I do believe the TEC has become the current reigning champ.

Is there something wrong with the pirates?

Ive tried Random Med, FFA with 3 cpu players at hard and med, I've run it 3 times:

1st game,  the first pirate wave is an huge amount of corsairs and other small ships.

2nd game, it was just 2 ships, but in the 2nd wave it was a million ships with a cap ship.

3rd game, same as the first.

These attacks are impossible to defeat, my cap ship goes down in a few seconds and static defenses go down in 1 volley.

Any idea whats going on? I'm on diplomacy v1.21, distant stars at 0.99B3, and the checksum is correct, and i've not enabled the optional minimods. For each game I do not touch diplomacy or pirate tabs.

I'm using Diplomacy 1.21.  What is the EXACT order that I should be applying the minimods if I want to use all of them?  I have already applied the scout fix patch to the main mod (overwrote the three entity files).

So far, I have this order working without minidumping out on the mod screen (haven't tested ingame yet):

Powerful Pirates

Dynamic Movement

DS 0.99 B3

and my checksum is 222898522

However, the second I try to add either Flagship or MSGM v0.3 - DS compliant I get a minidump on the mod selection screen. 

The only order of things I know for sure is to put the main mod on the bottom.

I would like to get these five running at the same time:

Flagship, Powerful Pirates, Dynamic Movement, MSGM v0.3 - DS compliant, and the main DS 0.99 B3 mod.

Any plans on combining all the minimods into a single minimod?  It would sure be easier to only have to activate one minimod and then the main mod.

@ Peter1x9 - Flagship is not currently compliant with Powerful Pirates. I may set up a set latter on though don't count on Dynamic Movement being there. Also MSGM should be in the regular mod soon.

@gusbear - Not sure why it is doing that. Diplomacy messed up the pirates something awful. In the regular game they have it all set to restricted fleet groupings. DS is set to parameter fleet groupings. It worked great for Entrenchment but Diplomacy, well, I am doing what I can.

Order really doesn't matter too much in most cases as long as the main mod is on the bottom, however...

You can't.  As you may recall me saying of Powerful Pirates and Dynamic Movement:

So that in and of itself should be a note of caution about using them.  But more specifically to the real problem you're having...

Powerful Pirates and Flagship both make changes to the galaxysceneriodef file, and both have conflicting entity.manifests so they will never work together as individual minimods no matter how you stack them.  If you were to try to run them at the same time or to combine the two into one, you'd have to add in the differences in both of those two files (galaxysceneriodef and entity.manifest) to each others.  Then it should work as all the files added and changes made internally would all be accounted for in both of those files.

At best, you can currently have 4 running at the same time.  An example order (the order that I tested):

MSGS
Powerful Pirates OR Flagship
Dynamic Movement
DS .99 B3

If MSGS is giving you errors, redownload it.  It should run problem free.

Also do note that DS is fairly riddled with it's own errors so you may have an occasional crash due to a combination of things not entirely related to the minimods.

No, because not everyone likes them all, which is why they are included as mini's rather then just integrated into the main mod.

And here I always save the -Ue_ and any of the other lore factions!  Ass.

I've just installed Distans Stars (D) 0.99 B3 + Patch, and I ran into a few minor bugs. Perhaps you already noticed, or don't encounter them, but I do right now so perhaps I can help by pointhing them out.

In the portrait selection screen, the portraits look very odd. Each time I click a next set, the previous set and the new set overlap each other.

When in-game, and zoomed out to star system view, where I can see the planets. Asteroids look good, but some of the planets do not. The image of Earth Planet and Gas Gianst is only visble 50% and is stretched out.

Other from that, it's great! I love the additions and changes to the original.

Ah that's the problem.  Thanks!  I'll give it a try.

Yes, everything you've mentioned has been experienced, pointed out, and already fixed in some form or another...

The first problem is that you're running B3 and the patch.  You are causing yourself unnecessary problems by doing that.  The patch is only for those who are upgrading from B2 to B3 so they don't have to download the whole thing all over again if they don't want to.  So delete that and play the game again with only the Beta 3 release.

Problem number two, about the portraits, I assume you have an ATI graphics card since the only people who have this issue have those.  If you do, this is an issue with the core game and beyond our ability to fix.  If you don't have one, then you may have a problem with one of the files that tells the game what pictures to look at and how to display them...  In any case, make sure your directx is up to date.  http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directx.html

Problem three about the icons...  If you have an ATI card, then most likely it's not reading the .dds format properly, in which case you can download the following links and put them in the mod's texture folder deleting the files of the same name that have the .dds extension:

http://distantstars.mmobase.com/other/Icons_planets.tga
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/other/Icons_planetsPictures.tga
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/other/Icons_planetsSmall.tga

Those are older files but shouldn't make any difference because none of those files have been changed in a long time.

An alternative, which is also recommended, is to download the updated version of the Multiple Stars Graphics Mod from Boshimi (which an older version is included in the mod but became broken with one of the recent updates to the core game).  http://www.mediafire.com/?c31g4muiyl3un51  Download it and run it as a mod on top of DS until the next release which will have it included in the main mod.

I'm running Sins on my laptop, got a Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family. I encountered the same problem with the portraits in the Star Wars Requiem mod, so it's probably because of my videocard. I'll go ahead and try the solutions you gave as well, thanks for that.

But not for long..... muah ha ha!

After I get some time to write, that is......

We all need to get back to writing. I already have stuff in mind to throw out there following Siegel's debacle.

Hi I am totally new to this modding of any kind while playng Sins, but I am pretty excited as I am sick of annhilating my enemies in vanilla.

here is my problem, as soon as the pirates come I get a minidump, I just installed this mod and I think I have installed the pirates mod correctly also.  I disabled the pirate mod and walla no problem but then I re-enable the powerful pirate mod and it crashes again.  Anyone have this problem, I really want to play the pirates also, while experienceing this mod for the first time.

1.21 diplomacy

As I have said multiple times recently:

That being said, Ryat has confirmed that he is actively working on his Powerful Pirates minimod, not just updating it, but fully rewriting it, to make it work well with diplomacy and be error free.

For now, go without them, the stock mod still has pretty strong pirates to deal with, just not pirates that can wipe out an entire faction.  In a future release of DS, you will get the diplomacy version of Powerful Pirates.

Been meaning to ask:

When I downloaded this mod, there were actually two mods.  DS, and one called DS Extras.  What is in the extras mod?

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