To confirm: This mod is outdated, use this one instead!!!!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3159404303

@zenblack I had some time and took a look at it. Hotfixed it and uploaded.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3159404303

@r47926
You can point people there

@Lucjan. Sounds great! Enjoy your Valentine's day.

@Zenblack I can take a look and see I would be able to fix it but I wont have time until after valentine's so you would have to wait for it.

Can someone please update this? This is a simple UI thing that is just so useful, free movement, morale, ammo, and tired stuff.

Is there any way to make this work with the latest patch? I'm especially missing the feature that shows your merc's Tired/Rested status.

Can anybody point to a mod doing something similar?

Yes. It doesn´t work

After 1.4 it stopped working for me.

This hasn't broken by now?

Alone this mod works fine, but with my modpack it causes bobby ray's shop to be empty. I'm too tired to find out what it conflicts with exactly,

Hi, this MOD has a compatibility issue with another one, called "Maxstacks tweaks".
It causes the stack on a quick slot item to show an absurdly large number (like 9999999999999), or an item that would be scrapped into a large number of matts.

All right guys thanks. I am going to install it then, and hope for the best.

@r47926 Agreed. I was mainly venting my frustration at Audaki and other devs yanking their mods straight out of people's playthroughs,

In light of the recent occurrences, there's a real need to discuss the Workshop Subscription mechanics as well as Steam's related TOS in a central thread devoted to the topic. This thread is much too limited in its reach for that purpose.

I'm sure JA3 isn't the only frequently patched game where players experienced mods being pulled out from under their feet. It's likely they're equally eager to voice their opinion on the subject.

@thenomad111 I doubt anyone can give you a reliable answer to your question, not even the devs or the modder themselves. However, it says on the box that 'Everything is safe to add and remove at any time' so I'll go on a limb and say I doubt it'll outright break your saves. There's not much you can do but take a leap of faith and risk it.

@thenomad111: In general, if a mod is missing, the game will display a message when loading that save but will still load the save. After playing for a while (loading/reloading) the message will not show up anymore.

I've read reports regarding mods that add/change items/inventory slots and those were gone after disabling the mod (also vanilla items that were stacked higher or in incombatible slots). But the savegame could still be continued normally.

In this case, I don't expect any problems after disabling the mod in a savegame, because AFAIK all this mod does is display things in the UI that are already calculated in the game (but not visible). Also, Audaki stated in her description "Everything is safe to add and remove at any time.", which she didn't state in every mod she made.

However, keep in mind that I'm not the creator of the mod and the mod is not maintained, so there's neither a guarantee it won't break anything nor is there support if it does.

@Everyone: Please continue this discussion about the principles of public domain in regards to mods as well as the Steam Workshop and other modding websites/alternatives somewhere else. The Steam JA3 discussion forums are a much better place for this and would also be easier to find for people looking for such information. If you'd like to create a topic there, I can link it on this page as well.
I might delete off-topic comments on this page in the future.

Not familiar with mods, when the new updates break mods or at least this one, would I be able to continue my save if I removed the mod? I want to install this mod for the colored ammo alone, but I would hate to restart if my save breaks.

I´ve looking into the patches descriptions and coudn´t see anything related to better AI behaviour. I wonder if they would fix that in a future.

True. The updates could be potential headaches for the mods; but they'll all be for the good in the long run. I could see JA3 surviving for many more years. Until then, I'll try to finish the game with whatever we have right now. :)

when the trap says "disarm" it's explosive, when is says "disable" it's mechanical

Thanks for the heads uo. It looks like promising but looks like is going to give us lots of headaches to keep our mods functional...

Hold on to your hats… and your mods.

Just a heads up to players running modded playthroughs that Haemimont has announced their plans [community.jaggedalliance.com]to release four new patches in the coming weeks, one per month (JA3 v1.2 - 1.5).

I predict we’re going to see a lot of fluctuations in the JA3 Workshop soon, so it’s probably a good idea to back up your mod collection while there’s still time.

@Wyatt, glad to help. And about what you say about the mods, you are right. I am not a big fan of Nexus terms and services policy but some middle ground must be found between modders ¨I take it because is mine¨ and the Nexus practices for the good of the community.

@Zacarias Satrústegui Thanks for mentioning that alternative site. It's a real service to players who’ve recently had some of their installed mods pulled from their game.

Steam really needs to review their uploads policy to prevent modders from suddenly deleting their mods w/o any explanation or prior notice.

I’m thinking something along the lines of either mandating a cooldown period before final deletion, or simply delegating all rights of the mod to Steam once they’re uploaded to the workshop.

