Re: Strong and growing!

TIEpilot234 wrote:

Yeah, alot of people(me included), haven't switched back to 1.3 or whatever the current version is, which is why there aren't as many people.

Why? You will need to switch back to install the next release.

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Re: Strong and growing!

Maybe he just cant get enough of Lok tongue



or just hasn't had the urge to play with other people.

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Re: Strong and growing!

I'm just too lazy tongue

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67 (edited by Luke SkyRaper 2008-10-05 00:37:49)

Re: Strong and growing!

The switching was super simple -
1)  I renamed my FirstStrike folder (the one inside of MODS) to 'FirstStrike_spare', (after I right clicked on it and hit "copy".)
2)  Then I right click "paste" to put it right back , next to the newly named folder.
3)   Run the autopatcher hootis thingy to mod up the FS install to the testers version.
4)   Now I can test the latest version, but regular FS doesnt work.
5)  When i want to play regular FS reverse the names of the two folders.  Thats it.

Now keep in mind, when you reverse back, you cant call the 'FirstStrike' folder 'FirstStrike_spare' yet because theres already one named that. So call it 'FirstStrike_alt' or anything. Call it 'poontang' whatever. Once you rename the 'FirstStrike_spare' folder back to 'FirstStrike' then you can change 'poontang' (or whatever the alt name is) to 'firstStrike_spare.
It takes like 2 minutes or less to flip over.
I even made a MS-DOS batch file to do this for me so i can do the flip with one click.
If anyone wants a copy of the Batch file I will post it for you all.

Speaking of which, this should be integrated function for the future autopatch file. It would prevent people from screwing up their installs.

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Re: Strong and growing!

It is simple enough, the most simple way is to just create two folders, one named First Strike Mod the other First Strike Testing or whatever, then you install two copies of First Strike, when you want to play normal FS you bring it out of the First Strike Mod folder and put it in the MODS folder to play, with the test version stored safely within the First Strike Test folder. When you want to play the test version of the mod you stash the standard version of FS in the First Strike Mod folder and bring out the test version from the First Strike Testing folder into the MODS folder. Easy.

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Re: Strong and growing!

I have them both in the mods folder, named for example FirstStrikeAlpha and FirstStrikeAlpha, with backups on an external hard drive so I don't have to do a complete reinstall if either suddenly doesn't work. The one I currently use is renamed FirstStrike. Switching between the two is as easy as renaming the folders.

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70 (edited by TIEpilot234 2008-10-05 19:03:41)

Re: Strong and growing!

Hey, I said I was lazy, not dumb...

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