SPACE EMPIRES IV GOLD NOTICE - PLEASE READ!

jim · #1 March 6th, 2002, 05:45 AM

Like I said, though, I could not get the TDM to do it auto. I tried to follow the instructions as best I could, but the "path" stuff just would not work for me. Repeated attempts just had me spinning my wheels, and expending my few discretionary hours. The idea was for me to use my few free hours playing, not trying to get stuff to work in an area that I am not familiar.

I eventually had some success with "brute force" tactics. I copied some of the emp files into the folder where I could get them to show up in "Add Existing" for my games. That is all I could get to work.

It is kind of the Forum denizens to offer to help me, but it is more my own patience limits in appearing a fool as anything, I guess, as well as that I just do not get many hours to play.

If your company is using the Mods installed on the CD as a selling feature, why did not the company integrate them into the menu system? That seems most odd to me.

Nuts.

Atrocities · #2 March 6th, 2002, 05:53 AM

Too those who wait, come good things.

Mephisto · #3 March 6th, 2002, 10:54 AM

Jim, I would guess you don't have the latest patch (1.49) installed. If you have this patch, just download the TDM-ModPack and unzip it into the SE4 folder. If everything worked correctly, you will see a text "Using the TDM directory" on the top right corner of your screen once you launched SE4.
Gold includes a modpicker that will handle all this stuff for you once it is installed. So, there is your menu picker. Have fun!

Saxon · #4 March 7th, 2002, 02:47 AM

Umm, Shrapnel guys, I have a small problem.

I just tried ordering Gold and found the shipping to be $84.15 for a $40 game. Now, I know I live in Kenya and expect to pay through the nose, but when I got the first edition, it was less than half the price for shipping and I got two games. Can you check this out and see if it is true?

Another, smaller point. When I tried to open an account, it kept giving me an error as I put state down as “other” on my shipping address. As Kenya does not have states or provinces in the postal addresses, I couldn’t very well put something in. I tried going through the “buying without an account” system and that was when I got the shipping problem listed above.

Thanks!

Tim Brooks · #5 March 6th, 2002, 04:05 PM

Saxon:

I will check and get back with you.

Growltigga · #6 March 6th, 2002, 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by Tim Brooks:
Saxon:

I will check and get back with you.

Saxon, I am probably in the US next week, if I am and know where I am going to be, we could get the SEIV gold sent to my hotel cheap, I bring it back into England and then I will send it from England to the UK consulate in Nairobi via the gov mail - that will only cost the US shipping costs - can you get to the UK consulate in Nairobi

Tim Brooks · #7 March 6th, 2002, 04:14 PM

Derek:

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What it says to me, as a customer, is that if I want customer support, I am going to be penalized. You don't run a company that way. Well, apparently some do, neverthelss, I would hope that a company is not run that way.

If you read the notice carefully it says it will have to be pulled from the queue to be accessed. We aren't doing this to punish anyone. It is the way the software works. Anytime we access an order we right information to that file so we can track what is happening with an order. When it gets saved back it gets saved at the end of the queue.

This keeps us from shipping an order that is in the process of being cancelled or from shipping to an address while at the same instance customer service is updating an address by request. Two people cannot access an order at the same instance. Normally this isn't a problem because the queue isn't over one days shipping long. However, right now, this is the result.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[ 06 March 2002: Message edited by: Tim Brooks ]