Dang nabid newbie with some silly problem or another

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Been reading for a while and have had Gal Civ since , I forget when.

Anyway, with this new 1.13 patch, I see a mod directory has been added to my Gal Civ dir. Now do I do anything with it? Before, 1.13, I had lots of stuff off galciv.com, 2 custom fighters, 3 custom political parties, anomalies, sb modules, etc.. I figure it's about time I started using metaverse or something. That's why I ask.

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The reason I'm posting is that I tried to submit a game about 10 minutes ago, and Gal Civ CTD'd to desktop leaving me with a 171k debug.err probrably containing the transcript of my game.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
hello Benjamin. Welcome.
I think the mods folder was made so that you can download mods, and, in game, select either to activate them or not.
(if I'm wrong I'm certain someone will correct me) :)


Since I can see your submitted game (13k score, congratulations!) I guess it worked despite the CTD.

The only thing to be careful about with mods is that if they give you too big a bonus (PQ bonus for instance), you may have a 0 score and "anomalous" difficulty, since it can be considered cheating.

As for what to do with you mods, I suggest you ask Lord Megatron, he is handling the mods library, and will probably have much more information on the subject than I have. There are many threads about it, specialy "the Galciv library" one. If you ask there, you'll certainly get a more thorough answer.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I have almost all the mods that the library has and many more of my own and the only time I have had an anomalous score has been when I played lower levels and got way too much money from the AI's on the first couple of years. ;)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
What I love about mods is that you can create your own and use them in your game style and if you want to share with others just bring it in here. ;)
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I have almost all the mods that the library has and many more of my own and the only time I have had an anomalous score has been when I played lower levels and got way too much money from the AI's on the first couple of years.
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Yes, I think Carielf explained that to overexploit minor races (for money for instance) can cause anomalous scores. I mentioned the mods because I remember at some point it was an issue (with the +10% or +20% PQ bonus).