Empire specific components, tech - possible?

[Pax]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
I understand that. But Last night, I started a new game. I recenlty downloaded some race files, which had everything but the .emp files. So I tried to load one of those races as an existing race. None of them would come up on the list. But interestingly enough, when I saw the list of AI races, one of those races was showing up as one of my opponents. I don't understand how the computer could use that race, but I couldn't. How can I save those new races with .emp files when I can't even get them to show up on the list of playable races?

The computer can use them because "designcreation.txt" (IIRC) is a set of instructions on how to create an EMP -- instructions for the computer to do so, in fact.

NFC how to save them yourself; IMO the best idea would be to hand-build them yourself, while reading the design-creation file as a guideline on where to spend points, etc.