[Bonefish]

Thankyou. I understand what your saying, that the races are just added, rather than mods to the game. Although as you say, I think the tdm file actually changes some of the original races for the better accoring to the text file. Ive not installed any as yet. But will in a minute!
Id like to play se4 pretty much as it came, apart from extra empires and the tdm improvments. Im not worried about extra componants and the like. theres plenty there to cope with for quite a while!

I have two other brief questions...

1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".

2 - how can I specify how many races/empires will be in the game as well as myself. I cant seem to find the option, and when i try to make my own empire up, it only comes uop as a pc contolled one.

Cheers.