i would love to join that group. maybe i can learn a bit by reading through the past chatlog lol.

The discord group of course, we have two community, one is the formal group by game devs, the other is my own group which for "Age Of Kalika" mod. both group you can have discussion with making mods.

is the group on steam or are you talking about the discord?

You can join our group if you need more detailed instructions, sometimes it's not easy to explain just through words.

It's another way to lock the slots you don't want：build a useless item with "CantDemo" tag first, and put it on the mecha setting

For example, if you want to ban the melee weapon, create a useless weapon first (for example, some special cannon or the other, which have 60s CD or even longer), such as giving an ID like "114514", and put this "114514" stuff on your melee weapon slots in your Mod file, that is how it work.

Thanks for the insight! Updated the mod without packaging it this time. I did set the maxbattery for the melee slot to 0 and i dont know how to lock that part. i set it to 1 instead. I'll fiddle with PlayerTxt another time i still havent touched skills and mecha sprites yet

4. Dialogue have to be added in the file which called "PlayerTxt-English"
(Of course, you need to do this for other languages ​​as well), please note that you should not change "PlayerStreetTxt-English" because we can't do that right now.

Overall, in terms of balance, I think this MOD is quite good cause the mech is quite good to operate, you even do that with vanilla items only, good work.

If you have any technical requirements for MOD production, or need a place to discuss, you can also join my Discord, you can find its link under my MODs.

Also, I'll be looking forward to your wizard character mod, keep going

3. But also, there is a lot of issue on the description text, I think it might because you're using some punctuation in your text. because this game is a Chinese game, so the system itself have some issue when it read 「,」 and 「" 」, make sure you using 「，」and「 ' 」 for instead.
Beside, some texts seems be missing, such as the Introduction of characters when it as items, the manufacturer of mecha, etc.
(Because you locked the MOD file, I can't check and tell you clearly where there may be problems, so you have to check it by yourself)

So, here is the suggestions：

1. First thing first, "removed the melee slots" is not working, you have to set these slots to 0 clearly but not just remove or ignore it; otherwise it just causing bug and players can equip any type of melee weapons they want, which you definitely don't want to be happen.

2. 80 of Mecha speed only and rest 300% of them setting on the pilot, that is a unexpected move and doing well. This can effectively prevent players from using various methods to increase the speed of this mecha to a value you don't want.

thanks a lot! though i think i was too ambitious by starting with a whole custom char instead of just modifying Mary lol. i wanted to make it so she'll receive stress whenever there is a break and she'll reduce stress after having been in combat. or add negative traits whenever you ask her what she thinks about the war. maybe i'll do a boss run instead where every day you only fight bosses but for now i'll finish my three chars

Is very good to see that we have new member who join this community, I will try this MOD and see if I can offer some suggestions to you

oh it uploaded, i couldnt get the chatter to work so she's only using the default responses from Mary and i couldn't add a longer description in her ingame bio as it stopped working when i did that.

If someone can give me advice on how to replace her dialogue ingame i'd appreciate it, i ripped that Player_English file right out and adding a 5 didn't work.

Still a work in progress mod as i wanna add more art after i buy myself a tablet and stop using Paint 3D. I used the character template from here https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3173467241&searchtext=character
It might be outdated but it was still useful.