[MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13]

Published on January 5, 2009 By Nacey In Sins Modding

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Feedback of any kind is always welcome. Ideas, balance changes, and bug reporting of any kind is always useful!

Version 1.00 Released!

Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!

Downloads

Rebellion Logo

1.05 + DLC Compatible:

0.12 ALPHA Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/rebellion/Distant_Stars_(R)_ALPHA_0.13_[45189661].7z

Full Download MIRROR:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/distant-stars-rebellion-alpha-013

MD5: 69486D2FCD3F35E46E6F5EF8C9F1634A

Diplomacy Logo

1.34 Compatible:

1.01 Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_1.01_[45685832].7z

1.051 Compatible:

Beta 0.9951 Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.9951_[36672852].7z

1.14 - 1.181 Compatible:

Version 1.01:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/soase/Distant_Stars_v1.01_[453701567].7z

Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!

Multiplayer Games:
We've setup a thread for everyone to organise their multiplayer games in and also setup example times and dates for most people to meet up and start games. These are what we hope to be the main times for people to be around and want to play games together.

The times are:
4pm EST (9pm GMT) Saturdays & Sundays
9pm EST (2am GMT) Saturdays & Sundays

If you want to organise other games please go ahead using the same topic to consolidate all the information in one place and hopefully get more games together within our community. These games are for PvP, PvAI & PvPvAIso come along and we'll get some games going!

Screenshots:
We've setup a thread so you can all post your screenshots to share with us the Distant Stars team and its players. Im sure we're all intrigued to see what kinds of battles and events you've all been having on the mod aswell.

Lore:
We know some of you guys love to role play whilst using Distant Stars, and here's a topic for you guys to post all of your role playing stories, character profiles and anything else you can imagine.

Maps:
Some of you avid map makers out there have produced some great maps but never really had them recognised because they've got lost. Well here's a topic for you to post a link to the download (we can even provide mirrors if necessary) a screenshot or two of the map for us all the preview and if enough people like it we'll even include the map in with the actual mod!

Please visit our website and for more information, change logs, downloads, and to report bugs. Our website can be found here: http://distantstars.mmobase.com

Bug Reporting

If you want to report a bug please use the Bug Report feature on our website:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/?m=reportabug

Please include as much information as possible, if you have an error log feel free to post it on these forums and we'll take it from there. If you can reproduce the error please include the error log (read below to find out how to enable error logs) and include as much detail on how to reproduce the problem.

To enable logging:
Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

Open the user.setting file (using Notepad, Wordpad or any text editor) and scroll down to the bottom 7 lines from the bottom is the line:
LogOutput FALSE
Change FALSE to TRUE
LogOutput TRUE

and from then on any Log files will be saved to the debug folder:
Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug

If you get these log files to us (you can just paste them in to a forum post) we can hopefully get your issues sorted.

Frequently Asked Questions

All files are compressed using 7Zip to shrink the download filesize. To extract these files you must use WinRAR or 7Zip.
Any Patches should overwrite the original install directory, either by extracting over the original folder, or cut/copy & pasting over the existing file/folder structure.

1) My game keeps crashing, is there anything I can do to stop it?
i) Are you running the game on maximum (highest) settings? if so, lower them to High or Medium, there is a known issue with the game using up too much memory, there is nothing we can do about this, also no matter how powerful your pc is, it is affected by this issue no matter the pc it is not above this crashing issue, it is a game problem not a hardware one, so quite simply lower your settings. If you still have an issue with crashing see point two.
ii) Give us as detailed information as possible about the crash, what was happening at the time of the crash, what races, ships, abilities were involved. If you can supply a Debug Log (see above for more information about logging) and post a bug report on our website.

2) The loading screens and portrait pictures dont appear properly, whats wrong?
i) This is an issue with ATI based graphics cards (rarely affects Nvidia based cards) we're looking in to the issue.

3) Why dont you support converting Distant Stars in to TXT format?
i) Quite simply many things can go wrong with converting your mod to TXT, we cant help you with something you've probably broken yourself.

4) Can I mod Distant Stars for myself?
i) Yes you can however please do not distribute our mod or our mod that you have edited to the public. You must ask for permission to do so, we will regrettably stop distributing our mod to all if users abuse our work.

