Is there a way to check if Space Age is installed, but not enabled?

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Is there a way to check if Space Age is installed, but not enabled?

Post by Pikachar »

As the title states: Is there a way to check if Space Age is installed, but not enabled? I was browsing around through some posts on various platforms and some people were mentioning that some mods were adding checks for this recently. I had asked them what mods in particular, but the mods they sent me looked like they were just copy/pasta'd from space age and not actually doing a check. Further digging brought up the use of enabling/disabling FeatureFlags, but from my understanding that only allows or enables certain features from the DLCs such as enabling spoiling. So, again, is there a way to check if Space Age is installed but not enabled?
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Re: Is there a way to check if Space Age is installed, but not enabled?

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There is not. Mods do not know which other *disabled* mods are installed. Since they are not enabled they are not part of the active mod set and aren’t checked for synchronization when it comes to multiplayer.

If mods could detect that, it would lead to desyncs in multiplayer when one person had some mod installed but disabled and another didn’t.
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