Since you don't detail the process you're going through to add the stuff, I'll go over the process I use, hopefully they don't match and we fix your problem easily.  If they do, then you'll have to either detail out your steps or post a link to your galaxy file somewhere so I can have a look at it.

I presented photo evidence a while back showing you could load up a planet with every bonus the game has (except artifacts) so I know it works.  Unfortunately I can't find it at the moment so we'll have to go without that visual aide.  However I do have another one that goes over the steps to adding the bonuses which led up to that picture....

Basically you have the galaxy forge up and running...

1. Select your planet, right click on it, and select edit.  It will bring up the big box.
2. Click on add at the bottom of the second column from the left.
3. Center top drop down box, select no planet owner.
4. Center just below the top drop down box, select no owner.
5. Select the artifact/bonus you want to add in the right most column and click add at the bottom.  You will see it appear in the column immediately to the left.  Keep adding until you're happy with what you have.  Another note I didn't write is depending on your screen resolution, a long list will flow off the screen.  Don't worry, even if you can't see the bonus, you still get the effects of it.
6. After you have what you want, click Ok at the bottom right corner.

So try that, and let me know.

Ya yours is different.

I had it set to "always" and "planet owner. I'm sure it will work once I change that, I'll let you know once I get in game.

Sorry I didn't give a more detailed discription of the process I went through.

Some Questions:

1. Are you planning any update based on Sins Optimization Project? Are you going to improve mod performance using SOP experience?

2. Are there any page where I can see all detailed changes between core Diplomacy and Distant Stars mod? (like exact units stats, not just "xxx buffed"). Are there any way to extract this data from mod without major modding skills? (I wish I could compare Diplomacy and DS unit stats by stats...)

3. New planets/bonuses: are there any way to find which bonuses can be possibly found on selected planet? (i am making custom maps for myself, I want to make some OP planets with multiple bonuses, but I do not want to break "mod spirit" by giving planets bonuses they should never have).

4. What new planets do? (what is their specialization, what can we found on them etc.)

Anyway good job, this mod turned Sins into something really close to it's own sequel - in terms of both gameplay and quality.

I've done all of that myself, and I can't get above 4fps. On a single player map with 5 ai and <100 planets.

I have a x4 phenom @ 2.3ghz

4gb memory (resource manager only reports about 1gb usage by sins)

ATI Radeon 4770 all with the latest drivers.

250gb SATA drive. What gives? Too much computational power for that amount of AI? I'm also running x64

@ Arthanis

1. Yes, it is currently in the works though we may wait until the next patch for official release though I will see what I can do about getting it earlier.

2. No pages per say but the only unit stats buff is the Capital Ships. All others are the same. You can download the text version which is the very last link on the very bottom of the page to get the exact numbers.

3. The GalaxyDefScenario file has a lot of that and I believe that Stant123 also put up a wiki as well.

4. Too many to list but you can look at the aforementioned file and/or wiki to figure it out.

@Vash334 - The core mechanics of the game (unmodifiable) uses the 32 bit system not the 64 bit, only uses one core, maxes out at 2 gigs of usage. Your best bet for better game play is a faster CPU. A single core 8ghz will run this game better than the quad core 2.3ghz.

1. Nice

2. I found something on DS Wiki

3. ^same

4. I'll try

THX 4 all

@ Ryat

That's what I thought. I knew that sins didn't support mutli-threading. I just wasn't positive that the issue was CPU oriented. It just sucks that it cant utilize more cores. It's really counter-intuitive to buy a single core these days. I ordered one of the new x6 3.2ghz's so hopefully that will help with the frame rate.

vash, the 3.2ghz will help compared to the 2.3ghz, but the x6 vs x4 no difference, and from my own testing in particular computers, after the cpu clockspeed the next best improvement is replacing slower ram with faster ram eg replace the 800mhz with 1066mhz and set the ram speed in bios do not leave at the default of slow.

harpo

Arthanis, the galaxyscenariodef file really won't help you with the bonuses in the manner you're requesting.  I never detailed out what bonuses could be found on which planets on the DS wiki, however I might when I have the time to work on it more after the holidays.  To me it seems like it would take away some of the mystery if you already knew those things...  For right now though, to find out which planets get what, you have to open up the files for that specific planet.  If you have the text version, open up the planet entity file, for example this is pulled the PlanetToxic.entity, and search for the bonus section.  It'll look like this:

