This alpha content pack is a preview of the as yet unreleased full mod and includes:
Two completely new ship sets based on the ships of EVE Online (Caldari and Gallente);
New starbase designs based on the stations of EVE Online (Caldari and Gallente);
Five major factions from the complete GCoNE roster of twelve for your testing and enjoyment (Caldari State, Gallente Federation, Guristas Pirates, Intaki Syndicate, and Serpentis Corporation);
Six minor factions from the complete GCoNE roster (Achura, Intaki Prime, Jin-Mei, Mannar, Mordu's Legion, and Outer Ring Excavations)
Galactic Civilizations of New Eden
Alpha Content Pack
September 25, 2015
This alpha content pack is a preview of the as yet unreleased full mod and includes:
Two completely new ship sets based on the ships of EVE Online: Caldari and Gallente
New starbase designs based on the stations of EVE Online: Caldari and Gallente
Five major factions from the complete GCoNE roster of twelve for your testing and enjoyment: Caldari State, Gallente Federation, Guristas Pirates, Intaki Syndicate, and Serpentis Corporation
Six minor factions from the complete GCoNE roster: Achura, Intaki Prime, Jin-Mei, Mannar, Mordu's Legion, and Outer Ring Excavations
Installation is simple.
1) Start with a fresh install of Galactic Civilizations III and delete any previous version of the mod or of the Caldari State Faction Mod from your "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods" folder.
2) Extract the folder in this archive named "Galactic Civilizations III" to your "C:\Steam\steamapps\common" folder or equivalent location where the main GC3 program directory is located. If prompted to overwrite a file, do so.
3) Extract the folder in this archive named "My Games" to your "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents" folder or equivalent location where USERNAME is the name of your Windows user account. Again, no overwriting should be necessary if this is a clean install.
4) Start GC3 and enjoy!
An optional text file is included if you would like to use it. This file overwrites the star system names file in GC3, changing all of the names assigned to randomly generated star systems to names from EVE Online. To install it, extract the folder in this archive named "..\GCoNE Alpha Content Pack.rar\Optional\My Games" to your "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents" folder or equivalent location.
This alpha content pack is designed mostly to append content to the existing game files and is fairly limited in scope. It should not conflict with any other known mods.
If none of the content shows up when you launch GC3, ensure you have 'Enable Mods' selected in the game options.
If at some point while playing you notice that ships belonging to any of the factions added by this alpha content pack lose their correct colorations, you will need to overwrite the GradientMap.png file located in ..\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\Gfx with the modified version of that file included in this archive in ..\GCoNE Alpha Content Pack.rar\Galactic Civilizations III\Gfx. When new updates are pushed out for GC3 via Steam, this file is frequently overwritten with the stock GradientMap.png, which causes the custom ship sets introduced by this alpha content pack to revert to a black and white color scheme.
Bear in mind that updates to GC3 may--although they shouldn't--break this alpha content pack.
