lol something to think about.  The only thing is that if I replaced a planet with that then it would spawn multiple times throughout a solar system since you can't make a new planet in game.  This is something I would never do (make a machine type planet) since it's unrealistic and not natural.  What I am thinking of doing however is making a planet ring that is buildable in game that is round and goes around the planet it's built on, giving it extra population.  I'm not sure if this is possible but I will give it a shot.

keep up the good work.. and regarding the website...  a lot of people won't join because it's another password to remember, etc.  May be best to see if you can just see how many people visit your site... probably an easy way for you to track that.

secondly..  and it's a catch-22, until there is more info on the site there's little reason to go to it...  i check the forum as it has much more information as to what is already in UE

Heya its me again

after trawling through some more entity files in 1.0 noticed you still have the buff for the capturedead ability from 7DS g).

just helping cut down the mod size

Just a thought, but as easily, or difficult really as it is to change the mesh for a planet to a ship, for your mechanical world, we could go the other way, make a ship, not actually a ship, but lets say starbase, since they are the closest to planet in their ability to spread culture, spawn ships and fighters and mines and are in fact mobile, or can be made mobile and resize it, to what a planet is. with maps you could place one for "your world" and leave all the traditional planets for the opponents and across the system. The difficulty i see, is making it so the ai recognizes it as a colonizable body, and therefor legitimate as a planet for your race. It would be nice to be able to "create" new entities that are "hybrids" using part of one item and another without "breaking" any hardcoding. But that is probably too far gone now. But might be an interesting direction, if Blair and Craig and Company moved Sins into a more modular direction with each new expansion, replacing hardcoding with "plug and play" modules.

It would mean being able to create ship planets perhaps, or colonizable ships, or cross-making new abilities or introducing other "cash" elements say beyond credits, metal and crystal, we could add, fuel, or ammunition, or dutuerium ore, or any dozens of other "craft" items that could be used as a basis of "building" something new, as in iron and carbon to remove impurities and produce steel. In the same way, creating dozens of craft items to mix and match to produce "different" items in game could be used to produce lets say, self-sustaining shields with no energy expenditure, but of course such an item does need a downside to balance it, say a constant projector ship, that is "rented" not bought, so the credits are continually in some pre-determined amount are deducted from the total. When the credits run out, the ship vaporizes and our wonderful self-sustaining shields with no anti-matter drain are suddenly gone.    My point is yes, you are right about certain limits being in place now, but it could change. HW was "The" Standard by which most modern space RTS's are judged. But Sins, with some creative and interesting directions, could be the "New" standard, and it might of course be possible to go beyond just animated turrets and an interesting storyline, but could extend into making "craft items" or a more "modular" design moving forward, or a player-centric campaign editor, or "plug and play" parts of abilities that can be joined and re-joined in many different ways producing different and new abilities.

Just some thoughts, i hope i dont sound critical, that is not my intention, i just wanted to say we or the devs, or both, the devs and the player/modding community might be able to do some wonderful wonderful things moving forward. Not now maybe, but a year from now? Two years from now? Where could we all be if we had these kind of goals or ideas and directions to shoot for? 

Ten years from now, new space RTS games might be compared to Sins, not HW, if Sins goes beyond and in new directions with this game. 

Sincerely,

-Teal

Thanks.  I think I have an idea of how to do it now too.  I am thinking that if I made it like a Trade Port (Giving it extra credits) then it would work but then I have the problem of making population increase and decrease on it like a planet.  This might take a while and definetly won't make it into 1.1 but maybe 1.2 or 1.3 will include it assuming Hard-Code limits don't stop me from doing it.

As for your idea of colonizable ships I love the idea.  The reason for this is because like in other RTS games such as Age of Empires there is a Nomad setting making you get to choose your own starting area.  What I am thinking of doing is adding a nomad setting to the game and at the start of a game you would get one colony ship but an advanced version which has an invisibilty feature and support for up to 10 people or something like that since a ship couldn't hold to much.  This ship would be unbuildable since invisible colony ships are kind of cheap late game but for a nomad setting I think it could work.  The starship idea is good but I'm not sure what purpose it would serve.  Could you go more in depth of what advantages a moving planet would give?  I'm not trying to be critical or mean or anything I'm just thinking of how it would help it's owner.

