OT: nevermind, figured it out

[AMF]

Yep, that test "worked" - by copying over the secttype.txt file to make it 'vanilla' all the planet descriptions went back to the truncated one's on my machine.

Now, that got me thinking: as far as I can tell, using the Map editor, I could never figure out a way to edit the planet descriptions. I could only do that by mucking with secttype.txt. So...I think that the descriptions are read at GAM start, but everything else, hopefully, is not. That seems weird to me.

Ok, just did another test: if you delete secttype.txt from your directorty, and try and run the game, you can't. At all. Error: "cannot load ...secttype.txt" and then you can only quit.

oh well. I guess that's figured out. Still would like to have proof that the map I made is the map the players are getting to play in...

sigh.

alarik