More planets is always good and I don't understand why they even put asteriods to colonize on this game. Is it possible to remove the asteriods from the game in the completion of the DS mod? If not then maybe consider removing the Dwaft planets instead.

Out of curiosity, what's the argument against the asteroids?

no real agrument, just nevered like the idea of poeple living on a floating rock in space thats all.

I rationalize it this way: The bulk of matter in the asteroid belt is held up in very few rocks, so those few are points of interest regarding refueling and resources. Moreso, if we assume the phase lanes are products of nature, any point, even deep space sectors, are points of interest as determined by nature. If Mars was not connected via a phase lane, then it ceases to be of interest to our stellar exploration efforts.

Woot, a guy named OpticNerve agreed to be a contributor and handed off three kick ass avatars. I'll have them processed and previews up shortly.

i have been having a small annoying problem, the phase tunnel of the vasari, the passive sound, is loud and plays constantly even when i am not zoomed to that planet that has one, i tried destroying the tunnel but the sound persist even when all tunnels are gone, even through the save..

its not a one time thing, it keeps happening everytime on every map, any ideas?

cheers for otherwise great vanilla experience 

Well, I did some playing around with the files controlling the sound and didn't get any real positive results from the tweaking.  The issue seems to crop up because of files being copied repeatedly, or so goes the theory I've been told.  I have figured out though, that (when I'm playing as the TEC) if you've destroyed the offending phase gate and allowed some time to pass so that the info card isn't showing a phase node active in the well anymore, to make the sound go away, get yourself into a big shootout, or just find one going on in the map somewhere, zoom all the way into a ship that's in the middle of things, ride out the weapons fire and explosions for 5 seconds or so, then zoom back out and the sound has mysteriously stopped.

A small disclaimer, I tried it again recently, I was playing as a Vasari, killed off another Vasari, had the phase sound looping, so I tried what I just described, and I just couldn't get it to work.  Though I've reverted the files back to their originals so my tweaks are gone, so I'm probably going to go back and play with them again at some point soon.

Is this compatible with SOASE v1.191, Entrenchment v1.051 and/or "Trinity" (Diplomacy) v1.011; are their full downloads without all the patching -not even sure wtf to do with Entrenchment patch.

Yeah, been out of gaming for a while now, but mod looks nice and the GSDef file similar to the one I worked out for 7DS.  You need some more "Bases"     Good work.  I just wanna play it and make some maps perhaps.

Spider Jerusalem. Nice choice.

Version Compatibility -> I assume you can read, so let's review where the top post says:

Downloads

Yeah, there's little sections that say version compatibility, you might want to...  Oh I don't know...  Look at the numbers there and compare them to the one's in your questions...

SOASE 1.191 - No, 1.181 was the last official release.  However, yes, it will work for 1.191 if you change/delete some files.  You don't get all of the fun stuff playing this version though, not yet anyway, so no I'm not going to explain it.

Entrenchment 1.051 - Yes.

Diplomacy 1.011 - Yes.

Pretty simple right?

Full downloads...  *Sigh* Again, let's review where it says:

Downloads

Look for the version you want and more specifically the parts that say Full Download:

Yeah, you want that link.  The patch is if you have an earlier version and don't want to or have the time to download the full version with the exception of the entrenchment 1.051.  Only a patch was released for that update, so download the full version for either version of entrenchment (since they're the same) and then paste the 0.9951 patch over the other one to bring it up to 1.051 compatible, kind of like what the... yellow... letters... highlighted... in... red... say...  Hmm.

You were a modder?  No way!?!  Wait... Looks nice?  I thought you were having issues figuring out if it was even compatible...  Oh well...   If you think that GSDef file is nice, jump over to the multiplayer thread and look at the newer one.  Much more stuff on that one...  On second though, let's get you up and running on single player before we jump into multiplayer.

More bases?  24 isn't enough?  I think that's what the count was...  Yep, had to go back a bunch of pages, but I found it.  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/335474/page/107/#2560161  The release change log for Dip 0.7.

If you need help figuring out how to "install" the mod, refer to FAQ #7 (Don't worry, the link has pictures)

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.

-OR-

Before you ask, yes these questions have been covered repeatedly to death, no I don't speak for the team, my comments are my own, and yes, I am an asshole.  =]  Thank you for your time.

Yeah yeah, another night of not going to sleep....  Multiplayer's gonna be strange later for sure...  Yeah anyway, since I've got the time, and Carbon already volunteered me to make a new UI, I figured, what the hell.  I had already updated all of the buttons for the DS Vanilla version while I was making it work with the latest version of the game, so I may as well do some other fun little things with it.  Here's where I'm at with that.  Not sold on the lettering yet, but the couple of styles I liked better I'm saving for the Entrenchment and Diplomacy UI's...  Here are the 5 different screens that Sins uses.

Start Menu - You can't really see it, but it's a red star...  Combined with the lettering it looked like the back of a Japanese deck of cards and I just liked it, so I ran with the lettering.  Since it's basically something no one will see, I figure on using a yellow star for Entrenchment and a blue star for Diplomacy.  The game get's hotter for each add-on you buy.  Yeah, I did just incorporate some science.  Deal with it.

Main Menu - This menu is spammed everywhere in the game, so I stitched 4 different battles together to make one nice one.

Friend Detail/Game Options Menu - I stitched together an image of each constructor ship because what's a friendlier sight then your builder ship getting to work building something nice for you?  Well, besides 32 level 10 cap ships and hundreds of cruisers and frigates jumping in to lend you some aid...

Network Error/Change ICO Channel Box - Got a fleet mid jump...  They're changing gravity wells, I'm changing channels...

Player Select Screen - You're lining up to play here, that fleet that was mid jump in the last picture...  They got their picture taken while they were lining up to play with my enemies.

I also changed out that red stuff that was on the top of the boxes and replaced it with the planet that's on the mod's website, cropped like the image at the top of this page of course so it would fit and look decent.  Yeah, so that's it for one night...  Enjoy.

Hi there,

I'm not really familiar why you have to turn down your graphic settings to play Distant Stars, but anyway. Will the mod never work with highest details, because of the coding structure from SoaSE (or what is the reason?)? And is the mod compatible with the Sins Optimization Project Mod?

Greetings,

Maxunit

The reason it will never work on highest (It actually does work, just not for very long) is because Sins loads everything into memory before you play the game rather then on-demand like other games.  The advantage is you never have to wait for loading while playing, the disadvantage is that the game reaches the 2Gig memory usage limit very fast and crashes when it tries to exceed that.  This limit cannot be changed because it is a limit inherent to all 32 bit programs and Windows itself would not allow it even if we could change it.  The only real way to fix it would be to rewrite the executable and make it a 64 bit program, but that would be in violation of the licensing agreement we all agreed to when we installed the game.

This mod is not compatible with Sins Optimization Project because the two projects are opposites.  This mod is an enhancement mod, meaning it adds to the game making things bigger and better visually and in game play experience, whereas SOP goes in the complete other direction and takes things away from the game in an effort to get the game to run better.  That's not to say that things haven't been 'optimized' in a similar fashion as SOP, in fact some things have been 'optimized' in order to enhance the playing experience and as SOP continues to develop, some of their work may be borrowed when it doesn't directly conflict with the nature of this mod.

Try maxunit's 3GB executable booster.

That depends on what it does, if it's just LAA in disguise I'm going to mock you.