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[MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13]

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[MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13]

http://distantstars.mmobase.com
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Feedback of any kind is always welcome. Ideas, balance changes, and bug reporting of any kind is always useful!

Version 1.00 Released!

Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!

Downloads

Rebellion Logo

1.05 + DLC Compatible:

0.12 ALPHA Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/rebellion/Distant_Stars_(R)_ALPHA_0.13_[45189661].7z

Full Download MIRROR:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/distant-stars-rebellion-alpha-013

MD5: 69486D2FCD3F35E46E6F5EF8C9F1634A

Diplomacy Logo

1.34 Compatible:

1.01 Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_1.01_[45685832].7z

 

Entrenchment Logo

1.051 Compatible:

Beta 0.9951 Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.9951_[36672852].7z

SoaSE Logo

1.14 - 1.181 Compatible:

Version 1.01:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/soase/Distant_Stars_v1.01_[453701567].7z

Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!

Multiplayer Games:
We've setup a thread for everyone to organise their multiplayer games in and also setup example times and dates for most people to meet up and start games. These are what we hope to be the main times for people to be around and want to play games together.

The times are:
4pm EST (9pm GMT) Saturdays & Sundays
9pm EST (2am GMT) Saturdays & Sundays

If you want to organise other games please go ahead using the same topic to consolidate all the information in one place and hopefully get more games together within our community. These games are for PvP, PvAI & PvPvAIso come along and we'll get some games going!

Screenshots:
We've setup a thread so you can all post your screenshots to share with us the Distant Stars team and its players. Im sure we're all intrigued to see what kinds of battles and events you've all been having on the mod aswell.

Lore:
We know some of you guys love to role play whilst using Distant Stars, and here's a topic for you guys to post all of your role playing stories, character profiles and anything else you can imagine.

Maps:
Some of you avid map makers out there have produced some great maps but never really had them recognised because they've got lost. Well here's a topic for you to post a link to the download (we can even provide mirrors if necessary) a screenshot or two of the map for us all the preview and if enough people like it we'll even include the map in with the actual mod!

Please visit our website and for more information, change logs, downloads, and to report bugs. Our website can be found here: http://distantstars.mmobase.com

Bug Reporting

If you want to report a bug please use the Bug Report feature on our website:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/?m=reportabug

Please include as much information as possible, if you have an error log feel free to post it on these forums and we'll take it from there. If you can reproduce the error please include the error log (read below to find out how to enable error logs) and include as much detail on how to reproduce the problem.

To enable logging:
Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

Open the user.setting file (using Notepad, Wordpad or any text editor) and scroll down to the bottom 7 lines from the bottom is the line:
LogOutput FALSE
Change FALSE to TRUE
LogOutput TRUE

and from then on any Log files will be saved to the debug folder:
Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug

If you get these log files to us (you can just paste them in to a forum post) we can hopefully get your issues sorted.

Frequently Asked Questions

All files are compressed using 7Zip to shrink the download filesize. To extract these files you must use WinRAR or 7Zip.
Any Patches should overwrite the original install directory, either by extracting over the original folder, or cut/copy & pasting over the existing file/folder structure.

1) My game keeps crashing, is there anything I can do to stop it?
i) Are you running the game on maximum (highest) settings? if so, lower them to High or Medium, there is a known issue with the game using up too much memory, there is nothing we can do about this, also no matter how powerful your pc is, it is affected by this issue no matter the pc it is not above this crashing issue, it is a game problem not a hardware one, so quite simply lower your settings. If you still have an issue with crashing see point two.
ii) Give us as detailed information as possible about the crash, what was happening at the time of the crash, what races, ships, abilities were involved. If you can supply a Debug Log (see above for more information about logging) and post a bug report on our website.

2) The loading screens and portrait pictures dont appear properly, whats wrong?
i) This is an issue with ATI based graphics cards (rarely affects Nvidia based cards) we're looking in to the issue.

3) Why dont you support converting Distant Stars in to TXT format?
i) Quite simply many things can go wrong with converting your mod to TXT, we cant help you with something you've probably broken yourself.

4) Can I mod Distant Stars for myself?
i) Yes you can however please do not distribute our mod or our mod that you have edited to the public. You must ask for permission to do so, we will regrettably stop distributing our mod to all if users abuse our work.

5) Your mod is in BIN format I can't edit the files, what can I do?
i) You can convert the mod to TXT format however we wont offer any support to versions of the mod that have been converted to TXT.

6) Why is Distant Stars distributed in BIN format?
i) Mods load faster in BIN format and are less likely to have issues in this format.

7) I'm having trouble installing the MOD, do you have any more instructions?
i) Carbon was kind enough to do some more advanced instructions out here.

8) Is there any way to make new maps for Distant Stars using GalaxyForge?
i) Within the Distant Stars Extras folder there is a folder called Galaxy Forge, Copy and Paste this folder (or its contents) over your original Galaxy Forge folder (or its contents) replacing any files if it asks you to. When you start Galaxy Forge next you'll be able to use all of our planets.

