Newby Questions

[Fyron]

If you want to mod the AIs, you should create a mod folder and copy them all into it. You should NEVER modify most of the default game files.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron (italics added later):
If you want to mod the AIs, you should create a mod folder and copy them all into it. You should NEVER modify most of the default game files.

Of which files are you advocating the alteration?

[oleg]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
If you want to mod the AIs, you should create a mod folder and copy them all into it. You should NEVER modify most of the default game files.

He does not want to make a new mod. He simply wants to add new races to the stock game (or TDM for that matter) but is concern they may have outdated AIs.

I have many extra races in my TDM directory with AIs copied from best TDM races !

[Fyron]

Loser, only the eye-candy ones that do not affect gameplay. Altering them will not cause incompatibility when playing MP games, so changing them is IMO not a problem. But, it is best to leave all the files that will cause incompatibility with MP games alone. I am not advocating changing the eye candy files; just not changing the non-eye candy ones. Of course, the AI files won't cause problems with MP games, but that is a different issue. I just suggest leaving the stock ones alone because you never know when you might need them again, and it is easier than having to reinstall the game to fix big mistakes you have made with them. Backing them up works too, ofc.

[Litcube]

Here's another newby question.

I have ships.

I hit CTRL-N, but it does not cycle through my ships.

I hit SPACE, but it does not cycle through my ships.

Why come?

[Suicide Junkie]

As we found via IRC, the next/previous ship buttons weren't jumping to a ship because you had no idle ships to jump to. Lots of active, busy ones, but nobody was idle.

[Litcube]

Yes, you're still a God. And Tesco your trusty Demi-counter part.