Alrighty modders I have but ONE question.

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Why are there no mods dealing with a galciv II and sins crossover? Seriously the two best space games and no one has thought of adding the Galciv races to sins or the sins races to Galciv? I think the potential for epic is there.

Having said that I am well ware modding is much harder than it looks so I can understand why good mods are few and far between but I am just rather shocked that this area Sins X Galactic Civilizations has not been messed with.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Because they are too totally different forms of 4x.

Sins is a real time version with set ships and limited planet building.

GalCivII is a turn based version with designable ships and massive planet building concepts.

The two are on opposite sides of the 4x spectrum so as to be completely incompatible.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I've never played Galactic Civilizations. :blush: Its quite possible that the people that happen to mod Sins come more from the real time strategy game side of the genre rather than the turn based 4X side.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

It is pretty much as Ryat said. There really is no way to port GC2 mechanics over to sins without it playing completely wrong. Its Apples, and Oranges.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Aw shucks, this makes me a sad panda.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

There are a whole host of reasons why a gal civ II mod would be difficult....I think the most intimidating right up front would be making assets for 12 factions...

But anyway, as much as I love gal civ II, I really don't want to see an SoaSE mod for it...it would be a completely different game and likely not for the better...

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Unless we do something like the Total War series and call it Sword of the Stars. :P

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Dawn of Civ maybe?

 

O:)

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

The one thing I miss about GalCiv is the espionage.  I hope they do an add-on for Rebellion with that. 

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GenTDuke, reply 8
The one thing I miss about GalCiv is the espionage. I hope they do an add-on for Rebellion with that.
End of GenTDuke's quote

Good thing that there is a mod that adds some espionage. ;) The devs could obviously make something much more complicated if they wanted to, but its there.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

I was waiting for that Goa....

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 6
Unless we do something like the Total War series and call it Sword of the Stars.
End of Ryat's quote

Heh, at one time I was actually thinking on the best way to do a SotS mod for Sins.  Hardest part would be dealing with section and weapon variety since there's only 9/9/9 slots available for ships.

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, too different.  

GalCiv deals with the entire empire as a whole.  Military actions, while necessary to win, actually occupy a minority of your time in GalCiv.

SoaSE is the complete opposite.  

To accurately do a crossover, we would need an upgrade planet window the size of a tech tree.  (among other things that are outside the SoaSE engine's parameters).

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Seleuceia, reply 10
I was waiting for that Goa....
End of Seleuceia's quote

He just won't Goa way... :ninja:

Great mod though.

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Seleuceia, reply 10
I was waiting for that Goa....
End of Seleuceia's quote

I don't like to plug my mods, honest, but this was too good to pass up! He even used the word espionage.

Quoting Sinperium, reply 13
He just won't Goa way...
End of Sinperium's quote

I tried to leave... I really did. But the dang Vasari haven't arrived with those phase stabilizer parts yet.

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

What are you talking about?  Devs released the 3rd and 4th race with the last update, v0.999...