[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 300)

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Stant123

on Mar 24, 2011

Hmmm. Good idea. Weapon techs... I could make each one require certain levels of each of their weapon types on top of the fleet superstructure upgrade I already gave them. >=] People are going to hate Caps by the time I'm done with this.

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Draakjacht

on Mar 24, 2011

I don't know anything about using the fleet superstructure for it. But I imagine that it's hard to build a decent cap (let's say a Kol) without having at least the first upgrade for beams, autocannons, and lasers. Missiles wouldn't affect it, BUT then the Dunov would require lasers and missiles. Etc. etc. etc.

4488

Stant123

on Mar 24, 2011

Well, the fleet superstructure thing is just a placeholder research item I made up to have someone research to unlock capital ships. Maybe I should tie cap ship factories to it as well so no one is building those and not having anything to work with, or maybe making the colonizer ships available from the get go so there's reason to build one early or still have the cap factory as a quick start item. The superstructure upgrade also act's as a research prerequisite for the flagship upgrade.

In truth though, the weapon upgrades are just that, upgrades to weapons. That means they already have them, they're just making better versions after each research item. So while it's a good option, it's probably not necessary. I'll think more on it tonight and see what comes together tomorrow.

4489

Ryat

on Mar 24, 2011

Of course the big thing (setting up research prerequisites is easy) is to set it up so you can only build one at a time. I got something in mind and will start messing with it soon.

4490

Stant123

on Mar 24, 2011

Yeah, been thinking about that too. That's what set me down this path in the first place. At first I tried to trick the game into allowing another ship class, but that didn't work too well, ever since I've been looking at things like equipping the flagship with a build speed buff (or more appropriately debuff) that sets the build speed of the flag ship to some ungodly number like 40 hours which goes away when the ship is destroyed. So technically, you could start building a second one, but why give up the cap ship slot? Even with the 250% build boost given by the sova and the other research build speed boosts, the debuff should still have quite a bit of time to it. Just a thought if you're up for experimenting. If it works out well, we can still float the idea of having cap ships be research able, or I can abandon it, but so far I'm liking the fact that it takes a while to field them.

4491

Draakjacht

on Mar 24, 2011

Then the question becomes whether or not people feel the caps are worth all that trouble.

Meanwhile, thanks for fixing the icons. I was plannning on looking at it yesterday and got busy. No big deal in any case. I was thinking of getting together with SuperZer0 so we might tweak a few things, but I'll just have to wait and see how that goes. It's nothing that people would be up in arms if it did or didn't fly.

4492

RS-fx

on Mar 24, 2011

Even if i like a lot of Distant Stars features, i prefer the original game pirates (except for the battleship who is damned cool) : could you tell me which files i have to modify to get back to the original pirates while keeping the other features please ?

edit : by the way; there is an issue with the AI and the advent guardian frigate : you must research 10 lvls of the first shield tech to get thesecon shield tech and then guardian, which means the advent AI seldom makes any of them.

4493

Derpy_Hooves

on Mar 24, 2011

boshimi336

reply 4480

This is copy and pasted from the MSGM thread here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/348205

So I have found the issue with the MSGM not being 100% compliant with the DS mod.

Currently the DS mod is still utilizing the v0.2 version of MSGM. When v0.3 is overlaid it overrights everthing correctly, however the Icons_planets.dds v0.3 (TSOP Compliant version) is not properly setup to work with DS. It is inccorectly referencing sections of the Icons file and that is what is creating this problem. Below is a screen shot of what you can expect when you implement MSGM v0.3 over the latest DS build. This will be fixed, compiled and uploaded Thursday (3/24/11) for implementation with the DS mod.

A duplicate message has been posted over on the DS thread.

THIS WILL BE FIXED!

Reduced 33%

Original 1680 x 1050

Great news, that was ruining the game for me

It will be up today? Can't wait to get back to playing it, it has to be my favorite mod by far, although SoaGE Is pretty great too. Been playing that lately.

4494

Ryat

on Mar 24, 2011

RS-fx

reply 4492

There are a lot of files. I will go through and either a send you a modified version or be tell you what to modify.

RS-fx

reply 4492

It depends on the AI. I usually see them pretty quick but I play on the high end AIs. We actually step it down to allow the AI to be able to use it. Will look into this.

4495

RS-fx

on Mar 24, 2011

Ryat

reply 4494

Quoting RS-fx, reply 4492Even if i like a lot of Distant Stars features, i prefer the original game pirates (except for the battleship who is damned cool) : could you tell me which files i have to modify to get back to the original pirates while keeping the other features please ?

There are a lot of files. I will go through and either a send you a modified version or be tell you what to modify.

Quoting RS-fx, reply 4492edit : by the way; there is an issue with the AI and the advent guardian frigate : you must research 10 lvls of the first shield tech to get thesecon shield tech and then guardian, which means the advent AI seldom makes any of them.

It depends on the AI. I usually see them pretty quick but I play on the high end AIs. We actually step it down to allow the AI to be able to use it. Will look into this.

thank you very much sir !

4496

TheChronicToast

on Mar 24, 2011

Just got home from work ... starting to work on that fix for DS and MSGM as we speak.

4497

OriLord

on Mar 24, 2011

Can you tell me whhat the differenf versions of releases for DS are?

You have 0.7 for Diplomacy but .955 for entrenchment.

Does the entrenchment one offer more than the diplomacy one?Please make it clear.

4498

TheChronicToast

on Mar 24, 2011

Well I have good news and a bug report!

Good News: I have fixed the MSGM mod and I will have a DS version uploaded within the hour [Double checking file size ... hang on.]. YAY!!! (I will post in the MSGM thread when it is uploaded. Can one of the DS team please test this revised mod (just to be super double sure) and then include it into the DS mod? Thanks!

Bug Report: While visiting a ship graveyard ... (and admiring how beautiful the ships look when reflecting the sunlight!!!) I ran across a piece that seems to be missing any texture at all. (it's all chromed out by the looks of it.) I'm not sure if it is just relavant to this sun in this system / skybox (I know the planets look REALLY washed out when in a system with this sun / skybox. Just some thoughts.

4499

TheChronicToast

on Mar 24, 2011

Another thought as well ... I don't suppose you could add to the Random Maps a chance for the capturable starbases I read in the release notes a few versions back, among other things, to be spawn on the map; even if it is an incredibly small chance to spawn? It is a nice touch and introduces a few suprises during our LAN games when we find such things. People end up fighting over them just because its there and is quite a lot of good fun, even the AI gets in on the action from time to time!

4500

Ryat

on Mar 24, 2011

OriLord

reply 4497

Can you tell me whhat the differenf versions of releases for DS are?

You have 0.7 for Diplomacy but .955 for entrenchment.

Does the entrenchment one offer more than the diplomacy one?Please make it clear.

Entrenchment runs off of a different .exe then Diplomacy. Hence the need for different mods fro each .exe. (we will soon have the one for the original .exe shortly) Entrenchment can before Diplomacy so we were able to perfect it sooner then Diplomacy. Plus Diplomacy 1.2 (latest patch up) now has Distant Stars 0.99B2 so if you are playing Diplomacy 1.2 you will want that version at the very top.

@boshimi - Someone will get to the testing of your work soon but full integration will require Nacey. Hopefully I will be able to tag him tomorrow morning if not Sat. As for the Graveyard ships TBH I never really looked at them. Will float it over to someone who can fix/replace it.

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