A good place to upload this torrentwise might be GameUpdates - they cater to torrents for patches, mods and utilities for gaming. Alternatively, Micael456 and I can offer a direct-download mirror, with what is marketed as an unlimited bandwidth plan (of course, we'll soon find out about "reasonable limits" clauses) - although we'll need the file first, since we came pretty to late to this. Hope
Unfortunately it doesn't matter how much RAM you have - you may have read this already, but Sins loads [b]everything[/b] into memory, and doesn't dynamically unload it. And since it can only be allocated 2 GB of memory to run in (at least on 32 bit, 64 bit might be slightly higher), it fills it up pretty damn fast on larger maps, with lots of Ai and ships (not to mention all the textures, sound files etc.) and dumps. The only possible fix is a 64-bit rewrite of Sins, which is beyond the scope
[quote who="aaron502" reply="1392" id="2632905"]can someone help me i keep getting a minidump error about 30 mins into a game anyone know a fix for this or what and im aslo using a vista 64 bit home premium if that means anything [/quote] Depending on your map size, number of empires and detail settings, it could be that you're hitting the 2 GB limit. In which case the only thing to do is lower one or more of the aforementioned. Unfortunately there is no "fix" for this issue - just d
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[quote who="StarTrekFreak" reply="1369" id="2628325"]I was just wondering if you can put the max ship slots to 4000, and max capital ship slots to 32. If you have any extra time on your hands if you can also put species 8472 in. [/quote] I'm strongly tempted to write you off as a Troll, but I feel good after 11 hours of sleep. All of the game files are in plain text format. I don't know exactly where the files you need to edit are (or even if they are hardc
Thanks for everything so far, I guess. It's a shame to hear that you can't continue with it, but at least your efforts will mean you will see a completed mod in the future (and one that's well balanced and well presented at that). Good luck to you in your new direction!
That sounds a lot like the Shield Mitigation bug from a while back. Have a look at the stats for the ship while in combat, and watch for mitigation breaking 100%. If it does, you need to update/reinstall the mod, as this has been fixed if I recall correctly. 0.4.2E is the latest.
While assimilating Star Bases would be cool, personal experience tells me that people get real hacked off just having their caps assimilated. The player I am referring to actually now refuses to play in a game as Borg, or against a Human Borg player. Personally I think it's awesome (but then my ally was the Borg player). Besides which, assimilating a Star Base would be cheap, let's face it. They're supposed to be defensive bulwarks, and now they can be one-shotted by ONE faction? Not
[quote who="Major Stress" reply="1191" id="2594015"]The only way i can see to eliminate the pinch is to have virtually no details at the poles. like have only ocean at the poles, or a plain white ice cap and stretch the continental shelves farther away from the poles[/quote] I don't know why the Terran planets don't have that anyway :S. The orbits are right for it. The Gas Giants don't show the effects, so they're ok. Ice Planets need a little tweak, if I remember right. Volca
We can wait - so far it's been worth it. Any progress with that pole-pinch problem? Looks like the planets all got a tonsure haircut.
Well, he was changing the textures for the Fleet Supply Level buttons, so I guess it was UI, yes.
[quote who="Major Stress" reply="147" id="2577868"]~...The problem is that sins doesnt like anything but dxt5 RGBA...~[/quote] I see. That's a shame. Are you able to implement 16 bit on some things, or does it hate it for everything? If I remember correctly M456 was saving the Alpha as 16bit when he exported it, although I'd have to check with him on the specifics. I don't currently have Photoshop installed, so I can't try anything.
[quote who="Major Stress" reply="134" id="2576624"]~...456 i already tried to convert them to 16 bit, it was a failure. For the record the Psi Starbase texture was so big it crashed my computer when i tried to load it in photoshop...~[/quote] Could you give me the exact path to that texture? If it's simply a problem with your machine (for whatever reason) I'd be happy to try and help with resizing/saving as 16bit.
Stars need to be sped up.
[quote]...regarding the borg...[/quote] Seconded. Esp the part about tractor beams - surely a Borg ship is simply too massive for a Tractor beam to affect it (even if it doesn't actually pull the ship around). Basically, I find that it takes too long to become competitive as Borg. Sure, you *can* turtle till you've built enough, but that isn't any fun.
[quote]Having all your allies in the same system limits the planets you can have in that starting system, which is important for advancing into the next. It would be a waste to share them with allies... O.o[/quote] Agreed. I preferred starting with one of my allies and three enemies... It took more out of them when I controlled 2/3 of the system.
Ganymede is the only one I think looks ok without an atmpsphere.
Awesome. Already downloaded, but haven't played yet. :(
Thanks. I guess that means I can install from the archive/SDC backup again, if I uninstall etc.?
I'm considering purchasing the digital download of SoaSE, havin read the review, played the demo, etc. What files does the download actually consist of? Is it a .rar, a 'la torrents? I ask because I want to know whether I can backup/iso to disk, or if it's some strange bundle, like EA store's copy of C&C3, which can only be installed from the EA d/l manager, and won't install just from the setup program in the file.
[quote]You can play MP decently with a 2 kb/s connection, I doubt it uses much bandwidth.[/quote] You mean 2mb/s, surely? Would comcast be an American provider then? Cos if it is, I can offer no help.
