I'm talking about overwriting files from the actual game. Among others, the leaders and ministers files.
Having quite heavily modded some of these files for my own use, I can testify that the mod dir mechanism works. It works well. I can have my own directory with my own ministers, and if later I want to play the plain old normal game, the old files are still there.
As you probably noticed after the HoI 1.05 patch, the real problem is that a number of C.O.R.E's files are malformed or contain typos. E.g., the correct term is "Entrepreneur", not "Enterpeneur", as written in one core file. Or the correct term is "Ideological Crusader", not "Idealogical Crusader." Ditto for "Undistinguished Suit", vs one C.O.R.E. file having several "Undestinguished Suit" minister.
Plus some have the wrong number of semicolons on the line.
Well, I can understand that typos happen, and that not everyone is a native English speaker. (I'm not one myself either.) No problem there.
It does make me wonder if HoI even parsed those files when they were written over the original files. Or just silently threw away those lines. Has someone actually played Argentina or Persia in C.O.R.E.? (Two countries with such mangled ministers.)
But either way, to get back on topic: I would very much appreciate it if C.O.R.E. 0.5 would (finally) be completely contained in its own mod dir. Having to uninstall and reinstall the whole game to get rid of the mod, after installing it over 1.05 HoI... well, I hope you'll have understanding if I'm somewhat less than ammused.
Having quite heavily modded some of these files for my own use, I can testify that the mod dir mechanism works. It works well. I can have my own directory with my own ministers, and if later I want to play the plain old normal game, the old files are still there.
As you probably noticed after the HoI 1.05 patch, the real problem is that a number of C.O.R.E's files are malformed or contain typos. E.g., the correct term is "Entrepreneur", not "Enterpeneur", as written in one core file. Or the correct term is "Ideological Crusader", not "Idealogical Crusader." Ditto for "Undistinguished Suit", vs one C.O.R.E. file having several "Undestinguished Suit" minister.
Plus some have the wrong number of semicolons on the line.
Well, I can understand that typos happen, and that not everyone is a native English speaker. (I'm not one myself either.) No problem there.
It does make me wonder if HoI even parsed those files when they were written over the original files. Or just silently threw away those lines. Has someone actually played Argentina or Persia in C.O.R.E.? (Two countries with such mangled ministers.)
But either way, to get back on topic: I would very much appreciate it if C.O.R.E. 0.5 would (finally) be completely contained in its own mod dir. Having to uninstall and reinstall the whole game to get rid of the mod, after installing it over 1.05 HoI... well, I hope you'll have understanding if I'm somewhat less than ammused.
