BD-WeiDU in PPG modlist, [Topic split by Baronius] Options

[Witch Lisa]

Would you like to add your Fix here pocketplane?

[Baronius]

It's funny to see the amount of text under the G3 "BG2 Fixpack" there compared to the other packs. Nevermind, that would be off-topic.

Actually, the main problem of the Modlist follows from its structure itself. It tries to squeeze a mod to one (or sometimes 2-3) fixed category. Mods could be organized based on keywords instead (or as a more sophisticated solution, some signficance -- i.e. a number -- could be assigned to each keyword/category for a given mod, so it would reflect how much content a mod has item-wise, spell-wise, tactics etc.). In that way, people could search for mods based on keywords/expressions (perhaps extended with logical operators), but a complete list would still be available, of course (just a query based on keywords). The current solution is suboptimal, it lists Improved Anvil as an item-related and quest-related mod, but surprisingly enough it's missing from the category "BG2 Tactical Challenges". It should be added to a few other categories as well (including the Tactical Challenges), but Sikret has already detailed this so it's needless to repeat it.

Of course, it's also a problem that it is supposed to be "comprehensive" at any cost, accuracy is unimportant. This partly follows from the above technical reasons, but also from the attitude of maintainers. For example, BD-WeiDU was added by someone just because the list must be "comprehensive", but its description mentions tweaks while the usual propaganda text of BG2 Fixpack ("hundreds of new fixes") does not mention that many of the hundreds of "fixes" are also tweaks (or that most of them are insignificant). But this would lead far, so I won't say more.

So this modlist isn't impartial, but fortunately there are other ways as well to find and learn about various mods for new players.

I've splitted the topic, now it doesn't burden the main download topic ("Download Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5").