Its three months now since i last visited the forum and had a look at the progress...
I must admit, i am a little bit dissapointed. I wonder where are all those modders? Why do games like skyrim or fallout have bigger adult modding communities then the engine provided by xmp? What is going wrong? And why had the modding competition NOT the expected Impact? (I draw back because i thought it would be unfair to take part, as i allready had a lot experience working wth xmp engine).

I am unable to answer those questions, but at least i am able to tell why i am not into modding for xmp atm. Take it as a wishlist to improve the engine.

MODDING:
1.) Not beeing able to build complex controlable objects frustrates me.

THIS SHOULD BE THE TOP PRIORITY TASK!!!
2.) I am bored by the complexity of modding xmp because the toolchain is awefull. I now ended up by copying the filemanagers .ini into the 'mods' directory after finishing a mod... The filemanager really needs a good drag an drop GUI! Filemanager also should work as a modmanager, and a user should be able to define a 'mod' consisting of 'submods'. The lag of a intuitiv usable toolchain is maybe the most annoying thing about xmp. Get rid of forcing users to mess around with those nasty .inis and config files quickly, instead provide a Tool which handles the low level stuff in the background.
THIS SHOULD BE THE TOP PRIORITY TASK!!!

3.) Explain how to add custom animations.

4.) Add a statemachine editor to the under 2.) mentioned modmanager like Unity mecanim. This way a user does not need to have programming experience for creating stories, he just needs to add nodes and to connect properties of objects or npcs to states. (Even script code could be a linked property).

GAMEPLAY:
1.) Add a character customization screen. Just let the users manipulate the scale of the char's bones. Tried it with the provided example models, seems to work fine.
2.) Anyone has to add more interactivity to the characters! I know, this also can be done by the community... Let them make more sounds, move around if idle, touch the player, start a conversation. A good example how it should work would be ag3.

The engine is allready quite powerful. In fact interaction with the character is much better as it is in every other major title. (E.g. the latest game from illusion is miles behind xmp)
The game needs to be more accessible by mainstream users. You must not rely on people like me who fight a problem until its solved...

Remember this is no offense, Feedback is the source of quality and customer satisfaction! I honor your afforts and i do know producing such a title is really hard and time consuming work.

i agree that modding could be easier in case i think several more factors have to do with it

- it is easier if xpadmin makes everything a comfort thing
(waiting to next version and next version..)

- when one modder suspends his work developing mods etc. other modders thinking about suspending they works


when we make mods we get help from xpadmin/developers thats a good point that we should dont forget

pitty that you havent enter the modding challenge you could win a prize !?

could you continue making clothing mods and new dungeons/rooms

ps. i start this summer with modding

I also think that the community of XMP is not as big (far below) as the Skyrim one.
Not everyone knows this game. Unfortunately (or maybe it's a good thing) XMP is having more fame in the darknet and torrents or file service sharing.
A lot of people are downloading the game (for free ofc), but maybe some of them will buy or even contribute to this game.
It's a special form of advertising but still people are spreading the word of this game.

I think we also need more tools before adding more stuff. I'm talking without knowing too much about it but I think there still need a lot of work before being able to mods easily the game. XMP is trying their best between next updates, adding more tools to mods, make the community grows etc.

I hope you can make some mods for our community. In the mean time I try to participate everywhere I can spreading the word, defending the game etc (even in the dark places)

While I agree that modding should be a priority I think it's much more important to improve the core game. Skyrim would have never attracted a lot of modders if the core game was shallow and buggy. Without "normal" users the game or the modding scene will never really take off. Remember that even the best modding tools and simplest mod installers are way too complex to the average user (which means a huge majority, like 80+%).

The xmoon guys listen to the community and they know which direction to go and what has to be done. I posted my wishlist over two years ago and most of items on the list (i.e. Stage 1) can actually be ticked off (!), which is really quite impressive. What's missing now is maturing and extending the sandbox mode for the game to be more inviting to less "pro" users. The girl has got to be more interactive with the user, so that the more average user can get interested enough to start exploring all the possibilities (i.e. the game should appeal to people that don't have drug rape fetish/necrophiliac tendencies). In addition the controls (especially, but not only the thrusting) really has to be made more accessible.

For the kicks, I quoted my two year old post below: