Preset Empires and new ship sets

With the preset empires, are you talking about the empires you can use in quick-start not appearing for normal games, or empire files you create not appearing? There are currently no preset empires that ship with the game, you have to start a quick-start game and save the empire you wish to use, then load the empire file when starting a custom game.

You must but the shipset's folder in the empires folder. For example, the Star Trek TMP folder is 'Fed'. Putting that folder into the empires folder will make the shipset available to select when creating a new empire. Any shipsets you add cannot be accessed through quickstart without some extra effort.

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New game uses .emp files, which for some reason aren't included in stock. The game does randomly generate races, so if you want them as opponents you just have to leave that on.

If you want to play them, what you do is start a Quick Start game with the empire you want, then select "Save Empire" from the main menu.

I highly recommend NOT saving any empire at all for any circumstance when they are generated as an AI player. First of all they are not playable in this state. The solution is you must manually add them yourself. The reason why you can not use a saved empire file from a computer generated AI player is the empire is saved not using the design names from the Design Names folder. It is also saved with a password. To avoid this I usually open up information files for stock races from SEIV and SEV and alt tab and manually add them. For your second issue if you've installed new races they will not show up untill you add them into the Settings.txt file. Make a backup of this file first, open it up and do a search for simply the word 'Quick', it will jump down to the section where you need to add it in. Make sure you edit the field "Number of Quick Start Empires." Good luck, hopefully this helps.