[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 351)

5251

blobness

on May 31, 2011

Ebla by E.S. Posthumus. Thank Oatesy03 for pointing that out earlier.

EDIT: ^Response to cepheidsoul's query last page. Damn page change.

5252

LimeyMan

on May 31, 2011

I await my thanks.

Moving swiftly on, has anybody noticed that the Sins forum is picking up again?

5253

BadTune

on May 31, 2011

I hope they make mines an optional thing for the empire tree with rebellion. Most I can do is get them to stack in piles of 50, but that long bar of"total crap in this gravity well" still sticks out half the screen when you have 500 of the little buggers floating around a sun(traveling to new,uncharted systems is dangerous

side note: skipped geography and stayed in bed, felt like I was on the verge of hurling all morning....too much itallian food not enough anti-acids

5254

Draakjacht

on May 31, 2011

Trimming the Empire Tree is one of the best ways to reduce lag. If you go into options, you can kill off the auto-pin for them and many other things. I only leave incomplete starbases (no auto-pin options there) and fleets on my Empire Tree. There really is little reason to keep orbital structures pinned, so if you're willing to forego them, you'll see a big gain in performance.

I assume you're playing as Vasari. My advice, given the damage caused by the mines, is to go just above what's needed. Beyond that, you'll have a lot of unexploded ordinance that just sits there and takes up memory. Until pirates have star travel, there's no reason to think it should take you more than ~30 mines per phase tangent.

5255

BadTune

on May 31, 2011

true, but I'm lazy, I throw about 3-6 mine layers/anima controllers there and auto-cast them while I do other things lol. The minelayers are somewhat annoying since they"auto return to position" each time they set mines, around a sun that takes forever. think you could modify the ability to "move to position with ability use" or something to that effect? as it stands, minelayers require micromanagement ~_~

and for the empire tree, I only pin my cap ships , but when they're passin through my "holy crap that's a big minefield" minefields it's a little annoying. but I mean gettign rid of them completely from the empire tree, like cargo ships. You can see their icon if you feel like, but they're never on the empire tree,even when clicked =O so I was wondering if you could transfer the "icon-display-type" of the cargo and trade ships to the mines, if that would make the whole lot of floating explosives disappear from vision, on another note, this would also enhance the usefulness of the mines.

I mean, where is the first place you see mines when you jump into some enemy planet? yeah that's right, that large 3-4 rows of junk on the empire tree(thankfully I made it into 1 icon in the .user file, but still). If they're gone completely, aside from maybe something tiny for a display icon in the gravity well,again like trade ships, they would be much more of a strategic weapon than just comp-stoppers. Send a scout in with an adjucator and poof, huge hole in the minefield, send a scout in, don't notice mines, get your entire fleet white washed in explosions? much more fearsome =3

5256

Ryat

on May 31, 2011

Next Version of Distant Stars will be up soon.

5257

BadTune

on May 31, 2011

YAY! updates! I love them....unless you're from AMD, then you can go bite a stick of rat-poison. But for anything NOT AMD yay! update =3

(has serious hate issues with the AMD programming and administrative staff)

5258

blobness

on May 31, 2011

Woot! Just in time for me not to have to work for two weeks, too.

5259

Draakjacht

on May 31, 2011

With the empire tree, I know that a fleet will enter a gravity well and it shows everything in the gravity well with that fleet. But that's when I hit the little arrow next to the planet image. It draws up all the icons of stuff in orbit. Meanwhile, my fleet has their own icon which I keep expanded out for micromanagement. So if you contract each planetary branch as you come across them, your empire tree never gets too far past the height of your screen.

5260

Nacey

on May 31, 2011

Hello all! Apologies for my delay in updating this patch I think this is the first time a patch has been released later than an hour or two after an official patch has been released lol.

Enough of my rambling im sure you all want the download links so here they are:

0.99 B3 (Beta Three) Release:
Full Download:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B3_[73985823].7z
Patch:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B3_Patch_[73985823].7z

This release is quite simply a patch compatibility and bug fix update. It includes the fixes mentioned by Ryat / Stant on the previous pages for textures, icons, sounds and the GalaxyScenarioDef files.

Also in this update the Entrenchment download links have been updated to include the patch, so no more updating is needed for the full download of the mod!

5261

BadTune

on May 31, 2011

Draakjacht

reply 5259

I know I do that too, i meant half way towards the middle of the screen, not down, the after contracted view with all the small squares, with mines it extends waaaaaay out there.

and SQUEE update!*mauls Nacey and walks away with update* =3

5262

blobness

on May 31, 2011

Awesome. I should have plenty of time to playtest later this week. Congrats on yet another release, DS.

5263

TheChronicToast

on May 31, 2011

Currently downloading it ... does this include the new version of MSGM v.03 - DS Compliant? I know there were quite a few things mentioned. Any chances of an in depth change log being posted?

5264

Stant123

on Jun 01, 2011

Don't hold your breath, I'm getting drunk with a hot (recently single) Portuguese chick right now. Earlier when I looked at it, I didn't see very much different then the changes I posted back on the first day 1.21 was out, so for now, just assume that's all that was changed. I'm gonna go back to um... Yeah, I'll get back to you tomorrow.

5265

G_Bison

on Jun 01, 2011

Stant123

reply 5264

Don't hold your breath, I'm getting drunk with a hot (recently single) Portuguese chick right now. Earlier when I looked at it, I didn't see very much different then the changes I posted back on the first day 1.21 was out, so for now, just assume that's all that was changed. I'm gonna go back to um... Yeah, I'll get back to you tomorrow.

Lucky Bastard

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