you have alot of downloads on the op, so which one is 1.16 compatable?

soasertus the ones you want are the 1.01 & 1.01 patch

harpo

The option to change the income rate is already a standard feature.

You can find them before you start a game.

The real thing is the balance between money and resources. In mid-game theres a whole lot of money alright,

but you have a very small income in metal and crystal.

So you end up spending minutes hitting these buttons to convert your cash into metal and crystal.

Very true. I tried to change it myself (as well as many other tweaks including the pirate starbase i am currently nerfing) but i didn't find the file where you can change the income rate without modifying the metal and crystal income. Even in slow mode, i end with way too more cash.

Moreover, they are some files in the gameinfo folder i can't change to txt from binary using the .bash trick : some kind of issue where the convertdata_entrenchment encountered an error and have to close... If you have infos about the way to fix that, i am interested !

BTW, i still have some criticism about the whole balance of the mod but the content is still amazing.

well you could change the planet files so you can edit the amount of metal or crystal per rock, but of course, you would be also affecting your enemies as well.

I was wondering if there are any plans to mod each ships to use the capital ship animation when they are dead cause even in all major scifi serise that feature space battles, ships just don't explode into piece, most when they are totally disabled, have like a few minutes before they explode, so I was wondering, will each of the ships including the capital ships will use the capital ship explode animation?

edit: I have acutally tried using the capital ship animation my self on the ships in the Star trek mod of vinalla sins, and I must admit they look more realistic than just exploding when they die, but of couse with the graphic mod, and the volumetric explosions, it kinda slow down my comp processing, but then again, I had several hundered ships exploding in just one planet with thousands of ships for each player.

PS. How come there was no mention of a new backdrop? the golden rod yellow backdrop?

Opps, wrong thread...lol.

I get the following errors when clicking a Swamp Planet that I colonized:

1.- Slot ACTION_PLANET_OPENPLANETMODULEMANAGEMENT_ORBIT0 can't be setup over ACTION_CAPITALSHIP_ABILITY_1.

2.- Slot ActionPlanetOpenUpgradeManagement can't be setup over ACTION_CAPITALSHIP_ABILITY_0.

I can't do any upgrade to the planet itself. Anyway, after some "skip" clicks, the game continues.

Any idea?

An excellent mod that greatly enhances the original game, I tip my hat to you chaps!

I do however have some thoughts on a few things:

- TEC High Density Zoning research has no effect on Military planets (version 0.81 latest as of this date)

- TEC Shield research is incredibly lackluster compared to Hull research (1% per research point vs an average 5% per point in Hull) Players should be able to 'shield tank' to coin an EVE phrase if they so choose in my opinion. While TEC Shields will never really be strong it should at least be an option, this is far from the case currently.

- Often I get a CTD (no minidump) during a medium-to-large fleet battle, the result is the same regardless of Windows version (tested on vista and w7). I'm using highest settings on everything with 4x AA. This doesn't occur on vanilla.

To give you a decent idea of my system im using a quad core, 4gb ram and a GTX260 with latest drivers.

The above may seem like alot of moaning but I really am impressed with the mod in general, apart from that damned CTD.

TEC sheilds even in the orginal game were not their strong point. The increased tech tree only furthers the race differences between each race. For example, TEC have higher armor and Hp than other races so their tech in the mod furthers increased that difference. If you want high shield use the Advent since that is one of their strong points.

Some of the graphic mods that are included into this mod increase the requirements to play the game. Might wanna turn down your graphics. That should help with your minidumps. If it continues, redownload the entire mod and that also seems to help people with minidump issues.

Which version of this mod includes the celestial bodies planets? I just downloaded v1.01 but they're not there. And theres about 25 download links.

And i have a galaxy forge you might find usefull.

http://files.filefront.com/Ultimate+Forgerar/;13658912;/fileinfo.html 

It's a galaxy forge for a CB and SS mod i was going to make but you beat me to it. The extra stars will be in a mod i'm working on.

I'm getting frustrated, still getting a lot of Mini-dumps on startup, maybe 50% of the time with 0.81.