requiredPlanetBonusesCount 0
possibleRandomPlanetBonusesCount 33
bonus "PlanetBonusHollow"
bonus "PlanetBonusLowGravity"
bonus "PlanetBonusCavernSystem"
bonus "PlanetBonusRareMetalDeposits0"
bonus "PlanetBonusWeaponTestGrounds"
bonus "PlanetBonusStones"
bonus "PlanetBonusMoon"
bonus "PlanetBonusMoon+1"
bonus "PlanetBonusSeismic"
bonus "PlanetBonusPlague"
bonus "PlanetBonusRadiation"
bonus "PlanetBonusGrav+"
bonus "PlanetBonusGrav-"
bonus "PlanetBonusSubT"
bonus "PlanetBonusStones"
bonus "PlanetBonusShield1"
bonus "PlanetBonusGameOver"
bonus "PlanetBonusAtmo+"
bonus "PlanetBonusOvergrown"
bonus "PlanetBonusOutpost"
bonus "PlanetBonusPureC"
bonus "PlanetBonusUnstable"
bonus "PlanetBonusMoon"
bonus "PlanetBonusMoon+1"
bonus "PlanetBonusSeismic"
bonus "PlanetBonusPlague"
bonus "PlanetBonusRadiation"
bonus "PlanetBonusMoon"
bonus "PlanetBonusCavernSystem"
bonus "PlanetBonusLowGravity"
bonus "PlanetBonusStones"
bonus "PlanetBonusPlague"
bonus "PlanetBonusRadiation"

This one is from the PlanetPirateBase.entity showing the use of required bonuses:

requiredPlanetBonusesCount 2
bonus "PlanetBonusPirateTreasure"
bonus "PlanetBonusBlack"
possibleRandomPlanetBonusesCount 0

The difference being that the required bonus always show up in game, whereas the others are... Random...  This one is from the ProtoPlanetVolcanicMoon.entity file that I'm including for no reason other then I had it opened up as well:

requiredPlanetBonusesCount 0
possibleRandomPlanetBonusesCount 11
bonus "PlanetBonusAcidAtmosphere"
bonus "PlanetBonusCavernSystem"
bonus "PlanetBonusConductiveInterior"
bonus "PlanetBonusIonicStorms"
bonus "PlanetBonusMetalMiners"
bonus "PlanetBonusPenalColony"
bonus "PlanetBonusSignalAbsorption"
bonus "PlanetBonusSolarEnergyReserves"
bonus "PlanetBonusStrictSecurity"
bonus "PlanetBonusThermalLift"
bonus "PlanetBonusWeaponTestGrounds"

Most of them are pretty easy to figure out what the bonus is that they're giving you, but if you want to be absolutely sure, you can search the galscendef to get the real name you see in the game, or the english.str file in the string folder for the description, and of course, the DS Wiki has all of the effects of the bonuses already listed...

As for what effect is present by being in the same gravity well as the planet, I call that planet conditions on the wiki and it's listed right below the planets.  I need to add in another column in the planet section that says what condition is tied to which planet, so that will happen when I go back through the wiki and fix it all up.  The reformatting that Wikia did screwed up a lot of things and made it all look like crap so I have to redo most everything... 

THX for help Stant123, It is useful information.

EDIT:

One more thing: which program should I use to see this data in readable form? With notepad my eyes are dieing

Notepad ++, google it and download

I'm playing on Entrenchment 1.51.  I downloaded the full DS, then the DS patch, and installed both.  I activated it in-game.  Everything seems to be working fine, except that I seem to be missing a lot of graphics, or something.  Some of my ships turn the color of my team (I read about this in an earlier post, but I never saw if it got fixed...and if so, it's still happening) and a LOT of weapons fire is just white blocks, or sheets of white.  Same with explosions and impacts.  I have all of my settings maxed out, if that means anything.  Playing on Vista 64.

Well, the team colors is a setting on your end if that's how they're showing up...  Turn that setting off...  After that you need to reduce your graphics settings from their max to high or medium to get the best performance out of the mod so you don't end up crashing 15 to 20 minutes in...

As for the particles not showing up right, it seems like you got a bad download.  It happens sometimes.  Redownload the 0,995 and the 0.9951 patch and unzip them to your desktop then move them over to your mods folder...  The 0.9951 patch overwiting the 0.995 files where applicable if that makes any sense to you.

Vista 64 isn't really an issue in this case, but thanks for the head's up anyway.

I have to say that this Mod is excellent. My only qualms is how much research that is available. I normally have to play on Fastest Income and Faster Research to make it feel like the original. Do you have a boiled down version similar to the original research game with the additional visuals/sounds by any chance? I have been looking over the files with NP++ and it looks to be a great deal of time to change it by hand.

No we don't, sorry. You could simply copy the original research files over the modified files. No need to manually change them.