RA and Stock AE on the same computer (Pillager welcome)
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:34 pm
I’ve been looking at the RA (Reluctant Admiral) mod and noted the mod includes its own (expanded) game map and art files. What I’d expect to happen when installing RA is that the expanded map would replace the stock map (the stock map being eliminated), likewise with the art. The end result being the copy of AE on my computer would play only Reluctant Admiral scenarios and no longer be usable for playing stock scenarios. While I ordinarily would not have an issue with this, I still have a PBEM campaign underway with Jolly Pillager using stock scenario 6 which leads me to this question…
Would a feasible solution to the problem involve having two copies of AE installed on my computer – one copy of AE updated with the RA mod, the second copy still configured to run stock AE. One trick I could see with this is keeping save files matched with the correct version of AE (stock with stock, RA with RA) when handling them outside the SAVE folders within each copy (version) of AE – this not a major issue, I’d come up with methods for handling it.
At the moment, I’m assuming this arrangement is possible and has probably been done at least a few times before. Just getting comments and any pointers I may need to know.
Would a feasible solution to the problem involve having two copies of AE installed on my computer – one copy of AE updated with the RA mod, the second copy still configured to run stock AE. One trick I could see with this is keeping save files matched with the correct version of AE (stock with stock, RA with RA) when handling them outside the SAVE folders within each copy (version) of AE – this not a major issue, I’d come up with methods for handling it.
At the moment, I’m assuming this arrangement is possible and has probably been done at least a few times before. Just getting comments and any pointers I may need to know.