Getting "problem loading page" error when I try to click the rebellion download link and "unknown error" messages if I try to right click. Worked a couple of days ago but had to cancel cownload ... any Advice?

Just tried it myself and its working fine from my end. I'll see about getting another mirror up asap for those that have "issues"

Just so you're all aware I'am reading the forums often inbetween work and you know, life lol. I'll hopefully have the next update out within the next week for you all to try, it's mainly fixing minidumps and starting to convert some of our files towards those of Rebellion, Planet Stripping, Capital Ships, Research etc, Mainly focusing on minidumps / stability at the moment!

I like the mod so far for Rebellion.  Love the music choices, i hear stuff from Supreme Commander, EVE Online and Transformers.

serious problem.  downloaded the new rebellion version, played a few games, had no problems with mines, then, wammo! i auto placed my minefield since i was lazy and had too much money and all of the mines ended up inside the planet.  It's happened to me before with one or two mines but seriously? all of them? 

Might just have been bad luck.  Unfortunately it also might be a problem with the auto place program.

Which we have no control over.

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I've noticed a couple of small issues with the alpha release for rebellion...

1) several balance issues, particularly bomber strike craft seem to be too weak for the TEC and too strong for the vasari, as well as a few other minor annoyances, but im sure these will be adressed in due time

2) I've encountered several randomly generated or scenario maps which randomly create a huge gas giant (with 8-10 resource asteroids).  The problem is that the planet is so large, it consumes the entire gravity well, leaving nowhere to place structures.  The can still be built using auto-place, but if you try to manually place any structures there is nowhere the game will allow you to place them.  This is particularly annoying when you need to fortify a gas giant as part of defending your borders.

3) On a couple of the scenario maps (systems of war and dopplegangers to be specific), vasari fleets seem to have issues navigating from star to star.  Jumping to planets works fine, and ordering lone or very small groups of ships from star to star works, but if you try to order an entire fleet to move from one star to another they get hung up at the star unable to jump.  You have to manually select a few ships, move them elsewhere in the gravity well, and order the jump...this makes it nearly impossible to assault a heavily defended star.  I have not yet had the problem occur with any other race, so I think it may be related to the vasari tech that allows jumps from deeper within gravity wells.  I also have not encountered this issue on random- large (multi) and random huge (multi) maps, so perhaps it is something with that tech interacting with those particular maps?

4) I've verified that my checksum is correct, but pirates are only attacking with capital ships and 1-3 smaller ships...a 'severe' raid consists of a battleship, 6-9 other pirate cap ships, and 3 frigates?  My starbases are easily able to smash such raids aside with ease...one of the things I liked most about DS was that pirates always represented a very real threat, even later in the game.  Did i somehow mess something up?

#2

That's a serious problem. the DS team should check what changed between diplomacy and rebellion and fix that asap

#4 

that's happened to me many times.   Could that be in relation to a pirate raids max ship slots?

Ryat has mentioned that the pirates will need to be reworked.

1) It's just a port over from Diplomacy so there should be lots of these types of issues due to new damage and armor types, as well as adjusted values for entities not covered by DS compared to those that are adjusted by DS.  By that I mean, the entities that the mod doesn't overwrite are using new finely tuned values that had months of internal and external Alpha feedback to tweak, whereas the entities that are included in DS are just now getting those.  If you have any specific issues, such as an upgrade to an ability that actually makes it weaker instead of stronger for example, PM Ryat or Carbon directly or use the mod's underutilized bug report link http://distantstars.mmobase.com/?m=reportabug stating which ability to get the issue addressed before the next release.  Don't just assume stuff you find will be taken care of in the next release because you might be doing something that the team testers are not doing and thus they won't know about it.

2) It's probably an issue with the grav well radius and hyperspace radius exit values recorded in a few new places.  As far as I know, all of the values for the planets are the same.  Probably just a simple adjustment needed on the gas giant side of things.

3) Could be tech related, could be an issue with the core game.  When they are massed up and waiting to jump, I assume you have their phase jump toggled to 'All Grouped'.  Does this behavior persist when the toggle is switched to 'None Grouped' when they're all lined up trying to jump?  If it doesn't, it could be that the group is waiting for a ship to line up that can't move past others in its way that are waiting for formation.

4) Diplomacy had issues with there being far too many pirates going on these raids.  Due to this being a port over from Diplomacy, it's likely that the raid values are far too small to support the type of raids we all know and love.  Ryat will adjust this especially when he gets around to updating Powerful Pirates to work properly with Rebellion.  He won't tolerate his little ones being treated in such a manner for too long.

