Thank you!! Well done

Awesome TobiWahn. I've been  tinkering with the research trees and ship files to quicken the pace of game play a bit and address several minor balance issues. To whom and by what method do I provide the files when I finish sections...probably do things by race as there is so much interrelation between the file types.

First peek/teaser:

Balvarin Carrier (Work in progress of course)

Also to everyone in the Ukrain - stay strong, stay healthy. Peace for the world.

FYI Have answered the latest comments on the SOTYR ModDB page. Also FYI someone sort of recently posted this 9 out of 10 review with feedback on there:

SDImperium99th says

Jul 2 2021

Excellent potential, needs a bunch of polish and Vorlon/Shadow Lines aswell as voiced monologues for the rest of the mod. Also BUFF that Shadow Titan and make the AI far tougher. Maybe, well my best course of action if you guys need help with the work is too ask the STA3 team after they're done with STA3, they love B5 bigtime, worth a shot pal.

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi,

reply 5408

Thanks! And glad someone out there stil loves B5 and this mod  

No worries mate. I tried to post my own high score review but it didn't let me as I'm part of the group controlling it of course haha. At some point I'll get you boot me off so I can post the review and then invite me back in again haha. However it's probably better to do that on a later date when I have a nice HD video to stick in the review as I still haven't filmed it yet sorry. Too buried in all my Civ2 modding work atm.

Oh and speaking of mentioning your project to Sins modding gurus I should probably also mention you to the guys behind the Halo Sin's of the Prophets mod as they take the crown for some of the biggest changes I've ever seen in a Sins mod. They changed the games entire GUI making everything twice the size allowing them to insert in heaps of gorgeous Halo artwork for all the techs, planet upgrades and ships etc. They're obviously gurus when it comes to custom tech trees as they were able to design a system where you choose your faction leader (who have level ups) which unlocks different bonuses and custom techs that only that leader has access too. You can see me showing their custom tech system off around the 12:40 mark in my tour video of their stuff here:

Yeah it's inspiring stuff!! Btw as expected the the response on the Star Trek Armada 3 Sins Mod Discord was that they're too busy but suggested the regular Sins discord which has a dev modding section to recruit more help. Have you tried there in the past? If not I can say something there if you want. I've also asked the guys behind the amazing Sins of the Prophets mod for ya and will see what they say too.

Btw there's a number of unhappy comments on your latest download on moddb. People are struggling to get it working and the instructions in this thread aren't overly descriptive. Someone asked me for help on the STA3 Discord today on getting B5 working too so I wrote out step by step what I did to get it working for him. Figured I'd post similar (but more generic) instructions here and maybe you can stick them in your OP (after proof reading and letting me know if I've said anything wrong/stupid lol) and I can stick them on the moddb page too.

Installation Guide:

FIXED AND MOVED TO HERE: https://forums.stardock.net/361694/get;3846811

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Thanks a lot for the Install instructions, I‘ve amended the Main Post and also added you under Team - Moderation.

As for discord - if you want to open a discord for us then go right ahead. Thing is, my life is so full of stuff at the moment that participation on my end is rather kept to a minimum. I‘ve already got a hard time to post here every now and then. And it will be a while till the new centauri ship is finished. As much as I‘d like to dedicate time to the project rather than towards my day to day job that is sadly not possible. But having a more lively place might inspire me to dedicate more time to this mod still so why not   

All the best

Tobias

Cheers guys, I'll set something up for us all on Discord tomorrow.

However there's a problem with my step by step guide above as while things seemed fine with the intro and main menu, I've just noticed that I get weird "string not found" errors instead of faction names and loading screen texts when trying to start a new game. Over on ModDB you wrote "Download Sins Remastered and load that one first (load order is top to bottom)" so that's why I made sure I loaded that first before Sotyr, yet when I don't load it first and load them both the other way around the string errors go away. So does that mean the Sotyr should actually be on top of sins remastered in the load list?

If so then here's my amended instructions:

Installation Guide:

1. Download the latest Sins Remastered mod from here:
   https://www.moddb.com/mods/sinsre
2. Extract the archive using 7zip into a 'SinsRemastered' folder in your 'C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder.
3. Download the latest Babylon 5 Sins of the Younger Races mod from here:
   https://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-the-younger-races
4. Extract the archive using 7zip into your root 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder instead of a new mod folder as the archive ALREADY contains a premade 'SotyrRemastered' folder inside of it (so if you're not careful you'll end up with a mod folder inside of a mod folder and it won't work lol).
5. Start Sins and go to 'Options', then 'Mods', and you should see the mods you've installed.
6. Enable 'SotyrRemastered' and then enable 'SinsRemastered' too. Make sure that the load order is SotyrRemastered first/top and then SinsRemastered second/bottom.
7. Restart Sins and you should be good to go!

Sometimes the in-game mod loader can be a bit funky so if you can't see the mods you've installed or something isn't working then enabling the mods via the 'EnabledMods.txt' file in your 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder where you installed the mods to is the other alternative. It should look like this to work:

TXT2
Version 0
enabledModNameCount 2
enabledModName "SotyrRemastered"
enabledModName "SinsRemastered"

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So I've looked it up and my order isthe same as I said in my directions with all the strings working fine  

What app / place did you send the PM? I have Discord because my son uses it but I'm only in there when he has something he wants to show me.

Ahh I see you've found it and joined. Excellent!

I've made you a full admin. Once Tobi is in too I'll do the same with him, and then invite Echo in too for that friendly chat! Oh and I'll send Hael-sose an PM invite too.

Then I'll post a public invite link here and over on moddb for any fans and other team members of the project to join too.

I know you guys will probably still prefer to post pictures and news here, but I can copy and paste them over into the discord for the fans there.

Damn you're right  . Never should have called it SotyrRemastered - too confusing  

Thanks a lot!