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Beginner Game Setup

Submitted by Facetious on Wed, 2008-03-19 13:11. Space Empires V General

Greetings All,

This looks like a decent community, so I hope I don't get flamed for such noob questions, but here it goes.

I've installed the latest Balance Mod and some shipsets and things are working fine.
What I'd like to know is, when I start a new game, what is the easiest/best way to add specific computer controlled races to play against.
It would be nice to see a list of installed races and hit a checkbox next to the ones you want to fight against and just go. The only way I can figure out so far though, is to go through several steps for each race, from the name to the flag, and shipset, and racial characteristics, even the description and history. It seems like I either have to do all that or just play against whatever random races the game wants to give me.

Let me know what I am missing please....... Thanks

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Re: Beginner Game Setup

Submitted by Astorax on Wed, 2008-03-19 13:39.

http://home.spaceempires.net/downloads-details-680-Saved_Empires.html#dldetails

Check out that link.

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Re: Beginner Game Setup

Submitted by Facetious on Wed, 2008-03-19 14:16.

OK, thanks, so that covers me for stock empires.
For any races I download I have to set up all the details, copy the shipnames to the data directory so they are available in the race setup screens, make sure what the flag looks like ahead of time ( so I don't get dupes),also check the shipset pictures (to see which one is used to identify the races ships), then do the same for the leaders pic, and then save that to the empires folder for each game type (i.e. 2k 3k 5k),
Is That Right? That's really the way we have to do it?

If there are data files in the races folder, why can't I just type in or select the race(folder) name and have things like the flag, leader and ship pictures, shipnames, ai files, government type, history/description, etc. etc. automaticaly work?

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Re: Beginner Game Setup

Submitted by Psieye on Wed, 2008-03-19 17:14.

Well... at least you only need to do it once and 'save empire' so that on the next game (you may or may not find yourself resetting often at the start) you just load from the list. Is a good feature idea though, so do email MM about it, though don't expect a fast implementation time (there's a lot of other bugs and interface issues to get through).

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Re: Beginner Game Setup

Submitted by Vince278 on Thu, 2008-03-20 18:09.

Great idea. I downloaded a copy myself. Smiling

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