[Fyron]

Originally posted by JLS:
Suggestion:
Your Adamant Happiness file is awesome - this is well thought out and would be a fine addition to USM.

Indeed it would. So would many other modifications out there. However, it would be beyond the scope of the mod. The mod's purpose is to add new strategies and formations. Anything else is fluff. The custom eye candy files are fluff, but they do not affect gameplay in any way, so they made the cut.

“Eye Candy” (if used) will infact INCREASE the above risk - even when installed to stock se4 saved games [Frown]

Depends on what you call eye candy... Generally, eye candy refers to things that will _not_ affect gameplay at all. Unfortunatley, SE4 does not treat things such as component descriptions as eye candy, but instead as hard data.

The files you listed are actually all of those that are _not_ eye candy files. I was not refering to the Eye Candy Mod by Dracus, which mods more than just "eye candy"... "Eye candy" files are those which have no actual affect on gameplay, but instead just provide different/more names for various objects. They are just lists of names. The following files are safe to put into any mod, and will not cause any problems, as they are only ever read when a game is started, _never_ during a game (and they are all modded in USM):

DefaultColonyTypes.txt
DefaultDesignTypes.txt
Demeanors.txt
EmperorNames.txt
EmperorTitles.txt
EmpireNames.txt
EmpireTypes.txt
SystemNames.txt

Not eye candy, but still only read when game is started (most not modded in USM, however), so should be safe to insert into a mod:

DefaultStrategies.txt (is modded in USM)
QuadrantTypes.txt (not modded)
RepairPriorities.txt (is modded)
StellarAbilityTypes.txt (not modded)
SystemTypes.txt (not modded)

The two actual USM data files are Formations.txt and DefaultStrategies.txt. I threw in a bunch of my custom eye candy files just for fun. They can not affect multiplayer savegame compatibility. Any other data files that differ from the stock data files are outdated 1.84 Versions of the files, as I have not yet updated the mod since SE4 1.91 was released.

[ August 05, 2004, 04:29: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]