mods and game updates

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A couple of questions:

Every time they update the game, I have to re-do any mods I am using. Is this an unavoidable thing that will always be necessary?

I have been modding the individual files and pasting them in the mod game folder. Can I copy the entire game folder to mods and edit them without opening the steam files? I have tried this and it doesn't seem to work but I might be doing something wrong. I don't want to waste time trying to make it work if the files must be edited individually.

It seems like it should work but it doesn't.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yes you are doing it wrong. You only modify the files under My Games/GalCiv3/Mods folder.

Files with the same name as Steam files will override those files, meaning GalCiv 3 will take the ones in the Mods folder. So of course if you override them, you have to check the files against the new versions of them in game files.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

A better way to do it would be to give your files new names and remove all of the original files content, leaving your work as the only content in the files. then their stuff will load followed by your stuff. Then your not overriding files. Your adding to them. Hope that makes sense. 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have several mod files that I have gotten from others on the forum for custom races, as well as faction files (which serve the same purpose but are located in a different directory.   From time to time while the game is changing a lot, I tend to reinstall (I have about 60Mbps download from FIOS, so it's not a big issue).   But before I reinstall I rename the C:\Users\Bamdorf\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3 file something else, like Galciv3_old.   Then remove the program through Steam, and the files in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Galactic Civilizations III and C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations III.  (Or rename the last if you like.)

After reinstalling, I just copy the contents of the mods directory C:\Users\Bamdorf\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3_old\Mods to the new mods directory and I copy the factions directory C:\Users\Bamdorf\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3_old\Factions from old to new in the same fashion.

Haven't had any problem with this procedure and I am closing in on 100 factions.  Maybe this wlll hep, good luck in any event.