as far as i can find they are up to date

as for knowing they are not working its simple the "Star Trek Colors" mod adds more options to ship color pallet at race creation and does not show up and a few of the others alter perk choices and they are not showing either i double checked before posting

decided to open debug.err in notepad++ and found a ton of entries like this

Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Users\MortisBlack\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Planet Features\Gfx\*.gc3wsdata    which seems to be saying that the game cannot actually SEE the mods at least that's my understanding of it...

After stepping away from the issues and going to bed (it was almost 3am when i posted) and coming back my irritation has dispersed and re reading my last post comes across as a childish tantrum and that's not how i wanted to appear so apologies for that! just really irritating when features that are advertised as working don't work and 12+ hours are spent trying to make something work is nothing but wasted time and effort

i will reinstall the game today and try and find the issue since i have the rest of the week off

From the 108 hours i have played i actually LIKED what i experienced

at this time GC2 is still the best version i have played but it IS showing its age and limitations..i HOPE this changes as the game is refined,updated and expanded!

Once again My apologies to Stardock and anyone who picked up a childish vibe from my previous post!

currently no mods are working at all still trying to find the reason

will do once game finishes installing...on that not when i installed last night it installed and finsihed today it is needing several updates which i assume is to install the DLC is it  possible that previous updates went wrong on steams end if?

now i am getting content file locked C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\Tools\core compiler.bat....getting real tired of trying to play this game...

above issue was hopefully "fixed" by deleting steam\steamapps\downloading folder...will find out in 1hr and 10mins... NOT FIXED still has that message...

Is  steam being retarded?

has my access to the game been cut off by stardock??

LINK to mod folder

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qspl66spf526go6/GalCiv3.7z?dl=0

will try you suggestions  also the gradients GFX folder is only there as a temp measure until/if the game installs spent some of the wait time building the mod folder...but seems pointless modding the thing with so many out of date mods atm and with the changes coming with CRUSADE i can see the rest being borked as well....

of course me getting crusade is entirely dependant on the game actually installing and working..fully expecting to see content file locked message again at the end of this 4th install...if i do see that message i will take it as my "permission" to use PURCHASED content has been revoked and just hide the game in steam and write off my financial and temporal loss

Quick search shows that this is an steam issue,

happens with other games too it seems

i have FIXED the content locked issue! a few weeks ago i had trouble downloading something from windows 10 store and i contacted their support staff who were FANTASTIC they had me run a few things that failed and then they asked if i would be comfortable with them having remote access to my system since i ahve nothing "sensitive" on this particualr machine i agreed and watched what they did it took them 6 or 7 tries to find the exact casue and it turned out that the winsock protocols had become faulty and so they reset them using winsock reset which is exactly waht i have done and once again it solved the issue

Instructions for anyone else who has this issue in the future

open cmd console with admin privileges(search cmd in windows)

type: netsh winsock reset

then enter

then you must RESTART the system for it to work 

SCRATCH THAT does not work as i have just found out missing DLC added  factions try and get them to install and i get content locked message again...

alright the LAST thing we do is ALWAYS the thing that works...was my stupid AV screwing things up after an AV update that must have happened over night while i was downloading Crysis 2....did not even think to check the AV...

Its missing the exp bonus and there can be an issue with the anomolies that trigger Mega Events, on occassion you get them popping every turn pretty much.

i fully agree that change is absolutely needed for SD's vision to be achieved while mods are a nice bonus it kind of makes sense that some authors decide to wait to update things especially when a game is updated/altered as much as this one is   and only SD knows how crusade will affect(non race/ship mods)when it drops i think my biggest issue is impatience/confusion with the game and how its modded from different sources workshop(personally dislike this option),nexus,these forums etc...

i have looked at the files for modding and quite frankly i have no clue how modders actually know what to change to get their desired effect as its mostly gibberish to me so i can only guess how much effort is required to actually make the mods we use...most i have been able to achieve is changing the odd race logo and quality of the odd planet(just to see if could)...

This is why I created the Tech Tree Editor tool for people who have creative ideas but have no knowledge of modding.

While it won't allow you to do the complex stuff that Horemvore does, it will allow you to create you're own custom tech trees with a few clicks and a bit of imagination.

I did plan on adding improvement, starbase module editors etc.  (will wait to see if Stardock release their own editors after Crusades ships)