Keep up the good work everyone!

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This section is called "Help and Feedback" so here is some "Feedback."

When I first played Morrowind many years ago, I loved it! Vvardenfell was a unique place. I thought Balmora, Ald Ruhn, Sadrith Mora, and especially Vivec were impressive cities for games at the time. However, a few years ago I explored a small part of TR for the first time during which I discovered Firewatch, Port Telvannis, Necrom, Helnim, and Akamora, along with a few smaller towns. I was really impressed. A few weeks ago I installed Preview for the first time and used my flyover ring just going across the map randomly. I recognized Baan Malur from a flyover video I had seen online a couple years ago during one of my non-Morrowind periods and during my random exploration I discovered Cormar, Kogotel, Kragen Mar, Narsis, Andothren, and many other smaller unfinished Hlaalu and Redoran towns and I was in love with their designs. Of course, I landed and explored Old Ebonheart, Roa Dyr and Almas Thirr a bit on foot since those are in release, and then moving towards what I saw before a few years ago, saw the unfinished but beautiful Almalexia City and spent over a half hour just exploring the city on foot. I later downloaded the mod which adds a working door between the Almalexia exterior and Tribunal's Mournhold, which I felt improved my immersion there just a tiny bit because it is otherwise a "ghost town."

All the work the TR team is doing is very visually impressive. Even the unfinished towns have epic layouts. Immersion was broken a bit more in Narsis than the other unfinished places because it's in part of the region which has not been landscaped yet, but it was still a really cool city. I also liked the three little Nord villages between Baan Malur and Solstheim.

As some of you know, I am working on a couple mods for TR. The main one is to expand Children of Morrowind into TR lands. I felt it was appropriate to do some random exploration just to see the scale of TR as a whole because it helps me keep my focus on the ultimate goal of eventually everything will be built and I will have contributed a lot of characters (unofficially of course.) Seeing the size and scope of all these cities really put into perspective just how epic the project as a whole is, and even though my contribution is not officially part of the project, it still makes me happy and feel like I am part of something big.

I rarely explore Vvardenfell anymore. While the island will still always be home to me in Morrowind and I have spent countless hours there over the last 16 or so years since I started playing, now those 4 cities and the rest of them seem bland and almost boring by comparison. The metropolises of TR easily dwarf anything on the island except arguably Vivec, and even the smaller towns have more interesting and pretty layouts than the original towns. I have even thought about modifying the house mod I use to put the exterior in TR instead of Vvardenfell, but the only problem with doing that is I am having severe indecision about where to set my house, there are so many cool towns!

Sorry for the wall of text. I guess what I'm trying to say is keep up the good work! Ten years into exploring Vvardenfell I still hadn't seen and discovered everything. I will probably be exploring TR for many decades to come!

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Thank you. And happy to hear that you are happy to mod this.....mod, for Morrowind.