The need to MOD

As long as there are MMOs, there will always be people who think that they can do a better job.

Sometimes they're just bitter whiners complaining about a class nerf.

Sometimes though, they're clever, intuitive people who see a way to improve existing code.

I think that the first user interface mod for Age of Conan was out within a week of general release. The fact that the player community in many of todays MMOs can look at a new release and figure out a way to optimise the layout of the interface is both good and bad.

It's good because there are people out there who care about games and want to make things run more efficiently, while being easier to use. It's a bad thing because, quite frankly, the game designers should see these issues and improve their UI before release.

You could argue, I suppose, that the Devs allow the coding to be altered so that people can freely pick their own UI of choice.

However, I digress as usual.

Today I wanted to quickly highlight a UI mod for AoC which has been released and is an absolute godsend. Especially if you are like me and always need more buttons! It reduced the size of the original clumpy buttons and adds a 3rd row for buff options. The latest version adds even more room so I'm in mod heaven right about now!

In addition, if you are familiar with the standard UI, the change to the button size means that you now effectively have about 48 buttons down the right hand side of the screen!

It's called WerikUI and can be found on the developers website here or through the Curse portal here.

Either way, it's a good start and I'll be keeping my eye out for more addons as the months progress.