Hi calwyn12,

"is there a way to get rid of the dangerous asteroids in the newest version of maelstrom? I've done it before with the trinity version of the mod, but now when I try using the same method (detailed on page 42 of this thread) in the rebellion version it mini dumps"

Should be the same, so either you made a typo or the "count" is slightly different (I'm not in front of my PC to check this)

"Also, on moddb it looks like you've completely redesign the pirate models, even giving them capital ships! Are they in R4 or are they just previews? "

The HW2 models are to be included in R5 (Rebellion), which hopefully will be out soon

Thanks ... I am glad you are having fun

I am trying to stabilize R5 before adding a new race ... if that is possible. However I have all the models for a pirate race.

When ... one step at a time

expansion is the only one you need

Hey,

First off i'd like the justs say that this mod is amazing and that it is definitely one of the best mods for this game. I noticed today when i was playing as the replicators that it crashed when the frigates carried on trying to replicate when i have 0 fleet points available, it may have been a one off but thought i should mention it

thanks for a great mod!

I use the original races as baseline and try not to modify them. Just increase the difficult level of the AI opponents or create teams.

Yes, i hope it will be more stabilized than R4.

"The Void" map starts you on two asteroids with no logistics slots to build any ship factories. I can upgrade the defences to build 25 turrets and that's it.

I'll start off by saying thank you for giving us so many new planets/races to play with. I loved Maelstrom Expanded for Entrenchment and just started fiddling with it for Rebellion (R5).

I don't know if this has been brought up or not but I've noticed a few planets who have odd numbers of logistics slots (ie not divisible by 4) after applying all logistics upgrades. Is this intentional or some minor math oversight? My inner OCD starts twitching when I play a game and I see unused slots The planets in question are:

Terran Giant - 50

Dyson Sphere - 50

Frigian - 18

Terra Nova - 42

Ring World - 62

There also seems to be an issue (at least for me) with the Ring and Ancient building zones. I can't place structures at all unless they're extractors. No other planets I've tested thus far have any issues.

I understand that but as of Entrenchment R7 (the last version I played before Rebellion) this was not an issue so I'm curious as to why it is now. As I'm not a modeler there's not much I can do about it though but I thought I would point it out in case anyone else hasn't.

I was taking a look at the various star types and noticed that the Volatile, Pulsar, Neutrino, Dark, and Magnetar's hull and shield damage ability is healing units rather than harming them. After looking through the entity files it looks like the "buffOverTimeActionType" is set to "RestoreHull (or shield)" rather than "DoDamage". The values should probably be changed to positive rather than negative although if the current setup is any indication it doesn't matter if the negative is there or not.

ok so I don't know the difference is but I loaded this up last night and the game runs so much smother and faster than when I was running the Crazy mod

in my own opinion I think anyone making mods should look into the SOP to help them with the memory footprint for the game it would greatly improve there mods I think just like it has this one.

Hey soase-maelstrom, let me first say that I absolutely LOVE your mod. It's phenomenal and I can't get enough of it.

I have literally bought SoSE:Rebellion for mods, and your mod is the absolutely best-in class mod in my opinion. I've tried nearly every mod, and yours is the most entertaining by far.

I also got my friend to buy the game so I could enjoy the mods with him. So, we fired up Maelstrom for our first play through. It was awesome, had a great experience, no issues whatsoever.

It wasn't until the next time we decided to play again that we ran into a problem. I loaded up our save, but every time he tried to join my game it told him "your galaxy scenario file differs from the hosts" and it prevents us from playing prolonged games with this mod. The first time we played a game we played a short one and got to the end with no problems, and we could still do that but this problem only appears when we try to host a saved multiplayer game.

I have searched all over the place for a fix, but there hasn't been a solution that is specific enough for this problem and so I come to you. This has happened to us since R4, and I figured with the update, R5, that maybe our luck would change and the issue be resolved but it's still present. What causes this? How can we fix it? What other information do you need from me so that we can find a resolution?

This mod is way to good, and I'm not going to give up until we find a solution to this problem. And hopefully, anyone else that might have this issue will also have answers, though I haven't noticed anyone else with this issue thankfully.

P.S.- Our checksums are identical, the checksum is 367007150 for R5. My friend has the same checksum. I should also point out that we can host saved games with other mods and the original game just fine. This only happens with Maelstrom.

Neither of us have modified any map files or anything else for that matter except I modified one thing in settings and that is LogOutPut and ShowErrors and I have those set to FALSE for when I goof around in the Dev .exe

I will set those back to their default settings, TRUE, and see if that changes anything though I doubt that's the issue.

We have tried many maps. We've used the Maelstrom specific maps, custom maps, and vanilla maps and it happens with every save no matter the map. Thanks for replying.