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!
actually its an issue with the Gunships a new class of SCs, if you have any gunships assigned to the Halcyons and you use the Anima Tempest you will get a mini dump. Its been cleared up with the .97 edition, but tonite if you use Halcyons either avoid the gunships or Anima Tempest, oh and the Anima Tempest is on Autocast automatically so you need to pay attention and set it to manual if you have gunships for the Halcyon.
Im am trying to temp Nancy into releasing a hotfix patch before the game meeting time tonight. Might makes some confusion b/c everyone will have to download the patch but it will remove the minidump.
EDIT: Here is the hotfix!!!!!
http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.95_Anima_Tempest_Fix.7z
Ask and you shall recieve:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.95_Anima_Tempest_Fix.7z
However, call me nancy again and I may have to hurt you
All of the people in a game must be using this file or it will cause sync/checksum issues between clients the new checksum you should be aiming for is:36295781
Im sorry Im sorry...a typo!!!!!!
Yay game-stabilizing hotfix! Downloading and installing now.
And yay, Team DS has individual avatars! Looks sweet, guys.
Checksum 36295781 confirmed.
Thx to Nacey for the awesome looking Avatars
Everyone playing this weekend needs the hotfix:http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.95_Anima_Tempest_Fix.7z
Match going down in T -1 minute!
Well I'll say our first night was a success!
Thanks to everyone who showed up and played!!!! Lets try and shoot for more next time!
Oh dont forget if you can make it or you live in EU that tommorrow its yall turn to meet up and play! Have fun!
Might give this a go...
Marsium Mechanis
(EDIT: ^^That's my ICO player name^^)
15 minutes to go! Get in on some fast-action Sins of a Solar Empire now!
And don't forget to download the hotfix: http://distantstars.mmobase.com/entrenchment/DS_Entrenchment_Beta_0.95_Anima_Tempest_Fix.7z
hehe indeed, much required little quick fix just incase we have some advent lovers around
How todays gathering go?!
Good games, all! Hope to see you guys next week.
^^ glad to hear yall had fun!
If I dont talk to yall before Christmas....MERRRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Now, here're the obligatory Nacey-defeat pictures:
Final battle from my perspective
Ohnoes, incoming missiles!
Ba-BOOM
And, yeah. That's basically how it went. You'll thank me for that vividly detailed description later. Truly.
All those strike craft look like lasers....
Or they could be part of a Sins Christmas tree...
Yeah, doesn't help that Vasari shoot purple missiles and I happened to be player purple.
So are the est times am or pm?
PM
http://www.filefront.com/15192047/AutoRecord-12171916.zip
here is a replay of one of the Sunday games, me as "Lord Brain"
Game was very funny i think, got a little weak starting point (and truly never played with DS- Pirates before they are soooooooo mean) One time i forget to set the bounty on Nacey and then the game was over for me as i tried to fight the pirates instead of just letting them destroy the one planet. After that i got rolled
lol, yes they are, and the powerful pirate mini-mod makes them worse
Hehe that was indeed a fun game, although my god you were a pain in the ass lol Well played there mate.
We'll have to all have a game in the future without the pirates on the freshly released 0.99 version of DS
I'm trying ICO for the first time and I'm having trouble finding the Distant Stars channel. Am I missing something?
Thanks
Kevin
Under the players list is a button call change/create channel, click on that then type in Distant Stars.
OH BTW, anyone gonna join me tonight
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