Observations, Question and Ruminations

[Gil Hamilton]

Greetings All,

Had the CD fast mailed. Almost couldn't wait for it-1/2 through dloading the demo, decided against (fearing conflicts w/full Version). Package arrived Fri.- glanced and hissed at the sun on Mon.!

Won first game against 4 comp. gen. easy- they stayed in their own systems. Small quad.

Tried no mods or anything extra as I wanted to see "What she's got" before changing things. Got TDM and a couple more mods from disk, made a folder "Mods" in GEIV folder and each mod in it's own folder in mods. Used the ModLaunchProgram- in its own folder in Mods folder, but can't seem to have it find the mod TDM.

I'm sure I'm not doing it right and won't mind trashing the folders I've made to get it right, but just need clarification.

The game, and the possibilities for changing it to suit your preference, is awesome. Can't wait to get to design ships and cultures! Are new items allowed to be created as well? And planets- sometimes it seems the description doesn't fit with the pic nor the values. Can this be changed?

Also, (Oh No, Not Another Basic Computing Question!!!) how can I tell wich Versions of the game and mods are on the CD? And, besides the ones mentioned above, which mods should I look into- realising that suggestions will be subjective...

Thanx in advance for the help- look forward to learning more.

[ 02 May 2002: Message edited by: Gil Hamilton ]

[Master Belisarius]

Don't use a folder "Mods" to install the folders of every Mod.
Instead this, copy every folder of every Mod, inside the SE4 folder, and the same with the "SE4 Modlauncher.exe"
You should have not problems.

[Gil Hamilton]

M. B.,

That did the trick, though I would liked to have been able to keep the new files separate to avoid confusion in the future. Thank you for your help.

[ 02 May 2002: Message edited by: Gil Hamilton ]

[Phoenix-D]

You CAN use a folder for all your mods, if you want.

Just change your path.txt to Mods\(mod folder name here) instead of (mod folder name here).

EDIT: WHOO! It works with the launcher! Just press the add directory button and fill in as needed.

Phoenix-D

[ 02 May 2002: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[Matryx]

Heh, glad I have so many people to answer questions about my mod launcher.
Finals for me are only a few weeks away so I'm still finding it hard to get time to check the forums too frequently.

[PDF]

Matryx,
Your Launcher utility rocks, but there's one thing that I cannot make work : loading a save directly from the launcher...
On a "normal" game when I hit the button I just have the "hourglass" for some seconds then it stops, and does not launch the game... And with a Pbem/PBW game I just can't enter my "player number", the field does not allow any input !
So ? Does the prog only works with "normal" c:\program files\... path ? I've put my SE4 on a d:\strategy folder...