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Trying to find a fix for the current modding bugs (eg races with changed names being unplayable and changing the name of metallic asteroids crashing the game) would be a deliverance.

Amazing work! This will simplify re-modding the very fast game releases so much!

Looking forward to testing this modding methodology out. Immediately.

Mod program works great.

Verified 10 static energy colony modules, bonus income from admin, constructors x 2 work.

Engines, and reproduction rate need a "replace all value() with value" and then they work as well (to conform with the 1.1 syntax changes in the github documentation).

The mod loader got an update. Does the Mod still work with it?

edit: apparently not. Game crashes when loading a save. Gonna stick with Modloader 1.07

Miletkir wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:37 am Trying to find a fix for the current modding bugs (eg races with changed names being unplayable and changing the name of metallic asteroids crashing the game) would be a deliverance.

For the first one: Get Enable Custom Races from https://github.com/DW2MC/DW2ModLoader/w ... lds-2-Mods

OK, so I can't possibly be certain if it's a version 1.0.2.8 thing, or a problem with the modding methodology itself.

I can start a new game. I can save and load a new game. I can exit the program and reload that newly saved game.

However, my 12 hour play session... none of my savegames will load. The entire play session seems corrupted and instantly crashes silently to desktop.

Any ideas or feedback?

To my understanding, mods shouldn't effect save games at all... at least, editing the xml files doesn't, and you have to start a new game with any xml editing to see changes. But maybe the modloader does effect save games, and that crashes/corrupts them?

Probably just a 1.0.2.8 issue. Was very frustrating though! I said bad words.

Okay as this seems the right way , how DW 2 should be , may I ask for following mods
Some are already here !

Would really appreciate following

After 100+ h playing , what I missed the most

1.) An option to reduce pop growth drastic (stupid stellaris needed 5 years to give us that option), the pops are bunnies atm

DONE
maybe even only 20% from that vanilla growth rate
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2.) Ancient technology , should only be possible to research, when you have already researched EYERYTHING in that field of technology. It ruins the complete tech tree atm


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3.) FEWER SPIES and higher counterespionage buffs. That counterespionage building should have 3 upgrades


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4.) Colonization distance should be the same as hyper jump range, NOT HARDCODED at the start of the game


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5.) Fewer resources !!!

DONE. okay but how about a not so hard version ... 50% ?????

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6.) No BUYING of research time


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Would really need that to enjoy my next game, atm the game has too many unbalanced things/exploits which get out of control after a short time and ruin the game fun !
Thanks

In the latest DW2 ModLoader release the folder mods is missing. Why is that? Following the guide in the original post I wasted half an hour searching if there was something wrong that my stupid brain didn't comprehend.

Was it ever included in the zip file? I just made the folder manually.

Does the mod work with latest beta?

The reproduct rate is set to 1+0.0x

So the updated value formula should be value/2+0.5

Bump for update.

Question for iancmtaylor:
You once said that you didn't make the mod-loader, but you just use it (or something similar).
But do you know who is the original author/creator of it or where to find this guy on GitHub (or somewhere else)

You can find him pretty easily on the official discord. The link to the server is on the steam news page. The modloader dev's username is ̑🅠 which I'm not sure how you're supposed to pronounce, or type without copy/pasting it. But he hangs out on the modding channel of the discord a lot.

Iunnrais wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:31 am You can find him pretty easily on the official discord. The link to the server is on the steam news page. The modloader dev's username is ̑🅠 which I'm not sure how you're supposed to pronounce, or type without copy/pasting it.

Hey Iunnrais, thanks for your answer, but I'm not sure I undestood some things right (the guy seems to be really kinda secret about his name, huh ? (lol)) - Did you mean that he's someone of the official Devs for DW2 ? (or what "steam news page" do you mean ? (I only know the modding sub-forum on Steam - or the news-tab in the community hub, so far )

He's not secretive about his name at all, he just doesn't use the forum because his first post was flagged as spam.

This just became the unofficial mod loader thtead.

iancmtaylor wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:56 pm He's not secretive about his name at all, he just doesn't use the forum because his first post was flagged as spam.

This just became the unofficial mod loader thtead.

His first post ? - What do you mean (here - or in Steam) ? - I haven't seen anybody with this ̑🅠 before. (do you have a link ? - I can't really identify what this might be - is a worm-eaten apple ?)
- And why was his post "flagged as spam" - do you know ?

EDIT: I think I found him (on Discord; - thanks Iunnrais, again ) - but there really is no name at all - only this odd symbol. (so much about secrecy )

Forum has been inaccessible for me for the last two days. Like a ddos protection or something, really weird.

Anyway, if you were to click the link in the OP you would see the name of the guy that made the modloader. Which is the same name that posted here over a month ago, and the same name that has posted in the subreddit several times. There's no secret, you just never clicked the link I guess.