Turbocharged AI vs Humanities Last Hope - Running

[endomorphious]

Sorry guys. Just can not get the mod to get recognized by Dom3. I've downloaded and unzipped like 5 times now both directly into the mod file and not and then manually moving it over after extraction. Any ideas on what Im doing wrong. I used to run mods on WoW so I've done this type of thing before. Not sure what I'm bungling right now.

[Gandalf Parker]

What operating system?
And when you connect to the game, what does it tell you?

[endomorphious]

Win Xp and it says i need the Mod installed. When i look for it under options the game isnt seeing it.

[Gandalf Parker]

Very strange.
Dont be offended but my first question is... where did you buy the game from?

You shouldnt HAVE to turn on the mod manually. But you might try going starting Dom3, going to Preferences, then to Mod preferences. You should now see a list of every .dm file that the game can see in your dominions3/mods/ directory (notice that its mods; not mod, Mod, or MODS)

if you put this in your web browser
file:///C:/Program%20Files/dominions3/mods
does it show you the .dm file? Can you click on it and view it?

[NTJedi]

Originally Posted by endomorphious

Win Xp and it says i need the Mod installed. When i look for it under options the game isnt seeing it.

The *.dm file should exist within the Dominions_3\Mods folder and then another folder should list the mod itself. When Dominions_3 first starts click "Preferences" and then "mod preferences" is where you should see it listed.


If my work was not so busy I would release a new version of my AI mod and also finish my Arabian Nights nation mod.

[Thanatus del Dragos]

Alright, this game has taken almost 3 weeks to set up, lets get started kicking some AI butt!

[endomorphious]

Hello everyone, Have my pretender ready to go but i need help in loading the mod. It seems to be in a DM format that my computer is not reading. Any suggestions for a program that can read it or suggestions on what Im doing wrong to load it.

[Thanatus del Dragos]

What happens to the game after the AI are destroyed? Do we turn on each other?

[Hrum]

Originally Posted by endomorphious

Hello everyone, Have my pretender ready to go but i need help in loading the mod. It seems to be in a DM format that my computer is not reading. Any suggestions for a program that can read it or suggestions on what Im doing wrong to load it.

endomorphious, when you unzip the mod all that stuff you get (the folder and the various .dm files) goes in the mods folder of your Dominions install (for me, on WinXP that would be "C:\\Program Files\dominions3\mods\").

Just stick everything that you unzipped in that mods folder and launch Dominions. Then you should be all set - I don't think you even need to select the mod or turn it on or anything for Turbocharged. I think Dominions will know that we're using that mod when you login to dom3minions.com so you should be good.

However, if you just want to confirm that the mod is being seen by Dom3 after sticking it in that folder, you can launch the game, and from the first menu choose Preferences (? ...umm Options?) and then see a new list of sub-options one of which should be "Mod Preferences". If you see Better Independents listed as an option you can click on and enable, that means you're all set.

Originally Posted by Thanatus del Dragos

Alright, uploaded my pretender.

Nice!

Originally Posted by Doo

Gandalf has informed me of the game being ready for our pretenders.

Ninja'ed!

I've emailed or PM'ed everyone the log in details, please log in and upload. Note the game starts as soon as the last person uploads their pretender, can I ask whoever that is to post in this thread that the game is underway please?

I have my pretender design all set; I'll upload it once I get home from work tonight. Didn't see this update yesterday - was out and about until kinda late, and when I got home the focus was dinner and sobering up before bed.

Indeed - if I'm the last one (seems like I will be) I'll post here.

Good luck everyone. NT Jedi has told me he's betting on a human win but is expecting the AI to be putting up globals and giving a strong fight.

NT Jedi is betting on us, lets not let the rest of humanity down, lets kick the AI back into the 286 age!

Thanks to NTJedi for helping get this game up and running with extra AI evilness. And to Gandalf. And to Doo for starting this game in the first place.

I hope to not embarass myself early on with the monkeys. I think they tend to be weakest early on, so we'll see if I can make it to the tasty summons at which point I should (hopefully) be alright. Of course, with all the boosts the map tweaking team have made to the AIs with their buffed pretenders and whatnot, the AIs might be coming into their own just when I'm at my most (over)confident. Hopefully, I'll manage to do more than just fling poo at our adversaries.

Originally Posted by Thanatus del Dragos

What happens to the game after the AI are destroyed? Do we turn on each other?

I was figuring we'd just declare victory. I guess if some people want to celebrate by trying to smash each other, that's an option.

In any case, I look forward to waging war on the unholy ones with you gentlemen! Death to the AIs!

[Hrum]

Originally Posted by Hrum

endomorphious, when you unzip the mod all that stuff you get (the folder and the various .dm files) goes in the mods folder of your Dominions install (for me, on WinXP that would be "C:\\Program Files\dominions3\mods\").

Just to clarify, I didn't mean that it just lands there when you unzip the mod. You unzip the mod and move/copy all the files for the mod from whereever you unzipped it to your "dominions3\mods\" directory. There is no installer - you just unzip, move the files to the right place, and you're done.

Maybe that was clear already. I dunno.

I any case, my pretender is uploaded. It looks like we're just waiting on C'tis.