New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

Hi,
I have purchased this title and are in the process of getting started. I have purchased the Delux edition that installs as v 1.93

When I try to patch the game with patch1 that is supposed to be from 1.93 to 1.94 I get an error message saying wrong version and to reinstall. I did anther reinstall and received the same message. I did try the 1.94 to 1.95 patch and it installed and the game appears to run ok and shows 1.95.

I downloaded the patches from the home page for the game.
Is there a problem with my installation, or possibly the patches. I do not want to start playing till I get this sorted out. I would hate to get part way through only to find out I have an incorrectly patch game.

Any help would be appeciated.

Cheers MarkL

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

The newest patch should be good. Public patches are typically happy with any older version, although in the past, daylight savings time has been known to confuse it.

You will probably want to get the Imagepacks while you're installing.
http://bt.spaceempires.net/download....7_2007.torrent
They're fully backwards-compatible addons to the stock graphics; includes new weapon animations, components, facilities and space objects.

Note: This does not change the stock game, but the majority of mods out there have the imagepacks as a dependency.
(Downloading and installing them once saves lots of time and space)

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

Thanks for the reply.

Will download the image packs as well. I have noticed there are a lot of mods for this game. It will be very hard to know where to start. Looks like it could end up like my flight simulator installation with many mods in the future. But I will have to work out which ones to start with.

Cheers MarkL

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

I just noticed the above mod is being distributed by torrent. Is there a link or something that I can use to see what ever other mods are being distributed by torrents?

I am not very familiar with torrent downloads

Cheers MarkL

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

http://bt.spaceempires.net/index.php

Most of the stuff isn't available as torrents, but the SE torrent index is here: http://bt.spaceempires.net/index.php

The other good place to look is on PBW (http://seiv.pbw.cc/)
All the mods that people play multiplayer are available up there (since the PBW server processes the turns for you, they need to be http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

The best mod list is on the Wiki... PBW doesn't necessarily have every mod it supports available in the download library (especially larger mods).

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Mods_(SEIV)

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

If you plan to play solo games, the TDM-ModPack is highly recommended.

For the purposes of the PBW site, v1.94 and v1.95 are functionally equivalent; any game listed as using v1.94 can be played with v1.95.

Even if PBW doesn't directly support a mod, it can still be used to automate turn collection and distribution.

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

Allow me to plug some of my stuff too:

The neoexpansion pack and proportional response pack will add prettiness to your modded games without changing gameplay or default files at all:

http://www.dogscoff.plus.com/files/Neoexpansion1_40.zip
http://www.dogscoff.plus.com/files/P...alResponse.zip

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

That's news to me also... thank you!

I'd recommend to start with TDM too, it is like stock game with improved AI. After that:
DevNull 1.80
AST (StarTrek)
Proportions (very different) or AICampaign
... the list goes on and on.

Re: New to S.E. IV & problems patching
 

Thanks for the links for these, they sound good mods to begin with.

Cheers MarkL

PS.
I have noticed that different sites all seem to have different patches. To avoid the patch compatability problems I noticed that the Armchair General site has a very big V 1.4 patch to patch any version up to that level, but oddly no V 1.5