20/09/2012 This is unfortunately a sad announcement .
For the reasons explained in these two posts
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread....38#post12025938http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread....34#post12026734the DarthMod project will no longer continue for Total War games.
There will be some support for older games, if needed, as all my mods are complete now but there will be not a new DarthMod for new Total War games and of course not for the upcoming RTW2. I believe this is what CA also wanted for years, so I think they are happy now.
I am one of the biggest fans of Total War games, I do not think someone can deny this, but as CA continued to devalue my efforts to improve their games, I would be a fool to "insist".
Do not worry about the future of the current DarthMods. They will stay and will be probably somewhat more improved. Maybe now I will have more time to play them...
Thank YOU, the fans who really show me your appreciation of my modding work not only by your kind posts but also by numbers:
DarthMod Empire
www.moddb.com/mods/darthmod-empire(More than 500.000 cumulative downloads from 22/3/2009 to 18/9/2012)
DarthMod Empire v8.0 Platinum (released 16/9/2012) is my largest project yet. Uncompressed it is 13GB and got approximately 22.000 unique downloads in its first 3 days of release. Its forum is here:
www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1126DarthMod: Shogun II
http://moddb.com/mods/darthmod-shogun-2(More than 250.000 cumulative downloads from 25/3/2011 to 18/9/2012)
DarthMod Napoleon
http://moddb.com/mods/darthmod-napoleon (More than 67.000 cumulative downloads from 02/12/2011 to 18/9/2012)
Finally I want to thank all the fellow co-modders and partners with whom I have collaborated and continue to correspond with. Really bright and clever, I always enjoyed cooperating with such kind of people, you cannot meet often in your daily routine.
Now you know...
See you around this page, TWCenter or maybe elsewhere.
Nick Thomadis aka DARTH VADER