*Edit* Upon further review of #2 with someone else doing what I told them to do, the issue is from the new radius values included in the map files themselves.  They overwrite what is included in the entity files.  I updated all of the maps with the values I found somewhere so they are all identical for all planets, whereas the entity files have different numbers.

These are the values I used for testing and the test subject seemed happy with them:

R is the move radius, E is the hyperspace exit radius.

Star                     R 90000    E 90000
Companion Star    R 50000    E 50000
Gas Giant             R 80000    E 75000
Gas Dwarf             R 70000    E 60000
Huge                   R 45000    E 37000
Normal/Home       R 40000    E 33000
Dwarf/Wormhole   R 35000    E 29000
moon                  R 30000    E 25000
Asteroid               R 20000    E 17000
belt/junk/anomaly R 15000    E 15000

That explains that issue. #3

#1. Known

#2. Will look into

#4. Yeah, yeah. I need to fix the pirates.

#1, nothing majorly out of whack I've noticed besides the bombers, but as it was previously stated that much re-balancing had to be done, I was willing to wait before being vocal about anything else specific...but when 20 squads of vasari bombers murder cap ships with amazing speed and 50 squads of tec bombers barely hurt one, it's too glaring to not mention. 

#2 has occurred randomly on any map that creates random planets...if it happens to be a gas giant, and happens to be huge, you can only build using auto-place...as i said, this is only a real problem when the planet needs to be fortified as a border, when it's behind the lines structure placement doesnt matter as much.  Appreciate you looking into it.

The number 3 issue happens regardless of all grouped or individual jump, but only when ordering large groups of ships to move, ordering a small group of less than 10 ships or so seems to work fine, any more than that and I run into the issue...the ships all pile on top of each other at the inner edge of the star grav well, and not even at the correct part of the well to be lining up for jump (they are 15-20 degrees off on heading).  I have to select small groups, manually move them over to the correct facing to jump out, and order the jump.  Larger groups (more than a dozen ships or so) would just move back to where they were all piled up before and get stuck again.  As I have only experienced the issue with the vasari, and they were piling up on the inner edge of the gravwell, I thought it *might* be tech related, but since I havent had the issue with other multi-star maps, I thought it likely that the map may also be part of the problem.  Im not a modder or programmer, so I'm sorry If I can't be more help on this one, but as all the other maps i've played the alpha on have not exhibited the same issue, I'm not really sure what more i can do.

#4...CANT WAIT!  OM NOM NOM PIRATES TO FEED MY CAP SHIPS!

Main issues I've found having played for a few days straight are:

Pirates - yeah you know about these

Even though you research them, only the Advent starbase can build gunships, ews craft and have elite strikecraft. As a user no other faction lets you build on either starbase of cap ships. However, the AI still does build them ;s

There are some quirks of positioning within the research trees with a few items listed in the 4th "column" saying they need 5 laboratories to research them.

Planetary abilities are sorely missed - again you know about this

Finally, due to the nature of increased research with DS in general, this really does demonstrate how much the Advent have been completely nerfed in rebellion. I have yet to win (combat victory) as advent loyalist and only once as advent rebel. The bonuses they gain are insignificant compared to the TEC and Vasari; the latter of which are unbelievably strong.

Would be nice if you could write out the AI spamming of super weapons but I think that might come in a later patch for the core game.

No crashing issues apart from on occasion the game fails to load. I found it easier to load the mod and its extra component separately rather than all at once. Otherwise it is very stable throughout long game time. Looks great as ever

Yeah, it seems like Rebellion generally has larger move radii than exit radii. This lets you, for example, order your fleet to manually move outside of the exit radius, then order them to jump, with the result that they don't all try to move into precise parade formation; they just stop and turn in place. Makes it a lot easier to get a large fleet out of a gravity well quickly and all in a group, rather than being strung out and jumping one-by-one.

It's been awhile since I played Diplomacy, so I can't remember if it was always like this, or if this is a new change they've instituted in Rebellion. If it's the latter--which I suspect it is--then the DS import would have been using the old radius values, overwriting the newer ones and setting the two radii to the same value again.

You could always line your fleet up like that...I think they just increased the area available outside of the gravwell to make it easier...previously the fleet would usually jump with about 90% of ships and the rest would straggle in aferwards, now it seems more effective at getting them all out at once.