[Grandpa Kim]

Originally posted by tbontob:
I would like to "upload my empire" to the tournament.

I vaguely remember reading something on how to do this--that is construction the empire (ship-set, empire icon etc) and then uploading the results. Does anybody know where it is.

I can't find anything on site (FAQ's) which explains how to view a prospective ship-set? How do you do it?

The Space Empires IV Gold Manual has 2 pages on "TCP/IP Games. Is the the same as PBW?

To make and upload a new empire for any PBW game, just start a new game (v. 1.78 in this case) on your computer and build your empire as you normally would. You shouldn't have to change any settings since most everthing in this game is default.

Now, save that empire. Where in SEIV folder is up to you. I don't like to save mine to the Empires folder because then I may end up playing a solo game against myself! LOL.

Shut down the game and go to PBW game screen, click on upload empire and you will be led through the rest. Make sure you know the name of the shipset you are using so you can indicate that as others have done with theirs. (All stock shipsets are labled "Stock" followed by the actual name).

Many of the shipsets of your opponents will not be on your computer. Click on each of those shipset (in blue below each empire name) and a zip file will download to your computer. Unzip them and stick these in the pictures/races folder. Different people set these up in different ways, so check that each one you download is in the proper file. You may find some without a folder of its own. Make one and put the files in there. Others will have the folder buried three folders deep. Look for a folder named "pictures" within your "races" folder.

I'm not sure if you can preview shipsets in the PBW files. Those in your own SEIV folder can be viewed with any picture viewer-- or in the new game setup.

Kim

[ August 24, 2002, 21:46: Message edited by: Grandpakim ]