If you have any questions, thoughts or feedback, feel free to make a thread.

And remember, everybody's way of working might not be exactly the same so you might all have different needs so lets foster a positive atmosphere of trying to help eachother out and focus on what's good for the modding community in general first :)

Current Goal statement:

The absolute long term goal of all this is to have a fully functioning mod SDK that allows all types of modding, as far as GW allows us. This means editable maps, custom models, custom skins, full steam workshop integration, etc etc. It's a very long way there so first things first.

The nearest short term goal is to get the mod SDK up and running and in use by the modding community. This means that it should preferably have all the functionality previous solutions have or equivalent replacement functionality. This means I will primarily focus on getting lua mods working as best they can first as this is where the most modding is currently.

In the long term we also want to provide a clear distinction for users between sanctioned QoL mods, gameplay changing mods and cheats. This means both providing a guarantee to users that want to play unmodded games are allowed to do so without risking having cheaters disrupt their games or having involuntary modded experiences forced upon them. On the flip side, the goal will also be to increase the exposure of gameplay altering mods and allow players running modded games to more easily find eachother. In practice the current only way to warn users that a host is running a modded game is to use mods to alter the game name in the lobby browser, ideally we'd instead offer users a way of searching for games running different mods or making an unmodded search.

No mods will be forbidden in any way, even cheats, but we want to offer those players that want a vanilla experience to be able to do so without interference. Sanctioned QoL mods would be allowed to be used in any game, modded or not. Things that would qualify here are things like damage numbers, third person camera, gear inspection, inventory management or any other mod that gets the official sanction as an official mod. This will never include cheats.