[MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13]

Published on January 5, 2009 By Nacey In Sins Modding

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Feedback of any kind is always welcome. Ideas, balance changes, and bug reporting of any kind is always useful!

Version 1.00 Released!

Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!

Downloads

Rebellion Logo

1.05 + DLC Compatible:

0.12 ALPHA Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/rebellion/Distant_Stars_(R)_ALPHA_0.13_[45189661].7z

Full Download MIRROR:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/distant-stars-rebellion-alpha-013

MD5: 69486D2FCD3F35E46E6F5EF8C9F1634A

Diplomacy Logo

1.34 Compatible:

1.01 Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_1.01_[45685832].7z

1.051 Compatible:

Beta 0.9951 Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.9951_[36672852].7z

1.14 - 1.181 Compatible:

Version 1.01:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/soase/Distant_Stars_v1.01_[453701567].7z

Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!

Multiplayer Games:
We've setup a thread for everyone to organise their multiplayer games in and also setup example times and dates for most people to meet up and start games. These are what we hope to be the main times for people to be around and want to play games together.

The times are:
4pm EST (9pm GMT) Saturdays & Sundays
9pm EST (2am GMT) Saturdays & Sundays

If you want to organise other games please go ahead using the same topic to consolidate all the information in one place and hopefully get more games together within our community. These games are for PvP, PvAI & PvPvAIso come along and we'll get some games going!

Screenshots:
We've setup a thread so you can all post your screenshots to share with us the Distant Stars team and its players. Im sure we're all intrigued to see what kinds of battles and events you've all been having on the mod aswell.

Lore:
We know some of you guys love to role play whilst using Distant Stars, and here's a topic for you guys to post all of your role playing stories, character profiles and anything else you can imagine.

Maps:
Some of you avid map makers out there have produced some great maps but never really had them recognised because they've got lost. Well here's a topic for you to post a link to the download (we can even provide mirrors if necessary) a screenshot or two of the map for us all the preview and if enough people like it we'll even include the map in with the actual mod!

Please visit our website and for more information, change logs, downloads, and to report bugs. Our website can be found here: http://distantstars.mmobase.com

Bug Reporting

If you want to report a bug please use the Bug Report feature on our website:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/?m=reportabug

Please include as much information as possible, if you have an error log feel free to post it on these forums and we'll take it from there. If you can reproduce the error please include the error log (read below to find out how to enable error logs) and include as much detail on how to reproduce the problem.

To enable logging:
Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

Open the user.setting file (using Notepad, Wordpad or any text editor) and scroll down to the bottom 7 lines from the bottom is the line:
LogOutput FALSE
Change FALSE to TRUE
LogOutput TRUE

and from then on any Log files will be saved to the debug folder:
Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug

If you get these log files to us (you can just paste them in to a forum post) we can hopefully get your issues sorted.

Frequently Asked Questions

All files are compressed using 7Zip to shrink the download filesize. To extract these files you must use WinRAR or 7Zip.
Any Patches should overwrite the original install directory, either by extracting over the original folder, or cut/copy & pasting over the existing file/folder structure.

1) My game keeps crashing, is there anything I can do to stop it?
i) Are you running the game on maximum (highest) settings? if so, lower them to High or Medium, there is a known issue with the game using up too much memory, there is nothing we can do about this, also no matter how powerful your pc is, it is affected by this issue no matter the pc it is not above this crashing issue, it is a game problem not a hardware one, so quite simply lower your settings. If you still have an issue with crashing see point two.
ii) Give us as detailed information as possible about the crash, what was happening at the time of the crash, what races, ships, abilities were involved. If you can supply a Debug Log (see above for more information about logging) and post a bug report on our website.

2) The loading screens and portrait pictures dont appear properly, whats wrong?
i) This is an issue with ATI based graphics cards (rarely affects Nvidia based cards) we're looking in to the issue.

3) Why dont you support converting Distant Stars in to TXT format?
i) Quite simply many things can go wrong with converting your mod to TXT, we cant help you with something you've probably broken yourself.

4) Can I mod Distant Stars for myself?
i) Yes you can however please do not distribute our mod or our mod that you have edited to the public. You must ask for permission to do so, we will regrettably stop distributing our mod to all if users abuse our work.

5) Your mod is in BIN format I can't edit the files, what can I do?
i) You can convert the mod to TXT format however we wont offer any support to versions of the mod that have been converted to TXT.

6) Why is Distant Stars distributed in BIN format?
i) Mods load faster in BIN format and are less likely to have issues in this format.

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.

8) Is there any way to make new maps for Distant Stars using GalaxyForge?
i) Within the Distant Stars Extras folder there is a folder called Galaxy Forge, Copy and Paste this folder (or its contents) over your original Galaxy Forge folder (or its contents) replacing any files if it asks you to. When you start Galaxy Forge next you'll be able to use all of our planets.

