I'm thinking of adding DF, JO, and JA support to Patch Enforcer, my JK and MotS Patch Commander clone. I have already made a Dark Forces patch enforcer thingy for DOS... I'd just have to rewrite it for VB. JO and JA would be easy.

Also, I think that the name "Patch Enforcer" doesn't make much sense, since patches are used to fix bugs in games... and I can't figure out wtf I was thinking with Enforcer, other than it sounds kinda cool. I'm thinking something along the lines of "MOD Manager" or "MODtacular" or something with MOD in it.

Any ideas? Only requirements are that it must have the word/letters MOD in it... unless you think your idea is really, really good.

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Bot Pack JO | Let's Roll JK | Bespin JA | Patch Enforcer JK/MotS | Pac-Man JK

"how harsh... Jedi Kirby loves his 'Special' and unique way of talking." - jEDIkIRBY, circa 2002

MODBEAST1600

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<S51> Give a man a sandwich and you'll feed him for an hour, teach him to make a sandwich and he'll get pissed, hit you and tell you to make him another sandwich.

I don't know what MZZT is talking about.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

[This message has been edited by FastGamerr (edited July 13, 2004).]

Holy ****, that's it! The perfect title!

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"how harsh... Jedi Kirby loves his 'Special' and unique way of talking." - jEDIkIRBY, circa 2002

Definitly.

MODerator.

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Empty.

I like.

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If you can read this, you need better glasses.

Modslut20x6

>.>
<.<

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I made a thread, that turned into the debate, so I made a second thread, that turned into a debate, then I made a third thread, that caught on fire, burned down, got flamed, crapped on, bashed, then turned into a debate...but the fourth one, the fourth one stayed on topic!

Modulator

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"It's OK for us to randomly attack people!"
-BV

The Draketron 2600!!

...oh, wrong forums.

Hmmm...

Dunno. It kinda sucks that you programmed it using the .net framework. Because like hell I'm ever going near something with ".net" by microsoft.

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"Judging by the name of the author, and the name of the work, I'd guess it's an energy "beam". You know, like in the Japanese cartoons where those guys with big hair fly around, talk philosophy, and shoot fireballs at each other." - Hellequin

MODtastic.

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If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.

yes

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"Dalton, that pie just moved of it's own accord."

"You must be mistaken, Tess. A pie can't move."

That gets my approval.

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I bet you think that's funny, don't you.

Give this man a beer.

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

heheh

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<S51> Give a man a sandwich and you'll feed him for an hour, teach him to make a sandwich and he'll get pissed, hit you and tell you to make him another sandwich.

Modmeister 7000.

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Wise men say that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, so look before you leap, so to speak, because the grass is not always greener on the other side of the hill.

How 'bout ModMixer?

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"It's not my fault!" -pick a person, they've said it some time or another.

He wins.

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Founder of the Massassi Brute Squad (MBS)

B'tduz: A popular dwarfish game which consists of standing a few feet apart and throwing large rocks at one another's head.

"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

Morituri Nolumus Mori

Patch Enforcer.

This one wins

Although Patch Enforcer isn't a bad name in my opinion, even if they are mods. Ask Michael B. Klein (author of PC) why he named his "Patch Commander" that.

• MODulus
• LoadaMOD
• MODrunner

[*]MODman (except it's already in use by another completely different program for updating existing mods with a patch)[*]MOD Enforcer[/list]

btw, are you going to make those other "plugin" programs for P.E. (the level (un)archiver, character editor, etc)? And is there going to be .zip file reading support?

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nytfyre m0d || f33l t3h p0w3r || t3h l0st c0gz || OMF > *

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited July 14, 2004).]

MODo-e-MODo

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http://www.sporkaudio.com

Someone give Greenboy a cookie!

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Modfather

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If you can read this you're
TOO DAMN CLOSE!!

I love it!

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[insert various humourous anecdotes here]

Patch Enforcer

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Ω of 14

Modulationiatorizer


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What.

My idea kinda sucked though.>.>

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"It's OK for us to randomly attack people!"
-BV

I think he was sarcastic...

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)

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The Massassi JO/JA Single Player contest info

TheGOBmeister

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I am addicted to ellipses!!! AHHH!!! ...
Make Sorrowind Worthwhile... join it! http://sorrowind.net

But...JA and JO have built in Mod support.

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Blown away by the force of the word, woken up by the sound of the siren. It's genocide.

How do you use it? The only thing I could figure out is copy your mod to the gamedata/base directory and run. Stupid manual didn't give any instructions on the built-in mod loader -- just said "can be used to load user-made modifications". Yeah... that helps a lot

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nytfyre m0d || f33l t3h p0w3r || t3h l0st c0gz || OMF > *

You put the mods in their own folder in the gamedata directory. And more people know how to do that than know about Patch Enforcer.

Just sayin' you know...I'll shut up now.

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Map-Review | My Portfolio | The Matrix: Unplugged

Banks and banks of humming machinery! I've never seen so many knobs. We're going to have to do something, Charlie! Try pushing that button there. No? How about that one? No, not that one either. I know! I'll try pushing this one. Hold my hat will you? Good fellow.

Heh, thanks Thrawn#'s.

[rant]
See, they thought it was so simple that it didn't need instructions. No directions in JO, none in STV:EF, and so probably none in JA.

GUNS don't need instructions. Pull the trigger -- bam, someone drops dead. That's the simple stuff. Everyone knows it.
[/rant]

But if MegaZ wants to put that support in PE, so be it -- the user can choose how to do it.

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nytfyre m0d || f33l t3h p0w3r || t3h l0st c0gz || OMF > *

Well, for JO/JA, there are a few advantages to running it with a custom mod (which you do with the +fs_game MODNAME parameter or whatever, I gotta look it up). For example, the Dark Forces Mod demo has a cool intro, but you can only see it if you run it from the command line instead of selecting it ingame. And besides, having support for all 5 games provides a convenient launch point for all of them.

I thought up the name MODerator before... I didn't like it. MODfather is funny, but I don't think it fits... I dunno. Maybe something like MODular...

Meh, I'll probably stick to something lame and easy, like MOD Manager. Thanks for the great suggestions guys!

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