Feedback of any kind is always welcome. Ideas, balance changes, and bug reporting of any kind is always useful!
Version 1.00 Released!
Make sure to ask for permission before republishing any part of this mod to the public!
Downloads
1.05 + DLC Compatible:
0.12 ALPHA Release:Full Download:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/rebellion/Distant_Stars_(R)_ALPHA_0.13_[45189661].7z
Full Download MIRROR:http://www.moddb.com/downloads/distant-stars-rebellion-alpha-013
MD5: 69486D2FCD3F35E46E6F5EF8C9F1634A
1.34 Compatible:
1.01 Release:Full Download:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_1.01_[45685832].7z
1.051 Compatible:
Beta 0.9951 Release:Full Download:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.9951_[36672852].7z
1.14 - 1.181 Compatible:
Version 1.01:Full Download:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/soase/Distant_Stars_v1.01_[453701567].7z
Multiplayer Games:We've setup a thread for everyone to organise their multiplayer games in and also setup example times and dates for most people to meet up and start games. These are what we hope to be the main times for people to be around and want to play games together.
The times are:4pm EST (9pm GMT) Saturdays & Sundays9pm EST (2am GMT) Saturdays & SundaysIf you want to organise other games please go ahead using the same topic to consolidate all the information in one place and hopefully get more games together within our community. These games are for PvP, PvAI & PvPvAIso come along and we'll get some games going!
Screenshots:We've setup a thread so you can all post your screenshots to share with us the Distant Stars team and its players. Im sure we're all intrigued to see what kinds of battles and events you've all been having on the mod aswell.
Lore:We know some of you guys love to role play whilst using Distant Stars, and here's a topic for you guys to post all of your role playing stories, character profiles and anything else you can imagine.
Maps:Some of you avid map makers out there have produced some great maps but never really had them recognised because they've got lost. Well here's a topic for you to post a link to the download (we can even provide mirrors if necessary) a screenshot or two of the map for us all the preview and if enough people like it we'll even include the map in with the actual mod!
Please visit our website and for more information, change logs, downloads, and to report bugs. Our website can be found here: http://distantstars.mmobase.com
Bug Reporting
If you want to report a bug please use the Bug Report feature on our website:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/?m=reportabug
Please include as much information as possible, if you have an error log feel free to post it on these forums and we'll take it from there. If you can reproduce the error please include the error log (read below to find out how to enable error logs) and include as much detail on how to reproduce the problem.
To enable logging:Windows Vista/Windows 7:C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\SettingorWindows XP:C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting
Open the user.setting file (using Notepad, Wordpad or any text editor) and scroll down to the bottom 7 lines from the bottom is the line:LogOutput FALSEChange FALSE to TRUELogOutput TRUE
and from then on any Log files will be saved to the debug folder:Windows Vista/Windows 7: C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug or Windows XP: C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug
If you get these log files to us (you can just paste them in to a forum post) we can hopefully get your issues sorted.
Frequently Asked Questions
All files are compressed using 7Zip to shrink the download filesize. To extract these files you must use WinRAR or 7Zip.Any Patches should overwrite the original install directory, either by extracting over the original folder, or cut/copy & pasting over the existing file/folder structure.
1) My game keeps crashing, is there anything I can do to stop it?i) Are you running the game on maximum (highest) settings? if so, lower them to High or Medium, there is a known issue with the game using up too much memory, there is nothing we can do about this, also no matter how powerful your pc is, it is affected by this issue no matter the pc it is not above this crashing issue, it is a game problem not a hardware one, so quite simply lower your settings. If you still have an issue with crashing see point two.ii) Give us as detailed information as possible about the crash, what was happening at the time of the crash, what races, ships, abilities were involved. If you can supply a Debug Log (see above for more information about logging) and post a bug report on our website.
2) The loading screens and portrait pictures dont appear properly, whats wrong?i) This is an issue with ATI based graphics cards (rarely affects Nvidia based cards) we're looking in to the issue.
3) Why dont you support converting Distant Stars in to TXT format?i) Quite simply many things can go wrong with converting your mod to TXT, we cant help you with something you've probably broken yourself.
4) Can I mod Distant Stars for myself?i) Yes you can however please do not distribute our mod or our mod that you have edited to the public. You must ask for permission to do so, we will regrettably stop distributing our mod to all if users abuse our work.
5) Your mod is in BIN format I can't edit the files, what can I do?i) You can convert the mod to TXT format however we wont offer any support to versions of the mod that have been converted to TXT.
6) Why is Distant Stars distributed in BIN format? i) Mods load faster in BIN format and are less likely to have issues in this format.
7) I'm having trouble installing the MOD, do you have any more instructions?i) Carbon was kind enough to do some more advanced instructions out here.
8) Is there any way to make new maps for Distant Stars using GalaxyForge?i) Within the Distant Stars Extras folder there is a folder called Galaxy Forge, Copy and Paste this folder (or its contents) over your original Galaxy Forge folder (or its contents) replacing any files if it asks you to. When you start Galaxy Forge next you'll be able to use all of our planets.
