Hi All

Its been awhile since I last looked at this forum as well as played sins, I only keep it on my hard drive for this mod. So glad to see its still going. Thought I would try the lastest Entrenchment version of the mod (do not have Diplomacy yet but will get it if you release version 0.5D) but when I click on the link I get the following message on the web page that pops up.

"The file you are trying to access is no longer available publicly"

Am I doing something wrong or is the link broken or is the mod nolonger available?

Keep up the good work guys I've played some of the ealier versions of this mod and they were awesome.

Thanks for any help,

Bin.

usesFighterAttack TRUE

where is this and how do i change it?

thanks to this mod i just cant enjoy other mods with static combat..

Thanks guys downloading now.

Sorry to report the link to the fleet mini mod (whatever that might be) appears to be not working.

Thanks agian to all the SOA2 Team for all your hard work. And Stress glad to see your still on the forum, always enjoy your insights into the Trek universe.

Hello guys,

I only have one issue which is odd and I can't seem to figure it out.  The light map for the Excelsior model doesn't seem to be working.  All my other Federation ships have their cool glows but the Excelsior is not lit at all.  From opening the DDS files I can see that the file is there and it looks just like the ones used on other ships.

I noticed also that the light maps are all in shades of greenish yellow.  I was toying with the idea of changing some of the light maps to glow differently.  Is this something you do to the DDS file itself or are their lights actually on the ship models of various colors?

I know a bit about modeling and texturing objects but not much about light maps / ship model setup in sins.  Any help on this issue is appreciated.

This is a fantastic mod and I just wanted to say thanks for all the work on it.  Since I know a bit about game design I can appreciate the amount of work that goes into something like this.

The borg are great to play for sadistic steamrolling of lesser races LOL.  I rarely put them in to fight against though because they are way OP!

It's more up to the rest of the team as I am the new guy but the UI is still in pieces and the textures I am creating also need optimizing when the sheets are done. I also have a lot of music to edit and add. I would say 2 weeks but if the team wants to release an Alfa, that's up to them but dont tell me about UI stuff that needs work as I already know what is not finished.

I am currently working on fixing all the icons which as you know there is almost a 1000 to check and repair as needed.

Eh.  The Diplomacy version is going to be better, it's pretty cut and dry on that.  Whether you have the expansion or not wont change anything in regards to Entrenchment though.  I'm already committed to back porting important changes and fixing my bugs in the existing build, but the extra capabilities that come with Diplomacy are out of the question.

It may be a half ass pirate implementation at the moment, but a TC doesn't care about the vanilla stats that screw the expansion into the ground.  Pirates, when the poor overworked modelers catch up to the barking mad coders, will have a more meaningful existence than they can in Entrenchment.  They'll be able to grow in strength in a less than conventional manner in order to remain a threat to be taken seriously.

Having the Borg around without locked teams is simply untenable in Entrenchment, it has possibilities in Diplomacy.  The Borg are essentially impossible to ally with, solving half the equation.  You can play a huge, unlocked game, throw in the Borg, and not have a guaranteed loss at the end of it.  The AI still has no grasp of the situation of course, but nothing is perfect.

Has anyone here had the same problem with the Excelsior Model lighting?

I have the newest version of the mod and still no lighting up of the ship.  Is anyone going to address my post?

Seems for some reason that the Fed_Excelsior-da.dds was not connected to the mesh but the file is in the textures directory.

Material
     DiffuseTextureFileName "Fed_Excelsior-cl.dds"
     SelfIlluminationTextureFileName "Black-da.dds"   <----
     NormalTextureFileName "Fed_Excelsior-nm.dds"

I made a new mesh file with the change

Material
     DiffuseTextureFileName "Fed_Excelsior-cl.dds"
     SelfIlluminationTextureFileName "Fed_Excelsior-da.dds"   <----
     NormalTextureFileName "Fed_Excelsior-nm.dds"

Place the fed_excelsior.mesh file inside ...\Mods-Entrenchment v1.051\SOA2 0.4.6.5E\Mesh. I left the file in txt format and you can also play around with the value.

Glossiness 9.999999

Other that that we need one of our very talented texture artists.

SOA2 0.4.6E UPDATE link is dead on adrive. Can someone repost it up plz?  

It already is repointed.  The links in top are to the ModDB download pages.

Taking fighter movement out will effectively neuter the game.  It's like the commentary by guys saying they can put the Klingons on hold position and destroy enemy ships far more effectively.  When you're dogfighting, your weapons aren't firing all the time.  In a large scale battle you'll have most of them going continuously.  When you remove fighter movement, forward centric weapon placements become always on weaponry.  The balanced ships with rear firing weaponry and large batteries to the sides end up having greatly reduced output by comparison.

The range issues are being worked on.

Tested out your new excelsior mesh.  She's looking good.  Thanks!

I've just recently purchased a Windows 7, 64-bit, and when playing this mod, it caused the game to mini-dump about 10 minutes in. I very, very rarely - if ever - had this trouble with the mod before. I just wondered whether this was a known issue, or what?

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/403793

I saw that Diplomacy is getting a major update/patch really soon, how is that going to affect the potential soon release of SOA2 Diplomacy version.  From reading earlier posts it seems you guys were really close to releasing a Diplomacy version, but past Ironclad updates always broke the mod until it was patched for the new update.  Really awesome mod guys, keep up the good work.  Can't wait to see the final version.