Help needed to install mods
 

Sorry to aska noob question, but im having problems getting any mods to work.

I am using SE4 gold updated to 1.91.

i have downloaded and tried to install the trek mod and babylon 5 mods, and the mobeus mods from there.

I created sub directories with the names of the mods, and copies all the files there in the structure they arrived in.

I have tried running them both with the mod launcher utility and by changing the path file to point at them.

In each case, i get errors when trying to launch the game. The errors are generated when running the settings.txt file it seems, and they say things like :

game settings data file error

could not find field "asteroids value low percent" in record 1.

this forms a list ending with the

could not find field "fighters can be hit by mines" in record 1.

I dont know what to do to make this work, so any help is appreciated.

Aurore

Re: Help needed to install mods
 

Sounds like they may be corrupted, or not in the right format. Try downloading them again. You might have an old Version.

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I downloaded all 3 from the PBW site. It seems unlikely all 3 would be corrupted. Am I installing them wrong?

Aurore

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Just a guess: where shouldn't be any nested folders, ie ...se4folder\star trek mod\star trek mod\. Correct path will be: se4folder\star trek mod\ . In teh star trek mod folder you should find a bunch of subfolders: AI, Data, Dsgnname, and so on.

Re: Help needed to install mods
 

By the looks of the errors, it is finding the data files. However you may be using mods designed for earlier Versions of SE4- I think the B5 mod in particular is made for 1.49.

Re: Help needed to install mods
 

If you have your SEIV Disk handy re-install SEIV. Sometimes people install OLD SEIV and then apply the update and that causes a lot of problems.

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I believe that all of those mods are not compatible with SE4 Gold.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This is most likely the problem. I guess if it is, how would he go about fixing them?

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Lots of data file and AI file editing, fixing each error that displays in turn. Then hunting down a post by Capn Q or whatever his name is that has a file linked to in his sig listing ALL changes that need to be made to make a shipset compatible with Gold. Not all of the problems occur when loading the game up.

Re: Help needed to install mods
 

I keep waiting for someone to slip a McDonalds or the Statue of Liberty into the facility pack... Heh

Wildcard

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Isn't the Statue of Liberty in there already, amidst the other wonders from Rise of Nations?

edit:

Nevermind, guess it isn't. The Apollo rocket is though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ May 09, 2004, 04:02: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: Help needed to install mods
 

Thank you for the replies.

I guess if theyre not compatible then theres not much to be done.

Anyone know of mods which ARE compatible with gold? I would like to try some. Its a shame all the ones I wanted to try were not for gold though. perhaps I should have tried to get the non gold Version.

Hmm let me guess. Gold was released 2 years after the original Version, and now very few people play the game anymore and hence no one has made new mods or converted the old?

Aurore

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Umm....I could be mistaken, but what I thought he meant was no one was making new mods and shipsets for PRE-GOLD SEIV, or even many people playing it anymore. Almost everyone has gone to Gold, so the old mods for pre-gold aren't converted. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the impression I got from his comment.

(EDIT: Ok, that doesn't make any sense either. Please ignore me.)

[ May 09, 2004, 16:42: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]

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I do not believe there are any mods currently under development for pre-gold SE4. Gold just gives so many more modding options... Same with AI writing for ship sets. Really, the only 1.49 mods that were not converted to Gold were the ones where the mod authors left the community for some reason. Almost all mods were converted to Gold.

http://www.malfador.com/se4mods.html links to pretty much all mods and lists which SE4 Version they require to run. Most require Gold.

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Since Fyron mentioned it, here (in my sig) is the link for converting pre-Gold AIs.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanx god you're wrong at this point http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Why do you think we are posting here? Right, because we're playing this game, making mods, shipsets etc
First of all look here: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005767 in the MOD SITES section, where are plenty of sites with the mods (mods for Gold and sometimes for nonGold).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The B5 MOD currently on PBW is for SEIV Version 1.49 (NON-GOLD). The Gold Version will be loaded their as soon as Lighthorse can work details out with the PBW crew.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">[INSERT]Shocked Expression[/INSERT]

SE IV Gold is very much an an active and ongoing game with recent additions to ship sets averaging one or two per month. We currently have nearly 25 or more GOLD ready mods including Adamant, Starfire, Star Trek, TDM, etc.

Whomever gave you the impression that SEIV is not played any more must have been talking about another game.

The membership of this forum grows daily as do the the number of people joining www.pbw.cc

Please take the time to look at all the new ship sets and mods before you stop playing SEIV.

Gold was a bonans of successful mods, ship sets, utility programs, art work, and fan fiction. SEIV is very much alive and well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

For current information, I hope, look at the second sticky from the top of this forum. Important SEIV stuff. Also click on the links in my signature for more SEIV related things, and be sure to visit www.spaceempires.net for all the greatest downloads. State of the Art Ship Yards and Tesco's site also have listings for most if not all of the ship sets currently available for download.

Be sure to join up at www.pbw.cc and try your hand against us human players. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif