/sigh I don't know what it was, but I tried a different starbase and it worked, so I tried the first one again and this time it worked just fine. Maybe there was a space I didn't notice or a letter missing in that long string of letters at the end. It still doesn't show up in the list of starbases to sub in, but I can live with that. You're absolutely right. They're unrelated issues. Thanks for the suggestion!
I seem to have somehow lost the ability to use any starbase design I have created. I was able to create starbases when I first started playing the game not too long ago, by creating them in the ship designer then assigning them to the fleet style when creating or editing a custom race. Now, while some of the starbase designs still show up in the ship designer, they are no longer listed as options to replace starbases when I use the race editor. I can see all the generic starbases just
Never mind, I found the solution. I found a post in the modding guide pinned in this forum where someone mentions his mods working after he verified his files with steam. I thought I'd try it, and my little mod is working perfectly now. So apparently, I have to verify my files every time I want to add a mod. Weird. My guess is there is some data file in the main directory that tracks mod data but isn't updating properly; it gets re-downloaded then updates when steam do
Don't you mean Documents\My Games\GC3Crusade\Mods\TempMod\Core? I have ship sets that I've downloaded and made both which are in the apropriate GC3Crusade folders, and those are working fine. It's just the mods I've tried that aren't working. I did try putting the GC3Crusade folder directly in Documents, but that didn't help. I also tried changing the name to GC3 Crusade, just in case it was suposed to have a space in it like it does in your post, but then it wasn't listing the s