Where do i extract maps to?

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I just got the game yesterday via digital purchase and downloaded it using impulse. I noticed on the website here that there are maps for download, so i got a few and cant figure out where to extract to.

I noticed that they are .galaxy files so i just figured i'd look for those and put the map in with them, but that doesnt work apparently. I searched the forums and all i could find were very in depth tutorials on how to build the maps / make mods for the game, but nothing that answers my simple Q. Where do they extract to?

Ive tried putting them in the following locations with no luck, and i cant see anywhere else they might go. 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity\Galaxy

C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity\Diplomacy\Galaxy

C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity\Entrenchment\Galaxy

Im trying to play diplomacy if that matters. 

 

Thanks in advance

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Vista/7:
C:\Users\your username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\GalaxyForge

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

Please note that some of these directories are hidden by default. To unhide them, go to Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View and set yourself to view hidden files and folders.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Also, while maps can be played with the regular game or expansions, some of the maps from the earliest days of Sins may be out of date and thus won't show up in game. There is a map updater tool a user called harpo made though that should make them playable, you should find it with a search. Also, you can make your own maps if you get the urge with the rather easy to use galaxy forge tool you can find in the downloads section.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Although there was a change to the map format a few version ago, all up-to-date maps will work for vanilla, entrenchment, and diplomacy.  You install them in the same directories (as Kryo listed) and then they will appear in-game.

While I'm on the topic of user-made creations, I may as well point out this:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/365777

It's a compilation of fan-created maps that I manage.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

A guy named Harpo9999 made a program that will allow you to update old maps so that you can play them in the current version of Sins.  It might also be as easy as opening up some of the map files (which are simple text files) in Wordpad and then changing the version number so that Version = 3.

If you encounter difficulty finding that Application Data folder, there's a discussion about it here:

http://tinyurl.com/Sins5

I have a page for my maps here:

http://whippersnapper.unrealmaps.net