Coud you plan to add the possibility to change this path in a patch?That's been asked a lot but it's not going to happen. Games for Windows program mandates the use of that path. Some people have tried to argue that things like mods don't fall under the criteria of what needs to be there based on their interpretation of the GfW agreement, but nonetheless it's highly unlikely to change.
That is indeed wrong. The Games for Windows spec says that content that the user may need to modify (game saves/mod files/etc) should be in a suitable place to allow this (like "My Documents/My Games" on Windows XP"), but as you say, this isn't likely to change.
However, you *can* change it, but doing so requires your file system to be running NTFS and for you to use a program called Junction (
WWW Link) to create a junction point on the harddisk that points to the new location. To do so you would have to do the following (On Windows XP):
1) Copy the entire contents of
"C:\Documents and Settings\youraccountname\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire" do somewhere like
"D:\Sins of a Solar Empire" (if you have a D:\).
2) Delete the
"Sins of a Solar Empire" folder from
"C:\Documents and Settings\youraccountname\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\"3) Run Junction in a command window using the following command:
junction.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\youraccountname\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire" "D:\Sins of a Solar Empire"
