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Does this mod have custom created ship designs to give the AI better ship designs?

You are welcome fierceking.

Not yet Sithuk, keep an eye on the next expansion

Haree: do you mean the next Distant Worlds Expansion, "Legends"? Legends is looking unlikely for a H1 release. The open beta hasn't even begun yet.

ORIGINAL: Haree78

You are welcome fierceking.

Not yet Sithuk, keep an eye on the next expansion

The next Distant Worlds expansion is titled Shadows. Legends is already out

That is very exciting that you are creating an improved Extended Mod to go with the Shadow expansion. I guess this is why you have been asking the forum members question about their ship designs. Am I correct? Thanks for your extra efforts in this area.

It's not for me to say stuff about the expansion but contributing to that thread is likely to contribute directly to the expansion so I thank everyone who has found the time.

Well, we will just keep that to ourselves, won't we?[;)]

For some reason the Napoar race causes my game to stutter horribly when I zoom in on them (from the Sector/Galaxy level to the System level). Everything runs fine when I'm not changing my zoom level, but changing just one level (with the mouse-wheel) causes the game to stutter for 3-8 seconds every single time.

I don't get this issue but I will certainly look in to it if I get a chance. Right now, that is difficult though.

I just discovered this great mod but cant get it to run as with an earlier viewer says i can select the 2.02 addition but it does not change anything. As well as i have the .20 beta add on. What do i do now? I'm not the most PC savvy person.

As you said on the other thread, you should really consider adding this mod to ModDB. Having it there is also a great way to show off Distant Worlds to a larger audience (mods are not only shown off on Mod DB, but also IndieDB, which creates a great, big audience.), and show that we actually have an imaginative and productive modding community around this game. My mod is not getting a whole lot of downloads over there, but it is getting a fair bit of attention, so I think it's actually raising some interest for DW as a whole. There are only four mods in the ModDB database for Distant Worlds mods right now. With DW Extended you could probably do some real good on ModDB.

Distant Worlds Extended is one of my absolute favourite mods. I like what you've done with it to add diversity and variety and you inspired my Human Revolution. Keep it up! [:)]

ORIGINAL: sventhebold

I just discovered this great mod but cant get it to run as with an earlier viewer says i can select the 2.02 addition but it does not change anything. As well as i have the .20 beta add on. What do i do now? I'm not the most PC savvy person.

I think you are confused with version. 2.02 is the version of this mod, which is independent of the DW versions (but require legends).

So just use 2.02 (link at the end of first post), place the files so that the mod's man folder i in the customization folder (as described), and select the mod from the menu in Distant Worlds.

Well i did that last night and sent the files into images but it did not over write any thing. Nor did the game change.
Now what am i doing wrong?

ORIGINAL: sventhebold

Well i did that last night and sent the files into images but it did not over write any thing. Nor did the game change.
Now what am i doing wrong?

Hi sventhebold

You need to put the files from the mod into the 'Customization' folder, not 'images'.

Once finished, boot the game and go into 'Themes' from the main menu and you should be able to select and load the mod from there.

Let us know how you make out.

Oh crap i'm mixing apples and oranges. I was thinking about the gem mod. my bad.
Try again.
That was the problem i was having with the gem mod i was extracting the files but they dont
overwrite they just sit there.

Images? There are non image folder involved, but I can give some images to illustrate the simple steps.

Darn size issues...

1: Download 2.0.2 (see opening post).

2: Navigate to the customization folder inside the Distant World folder, and open the zip file downloaded.

http://bildr.no/view/1405485

3: Drag the folder with the extension so it ends up alongside the original mod.

http://bildr.no/view/1405483

4: Then launch the game and select the mod in theme selection.

http://bildr.no/view/1405486

Nope. The file extracts and the game launches. no problem. Got to Themes and select the mod and start the game. But the new races are not listed.

Make sure you press the "switch theme" button.

The game will think long and hard about what to do, then return to the main menu.

After this, selecting "new game" will show new race portraits, and a long list of races (the mod ones).
To return to the standard game, switch back to the normal stuff the same way.

Nope. Did the switch theme. Pressed the button. It chewed on it for awhile and went to new game. No new players came to the screen.
I have done this several times since last night. I was wondering if i was tired and missed something then but. no joy.