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it occured to me that building space on majority-water maps is hard to come by and would be painfully limited. like, look at this... we need space for the buildable areas, the harvestable resources, decorations, all that stuff. how can we fit that in a puny space like this? the top left there makes the issue very obvious: there are shale/flats borders, flats/water borders... but no shale/water borders. if we fix that, we gain a lot more build space on island maps soooo i did some cooking: and now we have shale/water borders, and shale/flats/water borders here's the expanded tileset image with those additional tiles: I'll do up the attributes later. we just have the image for now still, I implemented those tiles' appearances only and here's an in-game test screenshot: we should be able to make much better effective use of the available space thanks to this. no needless two layers of terrain borders. better-looking too, right? form AND function! what? "how does island warfare work in d2k when there are no transport ships"? custom Carryall logic, hovertech, and duct tape. also, I poked PsYcHo about doing up a hovertech MCV. repack it like in ArkDebut, fly it over the water with a light escort of whatever hover tanks are available in your faction's arsenal, and plop it down somewhere new I'm still working on polishing up units' spritesets that PsYcHo generously provided via his voxels, but wanted to post this update since it has to do with the tileset itself. that's all for now

that sounds like an unthinkably difficult challenge, bruc. I'm sorry y'all had to go through that ordeal. I'm really thankful our work was able to accompany you through those times. it means a lot that we were able to make a difference in your time of need. we're gonna keep trying hard to bring the best outta this beloved ol' game and, thanks for reaching out, Cm 😅 always helpful

Thanks @Cm_blast - I REALLY appreciate the help!  I managed to reinstall - lost all my saves but will just play through everything again!! I mentioned on my last post I wanted to say how the people working on these missions might help and give joy to people they dont even imagine.  There are so many great missions but I think my favourite of all time is Harkonnen - Flippys campaign 12. Myself and my wife went through 4 IVF processes to get our daughter.  Each prior time my wife woud start having "complications" then we would end up losing our child.  For my daughters pregnancy the complications started again.  The only way I could mentally zone out and literally not go mad through worrying was playing on this and in particular that mission.  So thanks to you all for helping someone you never even met get through a really hard moment!  

I was in Michigan two years ago and totally forgot you live in the US now. Might be back in another year or two.

Option 1: check the config and check and uncheck multiple options until one works. Opcion 2: Try using dunemasters version (it is almost the same as gruntmods)   Here you can find the all in one installer, it has the game and all the other 50 custom campaigns ever made. Both gruntmods and dunemasters are the same and both use almost all the same files, but for some reason 50% people can play gruntmods fine, while the other 50% game has issues and have to install dunemaster instead (and other times people installing dunemaster game doesn´t work, but gruntmod does).   I would fully try the options on the config first, some options are like "use core affinity" I think or something along those lines that for some people game have issues until they disable it; you can also try with different resolutions and that kind of stuff, I don´t know for sure what makes the game to not start, but you can try with that, and if it doesn´t work, using dunemaster.