Mods are not the base game

[CodeMage]

@TeleTesselator

Maybe someone can link to one such?

This one’s the closest I can get:

Would like to see temperature mattering more on both maps

I have noticed in a very stand out way that temperature seems to mean much less than it did . I used to remember a great deal more what clothing you wore when you ventured out into the wilderness. Was there a mass complaint about getting too hot or cold and I messed it to the tune of the temp meaning next to nothing now ?

And even that one, in my opinion, wasn’t really derailed because someone said “there’s a mod for that lol”, but rather because someone challenged the importance of the survival aspect in Conan Exiles.

I could probably go digging for older threads and eventually find a better example, but the level of effort it would require should make it plain that “there’s a mod for that” isn’t really an overused, borderline-troll statement.

The vast majority of the times mods are mentioned in a suggestion topic, it turns out like one of these recent threads:

• In-Game Economy for PVE-PVC Request: mods were mentioned, but it was in passing, to acknowledge that they existed, while still affirming that the feature would be welcome in base game
• Turn a rival player into a thrall: along with discussing why the feature would not be suitable for the base game – on its own merits – mods were mentioned as an alternative

Those discussions look perfectly valid to me, and the mention of mods in them contributes to them instead of detracting. If people think that is borderline trolling, then I disagree with their definition of trolling.