I'd need membership for starters (ideally lifetime). I've already used the free trial to update mods I had previously published. I've previously spent money on the game for membership among other things but then deleted my accounts due to trust issues with site admins. I feel as though my contributions to mods are exploited by Warzone due to no direct way to support development of mods and that players wanting to use mods in their games need membership. See https://www.warzone.com/Forum/821079-compensation-mod-authors .

Can't really develop mods without membership because doing so means I can't actually test if mods work myself. It's difficult to communicate exactly what I want to test and any steps that would be useful for debugging, even if it is with someone who has technical knowledge. Development process is too slow and too much of an energy burden to ask for someone else to do testing on your behalf.

I have created a feature request to allow non-members to create and update mods as well: https://www.warzone.com/Forum/811654-allow-mod-development-sp-nonmembers .

As I previously said, I've already spent money on membership, and unwilling to pay for it this time around.

Oh, this thread is still alive ?

Cool.

Idk if this has already been suggested, because I am not going to read back 170 posts.

Delayed blockade card
Like a normal blockade card, except its blockading action happens X turns later.

Might be interesting to have it blockade regardless of who or what owns the territory at that point in time.

If it can always block regardless of owner, it should probably have a marker or something that tells whoever has that territory that it is going neutral. But would be way more fun if a territory you captured several turns ago suddenly blockaded itself.

@JK
I think there was an idea of Delayed Blockade, but it was just a blockade that happened as an order instead of before orders (EMB) or after orders (BLK), which is somewhat interesting but not really all that unqiue; before and after likely already fulfill 90%+ of use cases

but this idea is unique in that it occurs in future turns

is the idea that it's still regulated Blockade style flat % or some kind of changing ratio depending on how far in the future? and does it require a trigger or just time based?

it's an interesting idea

I was thinking just fixed number of turns based, with a fixed ratio (both set by the host).

But having it a variable number of turns in the future (configured by player when activating the card) with the ratio depending on how long it waits is also an interesting idea.

yea it kind of gives it an interesting aspect of having to deal with it before it gets to a no-longer-reasonably capturable size

actually if it blockades anyhow even after capture, guess that means an enemy would have to capture it at least 1 turn before the timer, to be able to move off it so their own units don't go neutral

another idea from Old Yeller

a card that permits you to transfer units to another player

actually aimed at transferring to teammates in diplo games

which means it kind of belongs in Factions but Dutch doesn't want to add new functionality so unfortunately it would have to live outside of that

making Diplo v5 would be the logical step but I also don't want to make yet another diplo mod, especially since I've been trying to get people onto Factions instead of away since it's better in almost every way (1 lacking, can't invite players into your own faction)

so maybe just a totally side mod of it's own that lets one transfer units to any other player without regard to diplo alliances/wars/Factions/etc

I suppose the next aspect to consider is, does this make sense as a card? or just functionality accessible from the mod menu, like gift gold/gift armies?

those 2 mods kind of do the same thing, but GG requires commerce, gift armies is kind of weird in how it distributes the armies, whereas this would be an actual transfer order which actually makes more sense

Surrender double-check card

A special for Optimum players: When accepting a surrender, it will give you a warning if it's a teammate's surrender. That way, you can safely play with trolls without accidently throwing games.

^ It's currently not possible for mods to interact with the surrender dialogues.

I'd be interested in making a diplo mod myself, but not going to do it at my expense (would need a lifetime membership or access to someone's account that has a membership)

We really need the surrender double check card - would help avoid CL being tainted by horrible trolls!

Travel into Future card.

Lets you travel in time. Can be played at the end of a turn. The entered turn is executed normally. After that. The further X turns are played by AI for all players. You take over the game again after this X turns played by AI.

Edited 5/8/2025 22:31:01

Travel back in time card.

You travel back to X turns prior. This way you get a 2nd chance if you messed up some things. Or if you used the future card before, get a 2nd chance if the AI messed up some things.

Edited 5/8/2025 22:34:38

What's the story regarding trolls in CL? Sounds like there are non-serious players, and their teammates accept their surrenders?

Sounds like a team/clan problem, not something you can solve via any additional mechanism, they'll just find new ways to troll, like always treating teammates as enemies instead of transferring, etc

trolls can only be perma killed with fire.
it is known

You've convinced me krinid - the troll clan is probably rotten beyond redemption. Only excommunicating the troll would show me that they are serious.

Otherwise maybe they should be banned from CL then? Or at the least be given a severe point penalty.

It's not optimum to let the troll run rampant all over us. I just wish that an enormous python would incapacitate and squeeze some sense into the troll - is that too much to ask?

maybe a different forum for this?
here we tell krinid our great card ideas and he either creates them or tells us why were stupid.

lol, I would agree that you want a different forum for trolls in CL; there's no mod that will solve a troll problem

here we tell krinid our great card ideas and he either creates them or tells us why were stupid

lol, more like why I respond indicating why:
(A) it's not possible (eg: can't interact with surrenders, can't modify teams in a game, can't bring back eliminated players, etc)
(B) it's possible, is an interesting/fun idea but really not likely to be used in games
(C) it's possible, interesting and actually practical

i look for the mod ideas that fulfill (C)

it can easily take 10-20 hrs to code and test a mod, so i focus on the ones where players will actually:
(i) create games using this mod
(ii) actively join games that use this mod
(iii) enjoy this functionality in a game when this functionality is played