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[Dancing Hoskuld]

Shouldn't it be:-

X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization iv\beyond the sword\Mods\Rise of Mankind

That is "beyond the sword" is a directory in "sid meier's civilization iv". Otherwise where would the vanilla civ iv and warlords stuff go?

 

[Carwyn]

Does it have to be in the Steam Apps folder? That is your problem. Zappara can tell you how to change some files so the mod can find itself, I hope!

 

[Kjara]

Had a question about how to see city revolution status in RoM. Ctrl-shift-W didn't seem to work and I don't see a button for it. Thanks.

 

[DRJ]

Had a question about how to see city revolution status in RoM. Ctrl-shift-W didn't seem to work and I don't see a button for it. Thanks.

Click on the red "Che"-button under the red espionage button...

 

[Kjara]

Click on the red "Che"-button under the red espionage button...

Ahha, found it. Its off by default apparently(I had launched via play now and hadn't checked that it was a custom game option). It actually appears next to the unit statistics for me(in Rise of Mankind 2.63 WoC Lite). Finally its apparently changed to ctrl-shift-G.

 

[Mistx]

Shouldn't it be:-

X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization iv\beyond the sword\Mods\Rise of Mankind

That is "beyond the sword" is a directory in "sid meier's civilization iv". Otherwise where would the vanilla civ iv and warlords stuff go?

@Dancing Hoskuld Yah exacly, I think that is strange aswell, here is a list of my game derectorys.

Civ 4
X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization iv\Civilization4.exe

Civ 4 Warlords
X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization iv warlords\Warlords\Civ4Warlords.exe

Civ 4 Beyond The Sword
X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization iv beyond the sword\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe

Civ 4 Colonization
X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\civilization iv colonization\Colonization.exe

Does it have to be in the Steam Apps folder? That is your problem. Zappara can tell you how to change some files so the mod can find itself, I hope!

@Carwyn Yes Steam puts the games in the "steam apps" folder when it downloads them. However I think that I can move the default download location for all games. I am going to try deleting all my files and downloading the to the default derectory of "Program Files (x86)"


@All I think why steam has a different derectory for eatch game exp pack is.... So that it can run eatch in "Standallone Mode" and that way steam does not need to know where the other derectorys are for the other addon's.


On a side note:
I have found a new MODS derectry i tryed to load the Rise of Man files there with no sucsess.
C:\Documents and Settings\10640\My Documents\My Games\beyond the sword\MODS

 

[Carwyn]

The Mods folder in the My Documents path is for the ini files and the saved games, the game won't find the Mod itself there. You may have better luck using the default directory for x:\Program Files for the game installation. I'm sorry I don't remember where I read how to change the files in the Mod itself so that it knows how to find itself in a non standard installation. Also, do be sure it is in the Mods folder under Beyond the Sword, not any of the other places. I'm afraid I don't know much about the Steam installations, so can't help you much there.

 

[Mistx]

@All
So i reinstalled one at a time in order and Steam still installed them the same way.

The Mods folder in the My Documents path is for the ini files and the saved games, the game won't find the Mod itself there. You may have better luck using the default directory for x:\Program Files for the game installation. I'm sorry I don't remember where I read how to change the files in the Mod itself so that it knows how to find itself in a non standard installation. Also, do be sure it is in the Mods folder under Beyond the Sword, not any of the other places. I'm afraid I don't know much about the Steam installations, so can't help you much there.

@Carwyn
I did try the .ini file in the main install Program Files/Steam/ext...
However I rechecked to see that the mod was in the correct directory. Which I did earlier due to your first comment. And low and behold that was the problem. You had told me what to do since the first comment I just did not understand. Sorry.

Answer:
I did put it in the BTS directory but because of steams installs it was not the correct one.

I did not put it in the directory for normal Civ4
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization iv\Mods

I put it in the WRONG BTS directory (apparently there is duplicate Civ4-Basic Mod folders in Steam installs)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization iv beyond the sword\Mods

The correct directory is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization iv beyond the sword\Beyond the Sword\Mods

Steam makes 3 copy's of the normal-Civ4 mod folders. (The 3rd copy is in the "Warlords" install) Even though i was in the "sid meier's civilization iv beyond the sword" folder there was another level of Beyond-the-Sward-ness. I really should have noted this sooner. :|


Thanks for all your help guys I am now enjoying some LAN games with this mod.

 

[Revolucion09]

Awesome mod, my favorite, but I dislike the mega civilization pack, it adds lots of incoherent stuff for me, and reduces "difference" between civs. I prefer classics

By the way, shouldn't democracy, or at least agora, be in early stage of the games.. thinking of Greece for example, democracy in its pure state was tried in Athena...

 

[CMKMStephens]

It is in the early stage of the game...? Right after alphabet.

 

[kingkev78]

Sorry bout silly question but what is difference between 2.63 and 2.63 (woc lite) and can I upgrade to lite version if I have regular 2.63 downloaded already?


Thank you. Awesome mod keep up great work!

 

[Arakhor]

I would imagine that "lite" is a downgrade, not an upgrade. "Lite" would tend to indicate less options and so forth.

 

[Carwyn]

I would imagine that "lite" is a downgrade, not an upgrade. "Lite" would tend to indicate less options and so forth.

Actually "Lite" modifies the WoC, not the RoM. It's a standalone mod version. The WoC project has made some basic changes within the game code to ennable modders to put their mods in as modules within a framework. It is also coded to make the game run more efficiently. "Lite" means a streamlined version of WoC that uses less computer resources to run the game.

You don't need to either upgrade or downgrade, you can download the 2.63 WoC Lite version and run it as a separate mod (the folder name and mod name will be Rise of Mankind WoC Lite).

It gets confusing, but it's great to play an active mod with things going on in it.

 

[Arakhor]

Fair enough. I stand corrected

 

[os79]

Hello,

Can someone tell me which technologies allow me to build certain percentage of research and wealth so I can code in Zappara's modifications of these alongside with my Idle code for playing "Eternal" gamespeed in file "civ4processinfo".

That is my own mod. I need it only because I installed AAranda's "Eternal" gamespeed mod. So this is NOT a feature request.

Thank you.

 

[pquetzal]

Will Patch 3.19 for Civ4Bts allow Rise of Mankind 2.62 to play smoothly? - wondering if anyone has encountered any problems after running the patch

 

[JosEPh_II]

The 3.19 Patch will break RoM. The patch includes .dll changes that RoM will have to be adapted to. Zappara responded to this in the 2.7 Discussion thread and advised to Not use the 3.19 if you wish to continue to play the current RoM versions.

Of course if you do use the 3.19 you can play "regular/vanilla" BtS.

JosEPh

 

[Hyronymus]

Of course if you do use the 3.19 you can play "regular/vanilla" BtS. JosEPh

That's an insult !

 

[JosEPh_II]

Hehe! :duck:

That was my "implied" thought. When I talk BtS any more I mean RoM!

I wonder if zappara "feels" any pressure from his rather rabid fanbase?

JosEPh

 

[pquetzal]

Thanks for the info Joseph ll re: the 3.19 patch - will avoid it!