Heck, if the policy works for other sites, why not here on Steam?

@NedLynch you can find it in Skymods.

Well, if someone decides to maintain it, it wouldn't make sense to have a second, out-of-date version in the workshop. I'd prefer if there was just one version. But maybe the contributors could upload to this page (if possible in Steam), so the subscribers don't have to look for the new version.
Otherwise, I would of course try to notify people ahead of time that they're supposed to switch to the new version.

Please, don't delete the mod. That's the problem. You don't have to maintain it. She never had to maintain it. Just because you're abandoning it doesn't mean you need to remove it - a simple note 'this mod will get no further updates' is sufficient.

But thank you for posting this version.

Thank you very much, r47926. This mod has become one of my "must haves" for JA3. And thank you to Audaki for all the time spent making some truly great mods and allowing them to be re-uploaded.

THANKS to you r47926

You're welcome. :)

@elderiii There's no difference in format for Steam/Nexus, but I'm not sure you're looking at the correct files. It's easiest to just download the files from Nexus if you want a local backup. I've collected the links to the Nexus mirrors of files I re-uploaded in my post in the thread about Audaki in the Steam forums.

@r47926 it works flawlesly. Thanks so much for uploading them back.

Thank you so much for downloading these mods. I wonder why she deleted them from STEAM, somehow it's all strange. Disregard for your subscribers. For example, in XCOM, no modeler has ever done something like this, and here I'm watching it all for the second time. And her fashions are really great, it's a pity...

I just copying the hpk file that Steam uses for the mod sufficient as a backup, or does it need to be the Nexus format?

Thank you for the Nexus link, worked great.

@r47926 Your tip about accessing deleted Nexus mods is really neat. Thanks!

Found something, but I'm not sure whether it's the latest version (in-mod description varies from workshop page) and I don't know why she's deleted it. So please test it and tell me if it works.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035736077

Do you have the one that limited the voices by mercs when they receive orders? She deleted that one too some time ago. Thanks for reuploading them.

Youre welcome. :)

I'm not sure about Nexus, because a backup is actually still available there and I don't plan to actively maintain the mod anyway.
Files are still available on Nexus even after being deleted, as long as you know mod id and file id.
https://www.nexusmods.com/jaggedalliance3/mods/144?tab=files&file_id=503

I will post the corresponding Nexus URLs in the Steam discussion thread as well, to make them easier to find and being index by google.

Thx

Thanks a million for uploading this.

Do you plan to upload it on the Nexus as well?
It would be nice to have a copy of this mod just in case it gets deleted again.

Thanks!

Thanks! Scrap more and training overhaul are already uploaded.
I haven't tested them yet, because I've only installed this mod so far, still have to finish my first playthrough (without mods).
If there are any other mods by Audaki you'd like me to re-upload, feel free to post and I'll see if I can add them.

Are you planning to release scrap more and training overhaul and/or any others? I have some of these locally if you need them.

I understand how you feel @Wyatt, I was surprised myself when the mod disappeared. didn't know Steam was allowed to do that. ;) I am still used to feeling like I own a copy of software that I've downloaded myself, but I guess I'm just an "Old Dog" in that way.
TBH though, Audaki has done a terrific job with this mod and probably spent an insane amount of her free time to provide something, well, for free and she doesn't owe us anything. I'm sure quitting modding after spending so much time with it is not an easy decision, so deleting everything in order to burn your bridges is something I can totally relate to.

She did post her statement and permission only a few hours afterwards and the mods were easy enough to recover... Let's just hope someone will volunteer to put in the hours in the future and maintain this mod in case an update breaks anything.

@BaddAzzYellaBro, you're welcome. :)

I was wondering what happened, and suspected as much.

I was in the middle of evaluating and reconfiguring my mods for a new playthrough when the UI Enhancements suddenly disappeared from my JA3 Mod Manager.

This isn’t a small, niche mod either. It combines seven previously separate mods, and is fairly popular with JA3 players. I’m really thankful it didn’t happen to me mid-game, as I imagine it did for many players.

It's OK to quit modding if, for whatever reason, you're no longer interested in providing and maintaining them. But to suddenly delete the mod w/o any explanation or prior warning is a bit of a dick move imo.

Lesson learned, though. To ensure this won’t happen to me again, I’m going to quit the Workshop subscription service and manually download, install and backup my JA3 mod collection from now on.

Finally, a big thanks goes out to r47926 for doing the subscribers a solid and putting the mod back online.

Thank you.