Deleting custom races?

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All right, so I'm aware that you 'could' manually delete the file before, but when I delete it now the file just reappears every time I run the game. This is getting annoying. How do I get rid of it?

Also, I'm curious why this system wasn't improved between the expansion. An in-game delete should have been the least they did - I don't understand why they insisted on making 'race' and 'character' separate in the first place.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top


It's probably Steam Cloud sync putting your files back, turn it off in Steam

Have to agree with you too, should have been a button for it long ago. Can't believe how unfriendly some ui's still are in this day and age.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top


Turning off Steam Cloud, for a game that advertises Steam Cloud saves as a feature, cannot be working as planned. much less designed. I wonder if it will ever be fixed. There is a way to delete files from the Steam Cloud, but it's a PITA.

 

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2470784

 

Seriously Stardock, give us a way to fully utilise the features in game, without the workarounds. Not every TBS gamer is a code monkey.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

+1 to popular demand-fix list.

I would also like to be able to edit existing races. I recently created several custom races, and now and then I forgot to edit the shield, colors, race name or something. Well, that's just too bad for me, as there's no easy way to fix...

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Gandalftheredskin, reply 2
Not every TBS gamer is a code monkey.

That's right I'm no code monkey :) I'm not sure this is a Stardock problem or if it is a Steam problem. I'm going with the latter, because steam should provide a better UI in deleting and maintaining cloud information (at least a removal feature).

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting parrottmath, reply 4
I'm not sure this is a Stardock problem or if it is a Steam problem. I'm going with the latter, because steam should provide a better UI in deleting and maintaining cloud information (at least a removal feature).

 

Makes sense.
No offense to code monkeys intended btw, it's just a language I am not fluent in. :grin:

 

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I've so far had no problems deleting factions by right-clicking them and selecting "yes" in the new game selection screen.  They don't re-appear on subsequent loads, and I don't have to hunt down a folder and delete them manually.  Try that out and see if it works.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top


That only hides the sovereign, not the faction, it's not actually deleted, as Parrottmath noted in the other thread.