OK, this is driving me crazy. I've created a simple mod in the past and played some games using it. I kind of remember having trouble getting the mod to actually do anything, but unfortunately I don't recall what, if anything, I did to get it to work.
But the bottom line is that the mod DID work for what little I wanted it to do. In fact, the last game I played a few months ago was using this mod, so it was all in place in the proper directories.
Now I tried to start the game up and I guess since there were some updates to the game in that time my mod didn't seem to have any effect. I've spent all evening making sure that the XML files are in the correct directories (c:/user/MyName/Documents/My Games/GalCiv3/Mods/ModName/Game) and loaded and reloaded the game multiple times, even rebooting my PC. No matter what I do, the mod doesn't seem to do anything. I am sure I have mods enabled in the options screen as well.
I kind of think I ran into something like this one of the previous times I installed the mod, and it sort of mysteriously started working without me being able to identify anything I did to fix it.
Does anyone have any thoughts or have you seen anything like this before?