5) Your mod is in BIN format I can't edit the files, what can I do?
i) You can convert the mod to TXT format however we wont offer any support to versions of the mod that have been converted to TXT.

6) Why is Distant Stars distributed in BIN format?
i) Mods load faster in BIN format and are less likely to have issues in this format.

7) I'm having trouble installing the MOD, do you have any more instructions?
i) Carbon was kind enough to do some more advanced instructions out here.

8) Is there any way to make new maps for Distant Stars using GalaxyForge?
i) Within the Distant Stars Extras folder there is a folder called Galaxy Forge, Copy and Paste this folder (or its contents) over your original Galaxy Forge folder (or its contents) replacing any files if it asks you to. When you start Galaxy Forge next you'll be able to use all of our planets.

Or, the DIY approach (without custom icons):

ii) The GalaxyForge supplied by the devs will still work with our Mod, however to be able to access all of our planetary bonuses, templates, planet types and stars you will need to take our GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (found in the GameInfo folder of the mod) and place it in to your GalaxyForge folder, overwriting the original GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (if you still wish to make maps for the original game keep a backup of the original file). This will allow you to use all of the Galaxy changes included in our mod.

Note: Any maps made for Distant Stars will not work with other Mods. See #8.2 for DIY instructions for map making or take the appropriate files from Entrenchment, they're cross-client compatible.

Some statistics...

Since August 2009 to February 2011 we have had over...

400,000 Unique visits to the website
12,000GB (12TB) of data transferred from our website

That equates to over 60,000 Unique downloads of the entire mod, excluding the excess of 20,000 Patches downloaded.

Thanks to everyone that has supported us this far and making our mod as popular as it is!

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Comments (Page 196)

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Draakjacht

on Apr 14, 2010

Sorry, I put in the wrong URL. I fixed it. As for the asteroid count, I think someone will have to put that into the wiki, but it may be a bit. Lotta planets and I don't know who is keeping track of that coding.

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-Ue_Carbon

on Apr 14, 2010

The larger planet size usually have more asteroids. The exact amount varies.

They all have 2 and Huge can have up to 10.

2928

Draakjacht

on Apr 14, 2010

I dunno. I've had a Paradise planet with 0, BUT it may have been because it was made in GalaxyForge.

2929

-Ue_Carbon

on Apr 14, 2010

Well paradise doesnt have any. B/c of culture bonus and stuff.

2930

Ryat

on Apr 14, 2010

We are slowly working in population differences to the moon to huge size differences kinda random right now

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Stant123

on Apr 15, 2010

I know the variables but I didn't put them in the wiki because they're somewhat random. Moons have 0 - 2 resource asteroids, dwarf and normal have 2 - 4 resource asteroids, and huge have 4 - 6 resource asteroids. Paradise planets don't follow that rule, gas giants right now have 2 - 4 but that may change in the future, and 'home' planets always have 2 of each.

Edit:

And the DS wiki has everything you're looking for and then some. I may go back and add in that little blurb, but it's not really that important. Any questions forge or map related PM me and I'll have an answer for you.

2932

Alpharius93

on Apr 17, 2010

Saved MiniDump

and there appears the location (I can't copy-paste here)

What happens??

Another question: is Ironclad/Stardock going to sell Entrenchment and Diplomacy as disks, instead of digital purchase? Because I'm not going to buy online yet.

2933

Ryat

on Apr 17, 2010

The vanilla version is not fully supported up to 1.191 yet, and thats why

as for the Entrenchment and Diplomacy on disks themselves, I understand that to be never but you can buy all three on a disk with Trinity

2934

Alpharius93

on Apr 17, 2010

Yes but I have the 1.16 version

2935

Ryat

on Apr 17, 2010

still not guaranteed to work quite right. not quite sure where we left off from development of it. we are almost done with Entrenchment and Diplomacy did not give too many things to change so hopefully that won't take us nearly as long and we can get to updating the vanilla version soon. sorry for the issues

2936

Alpharius93

on Apr 17, 2010

Ok thank you; don't worry, don't need to aplogise

2937

SpardaSon21

on Apr 17, 2010

You could always go ahead and blame Ryat Alpharius.

