Hey no problem, by helping you I get a better understanding of what I need to do to make the mod more user friendly.
The problem that keeps coming up is the missing planet issue. But that is an easy fix, and it helps people gain confidence in learning how to work with the game. Be all though it is frustrating until you figure it out.
Most of the other problems are just setting the mod up. The PATH.txt does not load, or is missing. The player doesn't have the latest patch, etc.
I should have, and will now, spend more time making the instruction for installing the mod more detailed and complete. I want people to be able to install and load the mod without problems.
My problem is that I am limited to who much I can upload at one time. A 20 meg full Version of the mod (1.4) would take me 12 hours to upload on dial up. (God I do miss the Broadband connection at times.)
So what I have had to do is leave the 1.0 release as the only full downloadable one, and hope the everyone will be able to use the patches as they come out.
The other problem is that people download the patch and assume that is the full game.
Once the Full Version 1.4 is uploaded, a lot of this confusion, my fualt, will pass. I would like to have included the Image mod but that would ballon the mod size to 40 megs, 10 megs over the shrapnel limit for uploads. And who has the time to download a 40 meg file on dial up?
But I will do what I can.
What I have considered doing is to provide the mod, once all the bugs have mostly been worked on disk, provided that the person wanting it paid for S&H and the cost of the disk and jewel case. But that is not feasable. To many peoples work is incorperated into the mod, and then there are the copy right issues for some of the "Offical" Trek images.
[ January 16, 2003, 07:44: Message edited by: Atrocities ]