Help on World Map & 28 Civs

[Turambar]

Install modswapper 1.21 it's the same as 1.5 apparently.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Turambar
Install modswapper 1.21 it's the same as 1.5 apparently.

And I thought it was v.1.12. But anyway at least I downloaded v.1.12 from Wes' homepage, and it does work with all the mods so no need to worry. But maybe we should inform Locutus about it so he can fix this when he returns.

Unfortunatly there is no Ultra Gigantic Map option in ApolytonPack anymore, to be able to play with ultra gigantic maps just downlad GoodMod and use the according gameplay option.

-Martin

[Immortal Wombat]

I have a question.

Are the mods in ModSwapper sorted chronologically by installation date? When I asked Locutus, he said his were done alphabetically. Just wondering...

[J Bytheway]

I think they're sorted alphabetically by the name of the *_gamefile.txt, with original first. But I'm not sure. I'm fairly sure it's not by installation date.

[Martin Gühmann]

In my ModSwapper the mods are sorted chronologically and it claims to be v.1.12. I downloaded it as I said above from Wes homepage (a long time ago).

-Martin

[J Bytheway]

I just tested mine (v1.12) - I created an AAA_gamefile.txt and it appeared at the top, and an XXX_gamefile.txt appeared at the bottom, regardless of what the title of the mod was. Of course, both were most recent chronologically.

[Immortal Wombat]

Yeah, Martin's results copy mine, and JB's copy Locutus'. How bizarre.

All I want is all my Cradle options together...

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
All I want is all my Cradle options together...

Then just edit all the crade gamefile.txts so that the last modified dates are all the most recent. Surely that can be the only way they are sorted chronologically.

[J Bytheway]

Incidentally, I can't remember where I downloaded my ModSwapper from, but it wasn't WesW's site.

[J Bytheway]

Also... What file system are you using - I'm using NTFS. That might make a difference.

[Immortal Wombat]

Win98

[J Bytheway]

Well, as dangerous as it is to make a hypothesis on so little data, I guess that what's going on is that under FAT32 the built in loop-through-all-files-in-the-directory goes through in chronological order, but under NTFS it's sorted by name (to optimize file searches) and so we get them in filename order. But it could be a coincidence.

[Immortal Wombat]

Sounds reasonable. I'll have to upgrade

[Locutus]

Yes, it does have to do with the windows version (as I told you, IW, when we had that ICQ conversation ). I noticed the savegames have this same change in sorting order, so it does indeed appear to be an NTFS issue.

[Immortal Wombat]

You didn't tell me, you suggested it. And you didn't use big words like "FAT32", "hypothesis" and "optimize".