Shadeveil

I suspected it was very map dependent. But I will defiantly explore that tech tree more cause wow as explained those are some amazing bonuses!

Im fairly new to the game and until recently ive been ignoring the diplomacy tech tree, just trying to focus on the basics. After me and my friend discovered you can gain standing and use pacts while having locked teams I have been much more interested. After inspection on what the pacts offer they seem pretty beastly but they also seem to deviate a lot of resources away between the research and envoys. So my question is are these pacts worth it to try and get, or should I just stick

So im pretty new to galaxy forge and I messed around and created a few maps. I finally got around to creating a decent one and I can see it and play it when im on just regular sins but I really made it for either diplomacy or entrenchment. I got the map updater from this site but when i try and use it it says i have a different version of Sins and wont initiate. I would really like to be able to play it so I dont know exactly what im doing wrong. Any suggestions?