Resetting to default settings?

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I'm afraid I #$@%ed up a bit too many various settings in the game. Is there a way to reset all the settings to default (short of uninstalling and reinstalling). The game isn't actually broken, but I've recently changed a lot about my playstyle and it's easier to just reset all the related stuff and set it to what I want now than mess with it more and do god knows what.

 

One in particular is the racial ship designs/colors/starting abilities. Those have gone all over the place (militaristic Altarians FTW!).

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

One in particular is the racial ship designs/colors/starting abilities. Those have gone all over the place (militaristic Altarians FTW!).
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In this case, deleting the custom file in the my documents/my games...etc folder for the version you are playing for the Alterians would reset them to their defaults.  Other in-game options like video/interface and such....I'm not sure of.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Other in-game options like video/interface and such....I'm not sure of.
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Those are stored in the prefs.ini file in same location.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

And once you have returned to this 'default' status by detecting the whole number of files & settings... it may be a good idea to create a new folder named *Backups* and maintain a set of these precious files to revert back to _clean settings_ if you should ever need to again. :D

 

You may also want to try the self_archiving (if you have those, btw) install files made upon first SD downloads... everything is there for you to inspect and/or decide to switch over. The normal SDC files are indirect zips (through re-naming) while some files contained in these have the usual extension '.xx_' underlining trick of good'ol dossy extract processing.

 

I find it pretty useful to have such backing stuff for ships & templates too, btw. Cuz, it's a simple matter of copy_paste to re-create some tedious work on those fleet by a simple process rather than having to do these designs once_twice_three times again & again. Even tricky editing (but appropriate) of some files can ease many pains.