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I've just purchased the Civilization IV Complete package, and am puzzled by the apparent absence of two map files that (by all reports) were originally included in the vanilla Civ4 release.
The maps are the ones for the Desert War and American Revolution mods.
The mods themselves are present in the Mods folder for vanilla Civ4. That is to say, along with the Tutorial and Greek World mods (which work just fine), there are folders titled "Desert War" and "American Revolution" in there, and each of these contains an Assets folder, an .ini file, and Readme info. Both mods can be loaded without problem using the "Load a Mod" command, but neither of them can be played as neither folder contains anything resembling a map file.
Looking at the files installed with the game, I count a total of four mods with vanilla Civ4, eight with Warlords, and eleven with BTS. Every one of these mods (except for the two in question) consists of an Assets folder, an .ini file, and a PublicMaps or PrivateMaps folder containing the map(s) used by the mod. And all of them (except for the two in question) load and play just fine.
So I'm assuming that the two map files in question were either not included on the Civ4 Complete DVD, or they were not installed for some reason. I suppose a third possibility is that the maps for these two mods were installed in some odd location and can't be found now.
I'm posting this in the hopes that some Apolyton member has the Civilization IV Complete package and will be able to verify whether these maps should have been installed in the mod folders, and whether the mods work. (I've contacted Take 2 about the problem, and they've been singularly unhelpful.)
The maps are the ones for the Desert War and American Revolution mods.
The mods themselves are present in the Mods folder for vanilla Civ4. That is to say, along with the Tutorial and Greek World mods (which work just fine), there are folders titled "Desert War" and "American Revolution" in there, and each of these contains an Assets folder, an .ini file, and Readme info. Both mods can be loaded without problem using the "Load a Mod" command, but neither of them can be played as neither folder contains anything resembling a map file.
Looking at the files installed with the game, I count a total of four mods with vanilla Civ4, eight with Warlords, and eleven with BTS. Every one of these mods (except for the two in question) consists of an Assets folder, an .ini file, and a PublicMaps or PrivateMaps folder containing the map(s) used by the mod. And all of them (except for the two in question) load and play just fine.
So I'm assuming that the two map files in question were either not included on the Civ4 Complete DVD, or they were not installed for some reason. I suppose a third possibility is that the maps for these two mods were installed in some odd location and can't be found now.
I'm posting this in the hopes that some Apolyton member has the Civilization IV Complete package and will be able to verify whether these maps should have been installed in the mod folders, and whether the mods work. (I've contacted Take 2 about the problem, and they've been singularly unhelpful.)
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