Nacey

In the Diplomacy Forum: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/forum/620 The full change list for each patch is listed there :)

[quote who="CallenExile" reply="10" id="2476748"]Hmm...everything but the reinforcements makes sence...but when it says allied reinforcements doesn't it mean other players? Otherwise it says our forces have arrived, or something along those lines. I'm not saying you're lying, it just doesn't quite make sense to me. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong. -Exile[/quote] If you re-read the reinforcements message it mentions they've arrived at the Koro

[quote who="CallenExile" reply="8" id="2476648"]Nacey: Why are your Capitols spread out over your empire tree in the middle of frigates? They are always at the top of the list by default. Also, does the distant stars map allow for extra caps, because i counted 17 in your fleet. Or were you playing with large fleets? Wait. I see the word Allied Reinforcements at the corner. Didn't you say it was you against 2 AI? -Exile[/quo

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That should work perfectly fine. However thinking on your problem a little more I have just realised what your problem probably is. Are you using the referencedata provided with the ForgeTools? if so these files are out of date and will cause an immediate minidump. There are some pre-converted (working) files floating around in other topics but I can't find the link atm.

Personally I'd love to see the AI build more caps. Even in default sins them build 3-5 / 16 is pathetic. By the time you get to the end of a game and have 16 caps with a huge fleet to back it up they dont even stand a chance hell the other day on distant stars this happened: I was the blue fleet against both of those and won, yes im using Distant Stars but the point still stands. The AI NEED more

[quote who="MasonOfSparta" reply="3" id="2476253"]To be honest I'm starting to think that Envoy ships may need some kind of help, as I was having quite a hard time getting mine through LTW's planets while playing a game with him last night. I solved this issue at the time by befriending an AI and having the AI attack his planet while I sent two envoys through. We'll see what others think on this I suppose.[/quote] It may be an idea to make a new research for those diplomatically incli

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="1750" id="2475545"]I thought it was such as I have had problems with that ability+custom squad entities before. Awesome that it will be fixed in the next patch (I was rather surprised that it was missed, but with the sheer number of entities to go over, it makes sense something will get overlooked).[/quote] Yeah sadly it was overlooked, so many things to test it went under the radar. 0.97 is on its way soon though although no specific release date just y

Funnily enough %appdata% if thrown in to explorer on Windows 7 works and %localapps% doesnt. However %appdata% goes to: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming Rather than: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\ or C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\ (The containing folder on Windows 7 being: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games or C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar

Aaand here's the new Diplomacy patch incorporating all the changes they made (and any other changes 0.5 of our release version): http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/DS_Diplomacy_Alpha_0.61_Patch_[36375353].7z [quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="1744" id="2475025"]So is Distant Stars moving straight to Diplomacy?[/quote] As Carbon said we wont be moving

If you open up the PlayerTech.entity file four blocks down are these lines: frigateInfo Page:0 count 6 entityDefName "FrigateTechScout" entityDefName "FrigateTechLight" entityD

As the creator of a mod myself I'd love to see this come in to play as alot of people have issues installing mods at times due to the folders being "hidden" for security issues. Quite annoying really but if something like this existed it would really help alot of users out there installing the many many mods there are.

[quote who="LtSpitfire" reply="1742" id="2474760"]Me again, I've redownloaded the games and the mods, no way for them to work... Any more hypothesis or help will be fine ^^ Thanks![/quote] Alrighty so you're having trouble with the entrenchment version so you're putting the mod in to the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\WINDOWS USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\ There shou

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That file will be in the GameInfo folder :)

Glad you solved the problem mate, gotta be very careful with formatting and ofcourse using the correct punctuation everywhere. I almost had a similar issue not long back where I was mass copy & pasting information around and ended up with the start of a string at the end of another line which could've caused a similar issue.

[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="1736" id="2473870"]Anyone know a program to edit a .window file?[/quote] Personally I just use Notepad, Wordpad or Notepad++ :)

This is one of those weird kinds of errors the main thing to check for would be a misreferenced file in say a ResearchPreRequisite for example you must enter: RESEARCH_SUBJECT_FILE NOT: RESEARCH_SUBJECT_FILE.entity There are many situations where this can occur the research one is just the one that pops in to my head right now, best thing to do is make sure that all the files are referenced properly within the other files. Looking up the file may not be the issue.

Yeah gotta agree the AI has always been terrible at fortifying which is one of the main reasons they can never defend against a player, if they made 2/3 repair bays, a starbase, hangar bays, turret/missile platforms they would be able to defend if they used their fleet to back up the defenses. Not only that but upgrading all of their research would seriously help.

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="1711" id="2472372"]I'm very impressed at the speed with which you have to mod out for Diplomacy[/quote] hehe Thanks ;) [quote who="anteachtaire" reply="1712" id="2472392"]Thanks, but I'm thinking the dump is from diplomacy itself and not the mod. One thing I noticed in my rummaging and wall-head banging was that the capitalbeam stuff for the psi planet defense buff is a bit odd (no particle effects, beam as missle? With curvature?) I'm not sure

[quote who="anteachtaire" reply="1706" id="2472241"]Guess that means I need to re-install. Oh joy. *edit: still getting a dump. Oh well.[/quote] Sorry to hear you're still getting crashes mate, i'll re-make the patch and double check the released files to make sure there's no different between Internal/Release versions. [quote who="DarkArk" reply="1707" id="2472302"]This might be a silly question but where is the extras folder? I can't seem to find it in the .zip

[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="1701" id="2471849"]Well I told you not to mess with that...I made sure it would break if Ryat pirates go ahold of the tech [/quote] Internal Espionage eh?! Unluckily for you your espionage isn't anywhere near as good as breaking things as unintentional line count changes XD Still trying to find this Diplomacy issue, just built 9 hangars all with different variations of the strikecraft and not once could I get it to crash :s

At the bottom of each planet(s) entity file (in the GameInfo folder) is the limit to how many starbases can be in each grav well per player.

[quote who="anteachtaire" reply="1699" id="2471743"]Ok, so I'm getting a mini-dump (for diplomacy ,9) when I build the hangar defense module for the advent. I have shield best. researched for it, so that may be the problem.[/quote] Will look in to fixing that for you guys shortly, currently working on a minor issue I may have caused whilst fixing other things XD will hopefully get a fix to you guys in the next 30-60mins :) p.s. 1700 [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]