Or, the DIY approach (without custom icons):

ii) The GalaxyForge supplied by the devs will still work with our Mod, however to be able to access all of our planetary bonuses, templates, planet types and stars you will need to take our GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (found in the GameInfo folder of the mod) and place it in to your GalaxyForge folder, overwriting the original GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (if you still wish to make maps for the original game keep a backup of the original file). This will allow you to use all of the Galaxy changes included in our mod.

Note: Any maps made for Distant Stars will not work with other Mods. See #8.2 for DIY instructions for map making or take the appropriate files from Entrenchment, they're cross-client compatible.

Some statistics...

Since August 2009 to February 2011 we have had over...

400,000 Unique visits to the website
12,000GB (12TB) of data transferred from our website

That equates to over 60,000 Unique downloads of the entire mod, excluding the excess of 20,000 Patches downloaded. 

Thanks to everyone that has supported us this far and making our mod as popular as it is!

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Reply #851 from Sins Forums Top

lol same here, I have only used like 1/3 of it most...

I am not sure if it is my comp on firefox 3.0.11 but I think the blog's leave a comment and the insert names is out of alignment...

why would there be 2 different voting

and in the bug report, i think you probably will need to explain what is to be classified as critical and what is just a small bug...(if you don't mind me nippick at the little detial... :D)

Reply #852 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 850



Quoting Mooster,
reply 849
Yay I am offical noted in the MOD! Huzzah!

I have to say the city planet are a power house in credit production. With starbase, and Max civilian research, i to till like 400+ credits per sec with it, now count that with at least 3 or 5 of them and total economy domination

I have a major question... it is nacey's idea to increase the insane fleet supply to more than 3000 for each race (that is at normal fleet supply), or is the tech bugged that much?



yeah he did it on purpose. I have yet to reach it and I create some BIG fleets
End of Ryat's quote

LOL, they get so big you dont even know what to spend your fleet points on. Its like, eh I guess I que up 100 HC and 250 LF just to use the points.

Quoting Mooster, reply 851
lol same here, I have only used like 1/3 of it most...

I am not sure if it is my comp on firefox 3.0.11 but I think the blog's leave a comment and the insert names is out of alignment...

why would there be 2 different voting

and in the bug report, i think you probably will need to explain what is to be classified as critical and what is just a small bug...(if you don't mind me nippick at the little detial... )
End of Mooster's quote

Nacey is still optimizing the site for all browser. I know I had some alignment issues with part of it last week.  As for the blog I can only assume one is for the overall blog and the other for individual post. Guess we will find out together.

Yay I am offical noted in the MOD! Huzzah!
End of quote

CONGRATS! and welcome aboard!

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Reply #853 from Sins Forums Top

So I was messing around in Galaxy Forge, and although I found the "Unity" planet type, I was unable to find the "Ancient Citadel" planet type. Any idea what's up? I'm dying to try it out. Also, what are the "rock" and "city" planet types for? Whe used, they simply revert to "barren" and urban".

 

Thanks!

Reply #854 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Beric01, reply 853
So I was messing around in Galaxy Forge, and although I found the "Unity" planet type, I was unable to find the "Ancient Citadel" planet type. Any idea what's up? I'm dying to try it out. Also, what are the "rock" and "city" planet types for? Whe used, they simply revert to "barren" and urban".

 

Thanks!
End of Beric01's quote

rock and city are just the galaxy forge names for barren and urban

as to Ancient Citadel it is a bug that I already reported, I am dying to try it out as well.

Reply #856 from Sins Forums Top

Hear ye, Here ye!!!!

Step right up and download Distant Stars Map Pack 2!!!!!!!!!!

47 maps!!!! Including new DS version of all the standard SoaSE maps!

http://www.mediafire.com/?xm0mgoljnmd

Hope yall enjoy these maps along side my other maps!

Reply #857 from Sins Forums Top

Say, would it be possible to include Dynamic Battle System in your mod? Maybe toggleable? Somehow these two mods are incompatible to each other :(

Reply #858 from Sins Forums Top

They are not incompatible. There are users who have the fighter movement active on their local versions of DS.

We dont have any plans to add it to the mod. But we do have plans to make it easier for those who Dynamic Movement to use it with the mod. Dont look for this untill 1.0.

Reply #859 from Sins Forums Top

Ah, okay. It's just if I put DS on top and after it DB, I won't have any movement. If I put DB on top I'll get a MiniDump error :-/

Reply #860 from Sins Forums Top

yeah the two mods dont mesh well

it is caused by having the same files modded differently

so if you want both you have to mod one or the other

most mod DS to DB

 there are several responces on this forum post of ones who have done this and how

Reply #862 from Sins Forums Top

mainly the caps

Reply #863 from Sins Forums Top

Okay, edited all 30 frigates that DBS did change to use the fighter style. Now let's see if that did the trick :D

Reply #864 from Sins Forums Top

im sure you know, but the pic at the top of the post says "AN SoaSE..."

should be 'A'

just a pet peeve, everytime i load up this page and read it i just shudder a bit =)

cant wait for 1.0!! though i hope you guys get it out before Diplomacy comes out, because you may have to start all over again from the beginning... =P

Reply #865 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting -Ue_Carbon, reply 856
Hear ye, Here ye!!!!

