There is a "build time" for all those structure spawn abilities.  Just wait, it will spit one out eventually.  It tends to be around the 45-60 second range.  It's set to be the same delay as building the tactical structure version.

-dolynick

At least, I have never seen my structures pop up at the star....Now I have to retest this!

i finally find it sory for the inconvenience

The vanilla version might still have some flaws, the development is progressing via entrenchment-only at the moment. So it's not exactly necessary/helpful to report 1.15 flaws, since they're probably fixed in the entrenchment version already and if dolynick finds the time to update vanilla it will probably be by recoding the entrenchment version and not by changing the vanilla one

dolynick, is there anyway to incresae the amount of mines that are layed?

I was playing a game with the ancients yesterday, and with the incresaed planet size, the mines don't have an effective range!

Yes, it's a simple matter to increase the number of mines spawned per use of the ability.  I have no plans of changing it however because the issue is not specific to just the new custom races.  The increased gravity well size will affect all races, stock and custom equally.  As I do no plan on modifying any of the stock stuff, it would be unbalanced to do so for the custom races.  The increased play space has larger defense repercussions than just mines though, as all defenses such as turrets will also cover a smaller proportional area of the well now.

Show Errors will report a couple errors as the mod loads but none of them have any serious repercussions to the game.  There are a couple model errors concerning vertexes, but nothing that affects play at all.  There will be some weapon point errors as ships are spawned, particularly on the custom ships that still use stock models as they don't have proper weapon points for all the custom weapons, but this also has no repercussions to game play.  Finally, any errors from the tech tree refer to visual arrow graphics (for pre-requisites) that the game doesn't have presets for, once again no repercussion to game play.

Now, as to framerates...  If you zoom right in on something high poly like Atlantis, more specifically while it's taking fire on the shield mesh, I have noticed the frame rate drops severely.  That also occurs to varying degree on the stock ships though and has something to do with the way the game engine renders shield effects I suspect.  Zoom out just a little and things look well enough to be acceptable in my opinion.  I have played some really massive games and yes, there is slowdown but that's to be expected with 20,000 fleet supply worth of ships flitting around and fighting all over the place.

If you are referring to puddlejumpers being extremely slow along phase lanes I suggest you read their description and the "Sublight Engines Only" ability description more closely.  That is entirely by design.

On the whole, I myself have not noticed any severe slowdown issues that I would characterize as rendering the game "unplayable" as you state.  Perhaps it's hardware differences but at best I can only speculate if that is the case for you and I'm sorry to hear that you're having troubles like that.

-dolynick

I never came even close to build a cityship, as the game freezes the Pc after only 2-5 minutes. I doubt that this is an hardware issue as the mod works just fine with the basic Version of Sins(without Entrenchment).

Try as the OP suggests and turn down your game's effect settings.  The mod shouldn't be crashing 2-5 min into a game and it most certainly shouldn't be completely locking up the PC when it does either.

I'm currently at least 6-8 hours into a large game right now and it has not crashed once.  There is some slow down but there always is when a game gets that large and busy.

-dolynick

You're right that the ancients defense isn't completely useless... but the wraith turrets are taken down by the simple pirate raid. I know the Asgurd have quick ships, (and it may seem have a disadvantage since they don't have strike craft, I haven't actually played them yet in Entrenchment), it kinda sucks that you have to take away from your over all fleet, but the fleetsize mod does help.

And I love that fact that they have to come after my starbases... that's when I really lay into them!

Further to my above reply...

I tried to design the star bases, in particular their abilities and/or upgrades, to provide the means to compensate for each races relative weaknesses.  In that regard, the Ancients star base has it's Recharge ability which can replenish antimatter and shields.  The Wraith star base is capable of upgrades that give it some serious weapon range, not to mention the Reaping and Incineration abilities that should make it dangerous to tackle head on.  The Asgard base compensates for their relatively weak culture and can greatly improve their overall economy.  Actually, the Asgard base, with city upgrades and Orbital Capital could, in theory allow them to become almost planet independent for their empire's income.  I may have to adjust a few things on the Valhalla Station in regard to the onboard population yet as I suspect it can get too high and generate too much income, but I haven't had a chance to play a game with them yet to verify.

Upon some reflection, I believe I know what I will do for the Wraith turrets.  I will likely give them a decent Area of Effect attack in the form of a "plasma bomb" of some sort.  Not a huge area of effect but maybe 1000-1500 or so and do a fairly good 1000 shared damage or something like that.  I may also give turrets a hull point regeneration passive ability (say an additional 5 or so).  That should make them far more formidable, particular when faced with groups.

The Asgard already have special abilities on their turrets so they're not likely to get much more.  I will likely give them an upgrade that greatly increases their range (thinking two levels, 25% and 50% increase).  That should allow the turrets to more effectively cover the planet since they have no strikecraft to deal with sneaky siege frigates.

-dolynick

That's pretty much the way defense platforms have been for the entire history of the game.  Stock vanilla Sins stuff too.  The only race with anti-strikecraft weaponry on their defense turrets (in vanilla or Entrenchment), including TEC, Advent and Vasari, are the Asgard.  They were given that as they have no strikecraft and needed a commonly available defense against them.  Even in Entrenchment, defense platforms don't have anti-strikecraft weapons - although some of the hangar defense structures for stock races do with upgrades.  Basically, what you are describing is not an "issue" with the mod but rather with Sins in general.

I'm not sure as to the cause of that.  It might be a ranging issue, or more specifically which weapon is used to find attack range but on a ship they should simply move closer or something if they can't shoot with at lease one weapon.  I know I corrected some weapon for range indexing with the Entrenchment release but may not have done so for the vanilla version.  If they're just somewhat slow to pick a target and act, that could just be a game bog down issue as I have seen that in very large games where things start to slow down due to the amount of stuff going on.

Unfortunately, further development of this/these mods is Entrenchment based for the time being.  At this point in time I cannot promise any further updates to the vanilla version of the mod.  There are too many changes and differences in file formats for it to be easily transferable between the two and I already have my hands full dealing with the Entrenchment stuff alone without screwing things up by accident.  Also, the latest balance and race revisions to the Ancients probably wouldn't work well in vanilla Sins as it may make the Ancients more reliant on defensive structures to compensate for the lack of a large number of ships to defend with.  With Entrenchment, defensive structures are a bit better, especially with upgrades.  That means that development of the race itself is essentially split off now if balance doens't work in Vanilla Sins and actively maintaining two separate versions of the race will cause chaos. 

-dolynick

Thanks Kimyo,

I'll look into it and correct it if need be for the next release.

-dolynick

The Megalopoli research entry is actually on the Civilian tab.  It's the 2nd Terran planet development research and it deals with the creation of super-cities.

Nice to hear you're enjoying the mod.  Thanks!

-dolynick