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Nacey
Stant123
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Reply #6201 October 20, 2011 4:04:19 AM
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Quoting XATHOS,
reply 6197
I'm talking about the other mod releases, dipshit.

First of all, let's just clear it up here that you're the dipshit, not me.  Allow me to explain.  Someone goes about asking how the version 1 release is going clearly referencing the DS mod...  To which you, I assume in a smart ass manner pop off with a comment saying 6 years of development left, meanwhile enjoy 2 more expansions and Sins 2.  Being that this is a comment in reply to a quoted comment about the DS mod, I have to assume that your comment is also about the DS mod.  Now, me, with my assumptions that you were just trying to be funny, and referencing the pace of the mod's development, followed that up with a comment saying at least there has been stuff released for you to play with in the mean time, with the obligatory smiley face letting you know that I understood the sarcasm and was feeding some of the good natured fun back.  We correct on that progression of the story so far?  Now you come back quoting me and saying some bullshit about it not being worthwhile.  This, if you're following the progression of the quoting, is still in reference to the DS mod since I was referencing your comment which was referencing someone elses comment about the DS mod, not all of the other mods out there like you're trying to back pedal and now say that's what you meant.  It's actually extremely insulting to hear someone say that their work, and the time they've put into it isn't worthwhile, especially when you factor in the things given up to give you this stuff.  If you didn't intend it that way, maybe you should go back and read what the fuck you wrote, because you sure as hell didn't write it that way.

Quoting XATHOS,
reply 6197
You took my meaning out of context before you went on a rampage.

To the person with at least an elementary school reading comprehension level, you outright insulted this mod and the work put into it, and those who are doing the work.  I would so dearly love to see how you can prove to me that your comment was clearly demonstrating your distaste for 'the other mods' rather then DS and that I was taking your comment out of context before getting pissed off that I was being insulted.  Please, do me this favor and show me where in the progression of the quoted text does the focus shift away from DS and to other mods?  I guess you're right, I am a dipshit because I just can't see where the shift happened...  So in the nicest way I can possibly say it so as not to hurt Ryat's feelings too much...  Go fuck yourself and your excuses, because I don't buy them.

 

 

 

Oh and good luck on that compilation.

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Reply #6202 October 20, 2011 10:31:49 AM
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It's funny that in another thread, Swicord tried to argue that the written word demands that we be more precise about our wording and that it leaves a sure record to be argued. If Xathos is correct, then Swicord's first assumption proves folly. If Stant is correct, then the second assumption proves true only for half of those involved.

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Reply #6203 October 20, 2011 11:28:43 AM
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so...

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Alright folks, the first round of Q/A for the Sins team is done. We've selected some of your questions to answer, so here they are.

From: Christopher Santine
Question: If I told you that I love you dearly, Stardock, would you hold it against me?

... Answer: Absolutely not. ♥

From: Steve Mills
Question: Will there be more enjoyable achievements to gain and with the tutorial be improved?

Answer: Yes on both counts (way to sneak in two questions, btw). We’re looking to add a number of new achievements suggested by the community and also update the tutorials for the new content.

From: Jacob Stephens
Question: How often do you guys start to fall victim to “feature creep,” and what are some thinks you do to avoid it?

Answer: We don’t fall victim too often but it does happen on occasion. Usually we end up looking at our development timeline to see if something is feasible, or more often, are brought back to reality by our development head.

From: Michal Kalas
Question: Do you plan to, somehow, replace the old wormhole effects with those that are fit for the particular ship?

Answer: In fact we have! Each race now has its own unique phase jump particles and we’ve created multiple sizes in order to cover each class of ship.

From: Brandon Rogers
Question: Will there ever be a campaign?

Answer: Yes, just not in the Sins 1 series. We are looking to add some more interesting scenarios in Rebellion, however.

We will be doing Q/A periodically until the release of Rebellion. If you didn't get your question answered this time, don't worry, we will be back for more!
 
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So there might be one question, at best, that was worth a damn here. Anyone else feel like they really just want to play cat and mouse with us?
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Reply #6204 October 20, 2011 1:34:04 PM
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I like the fact that half the questions asked when they were asking for some where things that have been answer before in the FAQ's and on the fourms.

Another large chunk were bitching about when is beta...

there were only a few good solid questions IMHO.

