Carrier Battles Mod

Suicide Junkie · #1 July 23rd, 2006, 11:44 AM

Thanks

Are you playing against coworkers? That would be sweet, just try not to glass your boss' homeworld

scJazz · #2 July 23rd, 2006, 11:56 AM

I wish I were playing. I'm monitoring Pfizer's Global Data Centers right now. Which on a Sunday means I'm waiting for something to break and otherwise I'm bored and reading forums. Only 8 hours left until I can start playing again.

Suicide Junkie · #3 July 23rd, 2006, 12:08 PM

SE4 fits on a CD-RW, and even USB keys these days

Works best if you have a dual monitor setup, so SE4 takes up the primary, and you can put all your status monitor stuff up on the secondary to glance at as you go.

sachmo · #4 July 24th, 2006, 11:41 AM

Well, I tried auto-combat, which seems to work best for me. Now if I can just figure out the strategies.

scJazz · #5 July 26th, 2006, 05:44 PM

Suicide,
After about 30 minutes of tweaking this that and the other thing I got CB 1.6 working with AIs. However I'm not entirely certain that I have everything setup the way you would. In one of the 1.6 downloads I found 8 AI races. In another 1.6 download I found like 17 races (TDM + extras). At the risk of sounding ungracious would it be possible for you to release a 1.7 version with instructions on things like empty out the AI directory?

Setting up your mod required...

1) Install and update to version 1.94 of a clean SEIV
2) Install of ImageMod
3) Overlay of SB 1.6
4) Removal of extra Races in /Pictures/Races after I noticed that not all were included in 1.6.
5) Re-Install of ImageMod because I thought that would help fix an error referencing /Pictures/Combat
6) A bit more tweaking that I don't quite remember right now.
7) Another overlay of SB 1.6 /Pictures/Races

Was ALL of this necessary? Probably not...

Would it work flawlessly if I just installed ImageMod on a fresh 1.94 installation and dropped your 1.6 zip in? No certainly not.

Puke · #6 July 26th, 2006, 06:12 PM

actually, yes. yes it should, and it does for me.

I'm running a clean copy of the latest version of the game. I have the image mod installed directly on top of SE4 (as its non-destructive and does not hamper stock game play). Then I have CB installed into a specific mod directory, and I use the Mod Launcher to call it.

so, essentially:
- clean, latest, se4 install
- image pack
- mod

not sure what youre doing wrong. try again slowly and carefully.

scJazz · #7 July 26th, 2006, 06:23 PM

what I'm doing wrong is not using Mod Launcher cuz I'm just getting into this whole Mod thing and haven't downloaded it yet.