Sounds like you have not downloaded and patch correctly.

The most current Entrechement version .8 and .81 have most of the CB planets, not all of them made the transfer over. AkA No atmosphere ones. As far as I know the full download for the most recent patch has all the galaxy forge icons and such needed.

I'm looking for a non entrenchment version.

UE Carbon

No, I did it right. Something is still crashing. I'm making up a bunch of Galaxy maps with different planets, and only a few so far have crashed. I'm gonna see if I can pin down exactly what's causing it.

there isn't one yet, though I don't see a reason why create a non entrenchment version, there is a lot more in entrenchment which can't be one in vinalla

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for this fantastic mod.  You guys have made some great improvements to the game and I'm having a blast playing it. 

Jake

I dont know what im doing wrong with the install of the mod, im still getting minidumps while loading maps and CTD's. Ive tried reloading the mod 3-4 times and the issues are still reacurring. Im using the .81 .... v2.7c full download file. Anyone know a possible solution to the matter?

Yeah, the modification package (DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.81_[33515597]_v2.7z) is very prone to minidumps (frequent), runtime errors (rare), and a complete system crashs (very rare).  I do not have these issues with the normal game, checked all the files, redownloaded them, and even extracted them with different archivers to make sure it wasn't an oddball archiving issue. 

So, instead started pulling parts from the mod to isolate the problem a bit, and observed a drastic reduction in error frequency.  For instance, removing the extras by itself finally let me play through a small, seven planet game, and only errored shortly into continous play when attacking a pirate base.  Still would give me minidumps, but the frequency was not as common.

Considering the game is barely using my system resources, it's not a performance limitation, and have been using some of these mods seperately with no issue as well.

Maybe the prior versions where more stable or installing and patching up from an older version would reduce the errors.  It could just be the uploaded full package download is somehow corrupted.

Anyway, what little was seen of the mod, it looked good.

Awesome mod.. Really awesome. A complete functional mod that works with Entrenchment and the latest patches.
Basically every single mod i loved is packed in here, even something as small as the new player pictures! Great job

I am having trouble getting the Galaxy Forge Senerio to work. The files are in the folder but it is not showing up in game cue. Any ideas?

Okay, as usual, the mod is great. I like the new planet varieties, had fun with the Sol system, and I love the Kingdom of Heaven map by Ue Carbon (kudos).

Just a thought though, the AI doesn't have the hard-coding to use higher level researches (somewhere above level 3 or 4?), but if you added a reasearch such as Gas Giant Colonization, the AI will use it. It would take a lot of work, but does it seem feasible that spreading the 10 levels of a given research out over 3 different buttons in the tree would allow the AI to take advantage of the extended tech? It's nothing I'm pushing too hard for, but I do more single player and it suddenly hit me that the AI might work under that logic.

The Ai does use the higher levels of research it just takes a while. I play a 4v1 and had one AI come within 20 research tech levels of me (I had all of them researched). Adimitiedly it took almost 5 hours to do, but they are capable of using the higher levels of tech

Personally, I don't like the pics, they seem out of character with the rest of the game, interms of the styling of the pictures

Its being looked into on if the binary conversion might of corrupted anything. Im not sure what to tell you if you cant play the game due to any minidumps or anything. It seems to affect random peoples computer differently. Some it runs great other not so much. Im thinking it could be something with the randomness created by so many addtional planets, sizes, bonuses, buffs, etc etc. But Im just guessing here. We are still working hard on to make DS minidump free, but its gonna take time and lots of rum and whiskey. Ask Nacey how much trouble SINS can be at times LOL

Glad to hear you like my map!!!!! I was so afraid they be total failures. I personaly like them but that didnt mean anyone else would. Have you tried any of the others?

And the we are currently thinking on ways to make the AI harder and able to reserach faster and quicker. To give them advantage since they are the smarttest kids on the block. But dont look forward to this feature for a bit. Its on the list but we got other things we want to do first.

Any help? I'm playing the entrechment version (1.02)

And btw great mod. All what I desired in this game. thanks a lot.