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Originally posted by Menschenfresser:
Last night I d/led the Startrek races from Angelfire. I've placed all the necessary files here and there...at least I think I have; however, just as a test, I have started 20 new games, and never has the compter picked as a computer played race anyone other than the Klingons or Romulans. And they will only pick either one of those or none at all.
I have editted the settings.txt file and added them to the Quick section. I even rearranged the order. Still it won't pick any of the others (Borg, Federation, Dominion, etc).
Any ideas other than adding them manually and then turning them over to the computer? I sort of like the mystery of whose's out there.
You need an empire file and there a two ways to create them:
Choose in the game setup "many" for random computer empires. It is still a matter of chance if the computer will pick the desired race, so if you have 30 races in your race folder the computer will only pick 8 random empires. My trick is that I use an old modification folder with only few empires. Then the chance for the selection of the new race is up to 100%. When I have the desired empire on the player list, I switch it to human control and save it to a new empire file, which I then transfer to my actual game folder. Once you have this empire file you can select the empire under "add existing" in the player setup.
The second way to create an empire file is more direct, if you pick "add new" in the player settings. But then you must insert manually all the information for the new empire including the text for the race description yourself, which I find rather tedious. But once you have completed all the empire description use the "save" function before you actually start the game. This will create the empire file.