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DS advent guardian research issue

By aziel823 on May 3, 2012 7:17:55 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

aziel823

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Okay, I've been playing diplomacy 1.34 DS for some time and I wanted to give the advent a chance.

DS is great, but its starting to bother me that it takes a total of nine points in shield research to qualify for guardian research. I've found text reference files but I can't seem to convert them back into binary without having the game crash on startup.

 

Is there a way to fix this? Thanks in advance.

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-Norbert-
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May 3, 2012 11:20:11 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

If conversion back to bin doesn't work, you can just stick the entity file in txt format into the gameinfo folder and it will still work. If even the txt format file crashes the game, it must be some error you made in the entity file, rather than a conversion error.

You could post the entity file itself here, so we could check wether we can spot any error that slipped by you, or you could convert it to bin and back to txt to see if any "INVALID" tags show up.

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May 3, 2012 12:01:10 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

That's the thing the converters are either missing (deleted web pgs), oobsolete, or on fileplanet which has never allowed me a download. I have the references in text format, but I can't find a way to convert text to binary.

Honestly, I'd rather find a mod that actually makes the Advent competitive that can be merged with DS but I have no idea how to do this as I've just started to mod.

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Barryd67
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May 3, 2012 2:21:15 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hey Aziel,

 

I use BCExtreme's Sins Data Converter: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/377772

It works really well for me.For a good guide to modding, here is a good resource: http://soase.x90x.net/?i=model

The best way to learn is to just start tinkering. Just make sure to back up the original files first!

 

 

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harpo99999
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May 3, 2012 5:27:40 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

if the text version of the files are crashing the game even with the dev.exe then the text reference files are probably from the WRONG version. if you are using the forge tools reference file they are SO out of date I would expect them to crash  the game.

if you are using my reference files, then check that you ARE using the latest ref file sets in the diplomacy then entrenchment, and last choice sins vanilla, which is HOW entrenchment and diplomacy do their search for files when loading.

harpo

 

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