That, the trade ships, and the strike craft I believe.  As the game lingers on, these tend to build up in enormous numbers, and especially in the case of the trade ships, are unnecessarily complex.  Making them simpler means freeing up a healthy amount of memory.

It does free up a lot of mem and helps down the lines. (been testing the latest build) But yeah mines and strike craft are the worst of the issues, once did a build that removed both and had very little lag issues.

As for bringing in others mods, the biggest issue is the entity manifest. Distant Stars has a very large and complex entity manifest (I believe it is almost double what the original is) and this creates a lot of issues when bringing in other mods. We have been successful a few times with merging (Hidden Alliance by SuperZero0 is one) but it takes a lot of work.

As for Music, that is relatively easy (or so I'm told). Carbon as already added a lot to it.

As for more ship types, maybe. We are throwing around a few ideas (no super caps, sorry) so we will see what pans out.

Hmmm,  I'd forgotten about all those little refinery and trade ships.  Yeah they do breed like ants and rabbits don't they.  I know there's an option in the interface to turn off thier graphic.  I'll try that.

As for killing the mines, I don't know how to mod, same as for adding in music.  Not sure how its done. 

Are you guys planning another mod update??? sweet!!!  Looking forward to it.

If you're up to suggestions on music, a number of the pieces from Band of Brothers, Pacific, not to mention perhaps Dune and Children of Dune.   Some great pieces in there.  All four the Battle Star Galactica Season CDs has great music as well.  Some very epic sounding.

Well ok, so no supercaps, understandable, but destroyer class perhaps might be cool.  I mean wet navy usually goes frigate, destroyer, cruiser, bigger cruiser then carriers.  Hmm, how about sneaky ships for each race? sorta spy type thing.  Not the scout but sorta a cloaking thing, pardon the term.  A submarine equivilant.  No very powerful as a combat ship, like the scout, but used to jump in, see what defences are there but remain undetected.  Doesn't show up on psidar either.  When u lob a scout to a world the oppoent knows it coming and can instantly build defenses, but the "sub" is truely cloaked.  of course you'd have to include a system structure or addon type of thing that allows for the detection of such a thing... or suddenly mines are very very very useful because they can detect the "sub".

Jump gate ships? u get one in and it creates a link between a system many lanes deep in your territory and the place it is and you can insta jump the fleet through? the ship is one use only, basically sacrifices itself to form the gate. be an interesting Advent ship. 

Just some silly ideas.

Yeah, they're silly alright.  I have a lot to say about everything you wrote but people tend to cry when I explain things to them so I'm just going to say none of that will happen because other ships already do that.

As for the mines...  There's a mod that does all of the work for removing them, I'm not sure how it affects DS, but you could probably do a forum search and find it.

can't build that "submarine" idea, coding won't allow it

How about a tech option to increase population on asteriods? call it "extermal bio domes" or something?

Sorry if I seem to spitting out random ideas.  Yours is by far one the best mods I've played for this game and anything I might be able to contribute to help it keep going, even if its just zany wonky strange ideas, is just me trying to be helpful. 

lol, its okay

As for this idea there seems to be an issue with adding individualized population increases for certain planets aside from what the devs put in (Terran/Ice/Volcanic). We tried to put something like that in called tunneling or something to that effect but it kept affecting everything. So we just changed the string file and left it like that.

Hi I have got one question, are you planning to release update for diplomacy edition of your mod anytime soon, or not? Or is there any way, to get latests beta (developer version) of your mode? Thank you

Could you create a submod or the option to make fleets even smaller than with small fleets?

The game is lagging too much for me and its not my rig since I have tried everything this forum offers for fixing the lagg. Since the game supports no Dual cores,I would love to have the ability to play the game with small fleets,like 200 ships at most(i am not even sure if that will lag aswell)

Considering this mods balance as of now,maybe a small mini mod for small fleets would work,changing some of the ships to better cope with the new star bases or vice versa.I just love the ammount of things this mod adds.

i guess enabling dual core for this game is impossible right?

Our mod is up to date with the current Diplomacy version so if you want to play it with Diplomacy feel free.

This is currently under review and it may occur, though we are currently working with the TSOP group to bring better optimization to the game.

yep, would require a full game rewrite, maybe with Sins 2

There are plans, and when it's ready it'll take the version up to 1.0 if I'm recalling what I've been told correctly.   I assume that means both entrenchment and diplomacy.  Also little tweaks to vanilla will be released around the same time as well.  That being said the old adage, "it'll be done when it's done" applies.  It's not like sins has seen an update itself in that amount of time.

