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I am about to start playing online and want to make sure I have the correct maps so taht I can play more easily. Do I need to download any or are most of the games going to use maps I already have?
Sadly, because custom maps do not autodownload, Sins doesn't really have a custom map scene for online multiplayer. Expect to play lots of single star random maps. In fact, custom maps may not even work with v1.14 as of this moment.
You can use map designer maps, just not galaxy forge maps. Once we get new Galaxy Forge out you will be able to use those, but people you play with would have to download the map as well.
However, most often used maps are the random single system maps.
centrurionjixra and astax, I am working on a utility to update maps to v1.14/beta3's new map format at present it is about 40% complete. the code to write & test is the CRITICAL code that analyses the map and inserts the changes to the map format. the complete 40% is all the support code that locates all galaxy files in the playable areas AND mods, loads the old map codes file , the new map codes file and list of all ironclad maps.
all completed code has been tested to work on winxp 32bit & 64bit,vista 32bit & 64bit AND windows7 build7000 32bit & 64bit.
harpo
I am downloading it at the moment in one of my testing machines, and I had to uninstall the entrenchment beta3 which killed the sins install so both the sins 1.15.047 and entrenchment 1.00.25 are downloading at the moment, and when they finish I will be analysing the map format to see what changes I need to make. hopefully it will be just a alteration in the input files rather than an alteration of code.
I will not know untill sins finishes downloading.
harpo
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