Step right up and download Distant Stars Map Pack 2!!!!!!!!!!

47 maps!!!! Including new DS version of all the standard SoaSE maps!

http://www.mediafire.com/?xm0mgoljnmd

Hope yall enjoy these maps along side my other maps!
End of -Ue_Carbon's quote

This will be included in the mod from the next patch onwards ;)

Quoting CyberwormXT, reply 857
Say, would it be possible to include Dynamic Battle System in your mod? Maybe toggleable? Somehow these two mods are incompatible to each other
End of CyberwormXT's quote

As Carbon mentioned they arent entirely incompatible they just change similar files which means you do have to do some tweaking to make them work together. We will however in one of the future patches start including a "Dynamic Battle System" folder in to the Extras folder that comes with the full downloads that will enable this if you use the files from that folder.

Quoting CyberwormXT, reply 861
Ah, great. I'll try that then. How many ships did DS change?
End of CyberwormXT's quote

All of the ships are included within the DS mod as they have all been updated in past iterations of the mod, so its best to convert them to TXT then edit each ship to have dynamic movement, however bare in mind this may inface lessen the damage of your ships due to them now flying around constantly, as such it may need re-balancing (this is why we havent included it by default as its a long process to balance it all).

Quoting TheRezonator, reply 864
im sure you know, but the pic at the top of the post says "AN SoaSE..."

should be 'A'

just a pet peeve, everytime i load up this page and read it i just shudder a bit

cant wait for 1.0!! though i hope you guys get it out before Diplomacy comes out, because you may have to start all over again from the beginning... =P
End of TheRezonator's quote

My apologies, I uploaded the incorrect image to the server and hadn't realised, fixed now ;) I also hope we finish the entrenchment v1.0 before Diplomacy comes out otherwise we'll be doing even more work! However from the work they have done to entrenchment hopefully they wont change the entire structure from Entrenchment -> Diplomacy as they did with SoaSE -> Entrenchment. Time will tell I guess.

Reply #866 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Nacey, reply 865


 I also hope we finish the entrenchment v1.0 before Diplomacy comes out otherwise we'll be doing even more work! However from the work they have done to entrenchment hopefully they wont change the entire structure from Entrenchment -> Diplomacy as they did with SoaSE -> Entrenchment. Time will tell I guess.
End of Nacey's quote

It would still mean more bug huntin'

*picks up massive sledge hammer and twirls it around like a baton*

but I'm ready for'em:banhammer:

 

Reply #867 from Sins Forums Top

with that new mappack you gotta try out AI horde

it rocks

Reply #868 from Sins Forums Top

with that new mappack you gotta try out AI horde

it rocks
End of quote

This will be included in the mod from the next patch onwards
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It would still mean more bug huntin'

*picks up massive sledge hammer and twirls it around like a baton*

but I'm ready for'em
End of quote

ROFL, you know I almost imagined your hammer like that Demigod with the massive hammer. Poor Bugs. NOT!:rofl:

 

Reply #869 from Sins Forums Top

Can't someone pleeeeaaaaaaaase upload their edited ships-files or merged DS + Dynamic Battle System 0.9 minimod?
Or as had been stated above, include it in the full download in the extras folder? I soo badly want that mod active as well lol..
But its pretty needless for 10 individual people to "reinvent the wheel" by merging the two mods, when one dude that's completed it can just upload it for all to enjoy :)

Reply #870 from Sins Forums Top

Actually I am working on it right at this moment, but don't expect for like a week since I do have school coming up and I really need to prep.

However, because of the new movement, I might be considering a rework of the planet well etc...

 

Reply #871 from Sins Forums Top

Can't someone pleeeeaaaaaaaase upload their edited ships-files or merged DS + Dynamic Battle System 0.9 minimod?

Or as had been stated above, include it in the full download in the extras folder? I soo badly want that mod active as well lol..
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Like I said, it will included in some form in the Extras planned for 1.0. Even so, it wont be fully supported by the mod. Meaning we have no plans to balance it. It will be a verison that only has the fighter style movements.

So your options are limited to either doing it yourself or finding somone who already has.

Reply #872 from Sins Forums Top

Pssstttt....new blog is up!

Reply #873 from Sins Forums Top

Pssst....Almost done on the dynamic front...

Reply #874 from Sins Forums Top

Uhhh.... the tunnelling upgrades still apply for ALL planets, not just the specific types listed in the technology descriptions.

 

Will you guys release a fix for this? It makes those techs overpowered.

Reply #875 from Sins Forums Top

yeah we know about the tunneling upgrade

its a problem with the hard code nothing we can do about it but remove it and we dont want to do that

PS talked with Nacey, will be trying to do something with it, will log into bug report on new website. For the future try that out please, it helps us