Ok I have some ideas for planet bonuses/abilities:

Wind:
Due to the planet having extremely high wind speeds it makes for an ideal place to use wind powered power plants.  By utilizing this natural occurance and converting the energy to run factories creating anti-matter, ship anti-matter is replenished to it's maximum capacity upon arrival and is restored by 6 per second while in the Wind Planets gravity well.  (Abillity is only available to player who owns the planet)

Swamp:
Still thinking...

The Swamp planet, obviously, can be used to teach young pilots about the ways of the Force.

In all seriousness though, perhaps it could have a field that causes buildings in orbit to be more difficult to target. Don't know exactly how that could work out, but, it's a thought eh?

the swamp planet could have more resistance to bombardment as the explosive impact is partly absorped by the swamp

Allright, good news.  I have finished getting my new computer up and running and damn does Sins run great lol.  Anyways I will continue work on the mod again, I am going to a game tonight though so won't start today.

Well I havn't started on the ring "yet."  The reason for this is because I need to finish the additions to 1.1 first, just thought I'd point that out incase some people were thinking the ring addition would be included in 1.1.  Anyways I like your idea but I am wondering if it would unbalance the game since having the ring even added to the game would unbalance it in a sense since the Horder, Crystal, Metal and Bonus planets were never intended to give the player with them in their control a big credit boost.  I am thinking that only the credit focused planet out of the three in each class (Like the Tyrant and Oceanic planets) will only be able to build the planetary ring.  That way it keeps the game balanced, but if I was to add other structures that boost population as well it might unbalance the game further since there would no longer be a need for a Credit Class of planets.

Oh ya could you let me know why you aren't able to use the mod like, does it dump when you start it or dump when you try to do a specific thing, or do you have entrechment and can't use it?  Thanks.

Anyways I have decided to make another addition to 1.1 which is a completely redone Map Creator.  Since I rebalanced the game into 6 classes of planets the Vanilla map creator options don't really work that well with it anymore, for example, one of the options is called "Random - Non Ice", this only get's rid of ice planets which in Vanilla sins was the only crystal focused planet in the game.  In 1.1 there are two more crystal focused planets in the game, the Oceanic and the Toxic planets, so what I did is made a new option called "Random Planet - Non Crystal Class" and deleted the old "Random - Non Ice" this way you have the option to have absolutely no crystal focused planets in your game.  I have also made a second option called "Random Mix - Non Crystal Class" what the differance between the two is, that the Random Planet option only spawns planets while the Random Mix option spawns every possible thing in the game including plasma storms, black holes, asteroids etc.  This way you have the option to either spawn only planets or anything the game has.  I am doing similar things for every other class of planets in the game, so there will be a "Random Planet - Non Metal/Crystal/Horder/Bonus/Multi" and a "Random Mix - Non Metal/Crystal/Horder/Bonus/Multi" as well.  I have also made two other options which are simply, "Random - Planet" and "Random - Mix" which are basicly what the say.  The random planet option will spawn any planet in the game and the random mix option will spawn anything in the game.  I have not completed this yet but I think I can finish it by the end of this week.

Please be patiant for 1.1, I know it's been a long time since an update and 1.0 has some glitches in it as well but 1.1 is a HUGE update with lot's of new additions, both big and small, so the wait will be worth it.

Edit:
I am also thinking of adding moons for asteroids since this is realistic and would add more depth and variety to the mod.  I would make new models for the moons for sure since they need to look like an asteroid moon in the first place.  Anyways tell em what you think and if you guys like it I'll add it into version 1.2 of the mod since I have delayed 1.1 enough already lol.

Ask Ordian about that.  He encountered a problem with his planetary bonuses and he managed to make it so only the planet's owners got the benefit.

To SpardaSon21:
Thanks I'll ask him for help.

To redrevolution129:
Yes, it supports 1.1, 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13.

Updated the files with mipmaps for everything, only took me like 10 mins since it turned out the skyboxes didn't need any lol.  The mipmaps make the file a little bigger than the already big 1.1 but packs a lot more quality.  I might release 1.1 in two parts due to the almost 300/400mb filesize increase (I think).