the option to install the mod from the site though! Than they don't have to handle any files really. Just find the mod they want to try and downloadit and they would be good to go and see if they like it.