There's no developer version of the mod being released either.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, yes we plan on updating and improving DS. And no, like Stant said, no release of dev version. Even he didn't get one. And he has been very helpful.

Yeah, I just make my own, it's faster that way.

lol, minor detail

plus you get to put in your own modifications

I don't know weather you guys have thought of this or its been mentioned before on this thread (not going to read through 146 pages) but the Maelstrom mod has some brilliant new planet types. Favourites of mine are the ancient ones and the binary ones. You should definitely ask him if you can use them. Possibly the fortified one as well.

Edit: Link, Link

yeah we noticed it

maybe

Please,could you make phase moving faster?When a ship enter phase it should reach the other planet fast.This is very problematic for longer phase lanes.it takes ages to reach them.At least,make an upgrade for it.

Other than this there are some typos on your mod.Artic planets require tropic research?!

Imo,artic,volcanic and other dangerous planets should require hostile enviroments research.

yes artic planets require tropic research, tropic planets where you can live but require some higher level of habitation structures then your average builds

hostile environments (like volcanic) require powerful and different levels of habitation to live at and require different research

as for the phase lanes, Im not sure I understand, it only takes a few seconds

besides, that is part of the strategic element of the game

I gotta say that I thinking jumping is pretty fast as it is.

He's saying that right now the ships are driving along the phase space highway at 40 miles per hour and he wants us to make them drive along at 60 miles per hour.  I've only run into this problem of ships taking forever to complete the jump when I very first started out building maps with the forge and didn't realize that you should, or rather, almost have to zoom in and build the map with the star's ring barely showing to get nice short lanes.

I don't think I've ever come across anything that states phase lane travel speed.  I'll look some time this week though.  It could be one of those things that I've just not noticed because I didn't consider it to be a problem.  =\

Phase lane travel is controled by the map.

I could give you detailed filled Lore fluff filled explanation but Ryat gave you cliff notes. And its broken down like it is also to attempt to give each tech = share in planets it unlocks.

If these bug you badly enough, feel free to convert the files to text and fix it for a personal version.

We will update it when its ready. We have been very busy with life, so the mod has taken a backburner. But we also have been working hard on optimizing what we can for better end gameplay and/or lag. It takes time to test and work in our schedules. Fear not.

You can change this yourself, by going to gameplay.constants file located in the GameInfo folder for the mod. Open it with notepad and change this:

fleetSupplyData-Small
        fleetSupplyScalar 0.75

Change that number to something smaller try 0.50

Hi, wonderful mod, got to say, but I was wondering where the 0.995 release for Diplomacy is, as only 0.7 is listed.

Secondly, I don't know if your taking idea suggestions, but something struck me that might be interesting. Well, most logistical structures are plain old boring, having a normal task with no little thing to make them unique. So I was wondering about ways to address this, and I figured, well, why not allow racial bonuses for some structures?

Example of this would be say the TEC Trade structure, why not give a it an ability resembling an orbital lift to the planets surface, a small cooldown that would increase trade output by a smallish amount for a short time. I mean, a single one on a standard planet would work, but imagine an urban planet with something similiar, it could become a true power house for finances.

For Vasari, perhaps their Matter Processer could have a CD that would either give a small bonus to planet material generation perhaps, meaning this hard fought resource planets could have a huge strategic influence.

For Advent, well, either a CD for their broadcast centres increasing culture output sporadicly or a mix of resource and cash increase, but on a smaller scale than either the above factions.

Just an idea, thought it could appeal to the play styles of each faction and refine their unique approach to war and resource collection.

We are still at 0.7 for the Diplomacy version mod. That is why there is no 0.995 yet.

As for those abilities, they sound nice in concept, but I am wary that they might skew the balance a bit too much. The game already has several researches/abilities for each race that expands upon their strengths and that might overbalance everything. But it is something to keep in mind.

The abilities above are especially problematic since not all structures are created equal. Everyone can use propaganda, but the Advent are naturally better at it. The abilities would be better if they were high tier augmentations that narrowed the gap in their specializations, such as 'tithing' for the Advent which increases their tax income rate or 'call to crusade' for the TEC, giving them a culture boost. If at all, I would prefer to see it go in that direction.

What would be more interesting, but might not work given the mechanics, would be a revamp of the buildings using the modular idea incorporated into the space stations. Imagine have 3-5 options and you get to choose 1-2, increasing a particular aspect of your frigate factory (cheap production versus fast production) or trade station (larger holds versus tougher tradeships).