Or, the DIY approach (without custom icons):
ii) The GalaxyForge supplied by the devs will still work with our Mod, however to be able to access all of our planetary bonuses, templates, planet types and stars you will need to take our GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (found in the GameInfo folder of the mod) and place it in to your GalaxyForge folder, overwriting the original GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef (if you still wish to make maps for the original game keep a backup of the original file). This will allow you to use all of the Galaxy changes included in our mod.
Note: Any maps made for Distant Stars will not work with other Mods. See #8.2 for DIY instructions for map making or take the appropriate files from Entrenchment, they're cross-client compatible.
Some statistics...
Since August 2009 to February 2011 we have had over...
400,000 Unique visits to the website12,000GB (12TB) of data transferred from our website
That equates to over 60,000 Unique downloads of the entire mod, excluding the excess of 20,000 Patches downloaded.
Thanks to everyone that has supported us this far and making our mod as popular as it is!
As far as I can tell for the grave yard ships it is only the Sova that seems to have this issue.
The Skybox is changing everytime when u reactivate it.
But, (not sure) i think most of them are gone or not everyone is aviable with every Sun.
The skybox changing every time when you reactivate it is standard game.
But we have changed up the skyboxes a bit.
um...just so you know, aparently your domain address expired. i cant download it unless you guys renew it.
Whoops... So it has.
eta on the domain coming back up or any alternative links for the v1.2 compatible version?
Alternate link for DS Diplomacy 0.99 Beta 2:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/start/31340
That's odd. Will contact Nacey about that.
cheers dude
Contacted Nacey. He apologizes for letting the thing expire and soon should have the original link back in business.
Multiple Stars Graphics Mod - v0.3 Distant Stars Compliant has been released and is available for download.
Download link is at the thread below:
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/348205
Thx
This isn't the fix for the overlapping planet issue right? That is ruining DS for me...the freaking stars appear as like 6 desert planets!
Cat, if what is posted on the previous page Post #4480 was your problem then yes, this should correct that problem. If it does not, then it is is an issue that I am unable to replicate and you will need to post up some screen shots.
I have the following order of Mods Enabled top to bottom:
MSGM - v0.3 DS Compliant
Distant Stars
Please let me know if this works. Thanks.
Using the MSGM mod stacked on top of DS?
Ugh let me double check the download link to make sure it's not referencing the wrong copy. [e digicons]:'([/e]
Yes, but I also had the patch enabled. Disabled the patch, but the next time I started a game, the same display issues happened:
And, I hadn't had this next problem before:
No minidump this time, but still very strange.
Note that this wasn't happening until I downloaded the newest DS file for v1.2 of Diplomacy, and I never had the MSG mod before.
Cat I re-uploaded and relinked the MSGM - v0.3 DS Compliant mod incase it was a corupt files of some sort. It should be 873.11kb when downloaded before being unzipped.
Here is the direct link if you are having troubles with the thread of some sort.
http://www.mediafire.com/?c31g4muiyl3un51
Do you have the latest DS update that is current for v1.2? You should check the OP for the most current version as the team has a stable build for v1.2 currently.
When unpacked the newest DS mod should be in a folder titled 'Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B2'.
Other than that I don't really know what to tell you bud. The MSGM mod looks good from my end and I've triple checked the version that is uploaded all without any issues and I haven't had any issues with my install of Distant Stars or with both of them enabled.
Ok, I'll reinstall DS and MSGM and see if it clears up.
What the hell. I don't have any of those issues. May I suggest a complete reinstall from the ground up, Sins, the mod, the whole nine yards. Plus check your video card drivers.
If it helps I would suggest trying a full download instead of just patching.
Make sure you are using 0.99 B2 (Beta Two) Release.
Agreed. You may be having conflicts as there were some major graphical changes between B1 and B2.
I had the planet polar slide issue (what we've been referring to that second picture as) in both the B1 and B2 versions. The B1 only needed the older unoptomized textures to be reinstalled which I posted for everyone and the B2 was missing a few meshes I believe. I want to say the planet_(inset type)_0 meshes for the originals. I forget what it was now, but I do know that making sure you have the textures I posted for B1 and verifying that you have all 4 meshes for each original planet and adding in the ones you don't have sure as hell fixes the issue because I don't have it on my end any more.
By the way, this may only affect the patched up versions since I've not bothered getting the full version for any of the recent updates.
Still haven't run into the first picture yet, though when I was screwing around with the colors.color file I added in an extra line by mistake and it made all of the phase lanes disappear. There's no reason why I'm telling anyone this outside of it being potentially useful information at some point in the future.
This is what I was seeing a lot:
Notice that the window on the right says 'Ice Planet." Ice planet? It sure doesn't look like one...it's like a double terran or something. How is it possible I'm the only person with this problem? You guys haven't seen it before?
Ok, just reinstalled everything - vanilla Sins, Diplo. and Entrench. Redownloading DS and MSGM now...I pray this works, because I love this mod but these damn problems make it impossible to tell what planet is what from above.
Same shit guys. Just reinstalled everything 3 times, and I got about 6 minidumps when I:
Opened the mod menu in the game and tried to disable MSGM (2)
Changed the game settings (1)
Just play on a small map (3)
Same graphical errors shown above this post. Same "polar side issue". Same shit.
Links I used:
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B2_[73571136].7z
I don't know if I'm even gonna use this mod until you guys release a new version when the next Diplomacy patch comes out or something...It's frustrating.
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