This mod is fantastic, and as longtime forum lurker, but little poster for four years...that shows you how much I enjoy this work. I tweak each mod for some house rules of mine, but only to try and make the AI even more brutal. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RwB_WL5FlI

(short preview video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me3NRxw9i8M

(this is the full version video, 9:15 long)

I'm working on a video to reflect this modification, right now the game I have in progress has had an ongoing battle between myself and an AI for over one hour in the same planetary system.  Video is now completed, see second link.  A small asteroid cluster named Charybdis is a juncture point for four other jump lanes.  In this hours worth of combat I've lost more than 10 capital ships, and hundreds of frigates, thousands of fighters...the computer will not stop.

...smack dab in the middle of all this have been insanely powerful pirate raids (with cap ships), one raid even came to Charybdis! 

I don't know how y'all have done it - but you've made SoaSE even better than it already was. 

To summarize, the AI has been kicking my tail around the Charybdis system for over ninety-minutes...yes, they have not withdrawn.  They keep pouring more and more ships into the system.  I estimate I've lost the following:
10+ Capital Ships
200+ Frigates
Dozens of support structures
Thousands of fighter craft

I recently deployed every cap ship I have into the area, however...the super pirates are launching a massive attack along the other side of my Empire.  I'm holding them off, but they toasted most of my orbital facilities, while decimating my reserve fleet.  I can't spare any cap ships to fight the pirates, so I'm fending them off with hordes of frigates, cruisers, and fighters.  Thankfully my economy can support replacements - however I may run out of time in the end.  4 vicious AI + super pirates = deadly combination. 

Just so everyone knows...Bombers are getting the nerf axe HARDCORE.

That is all.

*disappointed*

*double disappointed*

Well, the version is 1.165, as it appears at the right-down corner of the game menu.

Thank you about offering me the 1.19 version , but if I upgrade it I'll loose me Sins Plus mod (1.165 version). Better I buy Trinity and get Entrenchment and Dipomacy by that way, because I cannot use most of this page's mods because of that . Without at least Entrenchment, but having that 1.19 version, what could I do? I'm talking about mods, of course

I BLAME ALPHARIUS AND PERTURABO AND NECRONS! AND TYRANIDS!

Thnak you very much for answering me! ^^

This mod has Sins Plus integrated, plus the Celestial Bodies mod as well.

Yeah, what Sparda said.

When you run this mod, it's best not to have any other mods running.  So if you're trying to run this, as well as Sins plus on top of it, you're running the same mod twice basically and that could be why it crashed right away.  You're probably breaking something forcing it to crash.

So before you upgrade or do anything, try one more time.  Download a fresh copy of DS, unzip it to your desktop, and then move the DS v1.01 folder into your mod folder.

Run your game, disable all mods currently running and hit apply so the checksum reads 0 and you're running plain old vanilla sins.  Then enable the DS mod and the DS mod only.  hit control+shift+tab to put the game in windowed mode so you can see and verify the checksum 453701567  If it's the same then hit apply.  You're running a version that should work with what's there.  if it doesn't there may be other things to try to get it to work, but we need more information on what it says in the log file.

Edit:
Update for those who want to create an update disk of entrenchment and/or diplomacy for their own personal records.

If you load up impulse and go to the tab 'My Games' you can right click on your game and select the option archive.  This will compress all of the files associated with that version of the game.  For instance, if you wanted to back up the current version of diplomacy, you'd right click on it, select archive, and every file that is used to upgrade sins entrenchment to diplomacy will get stored in a file labeled 'Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy1.011.068_3.17.2010.impulse'  This is just a file archive (7zip can access everything in it easily) of all of the update files, i.e. what you'd get on an update disk.  If you let impulse store everything in it's default locations your file will be located at 'C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Impulse\backup'  If nothing is there then access impulse's preferences and select the options for folders and look to see where it's saving it to.  All you have to do at that point is save it or a copy of it elsewhere.  This does not save any mods or saved games or playbacks or anything like that, you'll have to get into your mods folder area and make copies of those.  Just thought I'd share since I looked it up again.

I did that before I ever wrote anything here. I even erased th Sins Plus mod, but no improvement. And the checksun number is ok: I wrote it down on a piece of paper.

It seems that it's a lost cause

News Flash: Due to monetary injections and mission assignments in Diplomacy with this mod, my brother now has 400+ pirate caps and innumerable support cruisers in orbit of their base. All vessels are diverted away from this region for reasons of lag.

Glad someone finally got it.  People discussing vanilla Sins mistakenly think the bomber issue is due to Scamble Bombers being OP.  No, a critical mass of bombers will beat anything in the game right now.  Even an equal supply of carriers with fighters or flak.  There's been some unit with this status since the game was released; Ironclad doesn't seem to be very good at balancing things.

lol that's cause they are too busy making money off us to care

Well, making armor upgrades not apply to SC or just bombers alone would be a major boon in itself.

Correction: High level upgrades

Got an account just for this ^.^' looked through about fifty pages but couldn't find anyhting on this specific issue:

using standard (no expansions) and downloaded the mod and installed with no problems; added the galaxy forge file and all the planet types work fine, but only the crystal miners bonus shows up in the list of things you can add to a planet.

I used method two for adding to GF, because I couldn't find an 'extra's' folder in the mod.

anyway, hope I can get this sorted out; thanks in advance.

me and Nacey attempted that, no go

got it to work with Vanilla? wow, we cant even do that

as for the GF, our new partner in crime Stant is working on that, hopefully will be in the next release

There is another method, it involves using the developer exe to see what the issues are as the game runs into them.  Run your game using the dev executable in the game's main folder, when you go to enable the mod, you'll get a pop up window that starts running down the list of issues and saves them to the log file if you have logging turned on.  That'll tell you what's missing or messed up.  Probably something you should try doing when you're bored and you have a lot of time to kill.

I still say everyone should buy entrenchment and diplomacy and join us for some hot multiplayer action where PbHead dominates us all and treats us like his little man bitches with the threat of bombers over our heads.  =D

What now about the forge?  My updates have been available for the casual person trolling this thread for like a month.  I posted a link to them.  The instructions at the top, the only difference between method 1 and method 2 is the icons.  At any rate, I find it preferable to get the galaxyscenariodef file from out of the game folder instead of the extras folder anyway (method 2) because that's the one the game is using.  Less chance for there to have been an accidental switch between the two folders.  At any rate, TheInkFox, if you want the icons that you're not getting from using method 2, download my little package and pull out the icons folder in the GF folder and drop that into your forge folder.  Then you'll have everything you'll need plus a bunch more.  You can always try the whole update out for vanilla, but I'm not sure it'd work since I made it as an add on for DS dip 0.7 until it got added or rejected for version 0.8.  It should, since the planets are all the same, the only thing that would be broken are possibly some of the templates and the three extra artifacts that aren't in the vanilla version.  I'll run it later tonight or tomorrow after work to see if anything needs to be done to make it work reliably if it doesn't.

http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/UpdateTest.rar

Edit: My update crashes vanilla sins DS so don't bother trying it until I've had a chance to build a minimod that will consist of all of the files needed to migrate celestial bodies over plus whatever else has been added since vanilla DS's last update that would be required to get that version up to the current forge's capabilities.  Shouldn't take more then a few days if nothing comes up...  Which something always does when we don't want them to....  =\  Don't worry though, I'll get it working.