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Terribly sorry, I still cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong or what I should do to correct my mod. I feel I have it down: Put the .oggs in /Sound, changed the references of MUSIC_QUIET etc. to refer to the .oggs in the Sound file of GameInfo, and enabled the mod. Would you be so kind as to tell me the error of my ways? I didnt change the count, because the number of references in the file is still the same. Or must I change something in GameMusic.data as well? Thank you very much!<

I am trying to learn to scout better. So far, finding it a lot easier with Advent -- when my seeker's die, I get free sight, and the culture-based spying tech is very nice. Second-best for me is TEC with the Probe; not as nice as Advent, but still helpful. I cannot figure out any tricks with Vasari however. Am I just supposed to make lots and lots of scouts? They dont have special scouting abilites, are more expensive and cost 3 supply -- just seems kind of hard to keep them alive in systems

I can't figure out how the special TEC late-game ability "Cultural Monopolization" does. I tried getting it and seeing what happens, but I cannot really see the effects. What exactly are rebellions, how do they occur, and how often? I'm not terribly interested in knowing whether this is effective in MP, just basically what it does (for "fun"). "Pervasive Economy" puzzles me too. Again, I tried researching this to see what happens, and I am not sure when and if I am making money. Am I

Thank you. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, and if or how what you wrote above applies to my situation.

I'm trying to replace. I'm afraid I don't entirely understand what you mean by point 2. I thought that was what I was doing. I don't see how I can do that without the gameinfo folder, in which the SoundMusic datafile is. I will email you the file. Thanks so much.

Thank you. I think I understand a lot better now. Thanks! I DLed Notepad++ and used that. I edited five sections of SoundMusic like this music name "MUSIC_BATTLE_1" fileName "Darth Vader.ogg" isLooping FALSE actionLevel 0.75 actionRange 0.35 emotionLevel 0.0 emotionRange 1.0 music name "MUSIC_QUIET_1" fileName "Paris Streatham.ogg" isLooping FALSE actionLeve

OK thank you tons! Really, thanks a lot for your patience and help. Wish I were a bit quicker on the uptake. But I am underway. This is what I did so far. - DLed and installed Audacity and converted 5 .mp3 files to .ogg. (This program will not convert mp4 to .ogg properly) - Created folder "My Music Mod" in the right place (in Mods Diplomacy 1.011, next to Sins Optimization); created subfolder GameInfo and created Subfolder Sound; but the 5 .ogg files into Sound.

WOW thank you so much for these fantastic and fantastically quick replies!! THank you thank you thank you Since I will not get a chance to attempt to get my hands dirty with this until tomorrow, I would like to take the opportunity to ask just some questions based off these posts before I start. Let me say that I printed this out and read it a couple of times, and am still not entirely sure on all points; I'm still kind of afraid that I will screw something up and break the game. So h

I'm pretty sure that I understand the principle of a diplomatic victory: IIUC, One needs to earn 300 diplo-points before anyone else does. That's at least what I can gather from the f11 screen in my games. I'm not sure I understand the fine print however, and would like to see if I get it right. Maybe this would help other people, because in searching these forums for answers, I came across many posts from people who seem confused. - You earn diplomatic points by performing missions f

Hello all. I have never modded anything before in any game; I'm a bit of a computer idiot and things like code or XML is incomprehensible to me. Changing those hidden-by-default files makes me nervous. I am afraid I would break the game. Nevertheless, I was wondering if I would give modding a try, because I like this game so much and I basically just want to change two things. I have no idea if that is even possible. I hoped to be able to ask here and see what you smart people say.

Ah ok thanks. I thought that its large range and cheap cost of the ability usage would make it just as good (I think the subjugator's ability cost is 30 with a quick cooldown (forget what), and the subverter has a much higher cost and longer cooldown; I thought the ability was single-target only, didnt realize it was AoE!!). Because the wording in game is kind of hard for me to understand, I was wondering if anyone can tell me what pervasive economy does exactly. Does it give you mone

Thank you, understand now.

