If you download the DA version it will work for DA, but not with regular DL, I'll put together the files we have now to work with DL soon, but I am not sure how often we'll be updating both Dreadlords and Dark Avatar from this point, I know Dark Avatar will be the version to be updated the most.

Hm, the mod is cool and all, but how am I supposed to design a ship or use the templates? There are no available ship designs, but when I click to use a template, the game CTD. I was checking this out in a game and I found that while the computer could create new ships just fine, I couldn't create any new ships for lack of a design. Also, when the computer attacked one of my ships, the game also crashed.

Please post all bug discussions on our page. It makes them easier to control. You have to build the ships through actual hulls.

We put a fix out already, its pretty small download. Can be found on our download section.

Does this work with the Gold edition? It seems to only have one MOD directory within the galciv2 directory but not in the DA directory. I put the StarTrek beta in there, but it still doesn't seem to load when I start the game. Thanks!

go ahead and create your own:

C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar\Mods

You just have to go into the GalCiv2\DarkAvatar folder and create a new folder called "Mods" and put your folder in that. Then start up DA, go into options and select "use mods" and switch over the location it looks into, you may have to restart the game two or three times to switch over all the settings (first time you switch on use mods, and go to switch to the Star Trek mod, I do not think it shows up, but once you restart the game it will, so at that point you can choose to select the mod and restart one more time to make it take effect)

I can't post in your forums yet, so I'll just post it here for the moment. Anyway, I downloaded that fix and reloaded the mod, but I still can't create any ships. The only hull I have available under 'New Ship' is that Large hull at 42HP. Are there supposed to be other hulls available? I don't know if it matters, but I was playing as Federation.

Did you delete the raceconfig files and start a new game? I know for a fact the fix will make it work as long as you do that.

I also activated your account to the forum.

I've posted this problem on your forums now. That should keep things in more of a central location.

I'm still not able to see any hulls besides the one I mentioned, even after doing as suggested. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong though.

CRC failed in StarTrekBetaV4_DA\Movies\NewsRobot_Human_Neutral.bik
Unexpected end of archive

Im getting this at the end of the installer. Ive tried everything I can think of to fix it but its still giving me this message. Can anyone help me out?

Darthfalz - I'm not sure, we uploaded and downloaded the mod ourselves and reinstalled it to make sure errors like that didn't happen. My suggestion would be to review the WinRar extraction, and see which part contains that file, and then redownload only that part.

Yeah, one of the files probably ended prematurely. That happened to me while downloading numbers 5 and 6, so I had to re-download those before it would run. To check whether they were complete or not though, I just double-clicked on the files in question and they would give me the 'Unexpected end of archive' message if they were the offending file.

Do you have the DA version in 1 file?

Good mod I have it for DL and am getting DA now

I am having difficulty getting the mod to work as well. I have downloaded all the files, including the fix from your website. But I still am unalbe to design ships in the ship creator, and am therefore unalbe to build any ships. I deleted most of the raceconfig files, however, I have encountered problems when deleting some of them as the program tends to crash after the intro.

Pyriel2005 - please check our forum - we are having people start to say it is working with varying reasons behind why.... I am looking into it, but I can tell you the mod does work, prior to releasing I uploaded the mod, deleted my mod and reinstalled it using the files I downloaded....

Please be sure to place the fix into the following file:

C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar\Mods\StarTrekBetaV4_DA\Data\ShipStyles

and overwrite all those files....

Also, the Templates will work as long as you use the ones we created, I'm looking for a way to take out the standard ones but no luck yet.

I put the files in the correct place, I have tired to post this on your forum but I have yet to get the account activated, and I am now having trouble accessing your forums. More specifically the thread about the problem, as it asks me to log in.

Acually I even installed this mod on a clean install of the game, and it still wont work correctly. If there is some way to fix this then please tell me, but I cant access your forums

what name did you sign up with on our forums?

pyriel2005 - delete the race config files again, reinstall and choose a race without choosing any of the customization tabs - for some reason this creates a new raceconfig with the default module style of 30 which inturn makes hulls unuseable

Hmm, it seems that no matter how many times I download the mod, some files in each section are corrupt. Thank the heavens for my highspeed internet, as I downloaded each section of the DA mod 5 or 6 times each, and the only "clean" download I recieved was from part 1. The corrupted files (I believe) are the same each time as well.


I'm using 7z to unzip them, and have never had any previous problems with that program (it works fantastically for everything I've ever used it for.)I can isolate the corrupted files, but can't extract them properly. If it's needed I can re-download the different sections of the mod and list which files I can't extract.


I loved v3 for DL and would like to play around with the v4 DA version as well. Has anyone had a similiar problem to mine? Or an idea on what settings I might have somewhere that would interfere with the process? Thanks in advance.


I really do love this mod and I'm amazed at all the spectacular work that has gone into it. Ya'll (I'm from Texas) have done an great job at putting this together. I hope I get v4 up and running soon.


AtM


-For clarity I'm attempting to download the Dark Avatar v4 Beta in the 7 part download sections, and the only part that doesn't show corrupted files is part 1, but I don't know how effectively I can scan an .exe for similiar corruption.

You might want to try a download manager then. That way, if a file is interrupted or stops downloading, you can continue the download from where it stopped. I didn't use one, but I did have redownload parts 5 and 6 because the downloads ended prematurely.

Just a heads up - I don't have forum access otherwise I would post this on your forums - the game crashes every time I go into a United Planets meeting. I have the mod installed properly without corrupted files and got the ship fix working and everything. But this keeps happening with United Planets every time.

Just so you know.

BUG FOR SHIP HULLS NOT APPEARING:

If you click on the "APPEARANCE" Tab after selecting your race the following happens, this is a hardcoded bug, we can not change this, it would have to change in the programming.


I have confirmed that this is indeed the bug. It creates a CUSTOMRACEXML file automatically that has the ModuleStyle set to 0 - since NO race in the game uses ModuleStyle 0 - it makes it so no hulls are useable. They don't seem to believe me, but if you have NotePad you can test and see this yourself before confirming if you'd like. We unfortunately can do nothing about this because its HARDCODED - Its a programming bug, not ours.

Everything works fine as long as you DO NOT CLICK ON THE APPEARANCE TAB.

The downloads are downloading properly, and not ending prematurely. They just have corrupted files when I scan and try to extract them.

I'll post my bug (or personal problem) on the ST forum. I believe I registered awhile ago, so I should still have an account.

kodiak888 do you remember the screen name?

For some reason it is appearing you are downloading the file completely, but it is because its ending prematurely or missing a file, I know this because it happened to me. One time I downloaded a file that said it was corrupt, another time I downloaded the file and it worked perfectly fine. I don't know how to explain this, but it was not an uploading issue, but a downloading issue, I don't know if its the server hiccuping, or connections hiccuping, or what though. I'd suggest a download manager