How to Install Mods

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in; but, here goes....

I see lots of help here for creating mods but very little for actually getting them to work in GalCiv II. I've put off asking this question in the hopes that someone else would and I wouldn't have to be the "noob" that asks something so painfully obvious, but: how do you get the mods to function?

Some of the downloaded ship mods tell you to put the files in the GalCiv II data folders without explaining which ones. There is a Modding Guide HTM file that tells you to put them in the "Mods" folder. The "Mods" folder contains a large number of other folders. Is there something that explains precisley what each folder is for, and what files go in them? Also, somewhere I read that that the "Mods" folder wasn't working yet. Is this true?

On top of this, the Modding Guide explains that:

"For version 1.2, we are including an interface to change your mods directory. On the options menu, there will be a control with the current mods directory and a button to change it. Clicking on the change button will bring up a dialog that will let you browse to a different directory, or you can create a new folder by modifying the path and then clicking the + button. It's not a true windows browse dialog because that would have caused compatibility issues. It would have taken too long to show a tree structure well, so it simply lists the subfolders of the current directory. You can click on a subfolder to choose that folder, or click on the up arrow button to go up a level."

I have been unable to find any + buttons or "up arrow" on the Options Menu window that comes up on my screen, and clicking on any part of this screen does nothing (except right clicking on it in attempt to maybe bring up a scecondary menu just "whites out" the directory path so that it is unreadable). All I seem to be able to do is switch between the "Default" and the "Example" folders. I have appllied all the latest GalCiv II patches and revisions through Stardock. So....how do you get other folders to display on this thing?
I was able to get the Kyros Hull Sytsem to function, since it came with explicit instructions, but none of the other mods.
There is one other thread on this forum that refers to " how to install mods", but he seems to have figured it out himself. Would that I could be so lucky (or smart)!!
Thanks for any help

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OK, the previous post was pasted in from Wordpad.

It was properly spaced and formated but this posting forum crammed it all together as you see it.

Don't know why... except maybe to make me look like even more "noobish" that I just admitted.

Sorry.

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For most mods, just place them in program files\stardock\totalgaming\galciv2\mods and for ships place them in my documents\my games\galciv2\ships.

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kryo

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Fixed your post for you--be sure you're not in HTML mode when you post, otherwise line breaks will not get converted to their HTML equivalent automatically. If the text in the post box is a Courier font, you're in HTML mode, and if it's a Sans Serif font, you're in normal mode. Click the < > button to switch modes.

FYI, the 'up level' function was removed from the mod selector in game to make it simpler--it just lists the mods it finds in the mod directory (you can change where it looks for mods at in the prefs.ini file found in My Documents/My Games/GalCiv2).

To install most mods, you just unpack them into the mods folder as noted by reply#2 if they're designed correctly. Some are not, or are made to overwrite the core data files, so installations can vary. Other things like ships (ones designed in-game, not new models like say, the Enterprise) and logos go in the approrpiate locations under My Documents/My Games/GalCiv2.

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