Updated DevNull...Non-Gold?

Dingocat85 · #1 April 17th, 2003, 07:26 PM

If someone had the time, money, slaves, whatever you need to do so

...could somebody pleeease take the Current Version of Devnull Mod GOLD, and make an alternate Version so SEIV normal can run it? The old Version is great...but I feel like me and all other non-Gold players are missing out on some good stuff

Thanks,

Dingocat85

[ April 17, 2003, 18:27: Message edited by: Dingocat85 ]

Taera · #2 April 18th, 2003, 12:27 AM

i believe it is easily done by hand. You just need to go through the data files and erase all drone designs & tech levels etc. Then launch the game, count the errors and go fix 'em. shouldnt take long.

OTOH im still not familiar with ALL of DevNullGold features and maybe im missing something... anyone?

Dingocat85 · #3 April 18th, 2003, 02:22 AM

That was actually the first thing that came to my mind

- I opened every single text document, and deleted every time I saw 'Drone'. But, it didn't work...got some error Messages about missing stuff, and all the buttons on the opening screen were greyed out except 'Credits' and 'Exit'

Maybe there was some other stuff I should have deleted, I don't know...Does anybody know exactly what I have to delete where, in order to get it to work?

Of course, anyone's efforts to do this for me would be vastly appreciated

oleg · #4 April 18th, 2003, 03:29 AM

I am not very familiar with Devnull mod (it is a very good one, just have not much time to play them all), but one way is to trace the changes documented in latest Gold Version and try to reproduce them in non-Gold you have installed.
It might be difficult and not really worthy $45 you pay for Gold

Gold has some very nice features nonreproducible in non-Gold !

Dingocat85 · #5 April 18th, 2003, 07:41 PM

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Originally posted by oleg:
one way is to trace the changes documented in latest Gold Version and try to reproduce them in non-Gold you have installed.

Any idea what I should try to reproduce, and what I shouldn't? IOW, should I only ignore everything that says 'Drone', or is there anything else?

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 April 22nd, 2003, 07:04 AM

the data sets change between classic and gold.

Taera · #7 April 22nd, 2003, 07:27 AM

ehh if i'll feel like it i'll go over it tomorrow, devnull gold is quite good. noone did it for me so lets make a change

oleg · #8 April 22nd, 2003, 03:43 PM

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Originally posted by Dingocat85:

quote:
Originally posted by oleg:
one way is to trace the changes documented in latest Gold Version and try to reproduce them in non-Gold you have installed.

Any idea what I should try to reproduce, and what I shouldn't? IOW, should I only ignore everything that says 'Drone', or is there anything else?

For example it is percents in quadranttypes.txt file in pre-Gold but 0.1 of percent in Gold - all numbers are ten time bigger ! There might be something else, don't remember now.

Dingocat85 · #9 April 27th, 2003, 05:06 AM

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Originally posted by Taera:
ehh if i'll feel like it i'll go over it tomorrow, devnull gold is quite good. noone did it for me so lets make a change

...does this mean you might actually make DevNull Gold work for non-gold SEIV? Don't want to get my hopes up too much, but if you'll actually do it, that would be great

Fyron · #10 April 27th, 2003, 05:50 AM

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Originally posted by Dingocat85:
That was actually the first thing that came to my mind - I opened every single text document, and deleted every time I saw 'Drone'. But, it didn't work...got some error Messages about missing stuff, and all the buttons on the opening screen were greyed out except 'Credits' and 'Exit'

Maybe there was some other stuff I should have deleted, I don't know...Does anybody know exactly what I have to delete where, in order to get it to work?

Of course, anyone's efforts to do this for me would be vastly appreciated

You probably created missing lines somewhere. All of the error Messages SE4 gives you tell are extremely helpful and tell you exactly what is wrong.