2938

Ryat

on Apr 17, 2010

SpardaSon21

reply 2937

You could always go ahead and blame Ryat Alpharius.

lol

there is a forum game dedicated to it

2939

SpardaSon21

on Apr 17, 2010

Indeed there is a "Blame Ryat" forum game, which is why I told Alpharius to blame you, since everyone else is doing it. Blaming Ryat is now the cool thing to do, just like smoking used to be.

BTW Alpharius, nice name, the Alpha Legion is my favorite of all the Traitor Legions due to their use of tactics and sneaky-ness almost to the level of Tactical Genius (but not quite Tactical Genius, the Alpha Legion can't make Baneblades pop out from behind bushes).

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Stant123

on Apr 17, 2010

Ryat

reply 2933

The vanilla version is not fully supported up to 1.191 yet, and thats why

as for the Entrenchment and Diplomacy on disks themselves, I understand that to be never but you can buy all three on a disk with Trinity

Nope, the trinity disk comes with vanilla sins and two codes preentered on the impulse install for you to download both entrenchment and diplomacy. However, once you have them downloaded, just like everyone else here, you can dig through your hard drive and save the files to a disk. I believe there is documentation on where to look included with impulse, or maybe on it's online help even... I've looked it up before. It's there, just takes some detective work to find it.

Alpharius93

reply 2932

Help! I downloaded the vanilla version, put it into the folder you say, but there isn't any galaxy folder into the zip! And if I enable the mod, the music changes, in my desktop appears a message and then it says that Sins has detected a problem and needs to close. The message is:

Saved MiniDump

and there appears the location (I can't copy-paste here)

What happens??

Another question: is Ironclad/Stardock going to sell Entrenchment and Diplomacy as disks, instead of digital purchase? Because I'm not going to buy online yet.

Alpharius93

reply 2934

Yes but I have the 1.16 version

There was a 1.16 version? Didn't know that, I probably do know and just don't remember, and there's no mod folder for version 1.16... You sure you got the right version? At any rate, whatever your version of the game, if you look in the location of C:\Users\(logon name)\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire you will find a bunch of folders that say version numbers and mod on them. Unzip Distant Stars to your desktop, then move the files over to the appropriate folder to prevent possible corruption issues. Also turn your game effects settings down from anything but highest. I keep forgetting to remind Carbon to put that in big bold letters at the top of the downloads, so someone remind me to remember. Since you get a music change, you probably got that part right though.

There is a way to get the game to work with version 1.191, there are copies floating around that work, if you ask nicely, I may provide you with one such version so you can fully update your game and get a lot of the fun stuff, however, to really experience DS, you really do need to at least get entrenchment. Diploamcy is a plus and you can join us in the weekly game which starts in about 50 minutes. Sweet!

Galaxy folder what now? You don't need to do anything with a galaxy folder... There are actually 3 folders that you'd be interested in finding if you're looking for the galaxy files. The first is (if you're in the location I listed a couple seconds ago) the one that says GalaxyForge, the second is the one that says MapDesigner, and the third is buried a little further in, in the mod itself, but I don't recommend messing with it, you really don't need to.

As for being able to copy and paste on the forums, learn keyboard short cuts. They're less convenient then mouse clicks, but a hell of a lot more useful since you can't disable them. ctrl+x is cut ctrl+c is copy and ctrl+v is paste.

I already answered about the disks, but I will say that online commerce is far more secure today then it was 10 years ago. I remember having to download an add on pack for Netscape back in the day to bring it's security up to 128 bit and having to sign a waiver that said some BS about not trying to participate in criminal activity or whatever... Someone had a comedian working for them 'cause it was just funny. All browsers now come standard with it, and have so for years. The only time people become victims of online fraud is when they're duped into entering in their information on a site that isn't the one they thought they were at. As long as you see that little lock icon in the address bar and you are where you're supposed to be, no one can steal your info from you unless you've already been hacked or they're hacking the main server that's verifying your info for the purchase. I say buy and download away. Odds are you'll get hit by a car before someone rips you off from because they stole your info from Stardock. Maybe you'll get hit twice, by then hopefully you won't give a damn about your credit cards an have started looking both ways before you cross the street.

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