Need some help with the Pirates & Nomads mod

[Suicide Junkie]

silvercreech said:
I also noticed that when I first tried the mod before adding the image packs, there were different features and options available to me when starting a new game. After installing the image packs, some of those options were gone.

Unavailable features and options?

Do you mean that the only buttons that light up are "credits" and "quit"?

If so, it is almost surely your SE4 version. You need gold, v1.91
It may be that your download was corrupted enough to break the mod, but not enough to make the zip unreadable, but that is highly unlikely.

PS:
If you are lacking the imagemod packs, the game won't die on you; you'll just get image-not-found messages all the time. Playable, but not exactly fun, and not pretty.