how to load downloaded maps?

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I've downloaded and extracted a couple maps, pasted the .galaxy file into the galaxy's folder, yet when open game, select single player and look for these maps, they are not there!?

 

any help would be great.

thanks

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Which game version do you have? In the latest one (1.16 and 1.02 for Entrenchment) there is a 'GalaxyForge' folder in the game's appdata directory.

Vista:
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\

XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\

Put them there and they will show in-game as 'custom maps' (click the button small/medium/large maps).

:-)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Bravenue, reply 1
Which game version do you have? In the latest one (1.16 and 1.02 for Entrenchment) there is a 'GalaxyForge' folder in the game's appdata directory.

Vista:
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\

XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\

Put them there and they will show in-game as 'custom maps' (click the button small/medium/large maps).

End of Bravenue's quote

Do we just put them in the actual \Sins of a Solar Empire\ folder, not the Galaxy folder?  Because I have been bugging with a custom map this morning and can't get the damned thing to load, you think Stardock would have developped a better system by now for installing custom maps, especially since this seems to be a very hot topic

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I give you 3 guesses... :|

Since there are 3 possibilities ('Galaxy', 'GalaxyForge' and the main folder) it can't be that hard. Providing the map file is good, meaning for example the version number (at the very top if you open it in notepad) is 3.