lol our next version will have some major changes that will help with lower end machines

just run with everything turned down to low settings and that should help

nah, it's fine, apparently I was just scarred from Elemental lol

I'm having a blast so far, great mod as it always was.

well im just too impatient and really want to get to play the mods. Not rly im usually very patient. i like tweaking the data files and renaming the in-game ships and stuff. i also made a galaxy forge but im not sure how good Filefront is and if it still works. i plan on getting back to that soon.

is the CB mod in the original sins release or just the entrenchment? either way im planning on getting the v1.15 patch. downloading right now.

yes we incorporated the CB mod in the original days, we just need to update it

have been busy trying to get entrenchment/diplomacy up to speed 100%

Thankfully there are confirmed rumors of another patch coming down from IronClad for Sins, just depends on when it decides to show up. No idea on what it fully contains other than a small fix which will allow for a huge multi-star map (100 plus stars) to be created. Running it is a different story but that's another challenge. In about a month I will have a map put together for testing that would utilize this fix.

ok, did this a while ago but forgot to post the results(wondering if it matters now but oh well I'm doin it!!) Found out the thing fighting with running DS and Optimized together on the skyboxes was the graphics mod, explains why the new added ones had no troubles but the originals did, anyway END OF BELATED REPORT lol

                     BadTune~ What's this letter for?....oh.~

yeah, we had already figured the out as we slowly worked the two mods together

and as we love our skyboxes we kept ours (plus MajorStress found out that it didn't really help all that much and put them back to normal)

Hello DS Team,

  First off, amazing mod.  I always load it in when I play.  Love the added tech and the expanded planets and all the other goodies.  Keep up the amazing work!

  So onto my questions.

  Music.. is it possible to add more background music? is this something I can do myself perhaps? Does the music mod I've seen on this forum work with DS?

  Leads me into the next question.  What other mods on here work with the DS mod?

  A case of strange lag.  I find that when I've been playing an all out solo game (massive multi-star and planet area with 9 npc and myself) that it lags out after a while.  Someone else who plays told me that its the mines the npc players are seeding.  If that's so, is there a way that one might, turn of the mines? I'm more than happy to play without em lol.

  Have you guys thought about adding a new race perhaps? Or maybe some new ships to the next mod for each of the three races? Destroyer class ships? a super-cap (only one per race at a time)? Monitors (ships incapable of using jump lanes so they have to stay within the system)? Variant space stations?

  Just curious.  Anyways, keep up the amazing work and looking forward to the next updates.

Yes you can add your own music to the mod.  The easiest way is to just replace the ones there with the one's you want, however, you can also just add to the list of music that plays if you have them in the right format so you have the ones included and more.

Technically you can play other mods with DS, but the largest problem is memory.  DS already takes the memory usage up to a very high level on it's own, adding another mod on top of it would likely prematurely crash your game.  Another not as big problem would be balancing.  Lot's of time has been spent balancing the units and tweaking everything so the game doesn't have any glaring one sidedness to a fight, nor with resource acquisition, adding a mod on top would change that balance.  Best thing to do is just try it and see if you're happy with the results.

Edit: As for the mines, you can reduce the allowable per gravity well, or you can remove the research for them all together by removing the mines from the allowable research list from the player entity files.

It is my understanding that some of what the TSOP team has been working / worked on is reducing the resources required for the mines? This would help with late game lag somewhat correct?

That, the trade ships, and the strike craft I believe.  As the game lingers on, these tend to build up in enormous numbers, and especially in the case of the trade ships, are unnecessarily complex.  Making them simpler means freeing up a healthy amount of memory.

It does free up a lot of mem and helps down the lines. (been testing the latest build) But yeah mines and strike craft are the worst of the issues, once did a build that removed both and had very little lag issues.

As for bringing in others mods, the biggest issue is the entity manifest. Distant Stars has a very large and complex entity manifest (I believe it is almost double what the original is) and this creates a lot of issues when bringing in other mods. We have been successful a few times with merging (Hidden Alliance by SuperZero0 is one) but it takes a lot of work.

As for Music, that is relatively easy (or so I'm told). Carbon as already added a lot to it.

As for more ship types, maybe. We are throwing around a few ideas (no super caps, sorry) so we will see what pans out.

Hmmm,  I'd forgotten about all those little refinery and trade ships.  Yeah they do breed like ants and rabbits don't they.  I know there's an option in the interface to turn off thier graphic.  I'll try that.

As for killing the mines, I don't know how to mod, same as for adding in music.  Not sure how its done. 

Are you guys planning another mod update??? sweet!!!  Looking forward to it.

If you're up to suggestions on music, a number of the pieces from Band of Brothers, Pacific, not to mention perhaps Dune and Children of Dune.   Some great pieces in there.  All four the Battle Star Galactica Season CDs has great music as well.  Some very epic sounding.

Well ok, so no supercaps, understandable, but destroyer class perhaps might be cool.  I mean wet navy usually goes frigate, destroyer, cruiser, bigger cruiser then carriers.  Hmm, how about sneaky ships for each race? sorta spy type thing.  Not the scout but sorta a cloaking thing, pardon the term.  A submarine equivilant.  No very powerful as a combat ship, like the scout, but used to jump in, see what defences are there but remain undetected.  Doesn't show up on psidar either.  When u lob a scout to a world the oppoent knows it coming and can instantly build defenses, but the "sub" is truely cloaked.  of course you'd have to include a system structure or addon type of thing that allows for the detection of such a thing... or suddenly mines are very very very useful because they can detect the "sub".

Jump gate ships? u get one in and it creates a link between a system many lanes deep in your territory and the place it is and you can insta jump the fleet through? the ship is one use only, basically sacrifices itself to form the gate. be an interesting Advent ship. 

Just some silly ideas.

Yeah, they're silly alright.  I have a lot to say about everything you wrote but people tend to cry when I explain things to them so I'm just going to say none of that will happen because other ships already do that.

As for the mines...  There's a mod that does all of the work for removing them, I'm not sure how it affects DS, but you could probably do a forum search and find it.

can't build that "submarine" idea, coding won't allow it