I'm sorry I re-ignited this thread.  Seems like a lot of bad feelings are around this game. 

I appreciate GosFan77's comments. 

Please accept my thanks for such a wonderful game.

Hank

PS: I realize the heated debate on this thread is typical with militaristic wargaming websites.  Its par for the course I guess.

Most of the players are pretty good natured. Fact is, we have a great game to play whether it be those of us playing 5 player FFA with Cruel AI or 5v5 MP crowd, either way-this is a great game that IC has given us. I was merely pointing out that due to the inherent rushing nature of online MP, those of us who are natural turtling players are sometimes turned off by the nature of MP. But I have nothing against that crowd and love this game.

gamerlamb ... me too !!

I'm starting up another campaign as Vasari ... I really like their ships ... the design that is.  I'll find out how well I like their capabilities soon.

.. and it is a great game ... I'm a devoted proponent.

I think Ironclad did a pretty good job on making all the races unique, though some of the Vasari technology is pretty unique even for Sci-fi. I hated their music though so I didn't play as them very much until I replaced it with some of my own.

With a "music replacement mod" that is extremely easy to make.

A. This may or may not be necessary, but convert all of the music you want to use to .ogg format. There are many of free programs that can do this, but I used foobar2000.

B. Place them in a new folder called "Sound".

C. Go to your SoaSE root directory (with the .exes). There you will find the Sins sound folder.

D. In with the sound effects are all the music in the game, usually called say "Advent 1" or "Battle 5" etc., pretty much any file that's over 1000kb is music. Find any music you want to replace (Vasari # for example) and rename one of your .ogg tracks to that name. Continue until you've done replaced all the music you wish.

E. Go to your mod folder and make a new folder called "Music Replacement Mod". Put the sound folder with your recently renamed .ogg tracks there.

G. Enable the mod and now whenever the game would have played the track "Advent 1" or whatever, it will play the track with the same name in your mod folder.

As this mod has a checksum of 0 (you're just telling the game to load a different track basically), it can be used with any other mods or even multiplayer without problems.

Progen+Skirantra is a highly effective 2 capship opener combo. Skir provides repair and SC and Progen provides Cap ship sniping & Colonize. Kanrak is the earliest LRM to hit the map needing only 1 Mil Lab. I usually skip LF and go straight for a Kanrak + Scout early fleet to compliment my opening Cap Ship. This combo of scouts to soak up damage and kanrak for heavy hitting easily clears even fortified desert and terran worlds.

Haha Yeah, I meant the Egg. lol

While for the sounds its probably not a big deal, its still really bad practice to delete any of the original files. Once you get a shortcut to your mod folder its really no easier to do that than to just make a mod that can be turned of and on at will.