Star Dragon

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

reproduceable minidump: As Vasari; when entering into the capital ship ability selection screen for the Marauder (*only* - it was fine in all others), you can normally mouse over each ability. However, mousing over "Distort Gravity" causes the game to crash. Of potential use, no orange ring to indicate its range appears before the crash. I tested this at different graphics settings, and different maps. Everything else gets a thumbs-up

Reply to Is the ilum bug truly a bug? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="7" id="2485000"]Random maps sometimes not providing a one-jump asteroid to every player is a long standing bug, but they've never fixed that either. Just because something doesn't get an immediate hotfix doesn't mean it's not a bug. [/quote]Here's a post by Blair from the most recent patch notes: re: a prior Q: Though this is a bit odd, but no changes to the Illuminator? Hi

Reply to Peaceful starbases in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

As an Advent in SP, I sometimes place a starbase on a dead asteroid with the trade port. That gives me "eyes" that fire at enemies without needing to spend anything on planetary upgrades and also strings along my longest trade route.

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Awesomeness! I'll have one more thing to distract me from wrapping gifts, tonight ;)

Reply to Is the ilum bug truly a bug? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="5" id="2484271"]Even pretending this is a realism thing, how is it realistic that a beam does extra damage before the shields are down? The beam gets deflected/negated/whatever the hell it is shields do, end of story. Yet it still deals the 'mystery damage' no matter what. [/quote]Special penetration technology that the Advent came up with? To my knowledge, the game was supposedly balanced in the last patch with this in mind. If it was

Reply to Battlestar Galactica - Sins of the 13th Tribe v0.96 Released 2/13/10 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'm very much looking foward to the update! Keep up the great work!!

Reply to not sure if this is a bug or a design flaw. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I *think* you're running into something that I believe was implemented to avoid AI traffic jams. Sometimes it takes quite awhile to line up ships for a grouped jump and the AI isn't always smart enough to make room for all the ships in an ideal pattern. In those circumstances, you'll often find one or two ships jumping a little early (not minutes ahead, but maybe five seconds or so). You may also find a straggler or two coming in late. You'll almost never see ever

Reply to Change in valor of shields for capital ship in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Gah! Sorry about that. I remembered incorrectly where the guide was. If you download and unzip the Forge Tools, you will have a subfolder called Documentation. In there, open up a file called "SINS_Modeset.pdf" that will have the steps for the basic mod I was referring to. Please keep in mind that before you open up one of the files to modify it, do the following: Save a copy of the original folders elsewhere and use that to mod w

Reply to Change in valor of shields for capital ship in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yes, you can increase shields, hull points, and adjust damage among other things. I would suggest downloading the full mod tools, and following a few of the examples in the forum (there's one that guides you in changing hull points, and doing the same thing but instead selecting shields will get you precisely what you want). Here's the link to the tutorial thread (download it from there): https://forums.sinsofas

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="TheRezonator" reply="1694" id="2471171"]WOW! the above post sounds AWESOME!!! cant wait! Good Luck with it mate! EDIT: huh? the above post number is 1687, while my post reply is 1694? [/quote]Agreed! I hope the other factions eventually get a cool little boost, too. As for the post numbers, there could have been some spam. That does look pretty funny, however :)

Reply to Who's buying Diplomacy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Already bought it. I tried the beta and it's interesting, but I'm waiting until the final release to really get into it. edit - and more recently, I lernd how 2 spel

Reply to The Green Star has Murdered the White Dwarf!? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

For the scientifically curious, here's a good explanation on the phenomenom of green stars (or rather the lack thereof): http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q72.html My take, they've always been there but Vasaari, Advent, and Human eyes just work differently ;)

Reply to Star Wars: Sins of a Galactic Empire 1.0E (entrenchment) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="EvilleJedi" reply="893" id="2464184"]We are looking for a public release this weekend, probably on a site like file front. more details to come. Everyone that is in the beta can continue updating as they normally do. This release will just be a full download for those that don't connect via SVN [/quote]Any updates? I'd love to give this one a shot. :)

Reply to Dawn of Victory - Total Conversion: Use the newer thread idiots. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Very much looking forward to trying out this mod - any hints on when that first release may be?

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Repeatable, recreatable bug: A minidump immediately occurs if the Halcyon casts Anima Tempest while Gunships are among its squadrons. This is consistently recreatable, and I've checked with different numbers of gunship squadrons. Anima Tempest works fine with all other squadron types. I also posted this on your bug tracker, but wanted to do so here in case that wasn't currently in use (speaking of which, I get errors on there when using apostrophes - kinda weird).<

Reply to Battlestar Galactica - Sins of the 13th Tribe v0.96 Released 2/13/10 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="650" id="2462090"]Just so everyone knows, I'm planning a release before Xmas. It's going to be huge, lots and lots of new stuff You can consider it my Christmas gift to you Unless you don't celebrate Xmas, in which case, it's my winter gift to you. It will be posted by the 21st at the latest, hopefully sooner. [/quote]Very much looking forward to this! You're doing some excellent work, here.

Reply to 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Interesting approach. I'm always a little wary of services running in the background - I've had too many bad experiences with antivirus programs in relation to these. It's not that I don't trust everyone at Stardock to make this a good program that works well in a Windows environment, but I don't trust the plethora of 3rd party developers to account for it. Well, I've got it installed but I haven't seen any bubbles yet - I'll be patient.

Reply to sins updating in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

1) Download and install Impulse on your friend's computer 2) sign in with your email & profile password (the email you used for registration) 3) install and/or update the game 4) PROFIT!!!

Reply to Wrong version of Ironclad? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

As an aside, Impulse works as a game updater, community portal, and digital storefront - not a game client like Steam. Once Sins of a Solar Empire has been updated, you'll never need to open up Impulse again unless you want to. Welcome to a wonderful game, by the way!

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

weird question - Are Advent elite fighters supposed to be individually doing 25+ dps? They seem a tad overpowered.

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="1591" id="2456685"]will it crash when the LRMs fire, or jump out, or move or when one explodes, or just at random [/quote]I just recently got this incredibly awesome mod installed and I also experienced a Vasari minidump with a swarm of LRM's. No clue what caused it, but I believe they were auto-attacking a scout craft entering a recently captured enemy capital planet. Homemade huge "solar system" map (all the real-life planets/moons plus a bun

Reply to So WHEN is the beta? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="SivCorp" reply="17" id="2442718"]meh, dragons smagons.... I'll shoot your dragons from spaaaaaace! [/quote]I take personal offense to that [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Thoughts/hopes for new ship types? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I fully admit to being influenced by a couple of other sources - How about these for new strke craft?: Advent - blobs of psychic energy that would slam into opponents, bypassing shields and doing significant damage to enemy hulls. Drawbacks: one-shot items with longer rebuild times. TEC - boarding vessels that would be able to latch onto an enemy ship, and once there board and do significant damage over time. When the time is up, they could d

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="325" id="2417510"] Star Dragon, you have a good point. However, I still think that the game could use an online multiplayer tutorial or some sort of a means to encourage people to come online. Perhaps the game could interact with ICO in some sort of a way and occassionally (but not obnoxiously, say once every 4 days or once a week) display messages like, "5v5 game with new players needs 2 more players, click "Join Featured Online

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

DS - Not to put too fine a point on it, but wouldn't both companies be better served by increasing marketing among traditional multi-player venues than trying to "convert" single-player customers into multi-player customers? As you said, it doesn't make any economic sense to do it the other way around: no matter how much success they might find, that wouldn't result in any extra sales (although it would at least give you multi-player types some more opponents to face).&n