Hey love the TEC Dreadnought but it the ship itself seems slim or streched idk just something about it seems wrong dont get me wrong i like the idea of merging to marza together but how you stretched made it not as exciting so please if you can just resize it a bit please

the textures was actually fine just the model itself

Almost forgot i have a actualized version of the Sins of a Solar Empire and tell Uzii to update his mod please...

Even so ... your advertising such a excellent mod!

Harpo's mod tools doesn't work... It keeps telling me "Path Not Found" you could imagine how sad it can be??

Reply #265 was having the same issue as you.

Harpo's reply #266 was a solution.

For issues with the mod tools, you should post them in that thread so that Harpo himself can help you out.

In this text box where you type, near the top middle you should see a little square that looks like a picture of a tree with green grass and blue sky.  Click that button and a new box will open.  All you have to fill out is the image url.

How do I contact Harpo??

You can get your files hosted (that is on the internet so you have a url) on free servers such as filefront (Google for 'free file hosting').

I have been trying to get the Anonymous ftp working for the Maelstrom website but to no avail ... maybe it takes time for setup!?

In the meantime if you email me your images (<10MB) at soase-maelstrom@hotmail.com I can manually place them and give you URL's for each of the images.

Unfortunately I have not had the pleasure of using Harpo's Mod updater tools. But I'm sure Harpo himself would be all to pleased to help you.

SoaSE, check out your in box cause I sent ya a video with some planet ideas for sins of a solar empire...

And by the way, what program do I need to create my own mods?

By the way If you are planing to make this maelstrom expansion check out for the "Aura" Planet Class it seems that the planet its turned upside down.... i mean you are seeing the interior of the sphere instead of seeing the planet as it is...

If u are planing to work at this expansion please fix this bug...

I got your video and pictures. Thanks for the work.

Firstly, bear in mind that Maelstrom is a large mod, that is it is pushing the hardcoded limits of Sins. Planets meshes and textures take a considerable amount of memory so I have been very careful when I added new planets i.e its not for lack of ideas.

Here are comments on your ideas

Stars

1. Aqua Star, Purple Titan Star, Orange Star, Binary Star, 3 Star

I don't think stars add to the game. A simple star 'costs' about 3Mb of memory. I would also have to add a new texture file for star Hud as the current one is almost full. That is why I have been putting it off.

With regards Binary and more stars I have 10 stars in the stellar anomaly

Worlds

Can take up to 11 MBytes per world

1. Radioactive world & Toxic world are ideas similar to Sins Plus worlds. I have consider them.

2. Storm world, Electricity World - I think there are negative planetary bonuses which cover these concepts.

3. World with moons - the binary world has 3 moons

4. Lunar world - Celestial bodies mod has similar worlds. I have consider them.

5. Kantabryss world, Massive world, Swarming Hydre World - good ideas but note that planets can have only one ability and those are quite limited.

Overall you have some good ideas but I can't include them all in the Maelstrom mod at this time. The Maelstrom mod is memory limited and I have limited time for which I have a development path for this mod. However I will endeavor to include some in stages in coming releases of Maelstrom. It will depend on how the memory budget of Maelstrom goes.

Release 3 of the mod will focus on new Planetary Structures and the inclusion of Dreadnoughts

Release 4 of the mod will focus on new Models and Textures for the Norlamins and Replicators fleets.

Also expanding the number of starbases in a star would not necessarily be a good idea - have you ever seen an AI build a starbase in a star? Or even for worlds that allow multiple starbases have you ever seen a AI build more than 1. The reason I mention it is that a human player would logically build more than one if it was necessary but the AI wouldn't necessarily do so - i.e it would create a imbalance.

Thanks again for your enthusiasm.

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Have a look at some ideas at

http://www.moddb.com/members/kolljak

Have a look at the mod

http://www.moddb.com/mods/stars

If I use Blender 3D, It makes any difference??

Because I have em both XSI Mod Tool and Blender 3D

And as far as i can tell the both have the pretty same abilities, just the buttons and options are different...