Melissa on 31/3/2005 at 01:09
Hello!
I've recently gotten wholly absorbed in this game and started poking around forums looking for helpful information when it occured to me that I might have goofed my installation. Should I have installed Bloodmoon and Tribunal at the same time as the main game? The whole set was a gift from a friend and I just assumed those were add-on stories of some sort and set them aside to mess around with after I'd played the main game.
Thanks for the clarification and sorry for the silly question :)
Cheers!
-M
Pisces on 31/3/2005 at 09:44
You can install them at any time you like. Though tribunal should be installed before bloodmoon, or rather bloodmoon after tribunal, cause you can install bloodmoon, tribunal then bloodmoon and it will be fine.
Melissa on 31/3/2005 at 17:44
Thank you! Check - install Tribunal, THEN Bloodmoon.
How does it work? When you start up Tribunal, do you have to play the entire game again in order to see the new area/story? Or does it just weave in to the main game somehow? I'm still in Balmora and just saw my first reference to the East... something... Trading Company which someone here said was a reference to one of the extentions...
Cheers!
-M
Allon on 31/3/2005 at 17:59
It integrates into the normal game.
Play Vanilla Morrowind first though...
Arondil on 31/3/2005 at 18:01
Both expansions are fine with an ongoing game. Neither have much effect of the island of Vvardenfell or the main plot, a couple of extra NPCs around really.
As it doesn't seem as if you have played too much, there isn't really much need to bother about what is new or not - enjoy the thing as a whole and play through plot developments as they arrive.
Striker on 1/4/2005 at 00:31
For the love of all that is holy - Install the expansions because they make the Journal sooooo much better! :D
And yeah, Tribunal then Bloodmoon. Won't affect your save games other than adding the extra areas that you can now visit. Oh, and the first time you load a save game from vanilla Morrowind, the journal will be parsed. This takes much less time if you have hardly any journal entries.
Oh, and install the latest Bloodmoon patch at the very end, otherwise Tribunal has some problems. :)
Melissa on 1/4/2005 at 02:17
Upgrades to the Journal? I'm doing it now! :D
Query: I downloaded the patch for Tribunal and for Bloodmoon. I've already applied the patch for Morrowind. Is there any specific order to applying the patches for Tribunal and Bloodmoon, and do I need to have opened the game between installs for the patches to apply?
Normally, what I'd do is this:
Install Tribunal
Patch Tribunal
Install Bloodmoon
Patch Bloodmoon
Fire up Morrowind and see the nifty new Journal before getting back to the game
The patch notes talk about the .bsm files needing to be loaded for Tribunal and/or Bloodmoon, so I wondered if that meant I need to do this:
Install Tribunal
Fire up Morrowind (or is there a separate .exe for Tribunal?)
Patch Tribunal
Install Bloodmoon
Fire up Morrowind (or is there a separate .exe for Bloodmoon?)
Patch Bloodmoon
Fire up Morrowind and see the nifty new Journal before getting back to the game
Cheers!
-M
Striker on 1/4/2005 at 05:50
Nope - the Tribunal patches are included in Bloodmoon. Which is to say, here's the exact order to install:
- Morrowind
- Tribunal
- Bloodmoon
- Bloodmoon patch
No need to load the game between any of the installs.
Also, make sure the bsm files are selected when you run Morrowind. This should be done already during the install, however, select the Data Files option on the splash screen to make sure. It should show Morrowind, Tribunal and Bloodmoon with a little tick in the checkbox. (Which is what the patch readme files are taking about.)
Good luck! :thumb:
