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!
What? Here I though you didnt like us anymore.
About Time
ATTENTION! *KLAXON SIREN* ATTENTION! *KLAXON SIREN* ALL CREWS TO BATTLE STATIONS!! *KLAXON SIREN*
90% chance of DS online game Black Friday night starting between 9-10 CST. (Check your local listings)
Here is what is going down.
Orions Belt 2.0
3vs3
Im gonna assume it will be 3vsAI(Unfair or harder)
If we have more than 3 then we will either go to 3vs3 or move to Kingdom of Heaven 2.0 for elite comp stop action/FFA
The settings will the following:
SLOW EVERYTHING. (Dont like it get over it. Im hosting so )
Using DS Online 2.0 (aka DS Diplomacy with the MP balance patch. I can post checksum to make sure we all match)
Hope to a horde of people there for some LF horde action!
ooo.
Its been a while since i kicked your all's a....
Expect me.
oh, yes, please send out checksum, and a more concrete time. (so... when you say 9-10 cst, you mean, meet at 15:00 GMT, talk for an hour and start at 16:00 GMT i assume? (8pm for me at EST?)
still on teamspeak i assume?
Edit: you finally fixed the homeplant bug!!! YAY!. My Your ships will finally not take extra damage for defending on my your homeworld!!1
Well, I would like to start the game @ 9 but given the nature of my unpredictable son when going to bed I can not give you more defined time to start. Sorry.
And yeah TS is still an option, not sure if the server we used is still up. I'll have to see tonight after he goes to bed about it.
My Current Checksum is:
125157379.
If thats different than yall I'll redownload in case Ive mixed up my versions. I have way to many.
herm, ya, thats different from the 71807385 I have, which is from .7overwritten with your (1.1) patch.
Ok I got your Checksum, Enabled the wrong version.
Well, Not sure if I'll be back by 9 for anyone who might of been showing up.
its 9:05 central time.
been on for 15 min or so
Giving up at 9:23 est (10:23 CST)
LOL, its 9:15 as I post. and your not on.
...
and this is why timezones should be outlawed.
LOL, glad you showed up! Thanks to Zombie also, glad I got to hang out with him also! Maybe sometime soon again guys?
Maybe we will play a faster setting just for yall.
I missed it due to moving and internet shut down
Yeah you missed Carbon's Glorious Return back to SINS. By Glorious I got my assed kicked.
Well, it was a glorious return for somebody at least.
I might actually be able to get on Saturday. Girlfriend has finals and best friend is busy. Kinda weird actually not having a social engagement.
anybody totay is going to play?
I can't believe I've been missing this.
Which mod is better, SoA or DS?
Well, being that you're asking DS people, the answer is DS. SoA isn't bad either.
Haven't played SoA, but the version for Homeworld 2 was a bit difficult to swallow. Had a lot of little issues personally. I take it SoA plays well on Sins?
Its like comparing apples and oranges, their both fruit (both sins) but its what you prefer, I really like the Distant Stars more, due to the SoA getting repetitive, and DS has much better gameplay/graphics.
New TS INFO!
See either main DS topic for joining information. Till things are set 100% I wont be posting the info yet.
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