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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: April 18, 2023, 03:00:55 pm »

I won't be able to work on the mod page/teaser of this lovely modification for a quite long while, since a serious thing just turned up at my place. Just a heads up; will get back to it the moment I would be able. Cheers, and keep this shit rollin'! Czudak, "ołwer and ałt".

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: March 30, 2023, 03:41:17 pm »

Alright. I'm done with the other tasks, so I can focus on making the mod page for this. I see the GitHub is active as much as it can, so when there's gonna be the next version available? Any ETA, so I could make screenshots and the micro teaser on the newest material?

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: March 04, 2023, 11:44:23 pm »

Now I have a better idea instead. I will make just a mod page there (without any files or downloads) and redirect everything to Mod.io (and, supplementary, here). The report comes later, once I'm done, yo.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: March 04, 2023, 11:18:31 pm »

Also, the biggest issue is that we support too many ways of installing and running things.
If there was only one way to do it, there would be no obsolete videos, no obsolete guides.
New guys who ask here for a guide will not get 6 different answers from 4 different people.

Adding yet another way of installing will not make it better or easier.
Guaranteed.

Lastly, you say you will update it every 2 months or so.
But for how long? 1 year, 2 years, maybe 3?
After that, there will be an unmaintained version on moddb, forever.
Solar will not be able to remove it.
And everybody who finds it, will be as lost as ever.

OXCE does all that; it doesn't install XCF on top, though. Also, I've been to ModDb since 2014 and been (re)uploading things there since then, because I'm here for the long game, apparently the same as you, hehe. Finally, if I would ever leave I can always delete the uploaded file there, anyway, or mark it as "removal via request" so you or Solar could remove it per email request, since it would contain OXCE and XCF both.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: March 04, 2023, 10:21:45 pm »

Yes, I also can't see how putting it on ModDB makes any difference... Unless you put the whole game there.

Not sure how to make the instruction any clearer. Anyone should be able to follow steps this simple.

Not gonna lie, it sounds a bit suspicious to me.

OK, one more time: there are people out there who are unable to fix up a combined OXCE + XCF installation with all those lengthy steps of copying original X-COM games' files from places, especially since there are multiple folders that aren't in the same location involved, but they want to play the modification. This is a common occurrence, trust me; "zoomers" are like that; to you (and other people here) it's a regular Monday, since you, 100% guaranteed, played this game(s) on an ancient 486 DOS machine (I know I did), so you know how it all goes. Normally, I would just make the installer for them only but since I don't like my work to go to waste on only several people, I wanted to put it on ModDb too, since it would give this mod more spotlight and extra audience as well. Suspicious still?

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: March 04, 2023, 04:57:18 pm »

I guess it won't hurt. I'd prefer to keep it in one place for better information, but if you have a good reason, I don't think it's a problem, as long as you do proper crediting (not just for me, there's a number of people who are also significantly involved in making XCF).
Still, I'd like to know the reason. Is it because people from a certain region can't access mod.io?

About OXCE and other components, you'd have to ask their respective authors.

I'm a modder myself and I presented this mod on my Discord server to some people, in private, knowing they would be interested. However, even with my "condensed" installation guide, half of them failed to install successfully... so, it would be better for me to make the installer and distribute the mod that way. And since I uploaded many mods to ModDb, being a "regular customer" there for almost a decade now, then this is only a natural thing to upload XCF as well.

I wouldn't worry about having an outdated version on ModDb, since every 2 months I reupload the old files with the newer versions if available. Also, since this project is open source, I can make the NSIS script open source too, so anyone interested could check, edit, and compile it themselves.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.8: The Lunar Protocol

« on: March 02, 2023, 12:10:29 pm »

Howdey. Since I can't send PMs just yet in this forum, then I will ask here: may I upload this swelltastic mod to ModDb (under X-Com UFO Defense game page), please? Also, since as of lately I'm always trying to make an installer for the mod, so the end user wouldn't have to mess up too much during the process, what about making one for the modification as well?

A bundled pack of X-Com Files, together with OXCE, and paths finder, to extract the needed original files from the UFOs installations?