Mod activation not functioning!

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Okay. So.
I put all my shiny shiny mods into respective folders in the appropriate MODS folder. I load up Sins, there they are! I activate the three I want to test today, load a new game...
...and it's vanilla Sins. No changes.
I've restarted the game. I've restarted my computer. I've re-extracted the mods. I've tried loading on startup. Nothing seems to work. The only way I can tell the game is interacting with the folder at all is the massive graphical lag I get whenever I'm using the mod loader!

Help?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
What mod are you trying?

From the SosSE folder it should go Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\Mod Name\Mod Info (GameInfo, sound, etc.)
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You can only have one mod activated at a time, as well. It's possible whatever the last mod you activated was some misc change so you thought it's vanilla Sins?
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks Kitkun, I checked, all good.
Annatar, I didn't know that. Huh. Guess it's time to go download Seven Deadly Sins. =P
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Why give up so easily ?

Extract all the changed files from each mod, and put them all in one directory. If its not in binary, its been changed. (Assuming they kept the binaries for anything not changed, which they should have for performance).

The only conflict is where the same file is changed in different mods, and there you will need to choose one.

You should be able to make up 1 mod out of the 3, that achieves most of what you wanted from them all.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
The only conflict is where the same file is changed in different mods, and there you will need to choose one.
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You can even open up the files and combine changes. (Unless they change the same thing, of course.)

Up 'til 1.09, I was running a hideous amalgamation of half a dozen mods. Then when I realized how easy Sins can be to mod, I made all kinds of changes.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
There are several freeware file comparison tools you can use to make merging extremely easy. They'll highlight all the differences for you, and you get to pick what to replace and what to keep. Beyond Compare is what I used when I was modding, and it works great. Does whole folders so you can compare all of GameInfo at once, as well as the differences on a file by file basis.