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!
Ok got it working at last lol, the battles look fantastic! shame i just got my butt kicked! even my own colonies left me lol!
Sounds like you are doing a real professional bug squishing job! Looking forward to 1.00 !!
Good to hear you got it working.
Slow the speeds town or play an easier opponent. Maybe even give yourself an ally and lock the teams so you don't have to di missions all of the time to keep them happy.
Put up a culture center. That should at least prolong the damage and give you time to fend off intruding culture. Also park a capital ship or two in the gravity well you are losing via culture, they resist culture which will give yours the chance to come back and improve morale at the planet again. An added benefit of the culture centers is that you get a boost of some kind depending on your faction as well as increased resource income.
Working on a new release now.
Anddd the new 1.32 compatibility patch is here. Whilst our Mod still works with 1.32 without any updates this incorporates any changes the Devs included in to our mod and also fixes a couple minidump / GalaxyScenarioDef file errors. The full download is uploading at the moment and should be available in around an hour or so's time.
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B5_Patch_[73603744].7z
Enjoy!
Edit: 1.00 Update
We believe we have just found what was causing the minidump error pending further testing we may finally be reaching the 1.00 milestone.
I think I must be using the bug reporter improperly so I'm going to post these issues here. At the moment I am updating to Diplo 1.32/DS Beta 5. I discovered these issues while playing with Diplo 1.31/DS Beta 4 but I have not found any documented solutions in the recent changelog.
I am getting a minidump when I try to access the missions window for an allied AI who has offered me a pact. I have loaded the game several times to be sure that that window is exactly what triggers it. In an attempt to avoid that window, I have tried pressing spacebar when I get the diplomacy alert for the new pact (which should bypass the mission window and go directly to the pact window.) this still causes a minidump.Also, while playing 2v2 on the random large multi-star map: one of the four wormholes inevitably (6+ matches in a row) leads to some player's homeworld in the adjacent system. The wormhole that it's supposed to connect to is non-functional.Keep up the fantastic work, Team DS. Respect.
The entity file is a bit goofed up. Reuse Stant123 correction.
Never seen that one. That maybe a core game error.
I have never had that happen to be before however I do believe it has been mentioned as a core game error occasionally on random maps. Odd that has happened that often. '
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Usefull?
Not really
We may or may not use the first and the second just increase the pirate supply to 10,000
Where's Carbon when we need someone to yell, "That's over 9000!"
Wait a tick. He's probably pissed off no one has yelled:
Huzzah! A new DS update for the masses! or some BS like that...
ThAtS oVeR 9o0o!!!!!!!!
my job here is done.
About time
Thank God! I didn't know anyone with a silly British accent that could have pulled that off in your stead.
I dunno ... my Carbon Ring Tone does a decent job if you ask me ... works great for alarm clocks too!!!
Great work!
Dl'ing the full patch now.
Gotten a lot of minidumps from R5 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14522123/Sins%20Dump.7z
Also had a "hang" during a multiplayer game whereby I couldn't even kill the process tree via task manager; weird.
Basically it somehow worked enough to get a game or two in (would mini-dump during the 'cleanup' after the game results stats); got the hang issue, hard reset. Now whenever I try to load the mod (via options) it immediately mini-dumps. Even deleted and unpacked a fresh mod.
Tried the full zip as well as full zip with overwriting files located in the patch zip.
I missed that correction... is that a patch, or a file that needs to be edited?
Sorry for being dense.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zfz7ebokw21evo8/entity.manifest
There you go. This should fix the current problem.
There is another little blurp that occurs from time to time. We almost got it tracked down and will be fixed in the new release coming soon.
*removed link to other file* Would the entity fix correct my mini-dump issues?
Only started playing DS on monday, before was just sins plus/vanilla
Something else I was having. On the vasari military research section (top most) there is an icon near tech 6 that looks like a jump inhibitor but has a "string not found" on it. Or at least it did in B4, random has not given me vasari for B5 yet.
It got fixed. At least for me anyways. If it does show up in B5 for you let us know.
Howdy,
I'm having a problem with Distant Stars that maybe someone can help me out with.
I am running the most up to date version of Diplomacy (1.32) and downloaded what I thought was the most up to date version of Distant Stars (1.01). When I go to activate the mod, it does the thing where it pauses for a little bit like most mods do when activated, but it never switches over and Sins just stops responding.
Did I do something wrong, here?
If you downloaded the one that said 1.01 it's for vanilla sins. Scroll up to download the one for Diplo 1.32. It's called "0.99 B5" pick full download.
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