[PBW] A House Divided - Discussion thread (PBW Setup Online!)

[General Woundwort]

ACK!

Note to self: don't post at 4:30 in the morning.

I meant The BALANCE Mod.

Sorry.

[Alneyan]

3) Make your race's empire file - 2000 points, rock/oxygen, no racial abilites or techs that are not "human". A little background on your faction would also be helpful (more on that below).

What kind of abilities should we not take when making our empire files? Or rather, what would qualify as being adequate settings? (For example, Temporal Knowledge wouldn't quite qualify as being human, but what about the characteristics?)

Thanks in advance!

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
What kind of abilities should we not take when making our empire files? Or rather, what would qualify as being adequate settings? (For example, Temporal Knowledge wouldn't quite qualify as being human, but what about the characteristics?)

Thanks in advance!

Organic/Crystaline/Temporal Technology, Mechanoids, and Emotionless would probably be out of bounds.

Characteristics I'm less worried about.

EDIT - since this is a basic SEIV setup other than the Balance items, better nix Religous as well. That Talisman would be just too... well...

[ April 29, 2004, 15:58: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Alneyan]

Thanks for the quick answer!

Incidentally, I seem to recall that you *may* need the USM mod when creating your Empire in order to have access to these formations during the game. Or rather, Fyron eluded to this, as he said that you could play a vanilla game with these extra formations provided you made your Empire with this mod. Don't quote me on that though, since my memory is likely faulty.

[General Woundwort]

That doesn't make much sense, as the DefaultStrategies file doesn't really affect any other data files - but it wouldn't hurt to have it set up before you do your empire file anyways.

[Randallw]

Im a bit confused. I have downloaded the Balance Mod but how do I use it AND the US Mod?. Do I need to copy the US Mod data files into a copy of the Balance Mod so I effectively have the Balance Mod using the US Mod data files for formations and strategies ?.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Randallw:
Im a bit confused. I have downloaded the Balance Mod but how do I use it AND the US Mod?. Do I need to copy the US Mod data files into a copy of the Balance Mod so I effectively have the Balance Mod using the US Mod data files for formations and strategies ?.

Yeah, just copy USM's formations and strategies files into the Balance Mod data folder.