Or, the DIY approach (without custom icons):

ii) The GalaxyForge supplied by the devs will still work with our Mod, however to be able to access all of our planetary bonuses, templates, planet types and stars you will need to take our GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (found in the GameInfo folder of the mod) and place it in to your GalaxyForge folder, overwriting the original GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (if you still wish to make maps for the original game keep a backup of the original file). This will allow you to use all of the Galaxy changes included in our mod.

Note: Any maps made for Distant Stars will not work with other Mods. See #8.2 for DIY instructions for map making or take the appropriate files from Entrenchment, they're cross-client compatible.

Some statistics...

Since August 2009 to February 2011 we have had over...

400,000 Unique visits to the website
12,000GB (12TB) of data transferred from our website

That equates to over 60,000 Unique downloads of the entire mod, excluding the excess of 20,000 Patches downloaded.

Thanks to everyone that has supported us this far and making our mod as popular as it is!

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Comments (Page 267)

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Ryat

on Jan 11, 2011

aceofspades105

reply 3989

Hey again, I've tried everything now including re-installing the game and I see the same error message..

I think fate has conspired against my days of playing Sins

Glympy

reply 3990

I had similiar issues but when I exploded the downoladed MOD to a folder I created on my desk top then put it into the destination mod file it worked like a charm. I hope this helps.

Yes, this may help a lot. I know I often have those same issues and others (like weird checksum numbers) unless I unzip it strictly to desktop. Some of the files names are extremely long and unzipping them directly to the folder can cause these issues.

3992

Stant123

on Jan 11, 2011

In addition to long names, windows likes to protect it's folders and doesn't like a lot of activity in certain others like program data and depending on your individual settings, data being extracted from an archive is one of those iffy activities viruses/spamware/adware/hijackers like to participate in so windows may take issue with you doing that deep into an important set of folders. Your desktop is one of those semi unprotected folders so you can do whatever you feel like doing there without too many hidden things causing you problems. It's just generally good practice to unzip files to your desktop first and remove the archive element from the equation and windows generally behaves normally when you transfer files from there into deeper folders.

3993

Draakjacht

on Jan 11, 2011

Am I the only one whose computer has not done this stuff to them?

3994

ZombiesRus5

on Jan 11, 2011

Am I the only one whose computer has not done this stuff to them?

As far as I know, YES!

3995

Draakjacht

on Jan 11, 2011

Was just wondering cause it really doesn't help my IT knowledge to never have experience with these things. But then I don't have to deal with these things. I'm so torn.

3996

harpo99999

on Jan 11, 2011

draakjacht, I also have not had these issues, but then my computers are too afraid of me TO muck up as they know that I will attack them and beat the problem out of them with 'little' tools like sledge hammers, crowbars and hydrollic presses or what ever other tools are appropriate.

harpo

3997

Stant123

on Jan 11, 2011

Boomerangs...

3998

TheChronicToast

on Jan 11, 2011

I'm with harpo. Never had a problem.

3999

Draakjacht

on Jan 11, 2011

cool, not alone. harpo, Bosh and I should start a club. Men Who Stare at Monitors.

4000

myfist0

on Jan 11, 2011

1st thing I do is neuter my computer .

4001

harpo99999

on Jan 11, 2011

why?, mine breed well and about once a year, but it took a few years to get them breeding, so I only have (at last count) 22 primary(mine) computers and about another 15 computers I have received.

harpo

4002

myfist0

on Jan 12, 2011

Ahh, mine is a frankenstien POS that if it did bread, not one person would want so I would have to put them down.

4003

serxiBoitanO

on Jan 13, 2011

Does it works with the version 1.91 of the original? It always crashes on my PC.

Thanks.

4004

Ryat

on Jan 13, 2011

serxiBoitanO

reply 4003

Does it works with the version 1.91 of the original? It always crashes on my PC.

Thanks.

Not currently no. We are doing what we can to bring all of Entrenchment's features to the Original but do to the fact that Entrenchment brought a lot of tools to the mod community that the Original doesn't have, its a bit slow going. I think I will kick Stant123 into releasing a simple update version without the features that Entrenchment has as we keep pounding away at adding all those features to the Original.

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Stant123

on Jan 13, 2011

I've had something ready since late October. Like I told Carbon, I'm tired of being the only one working on it (Oreo = MIA as we all know) and I've taken it as far as I can to catch it up to the diplomacy version. All that's really left is to do some housekeeping, namely fix some text errors I've found in my last few tests, and try to do something with the pirates if I ever get bored enough to mess with it again or Oreo shows up and actually does something besides just telling me what was happening when his copy crashed... Jump on MSN, I'll make the latest version available to you too. I'll even tell you the text errors.

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