It doesn't if the only mod activated is a sound mod. I tried it with other mods activated and the checksum changes when a sound only mod is added to the top.

You might want to confirm it on your end, but I'm pretty confident of what I observed.

The possible work around you might want to look into is loading the sound files as the bottom mod below Sins of the Creator. It looks like the checksum doesn't change if it's the bottom mod

So... Assuming this would work for lan games you would need to enable a sound mod as the last mod. For example:

SotC Add Tec
SotC Add Advent
SotC Add Xenon
SotC Add Cylon
Sins of the  Creater
SotC Sound Advent

Of course this would mean you need a sound mod for each unique sound set. In reality it's not any more Sound folders than before, it just adds more mods to display in the available mod listings...

No way   

Multi-players will just have to deicide what m0d is on top.

How aboot if they both have a Fav Sounds add-on on top? Same checksum then?

EDIT: CRAAAPPPPP 

Spend more time fixing than m0dding 

StarBasePsi has weapon:1 damage in FRONT bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:1 damage in BACK bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:1 damage in LEFT bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:1 damage in RIGHT bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:2 damage in FRONT bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:2 damage in BACK bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:2 damage in LEFT bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?
StarBasePsi has weapon:2 damage in RIGHT bank but no weapon points for its current mesh. Is this intended?

The mesh has no weapon 1 or 2 points. Lots of 0s and 

	Point
		DataString "9"
		Position [ -473.488678 26.935894 0.004419 ]
		Orientation
			 [ -0.000000 0.000000 -1.000000 ]
			 [ 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 ]
			 [ 1.000000 0.000000 -0.000000 ]
	Point
		DataString "0"
		Position [ -1191.642578 28.026331 0.072770 ]
		Orientation
			 [ -0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 ]
			 [ 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 ]
			 [ -1.000000 0.000000 -0.000000 ]
	Point
		DataString "1"
		Position [ -2.302443 195.332809 757.188049 ]
		Orientation
			 [ 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ]
			 [ 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 ]
			 [ 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 ]

whatever the hell they are? 

I think if I add more points the SB will be more powerful?

No.  Weapon damage is governed purely by their entries in ship entity files.  Adding mesh points will just make the ship emit more particle effects when it fires its weapons.

Added the dummy mesh collection to the OP. Basic different sized cubes with Black-da attached. Mines are tetra with black-da. Makes testing at 8x speed a breeze. I had to make a blank for every mesh so all the meshpoints are attached for the different models.

I had to do some digging through TSOP thread to find Siv's reduced mines but I finally found them. Link to post in the OP.

Tearing apart is progressing. Ran into a snag which caused considerable delay. Back on track.

@SivCorp: Can you look at the Advent starbase again for reduction. Only  one mesh needed. The others just have more meshpoints. Do the largest sized one if you can. Also the damn texture sets are the largest of all the models at 2048x2048. Maybe that can be reduced to 1024x1024? 

I would really like to have as much optimization included as I can get without detail loss. I will not reduce all the textures to .dds but a lot can be. All the large images but no small buttons or icons.

I think the TEC actually adds more guns to the mesh so if you want to reduce that one, use the highest upgraded model so the gun ports are there but they will not have a meshpoint to fire until upgraded. I cant see a difference with the advent one and I have not looked at the vasari yet but still the same. If we use one mesh, use the highest upgraded mesh and the upgrades will add the abilities.

It's just the advent SB textures that are that big and I can reduce them when I put the model in-game.

Started on a music page ...

Edit: What is started is posted. 

Advent 0pening

Advent Battle 1

Colonial 0pening

Managed to completely separate the in game skins and loading skins. The top most m0d is the UI and loading screens that will be used but I have 38 races to do a UI and find a good image for each race.

TEC_Skin.tga

Needs some texture ideas or minor shape change ideas. Can upload the Gimp or PS project with the brushes separated if someone wants to test out their skills.

Each race also needs a good image. The new brush size is 384x768.

 All the game loading wallpapers will also be replaced with full size images.

Not really.

The main m0d will be very small and each add-on will be completed at separate intervals and downloaded separately. I just need to plan ahead for all that will be in the m0ds so I can build the main m0d around it.

Looking at the top of this page, the Transcencia has flairs at the points that you seem to be wondering about...

I messed with them in Totaleffects, so I don't know what they are doing other than simply being flairish...

Obviously 

I will PM you a link with the loading screen wallpapers and player loading picture templates. For now most are just the icon used in the race page. Once you see the space images loading screens I think I might delete the original Sins characters and go with a symbol like the rest. Not sure yet and I am open to suggestions.

I have 35 or so loading screen wallpapers but I would like a few customized for each race. So if the Amarr add-on is loaded on top, some of the random wallpapers have Amarr ships or structures. Nothing to busy and it has to fit good on 1024x768 game screen size which is the middle of the large wallpaper. 

I will write up a quick tutorial for the PM when I send the link.

Get a hotmail account please. 

Total re-texture of the Pride of Hiigara is coming nicely

Excellent!

I have not been able to work on the starbase this week yet, RL work is draining my time right now.  But I WILL get it done!