User:Powerlunatic/Modding


 * The sole purpose of this is to cement the lack of [unofficial] documentation of modding in Galactic Civilization III. But for now this is a work-in-progress project I'm doing, and I don't plan on writing tutorials - yet.
 * Thanks for reading - powerlunatic

User-creations vs Mods
User-creations and mods have one thing in common; they are created by the community. But they are however different. The extreme example of user-creations are ship designs, and factions stored in your own user folder under :\Users\\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Factions, those created by the internal faction editor accessible when creating a new game.

To speak of "mods", they are in fact, what it says on the can, modifications to your game. They come in two different forms, followed by a brief explaination by "ModdingReadme.txt" in the "Mods" folder:

But however "pure" modding cannot achieve two vital things that only "user-creations" can accomplish: ship design and distribution through Steam Workshop[note: as of version 1.2.1.6]. Besides that, modding does offer lot of potential.