HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

just got the Gold in the mail... installed it and added the 1.94(?) patch (latest one I could find, whatever the number)... I then found the 'extras' section of the CD... I DL'd & installed the ModLauncher zip... then the TDM & Pirates/Nomands Mods...

Now I'm totally baffled by what else I should install from this disk (as well as from other sources)...

should I install any of the files that tweek the game itself? ie, weapon mounts, intelligence projects, etc?

will these even have an effect if I play say the TDM mod?

help a brutha out

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

In general, mods are not compatible with each other and can not be used together. There are a few exceptions, such as FQM, though not many.

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

Well installing the mod launcher was a good start, next you should get FQM Deluxe and all the image mod packs. Then I would recommend mods like: Invasion!(which you can get from the link in my siggy), Adamant, STM.

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

after you dl'd the ones on the cd, you need to upgrade the mods to their newest Versions. TDM I believe is up to 3.4 and P&N is up there the same as all the rest. You will need these to play PBW games and also to give you a better game in SP play. Most of the upgrades can be found at spaceempires.net or on some of the other links.

[ June 17, 2004, 02:56: Message edited by: mac5732 ]

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

Agree with what mac just said: The stuff on the CD is waaaaay out of date. Look up the latest Versions of all the mods, packs and shipsets. I think there's a sticky thread at the top of this forum to help you find them, or you could just go to Fyron's site- that seems to have everything. Check his sig earlier in this thread.

Essential:
-Mod Launcher and/or se4 companion.
-TDM modpack (latest Version).
-As many user races as you can be bothered to download (ALL available races are listed here )

My personal recommendations on top of all that:
-Image mod (unless you're on dialup- huge download)
-FQM
-Adamant and some of the other "new generation" mods.
-Proportions mod
-Devnullmod
-Pirates & Nomads mod
-Neo-expansion pack and proportional response pack (click my banner)

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'd stick with the Modlauncher, the SE4 companion is beta and still not very user friendly, the Modlauncher is very straightforward and easy to use.

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I like to think of Adamant as more of a "mid generation" mod. It has been in beta for some 20 months now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ June 17, 2004, 08:55: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm sure glad you are not developing a whole game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

...Back to your regularly scheduled topic...

[ June 17, 2004, 18:05: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There are what appears to be 3 pages of links at spaceempires.net that list Image Mod as the beggining of their name... should i DL ALL of them? Is there a single large file I can DL instead of DL'ing all those seperate ones?

On the Races, is it safe to DL & Install every race listed there (the link you provided)? are they all Gold Compatable?

Re: HELP! SE4Gold - which EXTRAS to add?
 

http://imagemod.spaceempires.net/

Download the 5 files labeled as "Full". There is no single download containing all images.