Hey Ryat,

You should arrange some dates so we can get together and play. Perhaps on the weekend would be best. You can edit the OP and put it in there so people will know they its on.

Want to start out by saying, i love this mod. The huge battles are epic!

However, i did find somethings abit buggy/wierd.
I played a small map with an Unfair AI the other day.
Once the AI had no fleet (kinda destroyed all of it in one planet with a jump inhibitor ), the AI seemed to bug out...it didnt create anymore ships, instead spent all credits on bounty. I must note that i had turned off the pirates as this was my first time against an Unfair AI.

Also, whenever i would phase jump my fleet into a planet, the Vasari Subvertor(?) would glitch and show up as if it was directed to move outside the gravity well back the way i had just jumped from. Mousing over said ships came up with them "Moving to (planet i was already at)."

Im not sure if these have been discussed/brought to your attention/etc, just wanted to put in my two cents.
Like i said tho, very nice mod, the parts flying off of damaged ships is a very realistic touch.

appreciate the commendation, the parts flying off are from the Volumetric Explosions by Manshooter.

as for the bugs you have reported they are actually from the game itself, mod just has a tendency to emphasize the AI problem (we did what we could with the AI but that is limited at best by the devs, hopefully the Diplomacy x-pack will give us better control) and the other has been reported by some that never play the mod.

I have to second the request that someone take a look at the current download option for the full ds ent. beta 0.90 34826167.7z file. I've tried downloading multiple times on different computers, each time WinRAR reports almost 500 of the files fail to unpack correctly (starts around 97%). I'd really like to try this mod.

Thanks for the response
Rather does suck that the AI is so limited, its easy to read and predictable
About the Subvertors, i personally havent seen it happen in a game without the mod, but maybe its just a pathing problem? Would it be possible to tweek it in the mod even if it is the game itself? Im a noob when it comes to mods, just curious.

@ DRoseDARs- try using 7zip.

Sorry about the delay to responding I've been away from home for a few days now and im only just catching up on things. I've downloaded the file twice over the last two days and neither have had any corruption issues for me either when unzipping the files (Using 7z or WinRAR) or in the Complete Binary for Binary Comparison I made of the files.

There will be a new complete download soon once 0.95 is finished hopefully in the next week or two. However I must warn you that corrupt downloads/files is usually a sign of hardware problems such as a hard drive or memory (RAM) failure. I'd suggest re-downloading at a less of a peak-time (early morning, during the day, or late at night) is generally a good way to tell if theres a problem with your actual downloading capability just incase your ISP is having issues during peak-times.

liekka:
Sadly there isnt anything that we can really do to the AI however it definetely warrants us looking in to the issue to see if there are any significant changes between our version & the original/entrenchment version to see if anything we've done could be causing the error.

On the subject of Diplomacy:
Yes we know its out, yes we have already begun making Distant Stars compatible with it, however we wont be fully supporting Diplomacy until we have Entrenchment v1.0 out (currently eta'd for Mid-december (2nd to 3rd week, before christmas)). Any releases we make for diplomacy we wont be bug fixing too rapidly and certainely wont be working towards adding extra features in to them until the entrenchment release is complete.

I also would to add with the latest release, Dynamic Mod will be going thru a major overhaul

ditto on the Powerful Pirates

@all who've responded

I retried it with 7zip instead of winrar and it seems to work properly. It may be that my version of WR is older and doesn't recognize the more current 7z file type.  Ce la vie.  Thank you for your help.

 .....lol, guess i need to kick my little ass into gear. Thanks for the heads up there Nacey.

ARRRRRRH!

That be true matey, for me pirates will not wait for yar silly defences to be up'n'ready. We gonna pop in an take over

ARRRRRH!

Hahahaha....You already do. You know it hard to discreetly field test new technologies with your medling pirates around. Gah, work for us not the Advent.

I prey on the Advent and Vasari as well

First off, love the mod! Just thought I'd report an issue I've been having with it lately, though. Whenever I play as Vasari my game will crash. It seems to happen when I have a lot of long-range missile frigates. I tried to isolate the cause, but couldn't. In the game, I'm the only player that crashes - my friends remain in-game without any issues at all.

will it crash when the LRMs fire, or jump out, or move or when one explodes, or just at random

Homemade huge "solar system" map (all the real-life planets/moons plus a bunch of anomalies, graveyards, asteroid fields, and deep space sectors).  All settings maxed.  This occurred about 45 minutes to an hour into the game.

I opened up a premade map (the balanced resources map, which btw is quite cool) and have been playing Vasari on that one without making any Assailants - single-player, so I can get away with it.  I had it running about 5 hours with a ton of pauses due to baking and cooking this morning, no minidumps. 

My kid was also playing a Vasari game for about an hour on a different map and had no issues, but I don't know what ships he was using (I'll open up his save when I get back to my home PC).

Could there be a slight memory "leak" or do you think it's just coincidental bad luck?

edit - forgot to mention that my TEC games and Advent games have gone off without a hitch.

Question: The diplomacy add-on is described as 'the final micro-expansion', but I thought there were suppose to be three. Did I miss something?

The Devs have decided that the Diplomacy is going to be the last addons for Sins.

yeah, they decided to cancel the third due to both the time frame in which each micro-expansion was taking (longer than excepted) and the amount of things they want to attempt for the next thing for Sins

Funny you mention time being a factor. Sins is popular, no arguments, but few games can afford to take so much time coming out with a sequel or full scale expansion. I feel doubly so when there's no story involved to begin with. I'm actually surprised that they've managed to keep as much attention as they have thus far, but I do think it's mostly due to guys like Nacey, Mooster, Ryat, Carbon, etc... because vanilla would have already bored the heck outta me.

Guess I'm just going back to the idea that they should cut you guys a check.

in some ways we would not mind that, but then they might expect more out of us

LOL and we cant have expectations. That would ruin it all

More than the equivalent of a mini-expansion that incorporates 11 new planets and 66 new planetary bonuses, as well as ship graveyards, improved lighting and particle effects, improved ship explosions & damage effects, improved sounds, planetary abilities, and enhanced pirates with all of the technical support and continued balancing updates that one would expect from a well-funded publisher?

Well, they might.

Well...once we split up the income we call could afford to buy a beer and then drink it together on MSN or Skype. LOL

EDIT: POST 1600!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!