Poll: Vvardenfell

[Kauz]

I have seen one major problem with this project:

A disorganized claims system.

I get the feeling the claim system itself might be the problem.

With so many past failed projects, people tend not to take expansion mods seriously, unless the core can do a great deal of the work on their own. Just take a visit to Bethsoft's forum and see what kind of treatment modders who expect too much from the community get. Nobody takes those threads seriously at all.

Don't get me wrong, the claim system is good, but it should be the core completing most of them.

Also, I like the temporary dictator suggestion. If Zurke, or somebody else who is trusted, can just re-vamp the claims section, it would get the mod back on its feet.

What would get the mod back on its feet is for the core to simply start modding. I'm quite sure nothing else will, no amount of forum re-vamping, claim re-vamping and asking other people for help will.

Even if leadership is weak, if you have open claims, and somebody to review them, people will work.

Weak as in poor decisions or low modding skills? Because there is a huge problem with both of them, but especially with if the leaders have no more than a few modding skills. At Bethsoft, everyone who opens a thread to recruit new people for their new TC is told they will not get anywhere unless they can do most of the work. This kind of approach of thinking you can get 10 people to join and do the work for you is utterly flawed and if the leadership can't even review claims and needs someone else to do it, maybe it's time to choose another leader, preferably the best modder you have on the team who wants to because ultimately skill matters the most. Nobody needs dictators.

Note that I'm speaking in "if"s, so if the new core can mod most stuff on its own (Balmora should be easy to do replicate, including NPCs and their AI) and has enough free time and follows a totally different approach that doesn't involve waiting for others to come work, it should get far enough and maybe then you can find 10 people to continue the work for you. You'll still need to review claims though. Otherwise, I predict that within one year this project will no longer exist. People will slowly lose interest completely in Oblivion, if they haven't already lost interest in this mod due to lack of progress. It will get harder and harder to attract any support from the Oblivion community.