Please help! TDM modpack problem: random shipset assignment?

Mephisto · #1 January 29th, 2003, 12:23 AM

Try to alter your path.txt int eh Space Empires IV folder for a start:

(1) Open the file "Path.txt" in your Space Empires IV folder.

(2) Alter this line:

Using Mod Directory := None
to

Using Mod Directory := TDM-ModPack

(3) Save and close the file "Path.txt".

(4) The game will now run with the "TDM-ModPack". The starting Window should have a text line in the right upper corner reading "Using TDM-ModPack Directory".

Now load your PBW game. Do the ships still show up wrong?

Merry Jolkar · #2 January 29th, 2003, 02:27 AM

I discovered a possible source of the problem. One of my players is using the Dra'Kol ship set, and the Dra'Kol are one of the A.I. races in the game. Would this cause the offending player to see random ship set assignments?

Any way to tell this player apart from the real Dra'Kol?

Thanks,
Merry

Arkcon · #3 January 29th, 2003, 06:38 AM

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Originally posted by Merry Jolkar:
I discovered a possible source of the problem. One of my players is using the Dra'Kol ship set, and the Dra'Kol are one of the A.I. races in the game. Would this cause the offending player to see random ship set assignments?

Now that's bizare. If SE4 can find one shipset then it should find both. Maybe they switched shipsets just before you started executing the game? It happened to me in the Last PBW game I joined.

Quote:

Any way to tell this player apart from the real Dra'Kol?

Thanks,
Merry

No. Sorry.

capnq · #4 January 30th, 2003, 01:27 AM

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However, I did not do anything special when setting the game up on the PBW site to indicate that the TDM modpack is being used. Did I miss something on setup?

If the game is not set to use TDM-Modpack on the PBW server, all of the AIs will use the stock files when the turn is processed.

Post in the PBW Admin Requests Forum to have the game type changed.

capnq
PBW admin

Merry Jolkar · #5 January 30th, 2003, 02:34 AM

I have posted to the forum requesting that the game be set to use TDM modpack A.I.'s. What should I have done to set it up this way when setting up? (Or, where can I learn about this so I don't have to bug you with it! )

Thanks,
Merry

geoschmo · #6 January 30th, 2003, 04:03 AM

The main thing that the TDM Modpack does is make improvements to the files that control how the stock AI races function in the game. To get this to work, you need to have the TDM modpack being used on the PBW server. You do that by selecting the appropriate Version when you create the game on PBW, or by having us change the Version, which I will do now.

TDM also has somce new races taht aren't par tof the stock races in SE4. To use these you would have had to have teh TDM modpack installed on your PC when you created the first turn. If you didn't do that it's too late to change it now. You will have only stock AI's. But the stock AI's will perform better once I change the PBW Version to the TDM Modpack, whci I will go do now.

After the turn processes using the TDM modpack all the players will need to use the modpack to play their turns.

Geoschmo

geoschmo · #7 January 30th, 2003, 04:10 AM

Merry, are you talking about the Alien Invasion game? Did you want it set to 1.84 plus TDM 3.2 or just 1.78 + TDM 3.2?

And I missed your earlier comment that you did use the TDM when you created teh first turn. So you should have TDM races in the game, they just weren't acting like TDM races cause the game was processing with the stock Version.

Geoschmo