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
okay, honestly I believe that icons represent more work than ANYTHING else in this mod, more than modelling the ships making the stats everything it is a nightmare.
screw icons, screw anyone who whines about them, you have no concept of the hell that is icons....
So you're saying icons are devastatingly hot and irresistable right?
Where is the hug emoticon. Eviljedi needs a big hug!
This is the era of over medicating, he needs valium and ritalin to crush the individuality and creativity out of his consciousness.
Hehe.. so basically we're looking for someone to do all the icons. Eville has more important things to work on to get the game balanced and working properly
as previously mentioned, we need the ability to colonize asteroids(not the planetoid ones, but the ones that are just for mining)
also whats the word on a star wars canonical map.
brave new world anyone?
I would give the balancing a shot but I need to know where Eville gets his stats for ships so I can make them cannon like he wants.
There should be a patch for this soon(TM)!
Wow this look sawsome I will have to download it tonight, just got back into Sins and now very glad I did so.
Just a sujestion but I think the Executioner needs to be massively rebalanced. After the Empire builds one they are completely unstoppable even with their big price tag.
Has anyones Executioner ever been destroyed?
Eville cant you just like copy say the image of a destroye as an icon or is it like really really complicated.
^Judging from this. . .
I would say that it's "like really really complicated."
Hmmm I looked up what evil is talking about with the damn HUD ICON's its a pain in the ass their is a file for each mode... Hud curserover, hud pressed, hud normal, hud disabled, then you have the unit pictures.... yea... uh they didnt make that easy.. Seems like it would be easy to make a mod tool for tho...
Attention Fans:
EvilJedi has asked me to start a thread regarding research for this mod. I've created a new thread at the following:
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/332559
If you have any ideas for how you think the research trees should work, please take a few minutes to post them over there. Thanks,
~Grand Admiral Prawn
Woop woop woop woop woop!
Icons are little painful, as they use a few image maps. But they are all the same size, so it isn't terrible to write a script to stitch them together. Anyone want to volunteer to make the images?
sent you a pm about helping if needed. Models,Textures,GUI stuff
sorry wrong place
I feel your pain EJ. Though SoA 2 has proper icons, and YES they are a MAJOR pain in the ass to make. I had to do some trickery to make more than 3 factions show up. Ironclad was so kind as to leave slots for only the default sins ship lineups on the UI textures. Unless someone knows the UI texture grid system, and can make grid templates for the ridiculous amount of UI textures. We are stuck with what we have available to us. My trickery involved duplicating existing textures, and renaming them. Along with duplicating/renaming the associated brush files. So now we have an even more ridiculous amount of UI textures.
If we had grid templates this would make things so much easier.
I get mini dump's all the time i start Sins now, i'm reinstalling is there anything that can stop the mini dumps?
my mod tool idea would hold the key to making the mod creators lives alot easier...
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/332543
I didn't want to create a whole new topic just for this, so I figured I'd post it here:
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/01/man_builds_huge_lego_ship_it_i_1.php
Wow! Looks great Keep up the good Work!
There is a bug where Acclamator I-class ships are no selected when you drag and select other ships or you select ships in the system.
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