It's a shame that this game has such poor modding support anymore especially in regards to anything that isn't editing text files. With proper modding support for the industry standard this wouldn't have been a problem and we wouldn't have to resort to using year-old tools. Offer still stands but I understand totally that that's not a viable option for anything more than like one ship because exporting is often.
A desktop is always the way to go, unless you like noisy, hot refurbished un-portable pieces of crap. You could get a higher-res (1280x768) netbook like a NC20 and have a long battery life, low noise and heat, etc.
local settings/application data
That's not helpful at all, Sins can't start at a res under 1024x768.
[quote who="Xarchon" reply="17" id="2185172"]I'd love to see something similar to the war, i.e. early german ships are by far and away inferior to other races (mimicking their poor quality tanks compared to the russian t-34, and even france to an extent) but they are strategically more sound... but I'm not sure what bonuses could represent that exactly. I'm glad you're not doing the classic "archetype" model that most games tend to throw their races into though. A fluctuating power
Yes, that would be an easy way to do it but would require all antilight weaponry to not do damage. Also annoying I suspect because it would target those ships just not do any damage.
[quote who="EvilTesla-RG" reply="2" id="2173572"]that I know of, thier is no way to get a NORMAL weapon to only fire at a fighter. Abilities are differnt, in the Ability file, thier should be a couple lines that list the types of targets that can be targeted. This can be manipulated so the ability can only target fighters. Have you read Ironclads Introduction to modding? If not, I sugest you do. [/quote] have you read the ori
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="20" id="2174351"]Sounds like ManSh00ter might need to make an "ASK MANSH00TER" thread just like DANMAN's thread.[/quote] no, we need to have one thread about general modding questions free of egotism, which is more or less the status quo. there's no reason to tie it in with any specific person, although manshooter knows a hell of a lot more about this stuff than danman. i answer questions in that thread because it's a good community research in lieu of
Then you don't need to edit the manifest.
[quote who="immensea" reply="15" id="2172376"]I'm sure this is a dumb question, but what needs to be altered to change the number of SC squadrons a ship can field?[/quote] MaxCommandPoints
[quote who="takashi_k" reply="22" id="2171804"] Sure, I don't have access to updates.. but guess what? Stardock doesn't owe you any updates. They are not required to provide them, anywhere. You're *getting* a full, complete game in the box that will play and be enjoyable. You paid the full price for the game and are getting the full game. Updates are a bonus, not a right. [/quote] Patches are not "updates". This is not Galciv II. We
[quote who="Uranium - 235" reply="13" id="2168827"] If you want anyone to take you seriously, cut the melodramatics. And no, Impulse is not required to play the game. There's nothing, anywhere, that says you're owed patches.[/quote] There is no "melodramatics" nor do I really care if anyone on the illustrious center of intelligent debate "Sins of a Solar Empire forums" takes me seriously. I'm "owed" patches if the game is broken and I shouldn't have to be subjected to a bloate
[quote who="Uranium - 235" reply="11" id="2168606"] Yes, but how much will you be willing to bet that the same people moaning about Impulse are also running Steam? I don't know ANY gamers that doesn't use Steam in some capacity, and yet there's titles out there that MANDATE the install of a 3rd party STORE to let you play the game - didn't we used to call that Adware?[/quote] Steam is as bad as Impulse, in different ways: the difference is that one let you know in advance y
Ah, okay.
Dunno, check the pipelineeffects folder.
Use a missile effect but make the travel particle a beam? Missiles do "miss" so that's your best bet. Think autocannons do too.
no, mirroring people's work without their permission is poor form and unprofessional, people submit their files to sites they wish to have their work on. with small mods this isn't a problem but if you do it for TCs you will quite quickly run into some problems. back in the EaW days I submitted my maps to Filefront and saw them spread across the internet with readmes not attached, incorrect descriptions, incorrect authorship, etc etc. an author of a work has the right to choose where
Yes but you must use texture/particle hacks. The turrets are part of the mesh.
http://www.google.com/search?q=uvmapping&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Obviously, every model ever made is derivative of something else. What is with this obsession with equating original models to Star Trek or Star Wars or whatever? Enjoy it on its own merits.
that has never been the problem the problem is the icon still shows up
[quote who="DeadlyShoe" reply="5" id="2160789"] Are you still following the basic structure of SINS balance?[/quote] No, which is a really good thing. Read the gameplay week stuff here .
[quote who="harpo99999" reply="16" id="2113998"]I am only trying to prod the discussion in ways of balancing while allowing the potential of cloaking and in startrek the ships could move at low impulse/thrusters & maintain cloak harpo [/quote] this has nothing to do with "balancing" it has to do with enabling a buff type the mods can figure out how to balance it
hurf durf they have the right to replace your game executable with a popup hamster too It's not a debate about natural rights. It's a debate about whether the policy will prompt some people to no longer have interest in titles. If people feel shafted by it they won't buy SD products just like if people feel shafted by EA or whatever they won't buy the game either.
Because since 1.05 Sins has had a number of absolutely crucial stability, modding, and bugfixes. If danman doesn't want to update 7DS that's his perogative but modding after the patches has significantly improved and the game has become much more stable.
