The things we'd see if this game had a modding community like...

Lets assume that SE for some reason suddenly opened the game wide open for modders, what would everyone expect to see or like to see done in game?

Right now I think if we had a completely open modding kit we'd probably have no less then two complete crafting overhauls and gathering overhauls (if there is a public outcry for more relevant crafting and gathering, there's going to be a mod for it.)

I've also got a feeling we'd see at least one combat overhaul going more towards Vindictus while another Combat Overhaul would go more toward Final Fantasy XIV 1.0.

Step-by-step YouTube videos embedded in the quest journal that describe how to win a fight in a perfect scenario. That way, everyone will have no reason to not know every aspect of a fight beforehand, as it's pretty much a requirement now. Screw communication, that's too hard.

Serious reply, I'd like someone to figure out a way hide quests in our journal. We had it in the beta, but apparently it's impossible to do now.

Oculus Rift Mod. Would excite me so much.

Blizzaga. Thundaga. Firaga. Aerora. Medicara.

Immersive environments mod that makes various NPC caravans spawn on paths through different zones and set up actual food chains in the zones, so we don't just have wolves wondering around mindlessly in a set position.

Better looking Summoner Egi's. Even if they do crap damage at least I can pretend in my head that they're a significant presence in battle.

A mod to allow you to choose between hearing 1.0 music or ARR music, or a random mix of the two.

It'd probably go a little something like this:

Nude patch.
Super Nude patch.
Naked NPCs.
No underwear mod.
Sexy Miqo'tes mod.
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.
Realistic Water.

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Originally Posted by Parodine

Better looking Summoner Egi's. Even if they do crap damage at least I can pretend in my head that they're a significant presence in battle.

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I'd also love to be able to change "Egi" (Eggies.. I mean, really?) to maybe Essence, or something else that doesn't sound like egg...ies....

Hmm, is this a what I'd like to see modded or a what most likely will be modded question?

What most likely would be modded into the game would be nudity, but for the first time in an MMORPG, it would be both genders...oh and there would be a huge uproar regarding lalafel nude models and those modding floodgates would be shut oh so fast with SE thinking to themselves, "What the hell were we thinking?!".

As to what I'd like to see modded, I'd like to see the majority of attack abilities consolidated into one or two button combos and a lot of temporary buffs moved into the traits category and just be up all the time (naturally, tweaks would be made to even out the benefit vs penalty aspect of those abilities).

Well, I rather see a Workshop like they have in Steam. Were players design the gear that can drop (NOT Stats!) and then the community votes the best ones. Thou SE will have the final say in the matter

What do you mean by modding. Do you mean just UI stuff, or being able to add bosses and dungeons and stuff? If it's the later, not going to happen, EVER.

If your talking UI, with that comes the bad too.

You would see Bots with in game UI's, where the user interface for using the bot is all in the game. We would see automated crafting where you just select what you want to make and how many and tell it what steps to use and when and go afk. Come back and it's all done and your 10 levels higher.

Hackers would make a teleport hack (xyz) hack and give it an in game UI tied to the map so you just right click the map and click jump to, and bam your there.

I remember reading somewhere that SE said when the addon system comes out, they will have a submission process like an app store for phone apps, you make an addon, you submit it. If they approve it, they put it in the addon store and users can download it, otherwise, they cannot use it.

Gigantic Lalafells.

Tiny Roegadyns.

Custom houses mod that turns the game into a big hunt for rare house parts! Want gothic furniture that has a dark twist? Go raid Haukke manor and run off with some tables (and incidentally probably a few sleeping gargoyles.) Like mining equipment for that special crafters corner? Go to the mines in Upper La Noscea and steal what isn't bolted to the floor! Not like the Kobalds are going to hate us any worse than they already do.

And do you like the ADS from Dalamud you crazy person? Assuming it doesn't destroy everyone during transport, pick one up at the Binding Coil! (Batteries not included...)

*Watches as the Guild Houses turn into miniature death stars.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

It'd probably go a little something like this:

Nude patch.
Super Nude patch.
Naked NPCs.
No underwear mod.
Sexy Miqo'tes mod.
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.
Realistic Water.

