How do I make my own mods?

[kidak]

I was wondering if the program that people are using to make mods is free and if so can someone tell me where to get a copy of it so i can start trying to make my own mods.

[ItchyFlea]

Rhodes uses .Net Reflector with the Reflexil plugin to mod. Source: http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=1092.msg12010#msg12010

For my [CustomScenario]'s, I open save files up with Notepad (sometimes Notepad++ for quick find/replace) and change things in there.
If you go my method, I highly suggest checking each change you make to ensure the game is able to load the save file. This is something I still see regularly: http://i.imgur.com/uHOGFTo.jpg If you see that, that means the change you made broke the game.

[kidak]

Thanks now to just try and find it on the web. Off to google

[Vilusia]

You could also just wait for the mod support update that is coming soon.

[murlocdummy]

The mod support update isn't coming soon enough it seems.

It costs $95 for .NET Reflector.  I'm considering buying it to mod this game to my exacting specifications, but I wonder how much I'm going to have to study up on the code to understand enough to actually do anything of use.

[why1do]

moding with reflector is mostly finding what you want to do then hope you don't crash the game

[M3ta]

Haven't used it with this game but have done some reverse engineering in my line of work.

Instead of giving red gate $95... Use ilspy (only reads it but gives you a similar interface to .net reflector) and grey wolf to modify the .net IL code.

https://www.digitalbodyguard.com/graywolf.html :/ free option worth trying at least.