I'm downloading 3.5, because I didn't see how to update 2. I'm guessing this should work too, and I might as well get it either way.

Actually, that made it work! Thanks a lot!

However, one more question takes it's place- I made a dumb map to test, and it works and all, but I found it in the "Small maps" section. I'd rather isolate my uninspired random placement of planets. Is there any way to force it to be in the Galaxy Forge section, or otherwise away from the rest of them?

if you save the map in the program files galaxy folder then depending on the number of players and number of planets & stars it is placed in the deifferent sizes ie small,medium & large in vanilla sins ONLY.

for entrenchment with the map in the program files galaxy folder the map will NOT be seen unless you modify the galaxy.manifest

assuming you have sins 1.17/entrenchment 1.03,  the galaxy forge maps NEED to be placed here for xp
C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\GalaxyForge

or here for vista/windows 7
C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\GalaxyForge.

NOTE the first two folders after the 'user name' are hidden , so to see them you must first click on 'tools' then 'folder options', then 'view', then click on 'show hidden files& folders' then click ok, then you will be able to browse your want to the folder. I suggest when you find the folder that you create a shortcut to it on the desktop

also the galaxy forge maps only show up in the galaxy forge tab of map types

and if a map you want to play was released before 25th feb 2009 then you will also neet the sins map updater from here
http://files.filefront.com/sins+map+updater+v201rar/;13585432;/fileinfo.html

harpo

shadowl I have many maps that I have created and I place all of my maps in the galaxyforge folder ONLY. if you place galaxy forge maps in the old user space galaxy( now mapdesigner) folder yes INSTANT DEFEAT, also instant defeat with only one player or player(s) without home planets. as blair and myself have stated the galaxyforge 3 maps are to go in the galaxyforge folder unless you want to hack the galaxy.manifest in the entrenchment folder every time you add a map when you place the galaxy in the program files galaxy folder. oh by the way the galaxy manifest is VERY case sensitive ie one letter with the WRONG case will cause an error (from memory it is a ctd, but might only be a fail to read all following maps in the file)

harpo

shadowl the documents and settings is the correct one for sins 1.16+/entrenchment 1.02+

if you want some help debugging the maps you could email a rar(7zip or zip also handled) of them to me at harpo99999 at hotmail.com, and I will check and fix them

harpo