12/12/2009
Sins of a Galactic Empire (SOGE) 1.0e release for Sins of a Solar Empire EntrenchmentA Star Wars total conversion mod for Sins of a Solar Empire12-12-2009TEAM=============================================Models, textures, ship stats: EvillejediAbilities and tons of debugging: Psychoak (It would have taken another year without this help)Swrebellion.com Web support and general debugging: Evaders Interface icons: OzwolfSW Music: PedroMany many beta testers, many who didn't do a damn thing thanks to those that gave us valuable feedback!Probably some other people I am missing, thanksCONTACT=============================================Development website http://warlords.swrebellion.comDevelopment forum http://warlords.swrebellion.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=593&sid=d9baa3b5114c49929088ca5b1506e866bug tracker http://warlords.swrebellion.com/mantis/view_all_bug_page.phpsins forum https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/331584INSTALLATION=============================================The zip file should be around 225mbExtract the contents of the zip file to your sins mod directory Example for windows XP C:\Documents\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\Example for Vista/win 7 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\open the game and go into options and select the mod from the list of available mods and then activate it.THIS MOD HAS NOT BEEN TESTED WITH ANY OTHER MOD AND PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK WITH ANY OTHER MOD BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF FILES IT ELIMINATED TO BE STABLE.The mod should be working fine if the only races you can select are the star wars races. If this is not the case you have not properly installed the mod in your mods folder.NOTES=============================================This release is a compiled version of 1.0e, there are newer builds on the SVN, however these may be unstable or perform poorly, so download at your own riskIf you are in the beta test you will not need to download this file, simply update your SVN repository to get the latest versionThis release contains fully playable factions for the Rebel Alliance, Imperial Navy, Confederacy of Independent systems and Galactic RepublicThere are currently no star bases in the mod and the Civilian research has not been modified, it will be modified in the futureSince it is a total conversion this mod does not contain the stock races (advent, vasari, tech), this decision is driven by the hardcode limits imposed by ironclad and by eliminating them makes the mod much more stable. If you want the star wars races with the standard sins races check out Star Wars Requiem at http://sins.imperial.cc/If you would like to participate in the development of the mod we can definitely use your help! However we are looking for skilled individuals to do development of many detailed aspects of research/ability coding and 2d artwork and do not need general help. Please post on the development forum if you feel that you can help us.Please check the development website for updates on news, new content or official patchesIf you would like to participate in beta testing the mod you can post in the beta testing forum to get access, we are looking for testers that will provide detailed feedback of items they find in the game into our bug tracker.SOME STRATAGIES=============================================Planetary defenses are great starting elements to protect your planets, especially when upgraded, build lots of turrets!There are a few planet hardening upgrades in the defense research, these are crucial if you want your colonies to survive.Capital ships need to be protected before they gain a few levels, once they have a few levels they will become very potent.The ranges for weapons have been greatly extended. If you want more epic battles move your ships into closer range and many abilities and other weapons will be used by the vessels.Remember even Admiral Ackbar thought that it was suicide to move so close to the imperial star fleet!The Imperials focus on Heavy firepower, Ion weaponry and command and control. It is best to lead groups of star destroyers with a flag ship. The Empire does not have a low cost colonizer, but the gladiator and ISDs are very capable. The Executor really has no equal.The Alliance is focused on survivability, the mon calimari vessels may not have a lot of firepower, but they will be able to last the engagement. Mix the mon cal vessels with their other vessels for a mixed fleet and protect the Diplomatic vessels, they have excellent high level abilitiesThe CIS starts off weak, but has some extremely powerful abilities after a bit of research, build lots of trafed II's at the beginning and then progress to Lucrehulks with buzz droids.The republic is based off of mass production of its vessels, use support vessels to supplement homogenous fleets and Lead the fleets with a Jedi cruiser.KNOWN BUGS=============================================Some abilities may not work exactly as described, may have conditional issues or may be over/underpowered. This is being worked on and some of it requires Ironclad to release a new patchResearch costs have not been finalized, they will change in the futureSome ships may be unbalanced this will be addressed as we get specific bug reports some descriptions are too long and cause the text to spill out of the description box, this is especially true on lower resolution screens like laptop screens. We are working to fix thisOn some ships it may be possible to zoom in to the point that the models mesh disappears slightly this is being addressed.some vessels such as the subjugator and some fighters may have no texture or may have incomplete textures, this is being addressed in future versionsYwings are currently being displayed as bwings, this will be fixed soonSome abilities or effects may require work, this is especially true of abilities like SprintSome icons are being reworked and will require some adjustmentsFighters fly through ships and bounce around, this is something that needs to be fixed by ironclad, it is an engine issue.The AI likes to spam some ships, right now there is no fix for this.Compatibility =============================================Entrenchment 1.041+ (until ironclad breaks it again)model files and textures are compatible with older versions of Sins, however Ironclad made many changes to the SINS code that require 1.041, if you want to backport the mod to a previous version feel free, but it is a tremendous amount of workDownload Links=============================================
http://www.filefront.com/15122655/SOGE1.0e.zip
evillejedi please checkyour private messages.
just an update, I've gotten everything together for a release, I need to make a few play throughs to make sure everything shows up and I don't get random minidumps. If all goes well I will package the mod up and make it avaialble tomorrow night (3/30/2009 EST)
Is this going to be an entrenchment release or just regular sins?
