Help with mods use please...

Bonefish · #1 August 14th, 2003, 07:50 PM

Thankyou. I understand what your saying, that the races are just added, rather than mods to the game. Although as you say, I think the tdm file actually changes some of the original races for the better accoring to the text file. Ive not installed any as yet. But will in a minute!
Id like to play se4 pretty much as it came, apart from extra empires and the tdm improvments. Im not worried about extra componants and the like. theres plenty there to cope with for quite a while!

I have two other brief questions...

1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".

2 - how can I specify how many races/empires will be in the game as well as myself. I cant seem to find the option, and when i try to make my own empire up, it only comes uop as a pc contolled one.

Cheers.

Slick · #2 August 14th, 2003, 07:53 PM

I recommend checking out the Newbie FAQ. Specifically, section 16 is about mods.

link:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005518

Slick.

Bonefish · #3 August 14th, 2003, 07:57 PM

Hi Atrocities.

Thankyou. I believe its one of your race packs I have too. Im very impressed. All the ship sets Ive seen have been very good.
With the new AI thats 'attatched' to each race, I hope im not installing any lunatics I cant deal with !
That said, I guess I can use a ship picture set, but give it the default AI that Ive seen in the file list, when starting a new game. Its been a bit odd getting used to the different ways se4 works after se3, but it all seems very well done and very smooth.

Bonefish · #4 August 14th, 2003, 07:59 PM

Wow. Loads of replies. Many thanks fellas.
I'll go and look up the newbie FAQs and see what I can learn.

Thanks again guys.

Bonefish.

Fyron · #5 August 14th, 2003, 08:04 PM

You can find an updated Version of the Mod Launcher *here*.

Quote:

Originally posted by bonefish:
2 - how can I specify how many races/empires will be in the game as well as myself. I cant seem to find the option, and when i try to make my own empire up, it only comes uop as a pc contolled one.

1) Navigate to the folder where you installed SE4.
2) Go into the Data folder.
3) Open the file Settings.txt.
4) Look for this line:
Minimum Computer Player Low Setting := 1
5) By changing the numbers on this line and the next 5 similar lines, you can control how many empires there will be when you pick Low, Medium and High numbers of computer players in the Players screen when starting a game up.
6) You can also change how many Neutral Empires there will be. Neutrals never expand beyond their home system, and always have 1 homeworld, no matter how many starting planets you select. Note that SE4 will NEVER add more than 5 of them, no matter what you set the settings to for them.

[ August 14, 2003, 19:09: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Bonefish · #6 August 14th, 2003, 08:20 PM

Excellent. Ive had a read, (i'll be coming back to that help file again, its a great help), and Im off to install some races. Thanks guys.

Bonefish.

Suicide Junkie · #7 August 14th, 2003, 09:08 PM

Quote:

1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".

Were you just dragging the files out of winzip, or were you using the "Extract" function?

Extract will retain the directory/folder structure, while dragging puts all the files in the place you dragged them to.