09-09-2010, 12:18 AM
5040575E5E320 wrote: Rob, the included mansions will never be available from the forums because those are mansions that people pay Actionsoft for playing. The custom mansions in MM2 are more like a bonus. Vern has agreed that they can be downloaded from the forums (and thus might be updated quicker than the included mansions).
Seems reasonable I suppose, though technically, you need the game engine which you pay for to really play the mansions, especially given some of the changes from MM1 to MM2. Perhaps modifications could be made to make them run under MM1, but it probably wouldn't be easy, and they would still require substantial effort to adapt, to the point where you'd wonder why someone would even bother given the already low price.
I realize that this may not always be the case in the future with other expansions that don't feature many changes to the game.
As for the custom mansions... I fully expect that over time the custom mansions will vastly outnumber the included mansions as has happened for MM1 (why should it be any different?), and I'm a little puzzled over why that should really matter. Comments from those custom mansions are already separate from the Included mansions. I was just thinking that there could still be some value from easily separating out the comments for each Included mansion, though it won't be evident early on. That value only increases over time as posts and topics increase. Ultimately, I'd never expect it to compete with the posts for custom mansions.
I didn't *really* expect my original post to change the status quo, but it didn't seem unreasonable to me. Still doesn't. Thanks for creating a new topic by the way... it's what I should have done originally.