if you want the few thing solar sins has that is not currently in the mod feel free to add it yourself to personalize your DS.

so how do i ad it myself. all i want to add is the ability to colonize the star.

How does one colonize a star and with what?  Especially considering a single molecule of iron (or any element heavier then iron) is all it takes to make a star go super nova, I'd love to hear the ideas behind that.  I'm not being an ass or anything I'm actually serious because if the ideas are at least plausible, I may do a little something in the DS lore based on it.

@nguyenstar - you need to have transfer over the files for the stars, the entity files that define the ability to colonize a star, plus make sure the entity manifest is up to date with those changes (remember to update the count as well)

@Stant123 - I'm guessing a specialized shield system and anti-gravitational ability

i was thinking of building space stations with shields around the star or even do what solar sins mod did by colonizing the moon that orbit the star. And since this is s sci-fi games, our imagination is the limit to how we can colonize a star.

Well, depending on the changes being made it could end up being a very complex and time consuming operation for very little pay off.  First, you have to find the star's entity files, then you have to find every file those rely on such as meshes, abilities, buffs, bonuses, research, then you have to copy those over to new folders, edit the DS english.str file and make all of the additions needed there, add all of the new entity files to the entity manifest, and modify the research trees to allow you to do the research to colonize them in the first place if that's mandatory to do beforehand...  I know I'm forgetting stuff too, but that's just a quick rundown off the top of my head of what's likely to need to happen.

Stant, there are stars with iron-nickel cores. How can that be correct?

And as for colonizing stars, I'm against it. First, the difficulty in securing a star is in the inability to set up a colony. Second, lasers are getting through shields. No reason a corona couldn't burn through it.

Plausible, I like it.

Hmmmm.  Some sort of plasma/ion/heat shielding to keep from melting down, being hit by solar wind, and avoid potential solar flares.  Shielding the entire star might be asking a bit much considering the immense power drain maintaining a shield under constant bombardment without failing would be, however using directional shielding akin to Vasari's frontal deflector shielding on their starbases could allow for aiming between the star and the structure orbiting it so the whole thing wouldn't have to be shielded, just the portion between.

Anti grav's a must for lower orbits, unless you're colonizing a moon nearby, but then you're technically not colonizing the star, and I already colonize moons in the lore so that's nothing special to pull off.  I'm thinking once I con Oranos into letting me dismantle a starbase of his, I convert it to something on the civilian side and park it in low orbit.

Imagination is the limit, but I do want some plausibility to it by using in game tech.  It's easier to justify, doing it that way.

I could make it work as a pet research project that ends up being overly costly to operate and yields no reasonable benefit ultimately calling for the structure to be abandoned and scuttled.  Thanks for the ideas.

That is not correct, there is no such thing as a star with an iron-nickel core.  Once there is not enough hydrogen to fuse and maintain hydrostatic pressure, the star is considered to be dead.  Once Helium starts getting fused into Carbon it's called a supernova, type II specifically.  (It just hasn't exploded yet)  I'm aware of the super massive Wolf-Rayet type stars that can build up large iron cores during their collapsing process, but the fact of the matter remains, once the fusion of hydrogen has ceased or slowed to a point where helium has to be fused to pick up the slack to maintain the hydrostatic pressure, the star is dead and on it's way to going boom.  Once iron is created by the fusion of silicon, energy is actually absorbed, not produced causing the former star to violently collapse in on itself because it's impossible to maintain hydrostatic pressure when all of it's energy is being stripped away by the iron production, and it explodes creating the imagery of the supernova we all know and love.  So like I said, once 1 single little atom/molecule of iron is created...  Boom!

Let me rephrase this: I thought the limit for the iron-nickel core mass was 1.38 solar masses, meaning that the introduction of said material would assist a steady process towards doom, but one which could take millions of years, thus being far from an instantaneous explosion. Given that a great number of asteroids (including ones which become meteors) are iron-nickel, it makes sense given that some portion of said objects are sure to be drawn in by our star. It also explains why heavy elements are created by supernovae, but when the material spreads, we don't see a fatal colliding effect with nearby stars.

This all aside, still against colonizing stars.

The core mass value is true, but from my understanding (from a decade ago) the process of helium being converted all the way down to silicon only takes a few days at most, and once silicon is converted to iron in that instant the process becomes an exponentially increasing runaway process that only takes seconds to a minute to reach that 1.38 solar masses depending on the overall size of the star because it rapidly absorbs energy forcing the former star to crush down on itself more, creating more iron, which strips out even more energy forcing it to collapse further creating more iron which saps even more energy, etc etc etc...  Larger stars, being much faster at this then smaller ones for the obvious reasons of greater gravity and more material to work with.  Larger stars also are the culprits for creating elements like silver and gold and heavier since iron is continued to be converted in however long of time it takes to explode.  Think of it this way, if it wasn't a run away process, wouldn't it just cool off and condense into some big hunk of whatever ball of layered elements it finally creates when it's gravity can no longer crush itself?

I'm against colonizing stars too, since there's no practical reason to, (seriously, only Chuck Norris would be able to live there) however landing structures nearby in low orbit such as research stations, while ultimately being prohibitively costly, could provide some scientific value.  So if I were to do something in the lore based on it, it would be an experiment that ultimately is decided to be not worth the effort to maintain.  Just something to do while waiting for other story arcs to develop/conclude. 

In mod terms, to each his own.  To me it's not practical since there are no resource asteroids that I remember seeing, and a starbase with a tradeport upgrade would end up doing the same thing as a planet for the most part.  Although, think of all the goodies you could throw down in the big DS map if you could colonize them...    Close to 80 main stars, and 100's of companion stars all with stuff...  Insane!

Can anyone explain how i install this mod. Im new and this would be my first mod thanks

Did you bother to check the original post for a link to some instructions?

Seriously, can't people learn to read the info provided by developers these days?

Actually, even with the intense layer of elements, one of the big issues is that iron-nickel doesn't have the structural strength to resist such gravitational forces, and still manages to fall in upon itself. So even if it were slow, it would be like watching 9/11, where you sit in anticipation forever until SURPRISE! Too soon?

Anyway, I do have an idea regarding "Star Colonization" that you just inspired. What if you could research a production vessel like the Raloz or some form of star colonization that allows you to build a costly to maintain research station which can only function in the gravity well of a star, perhaps very close to reduce the usefulness of starbases protecting it (since you usually want them near phase lanes). This station would then open up a new branch of research which could either all be under one section or pockmark several categories. It could include things like anti-matter regeneration, shield strength, and/or armor strength. It wouldn't be a casual decision either because aside from the start up cost, we could find a way to make it a constant economic drag.

sory ive been skimming throught the 126 pages so theres alot i could have missed thanks