So, I'm guessing I got a botched up program or something. I know there should be more profile pics. I'm certainly missing the Ue soldier and the Advent chick from the Con. Meanwhile, I'm not seeing the new icons. I'll have to jump about and figure out what's up. That aside, I was just playing with the flagships a bit. Definitely a nice addition. Once we get settled on models, I'll have to come up with player cards and Tree images, unless there was someone who had a program that automatically makes those simple, monochrome images (I thought I heard someone say that). And if it's decided that new images are need for the abilities, I'm sure I can work something up. 

So, can we start incorporating the new flagships into the Lore? SivCorp kinda got his wish in us justifying his (perhaps it no longer has to be immobile?!?). I have an idea how to bring one in. *giggles like ticklish three year old*

Already got my plans for TEC though we may be able to work out a compromise.

*evil little laugh*

So the homeship may be able to fly again?  Exxxxxcellet!

Let me know if you want a "sighting" of my lore ship to inspire your stories in the DS lore....

And yes, the prongs are critical.  It is just the slop down into the straight section that doesn't blend well.  I'll get something working for it soon.

The profile pics are there in the official DS release, it's just that last column isn't being pointed to.  As for the new icons, they're there too, but also not being pointed to unless you use the flagship mod.  I made all of the necessary corrections for that already which Ryat included in his latest release.

I'm all for including them in the lore just as long as people know that like in Highlander, there can be only one (per faction).

Yeh! I had the same issue.

 I have an idea, though I was thinking of creating a completely new mid section and attaching the wings from the Kortal and the horns from the Desolator. You may be able to come up with something good anyhow, so please don't stop trying things out on the account of what I am trying. It may be a complete failure. Matching the style and quality of the Sins textures is not an easy thing, esspecially for a hobbiest. It will be a good learning experience for me anyhow.

 It will most likely be some time before I can finish it due to real life commitments also, but I should have the model without textures for people to see if they like it, done in the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed. Longer again for the textures if I can get the model right.

Best of luck with it.

Oh! and nice work Ryat and everybody with the DS team, great stuff. I wish I had more time to spend playing.

Not sure if this has been posted before but I keep getting a crash when Playing DS-Gateway upon colonizing an astroid using the Vasari colonization Capital Ship. Diplomacy V 1.2,  DS V 0.99 B2 (Beta Two).

Nope will give it a run through.

What version of the game do you have, and what version of DS?  It'll help us to narrow down the cause.

Not to beat an old horse already down, I don't have an ATI card, an nVidia GT220 and have this same issue, not with just dessert planets but also with many others like Terran worlds and Arctic worlds. Removing the Mesh files seems to remove the dark patches, however if I do remove it I seem to go into a dump when I go to exit the game. The only mods being used are the DS mod and it's extra files (excluding the pirate one as they give me problems enough)

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with 2 dual core Optrons and 6gb of ram. the GT220 has 1gb of ram of it's own. Direct X is fully patched and updated. (tried it) nVidia drivers are the latest release version so up to date also.

I'm not much of a modder but everything seems to point at the mesh files as the graphical problem source... unless something else could be causing it and the mesh files simply are a symptom of another problem that is coming to light.

Not sure how to go about checking this however.

There are ways to go about this.  First, simply delete the textures for Terran, Desert, Ice and Volcanic planets.  There are two each, you must delete them both (da and cl).  Play the game and it should revert to using the originals provided with Sins.  If the error remains, and they might, use the textures that I provided.

http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/TextureFixA.rar
http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/TextureFixB.rar

Play the game.  If the messed up look continues to remain then yes, you have bad meshes, and you can't simply delete those because of the way the planets in DS are done.  Most of the time they reference protoplanet meshes and there's no such thing in unmodded Sins, so you will crash if you remove those and they are called for.

In which case, you can keep the textures and download the meshes I use.

http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/Mesh.rar

Since I play my game using those textures and those meshes, I know there shouldn't be any issues.  If there still are, then your only option at this point would be to delete the contents of your mod folder and download a new full copy of DS which will not have these issues for sure.

If that still fails to fix the problem, then it is out of our hands because there's something wrong with your PC.

I got tired of working on the eggless Vas ship.... So I took a break from the aliens and made the Kol 3.0

What ya think?  Not so fragile looking now

More like a bit overdone.

Now that is a vicious combo...

Hmmm.... It's certainly beefy looking, and it sure as hell looks dangerous, but it's just so noisy. The underside especially so. The off-center Kol hull looks a tad weird too, and that connector between the two main hull segments on the top of the ship looks like a huge weak spot in the overall design.

Personally, I would center the forward part of the Kol, as well as shave off some of the superstructure on the bottom of the ship.

Beyond those personal nitpicks, I actually like the overall design aesthetic. It comes across as tank like and dangerous, and that is exactly how a TEC capital ship should look.

Almost didn't notice you added the info.  Thanks.

Upon further review, it's the asteroid colonize issue experienced during the beta test causing the problem.  Asteroids can be colonized, but as soon as a Vasari player attempts to grab a dead asteroid, we get the Sins version of the Blue Screen of Death.  Anyway, the fix is simple and there are multiple options for completing it.  They are listed in order of preference.

Option 1:

Step A: Copy the BuffPlanetConstructionBoost.entity file from the game's Diplomacy\GameInfo folder  64bit Vista users will find it here:   C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Diplomacy\GameInfo  Your location may be different depending on your version of Windows, I'm too tired to type them all up.  ;]

Step B: Paste the entity file in the DS GameInfo folder which can be found here:   C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.2\Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B2\GameInfo    Be sure to use your user name and whatever folder that you have your DS mod as.  Again the location may be different depending on your version of windows and in most cases some of the folders will be hidden if you're doing the get there by going through all of the folders method rather then the copy and paste of the location link method.

Option 2:

Step A: Download the fixed file from here: http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/BuffPlanetConstructionBoost.entity

Step B: Paste the entity file in the DS GameInfo folder which can be found here:   C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.2\Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B2\GameInfo    Be sure to use your user name and whatever folder that you have your DS mod as.  Again the location may be different depending on your version of windows and in most cases some of the folders will be hidden if you're doing the get there by going through all of the folders method rather then the copy and paste of the location link method.

Option 3:

Step A: In the DS GameInfo folder which can be found here:   C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.2\Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B2\GameInfo    Be sure to use your user name and whatever folder that you have your DS mod as.  Again the location may be different depending on your version of windows and in most cases some of the folders will be hidden if you're doing the get there by going through all of the folders method rather then the copy and paste of the location link method, locate the BuffPlanetConstructionBoost.entity file and delete it.

Step B: Access the entity.manifest file in the folder just previous to the one you should now be in and at the top, reduce the count so that it says 2177.

Step C: Search the list for the entry entityName "BuffPlanetConstructionBoost.entity" and delete that line making sure there is no gap left over.

Step D: Save the file.

*Note* This may (Probably will) change your checksum, I don't know for sure since I play with a modified text version of DS so I can change information in the files as problems are brought up.