how do i make better ai load by default, while keeping it a separate mod?

[Veqryn]

i have BBAI installed as a mod
and for reasons of online compatibility and my own person reasons, i do not wish to install directly over the main game's stuff


soooooo how do i set it up so that when i double click the shortcut on my desktop, i load directly to the BBAI mod?

edit an .ini file or something?
change the shortcut path?

thx
veqryn

 

[MartinHarper]

how do i set it up so that when i double click the shortcut on my desktop, i load directly to the BBAI mod?

There's a line in the civilization4.ini file that does this.

 

[phungus420]

right click on your Beyond the Sword desktop shortcut, select copy. Rename the shortcut copy to BBAI (or whatever you want to call it). Now right click on it and select properties, look in the target, you'll see something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe"

This is the path to your BtS executable file, which launches civ, the shortcut activates this executable is what it's saying. Now what's nice about the BtS .exe is that firaxis programed into it a command so that it will automatically load up a mod from a shortcut, you do this by adding this to the target line: mod=\ModName
So for BetterAI you add mod=\Better BTS AI to the target, so your target looks something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe" mod=\Better BTS AI

After doing this that shortcut will launch BetterAI automatically. This will work for any mod.

 

[Veqryn]

right click on your Beyond the Sword desktop shortcut, select copy. Rename the shortcut copy to BBAI (or whatever you want to call it). Now right click on it and select properties, look in the target, you'll see something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe"

This is the path to your BtS executable file, which launches civ, the shortcut activates this executable is what it's saying. Now what's nice about the BtS .exe is that firaxis programed into it a command so that it will automatically load up a mod from a shortcut, you do this by adding this to the target line: mod=\ModName
So for BetterAI you add mod=\Better BTS AI to the target, so your target looks something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe" mod=\Better BTS AI

After doing this that shortcut will launch BetterAI automatically. This will work for any mod.

it worked,
thank you!