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Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy Beta Information

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Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy Beta Information

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Welcome to Beta 1 for Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy!  This latest micro-expansion is far from feature complete, so I urge players not to jump to conclusions. As I like to say, we're at the beginning of the process, not the end. ;)

What you'll be getting for Beta 1 is just the groundwork for many things to come and as such is not fun.  Think of this initial release more like a technical test, as what will be most valuable to hear about are things like crash bugs, desyncs in multiplayer games, and other weirdness.

If you don't want to deal with bugs, balance issues or providing feedback to improve the game please wait for the final release.

Things in Beta 1:

 

  • Envoy Cruisers:  These cruisers are expensive to maintain, but will allow you to establish embassies on foreign homeworlds.
  • Embassies:  Once established, you can begin working in earnest with other factions.
  • Diplomacy Tech Tree:  This is where you'll find the required techs to meet and greet with others. Be aware that the new tech tree is far from complete; only the basics are in now (and even those will be changing).
  • Mission Generator:  At last you'll be able to issue missions to the AI and other players!  Setup the mission type, time limit and reward for completion.
  • Deadlier Pirates:  The Pirates will now become tougher as they collect bounty rewards, but that's just the beginning....
  • "Faster" Gameplay:  New "Faster" settings have been added to the Game Options that really speed things along.

To install Diplomacy:

  1. First, you will need the full versions of Sins of a Solar Empire v1.181 and Entrenchment v1.041.  These updates can be obtained via Impulse (http://www.impulsedriven.com).
  2. Once your pre-order is charged, you will see Diplomacy appear in Impulse under your My Games tab. Just click the Install button and Impulse will handle the rest.
    1. If you don't see Diplomacy appear after getting your order receipt via email from us, try Checking for Updates in Impulse (click the blue button in the upper-left and select Check for Updates).
    2. If that doesn't work, you can manually register your Diplomacy serial number in Impulse. Click the blue ? in the upper right and select Look Up Serial Number. Your Serial Number will be emailed to you.  Once you get your Serial Number, just click the Register Product button in the upper-right of Impulse and fill in the dialog.
    3. NOTE: Your order number is NOT your serial number.

Posting about Bugs:

Please check out Annatar's stickied thread about providing feedback to us about the beta:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/319171

 

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Have not got mine yet, just sent an email.

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

If they havn't, then why were their threads dedicated to stoping people giving them new suggestions?

Or better yet could anyone define feature freze for me?

I'm probably confused or summin if I'm wrong.

Star Control: Origins
Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Sir, reply 27
If they havn't, then why were their threads dedicated to stoping people giving them new suggestions?

Or better yet could anyone define feature freze for me?

I'm probably confused or summin if I'm wrong.
End of Sir's quote

I have never seen a thread started by a DEV that says stop with the new suggestions. I have seen ones started by other forums wanderers that seem to not like the idea of all the idea threads popping up.

edit: just found a thread where a dev is encouraging giving suggestions

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/369995

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

*takes back what he said before :P

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

I've already started playing it a bit it's great I have two questions how do you improve the relations past 60%?

My next question will later patches or up-dates include more patches or will the final have more artfacts?  Just like you did in the Entrenchment. I hope so. I look forward to the expanding hopefully of the Espinage part of the Diplomatic Ship.

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

I have the first "bug". Whenever I switch between entrenchment and diplomacy i can reconfigure my settings, as it reverts them back to the defaults. Otherwise it is working.

 

Still, I really hope the devs do a lot more work on diplomacy, as from what i can tell the parts that are in there for now are nowhere near the minimum what one would expect from a beta.

Economic warfare, spy / antispy, trade offers (like civ) where one can offer to exchange planet/ships/fleet/money/resources or demand that the opponent give (...) for not going to war/break cease fire/break trade agreement/...

 

At least give us the ability to give ships to our allies!!

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 32
I have the first "bug". Whenever I switch between entrenchment and diplomacy i can reconfigure my settings, as it reverts them back to the defaults. Otherwise it is working.
End of TobiWahn_Kenobi's quote

 

This has already been reported. Mods say it will get fixed soon.

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the Info. I didn't mean the first bug at all, but the first I myself experienced :blush:  

Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top

Probably won't be the last, but that's what beta is for. :P

Reply #36 from Sins Forums Top

Hi Today (9th Dec 2009, New Zealand) I purchased to pre release of Diplomacy and installed it I see other are having the same problem it resetting all 3 sins to the base Video.

This only happens when I plat Diplomancy it resets all e sin settings. If I reset to the settings I want and DONT use Diplomancy the setting in the first 2 stay as set.

I notice that the techs are working on this issue when are we likly to see the FIX.

This is NOT a gripe just feedback I love the game.

 

Thanks carl (Sentar)

Reply #37 from Sins Forums Top

Aye, we're aware of it and it's on our fix list. :)

Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top

Can you guys release the fixes you currently have sooner rather then later. That way if more bugs arise we can help you find them

Reply #40 from Sins Forums Top

I'm a little dissapointed.  I play this game with teams locked all the time and don't care for diplomacy.  I was hoping for more physical content in ships and upgrades.....*sigh*.  I won't even bother with the beta.  The idea of pirates as merceneries sounds interesting but that is it to me,  maybe i'll pick it up just for that since it is only 10 bucks but I'm staying with locked teams.

Reply #41 from Sins Forums Top

erm... alot of the stuff still works with locked teams...

even with locked teams you have to do quite a bit of work to get some of the uber pacts... which are very helpfull.

(new tier 8 tech, anyone?)

and envoy cruisers have some very helpfull ablities... even for your own worlds.

Reply #42 from Sins Forums Top

Hello,

First I am looking forward to this game but I have a question.

I bought the game (Sins with entrechment) via impulse and downloaded the German version and I love it, but in Entrenchment not everything was in German...it was kinda half-and-half in most casses. For example, new abilities of starbases had the name in German, but a description in English, or vise versa. Also, after I dominated a torpedo Cruiser and started commanding it I noticed it was speaking English. Also our lovely Temple der Gemeinschaft(Temple of Community) says, in English, "Victory is at hand for the Unity" when you click upon it. I know it might be harder to get German voice acting for the new units but at the very least making sure all the text is right is important, I feel.

Now, obviously, English or German, for me, it doesn't matter. I can understand both just fine, but for the sake of those who love the game, but only speak German is any attention going to be given to make sure that everything(or at least the text) in the German version of Diplomacy is actually German? Like I said, on the advent starbase there is an upgrade(I forget the name) but the description says something like how it adds more batteries to give the base more mid-range firepower, but the description is English.

Of course I don't know if you have enough German customers to care about this but since I figured most beta testing was probably for the English version I just wanted to ask to see if any attention was given to the German version.

Below is a link to some screenshots as examples with the English circled.

http://img688.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=shot1w.jpg

 

Reply #43 from Sins Forums Top

Hi Zeichnete - The German localization updates for Sins and Entrenchment will be coming soon, along with the localization for Diplomacy. :)