Well, you didn't say your weapons were disabled too, just that theirs were, so to me that means jump in and attack while they can't...  You also said they were your opponents, not one opponent and one ally, but that doesn't really matter...  Proper descriptions leads to better debugging/help/advice.  At any rate, like Draak said, with those three notices (invulnerable/weapons disabled/abilities disabled) looks like Armistice has indeed been activated, I don't know why though since autocast should be off by default meaning the computers won't use them, or mixes of those others I mentioned which result in the same thing...

If you want to end the battle in there, then do some damage, get in there with some Destras and kill off any Akkans you see.  That should remove most, if not all, of the problems, then go after any Hoshikos you see to stop the continued cycle of weapons disabled.  After that you shouldn't need to participate in it any longer since your ally should be able to remove the rest of the ships on their own.  Eventually, the battle will move somewhere else.  It'll take a while, but if you're only sending in Destras and staggering in their entry, forcing attacks on specific targets with all of them, then it should be resolved soon enough.

They won't ever leave because that's where the two fleets met and that's where the battle will be decided.  You just need to severely weaken one side or the other and force them into a retreat to get the battle to move elsewhere.  Starbases help forcing retreats.  Right now each time a ship dies, it get's replaced, and since they're not dying fast enough, nothing else is happening.  Attacking their worlds won't get them to pull out since they're committed to the battle.  I'd say just leave them be and have fun taking out mostly undefended territories.

If you want, quick start up another game as the TEC and build an Akkan to see if Armistice autocast is on or off, if it's on, tell us which version of DS you're running and we can give you a file or instructions on how to change it yourself to turn autocast off and this type of stalemate shouldn't happen anymore.  If it's off, then you have AI's using abilities they shouldn't be using, in which case, enjoy it, they rarely play that smart.

If its on diplomacy the AI uses all the abilities for the cap ships and researches everything so that should explain the armistice being used.

And they always play smart on diplomacy lol .

Research has nothing to do with Cap Ship abilities, so it explains nothing about armistice use.  The abilities of the frigates and cruisers definitely, but not Cap Ships.

As for the abilities themselves being used, yes the AI is supposed to use them, but no it doesn't always as is the case here, and in no way are they smart enough to chain the uses...  That just happens because by the time the third is used, the first one has fully recharged.  If for whatever reason the ability is on autocast, the ship will always use it, not just randomly use it, hence the asking if it's enabled or not.  If it is, then it needs to be turned off so there's a chance at fighting against 3 or more AI Akkans without suffering from the chaining effect that is happening.  If it's not on autocast, then that's just part of the randomness of the AI deciding that at least 3 of those favor that ability and made it a priority to use them, in which case, nothing is broken and once they're destroyed, things should go back to expected performances.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Damn that was funny. 

They're better then earlier versions for sure, but they're far from smart.  They don't scout gravity wells before jumps to clear out mines, they still have some difficulty in dealing with starbases, they don't retreat from battles that they will lose without taking massive losses first, they don't retreat to protect their planets, they don't adjust their fleet make-up to combat what you throw at them, they put their defenses/mines/starbases in dumb spots, they don't build up their starting planets until after you've reduced their outer planets, they just don't respond to anything very well at all.  Join the weekend MP games and after a few rounds, you'll see how pathetic the AI really is.  Of course, you'll need this patch for diplomacy.

What the Vasari are really running from...

ooooh omg lmfao

Who made that?

That is hilarious.

If you made that Draak, thumbs up!

I did. I accept your accolades.

Just wanted to say great MOD guys & thanks.

sweet pic dude.....Bison.....

press here for effect!!!!!

Quick question: Is the diplomacy 0.7 mod the same as the 0.9951 entrenchment mod or is the diplomacy 0.7 mod an older version? 

They are the same, yet different.  Each DS mod is for its respective version of the game.

If you only have vanilla sins, then you download Distant Stars Vanilla, which is at v1.01.

If you have the entrenchment micro expansion, you download Distant Stars Entrenchment, which is at v0.9951.

If you have the diplomacy micro expansion, you download Distant Stars Diplomacy, which is up to version 0.7.

Basically, don't compare them to each other by version number since they're actually 3 separate mods, one for each version of the game.  Content wise, DS Vanilla is actually pretty far behind the other two, it really doesn't even work with the current version of Sins without making some changes.  DS Entrenchment and DS Diplomacy are fairly similar, although the diplomacy version is just a little bit more up to date, but not by much.

Why are there three versions of the mod with three different version numbers for each you ask?  Well, honestly, what good is all that extra research for mines and starbases if you don't have Entrenchment?  It's all superfluous and game breaking.  Same thing with the little extras in diplomacy.  They're useless in entrenchment and vanilla.  That's why there are three different mods.  As for the difference in version numbers, sure they could be made to match up better, and in the end they will, but for right now, each is in a different stage of development, so each get's it's own number.

Wow can't believe there hasn't been news from the top ranks

There has been.  They just use invisible posts and cypher shifts. 

I think it's a mixture of them talking on chat or TS and waiting up for us underlings. I know my profile work wasn't the quickest. Hope to do better on the HUD.

Fourth draft on HUD idea. Whatcha think? Going to have glowing holoemitters on the side projections, shining down on the mechanical inset. Matching colors on the top insets and gonna see if I can make them to glow using colors Stant plans to use for each version of the game. I want to have a floating holoprojection, so I'm going to edit out the glass, assuming that causes no technical issues for the program.

Can someone clarify this statement please.  I have read about the limit and understand the constraints. 

But my only question is even if I play at medium details my game will crash eventually?  If so, do this poster mean that this current game session will crash and I will just have to restart the game and keep playing?  Or does the poster mean that current save is lost because the size reached a certain limit within the current save and I will have to start a new game?

Thanks for the clarification.