Ultimate Mod

[Smythen]

Hey all --

I am brand-spanking new to this awesome game, and I just downloaded the Ultimate Mod -- can anyone tell me what is involved in this thing, and whether or not it is endorsed by Malfador? And can I uninstall it (or portions of it) if it's lame? Not that I don't trust the independent mod-makers, but I would hate to have the game unbalanced or destabilized.

Also, I could really use some help with strategy regarding early build strategy -- I always find myself either losing WAY too many minerals, or having WAY too many in excess.

Thanx in advance

[dogscoff]

Mods: I believe the ultimate mod is incomplete, but it's pretty impressive.

Don't worry about messing up your installation. Modern mods put their files in a seperate directory without overwriting anything, so you can just change the path.txt and use the original game / another mod if you choose. Unistalling a mod is just a matter of deleting the appropriate dir.

Someone will probably post you a link to Matryx's famous modpicker, which changes path.txt for you to allow easy changing between diffrent mods.

MM don't endorse any specific mods, but they do endorse "this kind of thing", because they were the ones who made the game so moddable. It is designed to be configurable.

As for your resource problems... if you are producing too many minerals you're doing fine. trade thm with anothr empire for orgs / rads or build yourself a resource convrter. Better yet, build lots of storage and save them up for when you need them.

Minerals. Yum=-)

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[Lemmy]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Someone will probably post you a link to Matryx's famous modpicker, which changes path.txt for you to allow easy changing between diffrent mods.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

click me http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/000019.html)
and look for a post by Matryx

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 18 September 2001).]

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[ January 26, 2003, 23:13: Message edited by: HTSA ]

[CyC]

The Ultimate Mod is good but if you are brand new to the game I would recomend sticking to the standard game untill you know and can handle the dinamics of the game.

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