[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 34)

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--Richdog--

on May 24, 2009

I'm having a problem where on some planets my LEV constructors cannot construct ANYTHING due to having no anitimatter... it's REALLY peeing me off! Anyone else had this problem and is there a fix for it?

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harpo99999

on May 24, 2009

richdog, did you get the 81 patch? it is supposed to be for this problem on the volcanic planets

harpo

498

Haerzog

on May 24, 2009

Did you remember to remove Black holes from the random generator?

499

ergie272

on May 24, 2009

Hi, first of all thanks for your hard work.

I've never been able to test this mod in entrechment. Everytime I try to enable it, I get a CTD (no minidump, only a CTD) Any ideas?

500

CurseUppl

on May 24, 2009

ergie272

reply 24

Hi, first of all thanks for your hard work.

I've never been able to test this mod in entrechment. Everytime I try to enable it, I get a CTD (no minidump, only a CTD) Any ideas?

Yep, same. I might just be a nab, but I can't see what I did wrong.

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Haerzog

on May 24, 2009

Did you remember to get the whole version and not just the patch?

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CurseUppl

on May 24, 2009

Yup.

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Nacey

on May 24, 2009

First off let me apologize for not getting the full download available sooner it should be uploaded in the next couple of hours hopefully. The download & the galaxy forge pack(s) will 100% be available tomorrow as I have plenty of time to puti t all together, on to your questions & comments...

HK_davidpatrick12

reply 14

how do i tell which mod version is enabeled?

I have version 5, 6 and now 8 in my mods folders. i removed the older versions and enabeled 8 and the game minidumped when i applied the changes.

I put them all back in, enabeled them all and now it seems to work.

so is the new version running or just one of the previous versions?

You must download a full version of the mod and then use the latest patch(es) to overwrite the previous version of the mod, cut, paste & overwrite any of the previous files this will then update your older version to the most recent, if this doesnt work a full download will be available shortly.

Draakjacht

reply 15

Just to let you know, unlike the last two patches, no mini-dumps with this one. I can play again!

As for the volcanic planet, I thought that trait was going to be a pain in the ass, but didn't realize it would be that bad. Good news is I let my enemy have that planet. *snickers*

Fantastic, that's great to hear! Hehe lucky Just a shame the mini-patch fixes it

JJBuck2

reply 16

Hey, just to let someone know, clicking on a colonised new planet (i.e. relic, swamp, etc) causes the game to lock up and gives an error about abilities overlapping management slots. Makes that part of the mod kinda unplayable. Otherwise, love this mod.

That's a bug with the game and not the mod as such, it's an error when the game tries to overlap the capital ship buttons with the planets, the best cure of this is just to disable your error reporting, I believe the line in the settings file is: "ShowErrors FALSE".

Vash334

reply 17

Mod is great except for the fact that I can't research "Flourishing Systemisation". I click on it and it says its researching, but it never gets over 0%. Runnin the latest .81

Edit. I don't know why, but after I researched some other upgrades and colonised two more planets, it started researching. I don't know what it's deal is.

Intersting one, i'll take a look at it and see if I can replicate this issue.

HK_davidpatrick12

reply 18

ok well the game made a lair out of me. i get minidumps within 1 minute of opening up the game now.we ran fine for about 45 minutes and then im back to square one again

im not super tech savy so any advice will be welcome. i unzip the mod and stick it in the folder correct? is there another step im somehow missing?

Sounds like your doing it fine i'll be releasing a full download shortly for you to try and that will hopefully fix any issues you're having.

--Richdog--

reply 21

As Harpo mentioned you need to add the 0.81 patch also to fix this issue.

Haerzog

reply 23

Did you remember to remove Black holes from the random generator?

Indeed I did, they are still able to be used by the map makers out there however they wont appear in the randomely generated maps.

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Hiramas

on May 25, 2009

Greetings,

I have installed the 0.81 version in patching the 0.7.

My Problem is that i have a very large number of "String not Found" in my game e.g. the planet or star types.

I don't see where i could have made a mistake during installation.

Hope there's a solution for this.

Hiramas

505

Nuttygamer

on May 25, 2009

I think you have to install the .8 before the 81

because the .81 is to patch up the .8

506

Hiramas

on May 25, 2009

edit: matter solved

nothing but a personal mistake

although i#ve encountered my first minidump

507

Vash334

on May 25, 2009

I have yet to replicate the error while researching "Flourishing Systemisation". However, I did notice a large increase in AI strikecraft in a fleet. Fleets tend to carry more strikecraft than vanilla entrenchment. This is fine, except even with fully teched phase missles, when I am playing as the Vasari the fighters have an average phase missle damage of 0 and the bombers have around 9. Is this intentional for the fighters to have such low (or even no) damage?

508

-Ue_Carbon

on May 26, 2009

AHAHA HAHAHAH!!!!! I can see now post again!!!!!! LOL, DS teck support is back ROFL

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Nuttygamer

on May 27, 2009

No sure if it was nacey or carbon said this but did either one of you say that the galaxyforge icons etc will be included in the patch/full mod?

edit: I was playing this morning, and my oh my, looks great, however, there is another few bugs, I noticed when I was attacked by pairates and sometimes by enemies, that my ships would get a green 5% chance to hit bonus yet at the same time get a -5% chance to hit at the same time, and also when I saw the relic moon, the shiled seems odd, when attack by siege frigates, the ships would come right up to the shielding and then start bombing, and instead of hitting the shielding, it would hit the planet but it would not take damage (note, the natural shielding was up at the time, and that no population and or planet health was lost)

edit2: ignore the 5% chance to hit, i only noticed it with the fleet with the akan so it got to be the ability so please ignore the 5%

510

Hiramas

on May 27, 2009

i honestly don't know how to use the mod with galaxy forge.

How can i get the additional things into the editor?

Additinaly i have noticed a "String not Found" on one planet, i think it was a normal forrest type with "to much bombing damage to colonize"

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