The Galactic Invasion 2: Replacement Player Needed

[luke_slovakian]

HAHA i once deleted my windows file and now my comp is all microsofty:-p...so i would play on my family machine ahah

[mastermindkar]

Okay, I downloaded the image mod into my space empires IV folder, and then I downloaded the adamant mod in to the SE IV folder too. I know the image mod is working because the start-up screen has a new cooler picture. How do I use the adamant (and other) mods?

[Fyron]

The image mod does not include a startup screen. Are you sure you placed the Adamant Mod into its own folder? There should be an Adamant folder in the SEIV folder.

The best way to load mods is to use the Mod Launcher. Place it in the SEIV folder and load it instead of SE4 directly.

[mastermindkar]

Okay, I can now play the Adamant mod, thankyou for your help. Btw, are you going to be on my team Imperator?

[Fyron]

I don't have the time for PBW games right now, so I wasn't planning on joining this game.

[douglas]

There are a fair number of components and facilities that are improved versions of the normal kind and require a racial tech trait. All of them have an abbreviation for the racial trait in parentheses after the component/facility name. One thing I really like is how Adamant does Propulsion Experts - it uses a Quasi-Newtonian Propulsion system, and the PE version of each engine has one more standard movement point; this translates into a 100% (very early game) to 16% (extreme late game) overall speed boost rather than a constant +1 movement point, though you can get the stock Propulsion Experts effect too, with Transdimensional.

[mastermindkar]

Let me add the qualifier: "I can now play the Adamant mod, but some of the pictures do not work."
I downloaded the FQM version of Adamant, and I have the image mod torrent file in my pictures file. What have I done wrong?

[Fyron]

Did you point the Image Mod torrent to the SEIV folder or to the Pictures folder? It is designed to be pointed directly at the SEIV folder itself.

You should have files named up to Comp_1837.bmp in the SEIV\Pictures\Components folder. If not, something went wrong. Also, check to make sure there is no Pictures folder inside the SEIV\Pictures folder.

If that isn't the problem, open SEIV\Pictures\Components\Components.bmp and see if you have a blue strip on the right side with light blue/cyan numbers. It should go up to 1872 for the last row. This file should be about 7 MBs.

If that is ok too, we will need more specific information on which pictures do not work.

[douglas]

Political Savvy affects resources, research, and intelligence income from treaties. This isn't as much of a concern in Adamant as in stock, however, as Adamant limits trade income to 10% rather than 20%. On the other hand, the threshold cost of reducing PS below 80% is a pathetic 5 racial points and may not be worth it. With 9 other races, all of which are teamed with you and will likely establish permanent partnerships on first contact, it might actually be worth raising PS.

[Ragnarok-X]

Must be a problem with the imagemod. Which ones are missing ? Component pictures or facility pictures ?