Major Stress

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Why would you want to attack your allies? Regardless. As far as i know if you don't have an allied victory condition set. Then once all enemy's are defeated then your allies will turn on you anyways.

Reply to Mod Request: Starbase Upgrade Limit Removal in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Two words. Hard Coded.

Reply to [MOD] The Sins Optimization Project: Rebellion 1.1 (Updated 11/19/12) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Probably more of the same unless i find some glaring discrepancies in the 1.5, and DLC update. I got me some free time coming up this week (shock, and awe). Ill see what i can do to get it started then.

Reply to Star Trek Online: Divide et Impera is one of the worst missions in the history of video games and the reason I quit in PC Gaming Sins Forums

STO to me was just WoW in space. Instead of walkity walkity walk. Stabity Sabity Stab. You got Walkity Walkity Walk. Dakka, Dakka, Dak! The mission grinds were the same thing, and the story arc's were just plain uninteresting to outright absurd. There is a reason why it went FTP.

Reply to New AI changes: What are they? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

All i know is that any AI above hard is a cheating AI. I usually play hard because it is the highest non cheating AI. I dont like to see novalith's being built 5 minutes into a game, or level 10 titans 10 minutes into it.

Reply to [MOD] The Sins Optimization Project: Rebellion 1.1 (Updated 11/19/12) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I haven't had much free time to do anything with TSOP yet. TBH there isn't much to do except fix some textures. I am waiting to see if Myfist0 will let me use his UI fix's. What you can do is use the old TSOP as a guide for your mod. Just look over the files, and mimic what was done for your mod update.

Reply to Planet specialization versus trade ports question. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

You can decide not to strip your planets, and keep the bonus income. Plus the income from your cap ships. Which will equal insane income. The only good i see from industrial spec is the buff to ship building. If you don't have shipyards on the industrial worlds., Then it ain't worth it IMO. Doh! I totally forgot about wail!

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvroth" reply="4019" id="3369058"] Quoting Major Stress, reply 3992StatCountType is far more important, because like i said above if your faction is missing any vanilla StatCountType. Then your AI will become lethargic, or not do anything at all, and Ikasumesk is correct. Sometimes you will crash if you are missing a StatCountType. StatCountType is where you must duplicate Vanilla Sins almost exactly. I'll have to go back and look as part of the balanc

Reply to New AI changes: What are they? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Looks like your AI's got bad die rolls (lousy planet bonus's or dead worlds) or something. I played against 3 normal AI's on the Systems of War map. I turtled it out in my own system just to see if the AI would even attack me, and attack they did! At first it was the usual steady trickle of suicide units vs. my fleet, and 5 starbases sitting in the sun, and leveling my titan, and caps. In the late game the 3 AI's allied up against me, because they weren't shooting at each

Reply to "Explain" me this DLC please? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

You can always "Not buy it". There is more "under the hood" of the DLC than what the average gamer sees. From the complaints i've seen it is from people that blindly bought it without looking into it first. However 5 bucks for new planets. Tons of planet bonus's. Balance, Optimizations, and bug fix's. Plus new options opened up for modders. I think it is more than a fair price. You don't honestly expect the dev's to work for free do you?

Reply to Does the Industrial Spec affect refineries? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Yes it does. i had one refinery on a fully industrial spec world, and one on a fully social world. the social world refinery was producing MUCH less than the industrial. The industrial world was producing more than if i just left the world alone. I tested this on the Vasari. I haven't tested it on Tec, or Advent yet.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

For those that didn't back up 1.1, and have Trinity. Just play the Diplomacy version until we get this thing updated. We are basically doing trinity, and rebellion simultaneously, and the Rebellion, and Trinity versions are essentially the same mod right now until we stop supporting Trinity. The only difference is rebellions graphics.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

This is what i get for missing staff meetings :p There is an option in the game properties to not update the game every time you fire up steam. However to be safe you should keep a backup of previous versions just for situations like this. I lost count of how many backups of original sins i had back in the day when IC was updating every other week, and breaking the mod each and every time..

Reply to Planet specialization versus trade ports question. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Check the income of a fully socialized Advent homeworld with allure of the unity fully researched.

Reply to Planet specialization versus trade ports question. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

The social specialization is well worth it on high pop worlds, Plus it offsets the trade debuffs. In the end on Terran worlds you get a better income bonus than what you would if it had just trade ports. You don't need trade ports on those worlds unless you are trying to link them. Refinery's will be totally useless at max social. Like was said. It is better to use the low pop worlds for industrial spec. The opposite of social. Build shipyards, Trade ports, and refinery's for the

Reply to About the Forbidden Worlds DLC in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

So there is actually some 4X in this RT4X now? ;)

Reply to [reference files] sins 1.193 , entrenchment 1.053 & diplomacy 1.34 rebellion 1.8 now( with the stop game 1.37 trinity refs now in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Needs an update for the 1.5+ DLC now ;)

Reply to DLC LAMO in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

All i can do is facepalm in astonishment. There is so much under the hood of this DLC that has improved Sins 100 fold. 5 bucks is definitely worth the price. EA would have charged 30+ bucks then abandoned it. Sins is still being supported. I have much respect for the sheer amount of work put into this game that the average gamer doesn't see.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Whoa!! What do you mean "The New SOA2 Mod"?! If you made changes to OUR mod that is all well, and good. Post it as an Add-On, but make sure you credit US for creating this. The way you worded this makes it sound like you took our work, fiddled around with it, and are now claiming it as your own.

Reply to The Star Trek Into Darkness thread in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

What Psychoak said!

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hasn't anyone told you?.... Perfection is the Worst Enemy of Good Enough. ;) I have seen a lot of mods that settled for nothing less than "perfection".. Those mods were never released. The Bridge Commander mod Favor the Bold was one of those projects i was involved with that failed, because we all were our own worst enemy's. Trying to make it "perfect". The good that came of it is that a lot of those models are in SoA 2. I made the Excelsior, It's variants, and the Constel

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Lavo_2" reply="3989" id="3366708"] Quoting Major Stress, reply 3985The role types for the ships are pretty much irrelevant. RoleTypes have an influence on the AI's build amounts, and also tells the AI how to use a ship, and in some cases allows it to do special things (like target strikecraft). They are far from irrelevant, imo. [/quote] You are correct. The Role Type tells the AI how the ship behaves in game, and we tried to duplicate th

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The role types for the ships are pretty much irrelevant. Sins AI only requires 3 roletypes to expand. A scout. A Colony capital, or frigate, and a siege frigate. The rest can be pretty much anything. However for the AI to function correctly you must have at least one of every StatCountType. This tells the AI how many units are on the map, and how many more it needs to build for its fleet supply. If we left out a statcounttype then the AI would expand very, or not expand at all. So we

Reply to Stardock Future Gaming (from 2013 perspective) [UPDATE 4] in Stardockians Sins Forums

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="18" id="3365392"] Quoting Major Stress, reply 9 Gal Civ 3, Another Elemental Expansion, Stardocks first try at a space RTS, or "Empire Builder" with some original IP. Demigod 2 Is that not Sins? I understand thats primarily Ironclad´s game, but i recall Mr. Frogboy saying they did not go for Homeworld IP all the way, as they already have Sins in their "portfolio". So i doubt they would be doing another space RTS to compete with t

Reply to Stardock Future Gaming (from 2013 perspective) [UPDATE 4] in Stardockians Sins Forums

Gal Civ 3, Another Elemental Expansion, Stardocks first try at a space RTS, or "Empire Builder" with some original IP. Demigod 2