Originally Posted by Quaxo
Originally Posted by Twotricks
Perhaps even a mode where some kind of tile system exists.


This will never happen. It would involve rebuilding the game engine to support such a mode and, judging from the very little work they've put into improving the current editor, I doubt they would even consider it.

Originally Posted by eRe4s3r

I just hope Larian realizes that a properly streamlined editor would save them a LOT of money because things could be done INFINITELY faster than they can be done currently.


I'm not sure what you had in mind when you wrote this, but it makes absolutely no sense. How would streamlining the editor save them money? Once they game is bought, that's it. There's no extra cost to them as it is. They've sold a few hundred thousand copies so far, which amounts to somewhere past $5M at $39.99 each at least (not that they get the full amount from each sale). They've got more than enough to fund their next project (DOS was done with just under $1M).


Adding those 2 new companions to this game takes as long as it does exactly because it's nearly impossible to integrate new characters into an already existing campaign with this editor. Aside that, what I was thinking about is the expansion that is going to come. A better stream-lined editor makes everything happen faster. And time is money in game development. When you occupy your map makers and scripters for 6 months on 1 map because the editor has flaws then they are not making new maps for other things in your project pipeline. Meaning everything takes longer.

They will use this editor for years to come