After a poll on the mod's blog, asking if people would use a Discord server for the mod, I decided to go ahead with it due to positive results.

Here's the link:
https://discord.gg/WRvuVFg

I will use the server to post news, work in progress (some hot, never before seen stuff in there), ask for opinions and you can use it to tell me how ♥♥♥♥ the mod is and the infinite amount of problems you have.

It's a win win situation.

I hope to see you there.
Thanks for playing.

The long awaited (took more than I thought) big awesome update with new maps from Africa and Oceania is here!

A total of 17 new maps, plus fixes, changes and additions to existing maps are part of this update. Including new animals and natives for the new maps.
One of the fixes adresses the bug which caused starting units (such as explorers) to not spawn at the beginning of a game. This bug should no longer occur on any of the "official" maps.

Check out the mod's blog for more info!
https://impmod.blogspot.ro/2016/11/africa-and-oceania.html

The thing is, there's never been a proper discussion about balance in the mod. Sure, some people left balance related messages here and there, I also went and took balance ideas from other mods, the Fan Patch, the ESOC patch, that huge balancing thread on the Heaven forum, because let's be honest, you would be mad to ignore them. But some of those ideas didn't fit with my mod, for example I still ended up balancing the Dutch how I thought fit for the mod.

But is my way really better? This is what we need to discuss. I have a friend who helps me out with balancing but he has many ideas and, the truth is that an entire game cannot be balanced by just one man, as different people have different opinions about what is fair and balanced and what is not.

So, in the hope that people will be interested in helping out, I made a special thread on the mod's forum. Please go there and leave your opinion if you want the mod to be as balanced as possible.

http://impmod.freeforums.org/post677.html

I wanted to make a quick announcement that I've discovered why new HC cards, added by the mod, don't work and I thought this is important enough to let everyone know because this was the last problem the mod had on ESO.

As of now, everything that the mod adds, civilizations, cards, maps and everything else, they all work on ESO.

(an update will roll out later today with the fix for cards, check the blog to know when)

BUT, beware that mods are not officially supported so if anything happens don't come crying to me.

Thank you.

As you might know, there's been a huge breakthrough in the AoE3 modding community in the past week, a breakthrough which allows modders to finally and completely add new civilizations into the game!

And because of this, I went back and revived my American civ from the dead. Went through it, updated everything, fixed most bugs and I am now releasing it in the prototype as well.

Also, I need to stress this again, people who have the old version of the mod, if you plan to run the patcher again from this point onward, please reinstall your games first or else it will break everything.

That's all. Have fun. And report all the bugs that you find.

http://impmod.blogspot.ro/2016/03/improvement-mod-6-is-out-for-patcher.html