Hi MajorVader111. There haven't been any updates recently because I've away from home on business quite a bit but in the last week I've managed to progress the mod a little. 

Still no definite release date as there is still some work to do. 

I'm working on a huge map of the Orion arm which is looking really cool. There are over 200 planets spread over 16 star systems, and it's still growing. I'm currently trying to change the way collecting resources works but I'm having some problems. I've removed resource asteroids from all gravity wells except for asteroid belts. This has increased the strategic importance of capturing and holding them. Plus there are now structures available that give resources, although these are expensive and take up nearly all logistic slots. I want to add an ability to planets that gives resources (representing mining operations on the planet surface) but when it's applied to neutral planets causes a mini dump. I think this is because the buff is trying to give resources to a player that doesn't exist. Anyone got any ideas around this? EDIT: GoaFan77 has helped me resolve this. Cheers.

I also want to create another map that covers a different part of the Milky Way galaxy, but has the Humans fully advanced. The idea being that it's the 2nd chapter in the Human Swarm War, with the humans pushing back the Swarm advance. Is there a way for a player to start with full research without using the dev.?

Sadly, no, not without a separate mod.  That would be boring in a lot of ways; however, as you immediately start with access to everything and can just start spamming that one powerful ship or combination of ships right off the bat.

It's going, slowly. No release date yet, but will be in 2014. It will still have a load of unfinished aspects. This year has been unexpectedly very busy with work and family stuff, so the good progress I was making at the start of the year has slowed dramatically. 

I'm probably going to release it as a beta. Then hopefully have a final release in 2015!!! 😵😲

Cool, thanks Barn0. I've made loads of changes.

The gameplay is still very slow, it takes a couple of hours before the Gorg show up and start to give you a major headache, and then it's hours later until the Swarm make an appearance. However, I know most people won't like that but I love it. I really enjoy the slow building up and exploring phase of the game and then all of a sudden aliens show up and it's all out war to save the human race.

The humans look great at the minute. Loads of ships and structures, an almost full research tree, loads of cool abilities. I've changed the back story, you now start with the humans in modern day. With the International Space Station and Hubble telescope in orbit. A shuttle is launched from Earth which can deploy astronauts to build and so begins the exploration of space. If the devs would open the trigger function up I've got loads of cool ideas to improve gameplay. The beta will only have the humans as a playable race in single player mode because of AI issues, basically, building structures in space is a big deal for humans and needs careful management and the AI can't cope with it. There are some workarounds but I don't want to compromise on them.

The Swarm are horrible and unstoppable. But again I love this! During playtesting, albeit after a good few hours! A Swarm scout showed up in one of my outer colony systems. Within an hour a huge Hive fleet was running amok and required my entire fleet to stop it. I then had Gorg raids to deal with and the creeping dread knowing that the Swarm would be back.

I've removed some of the critical damage system function. If human or gorg ships are damaged to certain point they can start to loss functions such as engines, weapons and abilities. I've removed the critical damage bit which would cause an explosion which damaged nearby ships, simply because I was losing entire fleets to a chain reaction of explosions. Which was cool at first but became a major pain due to the lack of being able to control ship fleet formations.

Watch this space!!!

so mostly hows progress kinda forget about this mod, hope its all good?

hey when u plan to relise a new version

that could be a full release

It's still being worked on. so no links at the moment.

Here it is then, the latest version 0.9. It's still far from complete, the incredibly initial slow game play is the main concern, but hey space exploration is a slow process. 

Research trees still need work, abilities need to be added to the Swarm and they have been removed as a playable race. Maybe in the next 3 years I'll sort it out but until then enjoy the unfinished product.

Download Link available on the front page. 

Any constructive criticism is welcome.

Hey Mostly, how's it going?

I've just tried to download your mod after upgrading my rig and it's been removed! Really appreciate it if you (or some other kind soul) could post a new link.

Thanks Harpo, your a legend!

ok finally uploaded to my dropbox

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8023186/sins%20mods/Dark%20Space.rar

Harpo the GhOSt NON-subscriber

It's not dead.

I'm still working on it, albeit very slowly. 

The Gorg are being added as a playable race rather than just pirates.

The Swarm are being re-invented for the 10th time, the idea is to have a several huge capital ships (Swarm Queens) that spawn out smaller ships with a limited life span. The majority of the models are being replaced.

There is no release date for the next version yet.