Please Help

[Deathstalker]

EDIT!!!

If you are using a mod such as the TDM-Modpack or some such then these new races MUST go inside the modpack, in the pictures/races etc folders inside the modpack as the 'Path.txt' gets the files from where ever it is 'tuned' into.

[capnq]

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I did as you suggested after downloading a suitable race, but when I started a new game and got to the Game Setup - Players screen, I clicked on "ADD EXISTING" but the race did not appear. Any ideas ??? Will the race only appear as a random one picked by the computer occasionally ??????

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If I understand it correctly, Add Existing only displays races with .emp files. If the download did not include .emp, then what you need to do is keep starting new games with the highest setting for number of computer players, until the race you want is chosen randomly. Go into Options/Players and change that race to human control, and when you play that race's turn, Save Empire. Make sure to give the new .emp a unique filename, rather than overwriting an existing one.

I have not actually tried to do this myself yet, but this is the explanation I remember reading here in the Forum.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Suicide Junkie]

Well said, Capnq.

When you save the empire, I suggest following a format such as: "<racename> - <#of racial points>"

Unless you always play with the same settings, you will probably want to make three EMPs for each race, using 2K, 3K & 5K racial points.

[alien2]

Thanks to all concerned. The race has now appeared under "Add Existing" Just a final question: I presume you can add an existing empire in the "Game Setup - Players" screen and have the computer control it, as well as generate random computer players for the same game (?).
Final final question: I also presume you can manually add to the races folder any of the races contained within the TDM Modpack, in the same manner detailed previously, if you don't want them all. Sorry if this is an obvious question but I'm fairly new at the game and a total novice when it comes to modifications.

Cheers.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you are adding the race manually (rather than the random generation), you must:
-Add existing race
-Edit the race you just added
-Check the box "Controlled by Player", changeing it to read "Controlled by computer"

You cannot save this option in an EMP; whenever a race is loaded, it is assumed to be a human player, and you must edit it in this way every time.