Old mods breaking is a matter of course as the game evolves--that's got nothing to do with Impulse. As to the maps, they generally only need the version number updated, which can be done with notepad (the devs increment it with each major patch just to be safe).

kyro as of versin 1.14/entrenchment beta 3.0 the map HAS CHANGED with the new quickstart option whch affects all planets and the map default starting values and the devs DID NOT change the versionnumber, but i am starting to write a program for the generalized map updateing from version1.0 -1.13 to version 1.14 compatible, that will check and correct all maps to the new format.

I have made many maps that I did not want to start making over again with the new galforge when it becomes available, so  I thought it was the least effort for the best result for my time & effort.

when I have it working to my satisfaction I will be emailing it to both stardock & ironclad games, sothat it could be included with sins

harpo

Hm.

I've been thinking about undertaking a fairly extensive mod that rebalances the way Sins plays, aiming to get more versatility in capships and expanding the Lore surrounding the universe in interesting ways. As part of this, I've been tempted to make individual posts about each capship and my thoughts, logic and goals behind them.

Would that go best in the forums here, or on a blog? If in the blog format, I'd be tempted to release the mod, then discuss what it changes. If in here, probably the other way around. Either way though, my biggest goals are in attracting eyeballs, and attracting opinions.

From what I've seen, the blogs may (or may not, it's hard to tell) get more visibility, but the forums almost definately garner more feedback.

So I must wonder: Which is the best approach?

Excelent advice. I'll do on forum, and then do a blog thingy once I've got it set up and running. I was mostly making sure folks wouldn't mind a multitude of threads floating 'round the forums.

I don't know about the rest of you, but impulse.net doesn't seem very intuitive and there's no search feature, Even the Sins channel is too general.  No Sin's Mods channel?

What we need is a master list of mods by type and name where people can start from whenever they're looking for info on what mods are out there.  Looking up a specific blog over on impulse.net when I'm just browsing for mods isn't going to work.  This is where people are coming to for information on mods for Sins (any Google search I do drops me here 9 times out of 10 too).  From here the authors can put up links to wherever they want to publish details of their work, even to the blogs on impulse.net.

And a bunch of separate blogs is not the place to post development updates either.  That needs to be a centralized location too.  If I'm keeping track of the development of three or four mods, I don't want to bookmark three or four blogs and keep checking them or sift through a bunch of posts on other stuff when all I want are the mods.  I want one maybe two threads on a forum that give me a heads up (and a link for more detail)

If you want to move all the stuff from here to impulse.net that's one thing.  If you'd rather have everything over there then there's no sense in having this forum up, but there has to be a one-stop place to go for mods.  Impulse.net isn't it, at least not the way it's set up right now.  This forum has a much better format.