Single Player Mods

[Suicide Junkie]

Try just opening the file with winRAR.
Skip the self-extracting part and decompress it manually.

[Fyron]

TDM is distributed with some installer package, not as a self extracting rar file. SpaceEmpires.net hosts a rar copy of the mod, however:

TDM-Modpack 3.40 RAR Archive

[Stregone]

Fantastic, thanks

[PTF]

This thread makes me think about new single player setups for myself. I would like to be a pirate/nomad race but the setup should be together with another mod. I know that TDM works all right together with pirates, but what about STM or devnull without monsters?

[Suicide Junkie]

TDM only works because it is not a mod, but rather a set of kickass AIs.

FQM could be spliced in I suppose, since P&N dosen't do much with the planets/systems/quadrants.

But nothing that changes components, facilities, shipsizes etc would be compatible. Not without making a whole new mod from scratch. And sometimes not even then; some feature sets are mutually exclusive.

[El_Phil]

TDM still needs poking at for use in non stock or the AI won't use any new weapons, unless the mod keeps the same weapon families.

I really hope that's right or I've been wasting loads of time mucking around with AI files and still don't understand them. *fingers crossed*

[Fyron]

SJ wrote an AI patcher program that converts stock-compatible AIs (such as TDM AIs) to work in P&N.

*link*

I really hope that's right or I've been wasting loads of time mucking around with AI files and still don't understand them. *fingers crossed*

Perhaps ModWorks would be of use to you.