How to, Manage custom maps by hand
2009 June 7
To install CIC, SAM or CIC compatible maps from this site you must;
- Pick a map from the Map Database and download it
- Extract using 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ or any other Zip program
- Move the un-compressed files to your “UserMaps” folder in the “My Games/Sid Meier’s Railroads!” folder.
- Launch Sid Meier’s Railroads! and select the new map.
To get a new map Simply delete the old one and follow steps again with a
new map.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You must have an empty “My Games/Sid Meier’s Railroads!” folder if this folder is not empty please read this.
Some maps may not be packed using the CIC, SAM or a CIC compatible style. If the map is an installer then you simply have to run the downloaded exe and it will install the map. Other maps may come with their own instructions in which case those supersede these instructions.
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This is fine.
Hooked does not accept 7Z file extensions.
Unless you repackaged them all compressed maps from the Hooked forum are in RAR or Zip format.
Bobby’s are 7Z.
This is confusing, if I want to put it in the FAQ, I can not refer to 7Z.
Why not just say compressed or even ZIP-d. Zip is becoming a generic expression for all compressed file forms.
The proper way to do the installing is to download the map directly in a clean UserMaps folder and decompress it right there. (That’s how the SAM instuctions are worded) No copy-ing and pasting needed.
All the maps on this site are in compressed using 7zip, it says a tone of bandwidth. Plus 7-Zip is an awesome program everyone should use, yup I’m an open source fanboy.
For the FAQ you cna simply change the wording, and if you want to you can change the instructions to have the user decompress right into the proper folder. Both ways would of course work but when I had wrote the article I did so expecting (As I was dong at the time) at the user would be keeping a separate folder full of maps and only playing one at a time.
I have Nafta Phase II revised with installer by Rodea. It is in two RAR files 7500 Kb each. Now you can post it, then I can refer to you.
How can I get it to you??
Need an E-mail address
I’ve emailed you, just reply with the attachment.
What about Windows7? It doesn’t have “My Games” folder. Where do I put the maps?
It will if you have ran SMR before. Try looking in “documents” which can be found in your home folder.
I have followed all the instructions here – cleary the folder, donwloading maps etc (extracting with 7-Zip)
But when I start railroads there is nothing in the usermaps directory. I have chosen ‘devon’ as my map. There is a ‘devon’ folder – nothing else.
Do I click on Load Map or single player?
Also tried the auto map moving .exe but when I extracted the maps to a folder, then selected this in the moving maps program browser section, nothing comes up. No one siple map!
no sure what’s going at all. any help appreciated.
When you start up Railroads! and select Single player have you looked through ALL the maps?
yes, all the way through, no new maps there, even the old multiplayer one’s are there, all the original maps, no more, no less
Try installing SMRI (Sid meier’s railroads! intercontinental)
first custom map that worked for my 2GB ram computer. Wohoo!
Try some of my alternate Universe maps. (Alternate France, Alternate UK, Alternate Germany, Alternate Balkans).
They were made for people with computers like yours.