But any info is cool to learn.

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Reply #6205 October 20, 2011 4:52:14 PM
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Quoting Stant123,
reply 6131
If you have an ATI graphics card, then there's really not much we can do other then to tell you to make sure your card's drivers are all up to date, your directX is up to date, and have you use the TGA version of the portraits rather then the DDS version...  But I misplaced the link so unless someone wants to do me a favor and find it, you'll have to wait until I have the time this weekend to dig back and look for it.


I have the same problem, latest ATI drivers and directx version, the player portraits and planet pictures are misplaced. Does anyone have a link for those TGA portraits ? 

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Reply #6206 October 21, 2011 5:19:57 AM
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Quoting Draakjacht,
reply 6203
Question: Will there ever be a campaign?

Answer: Yes, just not in the Sins 1 series.

That's the only answer I was interested in.  Not so much because they say they will add a campaign at some point, but because they're pretty much saying there will be a Sins 2.

 

 

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Quoting Meradanis,
reply 6205

Does anyone have a link for those TGA portraits ? 

 http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/DSPortraitsTGA.rar

Let me know if the quality is lacking, like images not showing up, pixelated or otherwise blurry.  I can try and upload them unrar'd or do a different setup when converting them over.  The instructions are, drop them into your DS mod texture folder and delete the dds files of the same name and the game should revert to using these files.

 

These ones are for the planet icons if those are the planet pictures you're referring to, not the close up planet textures.

http://distantstars.mmobase.com/other/Icons_planets.tga

http://distantstars.mmobase.com/other/Icons_planetsPictures.tga

http://distantstars.mmobase.com/other/Icons_planetsSmall.tga

 

If you're referring to the close up images, you can try to delete the textures for the original planets, since those should be the only one's affected.

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Reply #6207 October 23, 2011 12:29:31 AM
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Stant, Ryat, Draak, Carbon & the DS crew. I have a suggestion to improve the mod!

 

In all seriousness, I have been thinking about how to best counter strike-craft / bomber spam in 'addition' to what has already been proposed for your internal builds etc. Is it possible to allow research in the tech tree to unlock abilities in ship classes? (I'm pretty sure it is but I have to ask just in case). Could we have on all Capitals and Cruisers (maybe not frigates, but it could be included) research that allows a weak flak ability (20% of a Lvl(1,2, or 3) Flak style ability) for each of the three races? It could further be handicapped so as not to be a game breaker by being only able to target one (could be upgradable either in targets, cycle time, and damage [further upgradeable with effects added on]) strike craft / bomber?

 

I know there are limitations to the number of weapons a ship, that is why this ability could be done via effects.

 

Just some thoughts on the subject as to how to add a little bit more defense against a strategy that can quickly become over powered.

 

 

I'll leave my comments re-working Trade-Ports to function more like Refineries to another day.

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Reply #6208 October 23, 2011 1:22:08 AM
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It is something to consider though with caps it maybe bit difficult as the fifth ability has its own issues. I know I am working on something for the flak to be stronger versus SC through abilities. If I ever get off my butt and do it.

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Reply #6209 October 23, 2011 1:33:28 AM
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The pirates got broke in DS with the last update, yes?  How did you guys fix it?  I'd like to know so I can fix it on my end.

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Reply #6210 October 23, 2011 1:38:02 AM
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Removed the random numbers and made the first level all required.

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Reply #6211 October 23, 2011 2:57:51 AM
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Quoting Stant123,
reply 6210
Removed the random numbers and made the first level all required.

What do you mean, exactly?  The pirate tech or the raids in the constants file or something else?

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Reply #6212 October 23, 2011 7:37:51 AM
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Raids in the constants file.  For the level 0 raid, there's just few enough ship types that you can use all 5 mandatory slots and none of the randoms and as long as you keep the numbers low, the first spawned raid doesn't get too crazy.

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Reply #6213 October 23, 2011 8:36:58 AM
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Thanks for the tga images, Stant. 

 

Sadly they didn't fix my issues. Those portrait files which come with the game originally have been fixed, but they new ones that come with the mod are shown as black pictures now, and on top that there is still a bunch of displaced portraits.

 

As for the planet icons, they are still displaced/cut in half (and often totally wrong planet type) as long as I have vision of the gravity well. When my ships leave the well, the planet icons gets "grayed out" and suddenly changes to the correct type !

