Downloading Maps

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I am downloading the maps from the sins main website but when I pull the files and drag and drop them into the galaxy folder in program files nothing happens.  Any helP?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Try the following folders instead:

In XP - C:\Documents & Settings\your username\Local Settings\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Galaxy

In Vista - C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Galaxy

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I don't have an AppData folder in my users file

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Read carefully, not "My Documents" but "Documents & Settings"

and show hidden folders just to be sure!

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I run XP and just did a search for the for 'Galaxy' and specified the engine to look in hidden folders too.  Once I found it, I just created a desktop shortcut so I wouldn't have to look for it again.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

i have vista so I looked under users and then my user name and there was no appdata folder

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

 

Some (if not most) of the maps that are available from the Sins website may not be updated to work with the most recent version of Sins.  For various reasons, custom map files need small updates when a significant Sins or Entrenchment patch is released.

If you open up the map file in Wordpad or MS Word (they are all just tiny little text files) at the top you'll see "Version Number".  The current and latest version is 3.  You might consider changing earlier version numbers to 3 and see if that helps.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting davidt0504, reply 5
i have vista so I looked under users and then my user name and there was no appdata folder
End of davidt0504's quote

did you make your computer show hidden folder?

however, the best way is to use your "Run" command, just type in the path and it will popup and then go up level up, and then right click sins of a solar empire, and then send to desktop as a shortcut

Quoting sawakaki, reply 4
I run XP and just did a search for the for 'Galaxy' and specified the engine to look in hidden folders too.  Once I found it, I just created a desktop shortcut so I wouldn't have to look for it again.
End of sawakaki's quote

that is inefficient, and besides you might have gotten the program files "Galaxy" folder, for sins now, it is a either MapDesigner or GalaxyForge

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting sawakaki, reply 4

I run XP and just did a search for the for 'Galaxy' and specified the engine to look in hidden folders too. Once I found it, I just created a desktop shortcut so I wouldn't have to look for it again.

that is inefficient, and besides you might have gotten the program files "Galaxy" folder, for sins now, it is a either MapDesigner or GalaxyForge
End of quote

Inefficient?  It only took me a minute to find it.  Just specified to search 'Documents and Settings' and look for hidden folders.  Besides, what difference does it make?  You only have to do it once.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

The three and five player random maps that I uploaded recently for 1.16 can be played from the standard Galaxy folder in Program Files\....  Perhaps it is just older maps that you are having problems with?  

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

didn't work

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Mooster, reply 7



Quoting davidt0504,
reply 5
i have vista so I looked under users and then my user name and there was no appdata folder


did you make your computer show hidden folder?

however, the best way is to use your "Run" command, just type in the path and it will popup and then go up level up, and then right click sins of a solar empire, and then send to desktop as a shortcut




Quoting sawakaki,
reply 4
I run XP and just did a search for the for 'Galaxy' and specified the engine to look in hidden folders too.  Once I found it, I just created a desktop shortcut so I wouldn't have to look for it again.


that is inefficient, and besides you might have gotten the program files "Galaxy" folder, for sins now, it is a either MapDesigner or GalaxyForge
End of Mooster's quote
Okay I'm sorry I'm not really good with computer stuff.  You're going to have to walk me through it better.  Let me just tell you what I'm doing.  I go to the download tab on the main website then go to download maps (not upload).   I find the map I want I click the download link, I click save and then I extract all the files from the folder and then drag the file into the galaxy folder.  But when I go to the game there is nothing new added to my list of maps.