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derehannah12 wrote:Help! The It shows as a compressed folder instead of a ftl file! What do I do?

Simply change the file extension.

CrashSanders wrote:

derehannah12 wrote:Help! The It shows as a compressed folder instead of a ftl file! What do I do?

Simply change the file extension.

How?

He means rename the file.

You might have to go into windows Folder options and look for an option called: Hide extensions for known file types and turn it off. Windows also has a habit of treating .zip files as if they were folders adding to the confusion. You need to rename the file so that it ends with .ftl and place that into your FTL/mods folder.

videogameguy54 wrote:Question: Do I have to unlock all ships beforehand to play this mod to it's full potential.
i.e. All ships won't be unlocked by using this and I can got though the game with this and still have a challenge.

I'm pretty sure ship unlocks and achievements still work properly with the mod installed. If you are new to FTL you might want to experience vanilla first, but you can also dive in right away with captains edition and unlock the ships there. Almost no modifications have been made to the ways ships are unlocked.

Discordwolf wrote:Hello I posting here to let you know that your mod will be streamed live on twitch TV at 7pm est on 7/31/13 the streamers name is Pandatron76 at http://www.twitch.tv/pandatron76 and would really like it if you stopped by to get input from you and to give you some... We hope we will see you in the stream...

Ah thanks for the heads up, I'll try to be there.

I just got to a station that make me surrender. Didn't think it would actually auto-kill you. Great thinking me.

I also noticed a bug that causes some of the custom text, below the objective text that appears right after you press start, has a weird glitch that causes some of the letters to shift to random characters rapidly. Imagine seeing a single letter change between "dslfkaj.,sdf,a.disjlf " quickly. I once saw a minecraft map that had a book that used this purposely to show a corruption. I don't know if this was just my game not being modded correctly, or if it was a bug though...

Another small bug report:

Advanced fire beam: It doesn't work as intended. Description states, that it pierces through 1 shield, damages crew and personel by 1, and ignites firer. Hoever, it *doesn't* pierce through 1 shield - it goes through only, if shields are down.

typo:
"her" instead of "here"

There are some more events inc. stations, where station image isn't shown. Generally, you might want to check all events for "station" text (using some sane operating system, i.e. not windows - for example, under GNU/Linux, 'grep' could be useful).

As for "experience vanilla" - as said earlier - I thought the same, at first. Now, gained experience, I can tell you - Captains Edition is, in practice, unofficial patch, containing best of modding efforts, that are in line with vanilla experience. So, it's literally, a Vanilla+.

/Estel

Estel wrote:i.e. not windows - for example, under GNU/Linux, 'grep' could be useful).

*shrug* in Windows, you can just Ctrl+F once you have the file open in the default notepad. And while it doesn't support regex by default, pretty much any other good 3rd party text editor has regex find/replace implemented (Notepad++, Notepad2)

Also, "too" instead of "to" in this same text.
And I think the shield piercing inconsistency also affected one other beam -- I think it might have been the Adv fire beam, but I'm not sure. Might as well check all other weapons for description/stat consistency

kartoFlane wrote:*shrug* in Windows, you can just Ctrl+F once you have the file open in the default notepad. And while it doesn't support regex by default, pretty much any other good 3rd party text editor has regex find/replace implemented (Notepad++, Notepad2)

That's why i mentioned using non-windows system - opening every single file and searching manually is *definitely* not fun. Under any *sane8 operating system, you may just use any basic (i.e. provided with system itself) tool to recursively search content of given path, for given pattern - inside or outside file's content.

Of course, in this case, we want single command, that will give our list of files where "station" is mentioned inside file - including info on line where it is mentioned, for every hit Obviously, it makes fixing such glitches a 5-min task, as opposed to hours of browsing through countless of files.

Of course, there is a chance, that you can achieve it under windows too - by spending another couple of hours searching for appropriate free (as in beer, or, if you're lucky, as in speech) 3rd party tools. But, such time could be better spend on downloading any $random linux ditro, installing it, and entering new, more beautiful world

/Estel

WinXP could search inside files easily as there was a checkbox for that when searching. Win7 does things a little differently, but it can still be done easily. There's two ways to do it.

1) Search normally but instead of searching for <word> in filenames and folders search for <content:word>. Just like that, no spaces. The search will return results with files that contain the string <word> and ignore all other files, including files named word.xxx

2) In Folder Options under the Search tab, check the option Allways search file names and contents. However this will also require some fiddleing with indexing options because Win7 insists on knowing what file types exits and how to sort and search them.

The whole indexing things is as dumb as the registry imo, and about as usefull but it's better not to fight it. Because if you're gonna fight indexing you might as well use debian...