How to Use Different Races ?

[Power Man]

I have just downloaded several Star Trek races from the New age Shipyards.
I would like start a new game with my current race and some of them.

I do not recall seeing any information on how to add these races to the standard SE4 Gold game.

Can I mix these new races and empires with the old races?

Do I have to use a Mod? I rather keep my original SE4 files clean.

Where do I extract and copy the new Race files to.

What settings do I have to change?

If there is a place with this info, where is it?

My Nephew rally wants to play the Borg !

[Andrés]

You should have no problem adding them to the main installation of the game (you can allways put them in a mod folder in case you want to disable all of them at once)

Istalling races is simple.

Most files should be extracted to the following dir:
SE4dir/pictures/races/racename/

.emp files to
SE4dir/Empires

and design names file to
SE4dir/Dsgnname

where of course "SE4dir" is the directory where you have the game installed (or the mod directory) and "racename" the beggining of the name of most files (e.g racename_Portrait_Escort.bmp)

I don't recall exacly the format of the races in NASY, that is if there's directory information stored in the zips.

If there is, you just have to extract to SE4dir mantaining dir structure, if not copy manually the files to their apropiate dirs.

I hope this helps.

[oleg]

NASY races should extract properly from root SEIV directory (may be except Tholians - I'm sloppy bastard ). If for some reason you get files all other SEIV directory, you will have to move them manually according to A.L. instructions.