 

Any ideas ? 

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Reply #6214 October 25, 2011 12:53:45 PM
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Anyone know where I can find the old auto-docking script and things related to it?

 

EDIT: Nevermind, found it! http://soase.weebly.com/tsop-downloads.html#Addons (half-way down)

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Reply #6215 October 26, 2011 3:57:35 AM
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I downloaded 0.99 B5 (for Diplomacy 1.32), and I found that there is no "More powerful Pirates" mini-mod in the archive. I've been playing Entrenchment with 0.9951 before and have gotten used to it. So, what I'm asking is, where could I get the latest version of "More powerful Pirates", and is it compatible with 0.99 B5?

 

P.S.

Does anyone know of a web shop that sells digital download games and accepts Paysafecards (and is not Steam)?

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Reply #6216 October 26, 2011 4:34:15 AM
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Quoting ShEsHy,
reply 6215
I downloaded 0.99 B5 (for Diplomacy 1.32), and I found that there is no "More powerful Pirates" mini-mod in the archive. I've been playing Entrenchment with 0.9951 before and have gotten used to it. So, what I'm asking is, where could I get the latest version of "More powerful Pirates", and is it compatible with 0.99 B5?

Due to the rapid pace of updates from Ironclad and Stardock for a short time there, as well as the fact that the first raid is just plain out of control, Powerful Pirates was not included in the 0.99 releases.  It has been redone and will be released again with version 1.00.  The same goes for the other included minimods.

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Reply #6217 October 26, 2011 5:07:36 AM
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Ok, tnx for the fast reply. Guess I'll have to wait for 1.0. BTW, will 1.0 be released for Diplomacy or will you wait for Rebellion?

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Reply #6218 October 26, 2011 6:45:40 AM
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By 1.00 I mean DS Diplomacy 1.00

Anything having to do with Rebellion will have it's own version number.

 

For example, currently the versions of Distant Stars are as follows:
Vanilla Sins - DS 1.01     (Reads as 1.02 if you have my updated version for Sins 1.91)
Sins Entrenchment - DS 0.9951
Sins Diplomacy - DS 0.99(B5)

Rebellion will start off at some number based on the amount of content changed.  Could be that it starts off at 0.1 could start off at 0.4.  In either case, as patches and updates to the game are released and content is added on our end, the version number will eventually make it's way up to version 1.00 as well.

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Reply #6219 October 27, 2011 1:56:27 AM
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AAAh, now I get it. I thought you were using a single version for basic Sins and both expansions, not one for each game.

Where could I get DS 1.02 for basic Sins?

 

P.S.

Is it possible to disable military victory (or any other kind of victories not involving the total destruction of my opponents)? I wanna play until I completely crush every planet, structure and ship my opponents have .

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Reply #6220 October 27, 2011 2:05:00 AM
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Quoting ShEsHy,
reply 6219
AAAh, now I get it. I thought you were using a single version for basic Sins and both expansions, not one for each game.

Each expansion has its own little quirks and nuances. Therefore each .exe needs its own mod.

Quoting ShEsHy,
reply 6219
Where could I get DS 1.02 for basic Sins?

Quoting Stant123,
reply 6218
Vanilla Sins - DS 1.01 (Reads as 1.02 if you have my updated version for Sins 1.91)

Quoting ShEsHy,
reply 6219
Is it possible to disable military victory (or any other kind of victories not involving the total destruction of my opponents)?

Nope but you can use the keep playing option if you feel like steamrolling the AI.

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Reply #6221 October 27, 2011 8:36:13 AM
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Does the AI remain, cuz in my case it disappeared (unable to send Pirates after it, didn't show on the diplomacy window,..., but I never bothered to actually go look into their sectors .

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Reply #6222 October 27, 2011 9:41:15 AM
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The ships remain but the AI no longer plays. Unfortunately that aspect is hardcoded.

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Reply #6223 October 27, 2011 9:16:51 PM
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18 hours till SoTS II.

Who is getting/has it preordered?

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Reply #6224 October 27, 2011 9:18:41 PM
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I will be getting it  but later on.

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Reply #6225 October 27, 2011 9:25:46 PM
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No plans to get it at all.

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