ARGH: To reiterate once again: Please tell me what I am not understanding: I can see enemy mines in a gravity well. I CANNOT target these. I can see them, but cannot shoot them. I believe they are TEC mines (they have TEC players color). Is my problem clear?

Thanks -- but how WOULD I use ressurection if I had to? Granted it might not be a great ability, but now I have a level 10 mothership and have this ability. I'm not sure how to use it. What do I target, and when? I was also wondering about how switching the AI-difficulty works between saving and loading -- if I start on "normal", switch to "hard" 10 minutes later, then to "cruel" for 5 minutes, and then back to "normal", will my AI opponents vary their strength in those times accordin

Um, sorry, obviously I am not understanding something. None of my units can target these mines. Again: They are flagged as "invulnerable" and "phased out". The gravity wells I conquer are still full of them, and when there is nothing left in the gravity well belonging to my enemy (I chased him out, killed all ships and all structures), his mines are still there, I can see them, but I cannot shoot them, neither with my ships nor my defensive structures I subsequently build. The only way they s

I'm obviously missing something. The mines my enemy leaves around all have the tag "invulnerable", (I think they are "phased out", not sure what that means though). So I thought the deal was that my scouts can see them and my troops can shoot them down / destroy them. But I cannot figure out a way to do the latter. What is one supposed to do? thanks much

Thank you. If I may? 1. Trying my hand at Advent, and have gained access to that lvl 6 ability "Resurrection". Looks nice, but I have no clue as to when/how to use it. How can I target a ship if it is destroyed -- or do I need to just go around targeting all my ships before they are destroyed? I set "autocast: off", like I do on all abilities, but am unsure how this works in general. Thanks for the advice. 2. Still playing SP until I understand this game, and can see that when

What exactly is debris? Is that the cosmetic stuff floating around, or is it ship wreckage? How close does it need to be, how long does the debris float around before dissapearing? thanks

What *IS* a "minidump" crash by the way? What causes it? Can I do something to prevent this in the future?

Sorry, I'm quite a bit of a computer idiot, I am just a windows applications user and know nothing about drivers and all this stuff. I do know that I use Windows 7 64 bit, and have 6gig of RAM, and by reading a bunch of different posts on this forum including the Sins Optimization Mod thread, I think I understand the problem in general. Can any smart computer person here state in computer-idiot terms if this suggestion which the OP wrote about is a good, safe, easy, problem-free thing to do,

Sorry for my incompetence. I was able to search the forums and find how to unhide things. I moved the file diplomacy.settings (I didn't have the other one!) to my desktop, loaded the game, and it worked. (My other video settings, like resolution, were all screwed, but I could re-set those without problem.) you. (I actually read the sticked FAQ and searched the forums before I posted, but I did not find anything like this. Maybe it can be added to the FAQ?)

Sorry, like I said in my original post, I'm using Windows 7, and I am a computer idiot. If I have to move files to a different location, I will need to find them and know exactly where to move them to. Can you please help me? Also, I have restarted the computer and restarted the game a couple of times, and one time I was able to load a saved game and see things as I have usually, but the keyboard wouldn't work; I couldn't pause the game, for instance. Can you tell me where I c

Argh, I started a new game, just to test, and the same thing. I'm stuck in what appears to be cinematic mode. At least that's my guess. I've never used cinematic mode, but I think this is it. When I try toggling cinematic mode, in any loaded game or in any new game, nothing happens (no change if on or off). This happened, apparently, as a result of the "minidump" crash (see above). HELP please, any tips?!? thank you muchly

Hello, I have been playing Sins for about a month and really liking it. I have had a number of minidump crashes, but it hasn't bothered me too much up until now. I play SP, and usually, I just reload, and continue from last point, usually having lost a half hour or so. Last crash however is odd, when I reload, I cannot see jump lanes or any planet information (the displays around planets in "global" mode which show hash marks for ships etc.). So far, I havent been able to play this ga

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