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lol Skyrim there.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

It'd probably go a little something like this:

Nude patch.
Super Nude patch.
Naked NPCs.
No underwear mod.
Sexy Miqo'tes mod.
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.
Realistic Water.

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It isn't on par with Skyrim till you have a High res, ultra realistic Cloaca mod for chocobos, to fit your realism needs. The horse version was one of the few times that the net actually left me dumbfounded.
P.S. For the love of god, if your at work do not look up the horse mod. If you aren't go for it, but don't say I didn't warn you.

A no helmets mod for the Empire minions and leaders, because I'm sure everyone is wondering just what those unpronounceable peoples faces look like. :D

Grid

Also, a flash-based addon packet is supposed to be coming. No idea when though.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

It'd probably go a little something like this:
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.

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As a lala, I am both confused and aroused.

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Originally Posted by Artemed

It isn't on par with Skyrim till you have a High res, ultra realistic Cloaca mod for chocobos, to fit your realism needs. The horse version was one of the few times that the net actually left me dumbfounded.
P.S. For the love of god, if your at work do not look up the horse mod. If you aren't go for it, but don't say I didn't warn you.

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I could go for a Macho Man mod. Change those toads into Macho Man and rename their body slam AoE to Atomic Elbow... brotha! Sky's the limit!

Raid replacement frames.

I want them so bad. Like, I can't even put into words how badly I want to replace those ugly party frames with something more aesthetically pleasing.

Also: Weak Auras.

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Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

Raid replacement frames.

I want them so bad. Like, I can't even put into words how badly I want to replace those ugly party frames with something more aesthetically pleasing.

Also: Weak Auras.

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Like a mod for reducing the weapon glow on +1 weapons? I was thinking along the lines of a mod that adds runic scribbles that go up and down the sides of the weapons instead of just having a strait up glow.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

It'd probably go a little something like this:

Nude patch.
Super Nude patch.
Naked NPCs.
No underwear mod.
Sexy Miqo'tes mod.
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.
Realistic Water.

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sold! how do i get?

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

It'd probably go a little something like this:

Nude patch.
Super Nude patch.
Naked NPCs.
No underwear mod.
Sexy Miqo'tes mod.
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.
Realistic Water.

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Seems reasonable.

Could I finally get a slider for the transparency of the chat background?

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Originally Posted by Allyra

Grid

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I would do terrible, terrible things for a Grid incarnation in XIV. But first... THAT CHAT BACKGROUND. Dx

yeah. boobs and dongs are basically 99% of what comes out of modding.

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Originally Posted by Mezolitik

It'd probably go a little something like this:

Nude patch.
Super Nude patch.
Naked NPCs.
No underwear mod.
Sexy Miqo'tes mod.
Gary's Erotic Lalafell mod.
Realistic Water.

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I don't know...would the water be nude also?

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

I could go for a Macho Man mod. Change those toads into Macho Man and rename their body slam AoE to Atomic Elbow... brotha! Sky's the limit!

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The Macho Man mod for Left 4 Dead made me laugh more than I've ever laughed at a video game. I've been to the top of the mountain! Mindbogglin'!

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Originally Posted by Colt47

Like a mod for reducing the weapon glow on +1 weapons? I was thinking along the lines of a mod that adds runic scribbles that go up and down the sides of the weapons instead of just having a strait up glow.

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No. Weak Auras is an addon in WoW that allows you to display ability cooldowns anywhere on your screen. So instead of staring at my bars to see when I get procs, I could put them where I'm more likely to see them. I'd love to be able to track things like Overcure procs, the CDs on some abilities (like Divine Seal and Benediction), and such, more easily. It also lets you see debuffs on yourself more easily - you can set up a Weak Aura to show a big icon of the debuff when you have it on you. I don't know about you, but my debuffs are tiiiiiny. -_-

The addon looks like this:

http://imageshack.us/a/img823/6042/7j8r.jpg

The little squares with like, the angel image and the fountains of light are from Weak Auras.

The removal of all gear dye restrictions. Turning the "name become Fresh Meat" and "disable displaying vanity gear" pvp systems into toggles instead of mandatory.

On a grander scale new questlines. The Skyrim modding community made quite a few great homebrewed questlines.