(oh and I miss HW2 warlords any chance of it returning?)
I do some occasional work on it, and I have all the files setup still, there might still be a HW2 release in the future, but it would just be a few bug fixes and mesh updates (from the older versions)
this will be a non-entrenchment release, the entrenchment one will take abit to work out.
Why has the warlords site been down (or is it just me)
oh and will this release include fighters?
The site should be back up.
What do you guys think of these icons?
Sweet. Icons.
Getting excited for the possible release tonite.
its not happening tonight tomorrow though
check the first post for a link and updated info
I keep getting a 404 on it.
Should be fixed now. Cheers!
Didnt read all the posts as there are a lot but the anti matter recharge on at least the Imperial ships is way way way too slow. Any fight they get into that uses anti matter pretty much just kills their pool for the rest of the game, meaning that they cant colonize after a while, etc. I looked in the GameInfo folder and for the Imp SD II the AM restore rate is .001 which seems way way low. I dont want to mess with the mod out of respect for the awesome job youve done but is this intentional/ does it need fixing?
If I recall correctly, the anti matter thing is intended. Basically you need to "recharge" your capital ships at a shipyard, which now give an antimatter regeneration buff to nearby ships.
Thanks for this long awaited update Evil. Finally working fighters!! By deleting the galaxy folder, I was also able to run it on my 1.11 version. Although I did have 1 seemingly random minidump after 30 minutes when my fleet jumped to a well defended Alliance controlled planet.
Some of the ships look alot better than in the previous version as well, possibly due to the small sizes of the ships. The sheer amount of different ships is amazing!
Constructive negative feedback:
- Ships are too small. In the initial "test" release ships were too big, making them move clunky. In this new version I feel they are too small. For example when I zoom in on a Star Destroyer, I can hardly see the rest of my fleet or just their large tags even if they are relatively nearby. If all ships (including fighters) were to be be 50% bigger (so from 3 cm to 4.5 cm for example) that would be a good compromise I feel.
That said, I prefer to heavily mod the mods that I use anyway to suit my own tastes. Is it easy to scale ships in size?
- Ships move too slow. With the enormous gravity well and the small ships sizes, the slow speeds make it tedious to move fleets around, and makes it very hard to react to enemy fleet movements. For example I had a huge fleet at the far east side of my planet, and a medium sized rebel force jumped into the system from the west. By the time my fleet finally made it into firing range my planet had been bombed to neutral status. It also took me nearly 30 minutes to colonize 4 planets.
which fighters actually work(please say Xwing, please say Xwing )?
Ok about the antimatter thing, that makes sense. Another point, some of the civilian research techs are unclickable and outside the borders, this may be intended as well, just thought I'd point it out. Love what you guys have done, a full fleet of star destroyers headed up by a super sd is...well its glorious
Edit:
Forgot to add: scouts are too weak, they die almost insantly at anything above an asteroid, is that why theyre so cheap? Also, most of the capital ships dont have colonize and its unclear if any of the cruisers or frigates do and which one that might be. Again just some minor gameplay points, I freaking love this mod.
X-wings work, as do Tie-Fighters & Tie-bombers. Haven't checked any of the others yet.
trade stations, refineries, repair stations, shipyards and research stations all provide antimatter in a radius. This is really useful in defensive situations because you can fire off a lot more different abilities at the same time.
it's a lot of work to rescale ships, so it won't be happening.
I can up the mitigation on the scouts a bit, should make them survive, but for the most part they are supposed to be cheap and weak (enable their sprint abilities as well)
I can increase the maximum speeds, but 4 planets in 30 minutes? you aren't building enough ships then, it doesn't take any where near that long
as for colonization ships
the republic has the Botajef and acclamator I
the Alliance has the galofree
the imperials have the acclamator I and the gladiator
the CIS has the cc7977 and the tradefederation carrier
wait, um...i just saw this post and it looks really cool and all (I was a huge empire at war and battlegrounds fan), but is the entire mod for non-entrenchment sins completed? Are all the ship textures done?
oh, and do you have structures?
Finally, could you combine this mod with mansh00ter's effects+bailknight's graphics mod for uber coolness?
That's if I can use vanilla with this mod. I can, can't I?
DUDE!
this is awsome!
as soon as I can, I'll dowload these MODS!
seriously tho...
make some vids of this and put em on youtube!
(no one is making vids and putting them on youtube anymore...)
And a video of empire vs. rebels would totlaly be my fave!
(get a close up on an X-wing blasting a TIE for me!)
just as a note, I got a minidump when I finished building the Mandator as the Republic. And also, is there any reason why only one map is appearing when i go to new game select?
hi all!
first off, pretty awesome what has been done to this mod!!!
really rox, but:
1- Ship scale is really a bit small
2- i too have the (bug) of just being able to choose only small random map <- is that intentional or a real bug?
cheers
HahnHolio
P.S.: found the galaxyupdater proggy but that one doesnt fix any galaxies for me ... finds them all, but does not fix them ...
any1 a suggestion to fix that?
1stly For now this mod only has ships no structures and why the hell would he combine it with another mod(that's blasphemy lol) 2ndly dont waste evil's time by telling him to make vids on youtube if you want to see what it looks like go to http://warlords.swrebellion.com/wp/ and look at the gallery or play the mod for yourself lasty the scale is the way it its because he is using star wars canon scale so deal
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