Question on modding?

[bowzerdawg]

Greetings. I was wondering if it’s possible to combine the different mods that are listed in malfador.com mod page for use in a game. I want to combine “Planet Assault”, “Deathstalker Mount Mod”, and “Dark Horse Mod” with “Fryon’s Quadrant Mod”. Any tips or ideas on how to combine the mods? I’ll ONLY use it for my own personal use. I won’t distribute or anything. Is there an addon program out there to combine mods? I haven’t played this game for quite awhile because I’ve been playing other games and busy with real life. So you have to bear with me if this question sounds like a newbie question.

[General Woundwort]

Well, I have to warn you ahead of time that you're probably in for a frustrating experience. Depending on how complex the mods you want to combine are, you've got a lot of cross-referencing, re-writing, and de-bugging to do. Each mod author tends to write their changes as "stand-alone" (unless they factor in things like the Image Mod for their graphics), and often two modders will have conflicing ideas on how to do something that will have to be decided between or reconciled - and these changes often occur over one or more game files.

Your best bet would be to look at the features you like in each mod, and do your own mod to incorporate/replicate those features.

[Fyron]

You can easily combine Deathstalker's Mount Mod, FQM and one of those other mods, as they all mod different things. DMM you need just the CompEnhancement.txt file. For FQM there are detailed instructions in its Help folder for how to combine it with other mods.

As for Planetary Assault and Dark Horse, I am not familiar with them. What you will want to do is figure out which one mods the game more heavily, and use that one as your base. Create a new mod folder to contain your merged mod. Copy the base mod into it. Merge DMM's single file into it (overwriting the mount file should be fine). Merge FQM into the mod. Then, go through the other mod and compare differences in the files, adding and changing what you want to.

[bowzerdawg]

Thanks for the input, fellow gamers. I figured as much. It looks like it’ll be a lot of work for me. I use to mod a few other games I use to play but it was hassle for me and I had other things to do in life. I was hoping there would an easy way for me to mod this game. If I have any questions later on about modding your addons I’ll ask here. I want the AI to battle it out with my Fazrah Empire, Xiati Empire, or Jraenar Empire using carrier battles as well as taking over planet bases like in WW2 pacific theater.

[oleg]

Originally posted by bowzerdawg:
... I want the AI to battle it out with my Fazrah Empire, Xiati Empire, or Jraenar Empire using carrier battles as well as taking over planet bases like in WW2 pacific theater.

Several races in AIC do just exactly that !

[Fyron]

Several races in TDM do that too...

[Grand Lord Vito]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Several races in TDM do that too...

Not to sound descending, but:
I have played TDM years ago and they did not capture Planets.

Really Fyron how does TDM AI capture planets, the TDM AI construction file hardly makes Troop Transports

[Fyron]

Then you played an old Version that did not have AIs capable of conquering planets... I forget which ones exactly can do so, but I seem to recall the Space Vikings being one of them.

[Grand Lord Vito]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Then you played an old Version that did not have AIs capable of conquering planets... I forget which ones exactly can do so, but I seem to recall the Space Vikings being one of them.

Really Fyron, not to be descending towards you.

But how is this, the Vikings only make 20 small troops from the AI unit File and in the Vehicle Construction File in almost all cases make one to no Troop Transports maybe one more if the AI has more then 10 or 20 planets?

It might be my mind, I am not as very young as you

[ January 26, 2004, 17:03: Message edited by: Grand Lord Vito ]

[Mephisto]

Just watch and see them doing it to you. The Earth alliance, the Space Vikings ans some other TDMs are doing it all the time.