Re: Gold Patch installing problem
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Marco:
For Mephisto: if this can help you for the next TDM-ModPack Version release, after installing the patch all works fine except a error message displayed about EarthAlliance_AI_Construction_Units.txt, this message say: "could not find field "Percentage of Resources to Reserve for Unit Construction" in record 1". The same message is not displayed for Narn Regime.<hr></blockquote>

Thanks Marco. Actually the Units.txt should not be in the current release of the Earth Alliance as it was from a beta patch were "Percentage of Resources to Reserve for Unit Construction" line was not yet created. My fault. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Gold Patch installing problem
 

Tampa_Gamer and Mephisto thank you! I found the file now.

Re: Gold Patch installing problem
 

Derb,

Unlike previous patches, v1.60 game files are not compatible with Gold v1.67.

To the best of my understanding. Here is what you need to do in order to patch your game in progress.

1) In admin options set your game turn generation to no automatic turns. Players must use v1.60. Once all player turns are uploaded...

2) Go to the admin. request forum at PBW and request that your game be upgraded to v1.67. Once they do so...

3) Generate the turn manually, the resulting turn files will be v1.67 compatible. They will not be 1.60 compatible. All players will need to patch their game to play using them.

About the patch:

In my experience it is far more "picky" than others indicate.

In my case it objected to an additional directory in my game folder created specifically for PBW saves and surprisingly to a downloaded shipsets folder.

Frankly, As someone else noted, you are best off moving all your stuff to another directory and doing a clean install of SEIV Gold before patching. Then reinstall your extras.

Re: Gold Patch installing problem
 

I renamed the original Gold folder and did a clean install, then patched the new install. I've got v1.49, v1.60, and v1.67 installed and working, but haven't tried to migrate any saved games yet.

[ Edit ] I've successfully migrated two v1.60 solo games to v1.67 now.

[ 13 April 2002: Message edited by: capnq ]</p>

Re: Gold Patch installing problem
 

Well, I did not have any problems to run the patch. At the time I applied it, I had four installations of SE4 on my computer (1.49, Gold Beta, and two 1.60 (one with mods included and one vanilla, which was about to be patched). Sure enough after a quick scan the patch.exe found exactly the one that I wanted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . Since the program asked for a verification, it would not have been a problem to select a different folder,either.

Rollo