I have first hand information that a new mega mod is in the making, but probably many of you know what I am talking about.
Nonetheless, in my opinion there is no need to rush on this one.
Just like cooking a delicious soup is more than putting water, salt and chopped vegetables together, preparing a balanced megamod (à la GWX, if you get my meaning) is much more than merging a group of mods together. Even after solving possible incompatibilities, one should aim making the selected mods to work well together. Take waves height for instance. They are not simply a cosmetic feature; on the contrary they will affect U-boat's handling on heavy seas. It is well possible that an excellent U-boat physics mod designed over stock waves, won't perform well when used on the background of a custom wave mechanics mod. On turn, deck gun's accuracy will be affected by both wave mechanics and U-boat physics... I could go further with my (oversimplified) examples, but I think you got an idea already.
SH5 got lot of parameters interacting with each other. The effect of many of them is known already, but there are many others that need to be figured out yet. Understanding and finetuning them is the base for obteining a good megamod, something destined to last, rather than a chimeric monster. Doing it is way too much for a single modder though. In my opnion, what is needed before the next megamod is brong to completion is:
- modders to conceive their mods as a piece of a bigger picture, i.e. designing their work over a set of preexisting mods, rather than ignoring what has been already done by other modders, and starting every time from scratch;
- better mod documentation (as suggested by Bathrone), and better knowledge sharing in form of modding tutorials and TEC threads;
- new comers to stop spamming the forum with their requests, and starting to figure things out. There are some good examples of recent members who are doing so. The last example, in chronological order, is Macardigan and his brilliant discovery that, after all, hydrophone sounds are not as static as we all had thought so far
