Balance Mod/Patch 1.58 and current PBW games

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It shouldn't be very hard for Kwok to put out a BM 1.09a that is savegame compatible with BM 1.09, and works in SE5 1.58...

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As I recall, Kwok told us a long time ago (months?) that 1.09 games would not work with his next BM update.

Captain Kwok, Will you be applying an update to Balance Mod 1.09 to make it work with 1.58?
Not asking for new features like in 1.10... but really just the patch to make it work?

Will it already work with the Setup file changed? (Ofcourse with the intel patch applied?)

Hope so; cause 1.58 offers a lot of new stuff .

~Myrath

Kwok posted somewhere else that he'll be uploading BM 1.10 pretty soon right after patch 1.58 is released, so just a little more waiting for us then.

If I remember correctly he said something about tonight or tomorrow. But the problem is that all or current PBW games will not be compatible with it...

All,

Capt Kwok said (under the 'Patch Released' thread) that he should have 1.10 out tonight (Friday). YAY! He'll have to answer the 1.44/1.09 - 1.58/1.10 save game issue.

Ah yes, you mean whether he'll release a minipatch so that BM 1.09 games are still playable under patch 1.58 right?

Personally I wouldn't expect he'd bother doing that, it might be too tedious. I have a PBW game using BM 1.09 too, what I did was make a new folder for the 1.44 game version so my PBW game can continue, then I patched the original folder to 1.58.

Just my two cents.

I think se5a will adapt some of the changes from v1.10 into v1.09 for PBW purposes.

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How do you have 2 versions of SEV working?

It is very easy to have two versions of SEV working. You just have to copy the folder. When you patch only one version will get patched, so you can still play with 1.44.

Yep, that's about it . Basically, make a copy of the Space Empires V folder in your Malfador Machinations folder, rename it to "SEV v144" for example, so you know it's the older version. Then run the 1.58 patch, it will automatically install itself on the original game folder... leaving the older version in the copy you made intact. You should still be able to play your older games.

None of this is possible with a Steam purchased copy, naturally.

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Cool, how is it going on that process.. se5a?
I could probably manage to do sufficient edits to BM1.09 data files to get it to work with se1.58 too, but it would be a big help if a consolidated list of the specific data file changes from se1.44 to se1.58 was available somewhere.
Otherwise, have to do file diffs on them all I guess.

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cheers, Ron

Actually I'll probably put together v1.09 "A" instead, there's a few AI fixes needed for solo play. Perhaps by the end of next weekend.

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