Hello Distant Stars players!!!
We are pleased to start promoting a community around the mod we love to create and you love to play!
This topic is to help promote online play. No matter what you play, PvP, PvAI or PvPvAI! We will be having regular game times for everyone to gather and join up playing Distant Star!
The meeting place for setting up any Distant Stars game is currently Channel 'Distant Stars' on ICO. Once your there feel free to set up games among each other! Another thing we would like to promote is using Distant Stars in your game name. For example here are some game names: Distant Stars 1, Distant Stars 2, etc etc. You are all smart people. A Quick Rundown:Where:Ironclad Online (ICO) the ChannelDistant Stars; Also our Teamspeak channel.When:WHENEVER!
Teamspeak:
We have recently started using Teamspeak to exapand the fun we can have. We encourage you to drop in and socialize with us! Any questions about the status of the channel can be directed to -Ue_Carbon.
TS SERVER INFO:
Address- 69.61.15.106
Port- 4293
Channel- Sins of a Solar Empire
Also we would like to get a list of ICO players names so we can all add each others as friends, to set up games beyond the set game time listed above.
Current ICO Players Names:Ryat-Ue_Carbon PbheadDraakjacktOranosRoesh Free TradersSyneptusVonlesto{SB}=>Dead_rat{SB}=>WarfleetMr.G
Feel free to post up game time beyond the current set times, and letting us know your ICO name so we can add you to the list!!! We will hopefully see some of you ingame!!!
Warning:
Be sure to turn your graphics settings down to lowest and turn off all of the special effects like bloom and skyboxes... You're dealing with net traffic and other people's computers so to avoid unnecessary desyncs or disconnects, do your part and turn everything down.
We also suggest you Trim your Empire Tree to reduce mid-end game lag. Play with only the minimum ammount in your Empire Tree as you need!
Oh no, you don't get to use mine as excuses because even in spite of all of those things and more, I still showed up.
Fine, be that
Im sorry, your bribe wasnt enought for you to excuse my excuse.
no worries. Been playing around with the distant stars mod...it's pretty awesome
yep, sorry i wasnt there, i do believe i gave a warning saying i wouldnt be there, but i think that was a while ago. (i did tell carbon)
should be avalible this weekend, though.
Yeah, and I'm not going to be available to play the game this weekend. I still might be able to jump on TS for a little bit during it though. I'll have to see.
I might be able to give it a run this weekend, we will see
Finishing up the MP Updates. I should have the ready for download today or tomorrow at the latest.
Current change log:
-Removed Elite SC
-Lowered total Fleet points to roughly half of current. Will edit with exact number when I test it again. (You wont be able to make 32 caps I think you may with the Supply Pact)
-Increased Jump angle to 25 from 15
-Increased max alliegiance from home planet to the following:
allegiance 1.00 allegiance 0.95 allegiance 0.90 allegiance 0.85 allegiance 0.80 allegiance 0.75 allegiance 0.70 allegiance 0.60 allegiance 0.50 allegiance 0.40 allegiance 0.25
-Increased experienced gained from capital ships destroyed to the following:
ExperienceLevelData:0 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 120.0 ExperienceLevelData:1 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 200.0 ExperienceLevelData:2 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 280.0 ExperienceLevelData:3 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 300.0 ExperienceLevelData:4 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 420.0 ExperienceLevelData:5 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 560.0 ExperienceLevelData:6 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 680.0 ExperienceLevelData:7 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 850.0 ExperienceLevelData:8 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 1000.0 ExperienceLevelData:9 ExperienceGainedForDestroying 1200.0
-Decreased damage Bombers to Cap to the following:
DamagePercentBonus:ANTIVERYHEAVY:CapitalShip 0.70 (was 0.75)
-Increased damage Flak to Bombers to the following:
DamagePercentBonus:ANTIVERYLIGHT:Light 0.80 (wa0.75)
-Added parts of The Sins Optimization Project (meshes and textures)
-Added Stant's Better Gas Giants and updated GalaxyDef file for better random spawns.
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Depending on how the current changes go, I might also decrease the Command points for SC by 1 across the board.
Here it is for yall to nick pick over:
Online Update
Checksum I got with the Online Update being on top of DS: 103564519
Downloading and will give it a try tonight.
Get on TS and we can see if the checksums and such match.
The checksum matched, however I would recommend a restart of the game after applying the mod since the loaded meshes all change. I started a game and mini dumped right away.
My thoughts,
I played a 6 player map against 3 AI's. I built the maximum number of hanger defenses that I could at every planet, built starbases with max strike craft hanger upgrades at every planet, Built my normal set of cap ships, all had their strike craft... The Ai's were doing similar tactics. Used the typical settings of everything on fast.... Set up my defenses and walked away for a while and let the game run so that the AI's had a chance to max everything out and build out as much as they could. The only time I had a slowdown was in a massive battle where my whole fleet was going against one of the AI's whole fleet, and a second AI decided to bring their whole fleet in and joined in on the destruction... The grav well was just crazy full of activity. Other then that one time, everything whizzed along just fine the rest of the game.
So it causes minidumps? Grrrr...I thought I got rid of those. I was having problems with coverting them back to bin. And yeah the planet textures are all screwy b/c I only added the meshes. But I might take them out b/c they only are for a tiny handful of planets.
It did minidump again during my mop up operations after I had defeated 1 AI and was on my way to stomping on the second... Nothing got saved in the file so I can't be more useful then that. I'm gonna jump back in to the last save and try to recreate a few situations that I know I was in to see if I can get a repeat dump.
Hey people, my laptop's working again, so once my exams are out of the way, I'll try to get online.
By the way, is Dynamic Movement in the Diplomacy version yet, because I find that DM really completes the game for me.
Not specifically, no, but at some point I or someone else will look into it and see what it takes to get it to work. We could probably be pressured into taking a stab at it sooner if you downloaded teamspeak and bugged us. ;Þ
Ok, Ive got it narrowed down to the stupid planets. Something about the new meshes it doesnt like. So....Im gonna remove them and re upload the update.
Also will be adding the Battleship tweak we talked about. Will be increasing the side banks targets by 1.
all the new meshes or just the planet meshes? cause the meshes really help with lag.
mk, well, teamspeak is not up, no one is in game... so... i think i am going to go mow the lawn while you upload the patch, and everyone get eerything sorted out.
I'd be in game except I'm in DC right now and my game is something like 2600 miles away at the moment. =] Can't get on TeamSpeak either, not that I'd have much time until later tonight anyway.
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ya... 11 am is kinda a wierd time.
Wont have the updates ready today. Im gonna try to shoot to show up tonight.
Yeah Pb all the meshes i took out, for now. They were causing Minidumps. If yall get bored and want to figure out which one(s) it is, go ahead till then I took them out. Hopefully with the next update to the Sins Optimazation Project, we can at least add trade ships and SC. That should give us the biggest bang for our buck.
hmm... odd. was it a ship mesh? it it was... i would have to guess it was the tec heavy cruiser... because i do believe the tech heavy cruiser was altered... made longer? something like that. idk. no idea.
Oranos! you were in Washington DC? we couda said hi
who said i was in dc?_? i been in Toronto Canada iev never been to US i dont even have a pasport lol
and where is evy one im on team speak lol game time is 9pm est right?
erm, ment... whoever stant is.
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