SPACE EMPIRES IV GOLD NOTICE - PLEASE READ!

Suicide Junkie · #1 March 6th, 2002, 04:05 AM

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My Q is, does the Gold Version make it easy enough for me to use the more
clever AIs, with their neat shipsets and texts (that I simply cannot get to
work in non-Gold)? Or would it be up to me to work it out as how to make it
work? Ideally, it would be a menu-based choice system in the game set-up. I
fear the playing around in the "My PC" section of Windows.

How do you feel about using WinZip?
Many modders have their mods packaged so that they are very easy to install, some even have self-installers.

And, as always, the forum members are more than happy to help; just post your questions

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Richard · #2 March 6th, 2002, 04:13 AM

Very true the folks on this forum are more than willing to help answer any questions about their mods.

jim · #3 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 · #4 March 6th, 2002, 05:53 AM

Too those who wait, come good things.

Mephisto · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 March 6th, 2002, 04:05 PM

Saxon:

I will check and get back with you.