Remove Gear Dye Restrictions
Ability to Lower Cowl Hoods
Castrum Marinium questline

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Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

-snip- Weak Auras.

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I kinda do something similar, but obviously less robust, already. I have some hotbars set up that I don't intend to ever use to actually trigger an action, but I have my cooldowns set up on them so I can keep track of them easier.

But I also play using a controller, so I don't know how viable this is for a mouse/keyboard person.

Are we talking about physically modding the game to it core (like adding new instances and stuff) or UI modding (which SE said may be there in the future)?

I enjoyed the WoW LUA api when I did some modding for QoS stuff. An advance bag sorter is something I'd probably work on. IE: Ores go into Page4, loot goes into page 3, etc.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

I kinda do something similar, but obviously less robust, already. I have some hotbars set up that I don't intend to ever use to actually trigger an action, but I have my cooldowns set up on them so I can keep track of them easier.

But I also play using a controller, so I don't know how viable this is for a mouse/keyboard person.

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It's probably viable, but I really miss the customization I can do with my WoW UI. I just wanna be able to scale things the way I want to scale them, and make my raid frames the way I want to see them - preferably smaller, but still giving me all of the information I need. I find that I have to make my raid frames really big to see anything on them. It's kind of frustrating. They're just so...huge.

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Originally Posted by Magis

Are we talking about physically modding the game to it core (like adding new instances and stuff) or UI modding (which SE said may be there in the future)?

I enjoyed the WoW LUA api when I did some modding for QoS stuff. An advance bag sorter is something I'd probably work on. IE: Ores go into Page4, loot goes into page 3, etc.

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UI Modding, I hope! lol. If SE is smart, they'll harness the creative power of their fans and let us build a better UI for them for free. :D

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Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

It's probably viable, but I really miss the customization I can do with my WoW UI. I just wanna be able to scale things the way I want to scale them, and make my raid frames the way I want to see them - preferably smaller, but still giving me all of the information I need. I find that I have to make my raid frames really big to see anything on them. It's kind of frustrating. They're just so...huge.

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UI Modding, I hope! lol. If SE is smart, they'll harness the creative power of their fans and let us build a better UI for them for free. :D

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Only thing I worry about is if the game becomes too depended on battle mods. IE: When Lucifron turned into mashing the Decursive button to dispel his mass curse. Things like casting/using spells/abilities should not be given access (which Blizz deprecated in the TBC update).

I'd like to see a mod to extend field music more than a few minutes.

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Originally Posted by Magis

Only thing I worry about is if the game becomes too depended on battle mods. IE: When Lucifron turned into mashing the Decursive button to dispel his mass curse. Things like casting/using spells/abilities should not be given access (which Blizz deprecated in the TBC update).

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Blizz broke the crap out of mods that do that. There was the issue with that one mod that drew "in-world" during ICC in Wrath of the Lich King, but they broke that one, too (it really needed breaking...it just trivialized encounters -_-). That said, the ability to re-skin my UI, control what buffs and debuffs show on my party frames, and resize them...would be amazing.

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Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

Blizz broke the crap out of mods that do that. There was the issue with that one mod that drew "in-world" during ICC in Wrath of the Lich King, but they broke that one, too (it really needed breaking...it just trivialized encounters -_-). That said, the ability to re-skin my UI, control what buffs and debuffs show on my party frames, and resize them...would be amazing.

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Indeed, strictly UI stuff is where these addons shine. Another idea I was thinking which Erana reminded me of is a soundtrack mod. Customized every zone to play it's own custom music. I myself would probably replace it with a mix of XIV/XI music.

This of course depends on how much freedom SE gives us coders.

Oh yea, and a tool that actually tries to block gil spammers.

Don't know why I didn't think about it, but a mod that adds seasons to the game based on the in game date to the different zones would be pretty neat. They could even have botany nodes change depending on the season as well as what monsters are around! This is something the game designers would have to do themselves, but it would be pretty cool.

I would like a mod to fix the holes in the female dragoon armor. I like my armor covering my vital organs. Call me old fashioned.

Sony online MMO's have points in time you can create in game models and send it in so they can see if they put it in game and you get real money check every month when people buy your stuff. they even give you a refrence model to build around.

planetside2, EQ2, EQ, free realms and EQnext let you do this.