Is there a way to skip to FfH2 from entering vanilla civ?

[Alex Encandar]

Just curious cause I never play vanilla civ any more.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

There should be a shortcut in the Fall From Heaven 2 folder that you can drag to your desktop.

 

[Alex Encandar]

Thanks! Now I won't have to waste precious seconds

 

[Bringa]

Alternatively, you can edit your Civilization4.ini in your my documents/my games/sid meier's civilization 4 folder and find the line that begins with "mod = ". Just make that line say "mod = Mods\FallFromHeaven2 016" (or whatever the directory is called)

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Alternatively, you can edit your Civilization4.ini in your my documents/my games/sid meier's civilization 4 folder and find the line that begins with "mod = ". Just make that line say "mod = Mods\FallFromHeaven2 016" (or whatever the directory is called)

you don't need the mod=Mods/FallFromHeaven2 016, just mod=FallFromHeaven2 016

 

[loki1232]

Alternatively, you can edit your Civilization4.ini in your my documents/my games/sid meier's civilization 4 folder and find the line that begins with "mod = ". Just make that line say "mod = Mods\FallFromHeaven2 016" (or whatever the directory is called)

Are you sure this works? I remember that the first version with SDK changes didn't work if you opened it this way.

 

[wilboman]

It does, yeah. I used to do it that way, before the shortcut.

 

[onedreamer]

just note that the shortcut is only compatible if you installed the game with default options (eg. under Program Files).

 

[Silverkiss]

You can manually change the destiny from the shortcut and use it even if you installed on another place ;D

 

[wilboman]

I have to do that every time. Gets a wee bitty annoying at length. But then again, I would have had to do the same if I edited the .ini, and that takes even more time.

 

[Bringa]

Yeah, I've always been using it with the ini start thingie, so I'm pretty sure it works

 

[BeefontheBone]

I tend just to edit my old shortcut's path whenever a new version comes out

It's the same switch IIRC - a shortcut to wherever your normal Civ4 exe is, with -mod="Fall From Heaven 2 xxx" added, where xxx is the appropriate version number (currently 016 I believe, will be 020 for Fire's first release).

 

[wilboman]

Just drag the shortcut to your desktop and leave it there once you've edited it. The nice Civ4 doric pillar icon might disappear, but the link should still work. It has for me.

 

[Chip56]

Just drag the shortcut to your desktop and leave it there once you've edited it. The nice Civ4 doric pillar icon might disappear, but the link should still work. It has for me.

Same for me, buit I normally at the symbol again.

 

[BeefontheBone]

You can manually change the destiny from the shortcut and use it even if you installed on another place ;D

My bold. Just noticed this - that must be one heck of a shortcut

 

[Silverkiss]

Err....what ?

 

[BeefontheBone]

Presumably you meant "destination" there. A shortcut which could change ones destiny would be mighty impressive

 

[Silverkiss]

Hum. Whatever, in portuguese we have only one word for both destiny and destination...

 

[BeefontheBone]

Ah, that explains it then

Actually, that's quite a poetic sentence you typed there.

 

[QES]

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-Qes