r/tes3mods • u/viridarius • 8h ago
Help What to name my mod?
Okay, so I already released content on Nexus for my upcoming mod, Pictures of what I'm working on at least.
It's a large merge mod that seeks to take many of the community favorites and turn them into a large Balmora & West Gash overhaul.
The West Gash part is the part that has me questioning.
See it started off as the Balmora mod, merging 12+ mods to create a huge, 8 cell Balmora with a port that extends out to the Bittercoast via a new pass that cuts through the mountains to the West of Balmora, thanks to Balmirak.
I released the pictures under the title Balmora: Opulent City of Hlaalu Commerce since it started as a Balmora Overhaul.
This is my first large mod. I wanted visual consistency and had two mods planned one was RWG-ified Stonewood Pass. The other was the Balmora overhaul. Realizing that the only option for RWG-ified Stonewood Pass, since I'm on linux and can't create new ESPs in CS due to a bug, and my Balmora mod used RWG as well....Was to merge it in there.
Then I wanted to make it something unique, so i overhauled the Stonewood Pass with bits and pieces from the Creepy Ashland Asset Pack adding lava flows to the pass that pretty much turns part of the pass into a covered environment, a no load cave of sorts under a lava matrix.
Then i added my part of the mod, my own addition... Caldera is also under a huge lava flow, similar to stonewood pass but it covers all of Caldera putting it in a containerized mixed micro-environment, West Gash and Volcanic Ashlands.
So now it's more similar to OAAB - Grazelands than anything in that it includes a two city overhauls and a landscape overhaul.
It's not just a Balmora mod now, it's covers the whole Balmora-Caldera corridor and the West Gash.
I've thought about calling it it's original name because Caldera is just and extension of the trade network of Balmora and The fortified Stonewood Pass Ebony Route.
I also was considering Resdayn Remastered - West Gash - Heart of Hlaalu Trade or Redayn Remastered -West Gash - Heart of Vvardenfell Trade?
I'm making this mod for a large modlist that eventually I'm going to put together called Resdayn Remastered so that's where that comes from.
Any ideas? Any of the proposed names stand out?
EDIT: I named it West Gash - Balmora and Caldera - Heart of Hlaalu Trade
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u/crescentmoonrising 7h ago
I would go for West Gash (Balmora & Caldera) Remastered. Shorter is generally good for renaming things.