[MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13]

on Jul 26, 2012

lankymon

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

I was able to build the gunships and ews and elites on my star bases of TEC. Will look to see if others are working as intended.

lankymon

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.

We can. Even you can with a quick edit of the gameplay.constants file. There is a line that mentions how many superweapons you can build and you can put whatever number you like.

lankymon

Planetary abilities are sorely missed - again you know about this

They exist, you just can't see the nice emblem on the lower left corner of the UI to tell you how and why you are getting some of the interesting results.

lankymon

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.

I saw one or two in the 6th column but only needing 5. Will check for others.

lankymon

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.

TR and VR got some serious weapon upgrades indeed. Especially the VR with their souped up phase missiles. Look for more changes to Advent shielding to deal with that.

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Twilight_Storm

on Jul 27, 2012

I've have 2 things to report and 2 questions:

1) Might be nothing, but there was a point when my ships decided they needed to jump where I told them, then back to where they started, then back to the planet I wanted them to go to in the first place. Only happened once that I remember, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

2) The real issue I had was the pirates. 5 hours into a 1 vs 5 normal AI game, me as tec loyal, and one of each other faction, I was still getting low level raids. (1-2 caps OR 1-5 frigates or cruisers) Not that I mind the free exp and ships, since my corsevs were stealing 1-2 every other raid, but this should be looked at for the complete version.

Question 1) Is there a way to make the game let us have 2 Titans? I really want to have 1 for offense and one for defense of a chokepoint or my homeworld. If you can do this, that would be awesome, but I get it if it's un-reachable.

Question 2) More of a future concern involving the TEC Rebels. I don't play them, but if I remember right, they can ally themselves with the Pirates, which could possibly develop into a balance issue. You may have already thought of this, or it may not even be a problem, but again, I just thought I'd throw it out there.

-Twi

Edit: Also, I mentioned this somewhere when Entrenchment came out, but since you guys are over-hauling the game for Rebellion anyway, Would you possibly concider adding some way for TEC to deploy mines in enemy grav wells? Even if it's a weaker version of their normal ones, it just seems screwy to me that both other races can put them in any grav well they want, but TEC has to live there...just sayin.

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on Jul 28, 2012

Twilight_Storm

Its most likely that issue found due to the radius being screwy.

Twilight_Storm

Yes, yes, yes, I get it. The pirates need fixing!

Twilight_Storm

There is a way but no.

Twilight_Storm

Is a noted concern.

Twilight_Storm

Yep, still not sure how to fix it but yes we are looking into it.

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-Ue_Carbon

on Jul 28, 2012

Ryat

reply 7578

Yes, yes, yes, I get it. The pirates need fixing!

Are you sure? Its not like Ive been saying this for years now.

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on Jul 28, 2012

-Ue_Carbon

reply 7580

Are you sure? Its not like Ive been saying this for years now.

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TheChronicToast

on Jul 28, 2012

Well whenever Ryat makes his 'More Powerful Pirates' ... let me know. I've got a mini-mod in mind for them.

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Stant123

on Jul 28, 2012

I like his "insanely powerful pirates that could kick the asses of 10 players going against them and not even flinch" mini mod. Starbases with 100k+ hull points, 1k+ weapon damage... Ah, the good old days.

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XavierMace

on Jul 29, 2012

I know this is entirely devoid of useful information, however.....

Any guess on why I'd be getting frequent (early) CTD's with the Alpha? No mini dump or other error message. You are sitting there playing along and bam, desktop. Happens single player and multiplayer and there doesn't seem to be a common trigger. For example, one game it crashed when I tried to build a trade port on my second planet. Reload from last save and it let me build the trade port only to crash 10 minutes later when I tried to build a titan.

No issues with DS for Diplomacy, strictly Rebellion. Verified checksum is correct, redownloaded/reinstall the mod, clean install of Sins. Any options settings that could be causing this or anything like that? Playing large single system maps, 3 or less AI players.

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on Jul 29, 2012

Unwavering Belief for the Advent Rebels only has 2 levels, the researches tied to it require it to have 4.

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on Jul 29, 2012

@XavierMace - There are still a few issues to find in Alpha that cause that. We are working on it.

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Unwavering Belief for the Advent Rebels only has 2 levels, the researches tied to it require it to have 4.

Will look into that thanks.

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XavierMace

on Jul 29, 2012

Any info I can provide to help? It seems to happen more frequently when I play as Vasari, but that could be my imagination.

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