confused

For maps, the single map that I have made only showed up when I put it in my glaxyforge folder located at the appdata/.../sins of a solar empire. It is in the same folder as were you have your mods folder. Note that I tried this with entrenchment and I am not sure if it works with the original game.

I am not sure about your other question.

gruntmaster has the correct info, and they do show in BOTH sins AND entrenchment.

first you will want/need a either or both winrar and 7zip to extract files then download and install galaxy forge from the sins download page
assuming you have sins 1.17/entrenchment 1.03,  the galaxy forge maps NEED to be placed here for xp
C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\GalaxyForge

or here for vista/windows 7
C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\GalaxyForge.

NOTE the first two folders after the 'user name' are hidden , so to see them you must first click on 'tools' then 'folder options', then 'view', then click on 'show hidden files& folders' then click ok, then you will be able to browse your want to the folder. I suggest when you find the folder that you create a shortcut to it on the desktop

also the galaxy forge maps only show up in the galaxy forge tab of map types

and if a map you want to play was released before 25th feb 2009 then you will also neet the sins map updater from here
http://files.filefront.com/sins+map+updater+v201rar/;13585432;/fileinfo.html

harpo

Thank you Gruntmaster sorry for the delay to reply,currently orbitting jupiter. i'll give it a try but this and entrenchment is becoming hard work.thanks for y help.