mod good, 1 problem, the tunneling upgrades is saying that i need to research barren planet, there's no barren planet research tab...... thats the only problem that i can seee..... on tec side so far.....

 

BTW, a deadly secret that kills my planet...... wtf...... i have control of a useless barren piece of wasteland.... anyone want it for 10,000 Credits????? LOL!

Finally game played through each race at least once.

I know what took me soooooo looooong. I like to try every new feature in each race and bring each cap ship up to level 10. Can be very time cosuming. Especially with increase work load from work. Damn economy. Wish they would hurry up and research a new level to get better resources. No wait thats the real world. That dont work.

Anyways I can now explore you wonderful mod.

Good mod still, but a few potential bugs.

Planet traits sometimes have two halves of two images, the bottom of one on top and the top of one on bottom (think a movie reel between frames) and neither image is appropriate for the trait.

The Gas Giant and Tunneling upgrades have the same problem as above.

The EWS bombers do not appear to use their auto-cast ability. I waited for some time and saw no use.

I have not played any further and so only have that to report. Hopefully it's something useful. And the Deadly Secret bonus was included in the Sins Plus mod, which I think is rather hilarious. In fact, I came up with a back-story to the game involving it. And the barren planet research might be the upgrade barren planet research found on the first tier just below the terran planet upgrade.

Sorry for the lack of spacing, for some reason would not let me make paragraphs.

 

Oh, now it lets me...

Just played two games with this mod. I believe it is really close.

I think it has these problems.

1. Gas Giants have no logistic/etc slots and the upgrade technology isn't working.

2. I do not think that the AI is working right as far as ships attacking. I have noticed my starbases for example sit there and not attack until I select a target for them. Now, after I select a target the AI seems to work fine.

3. Someone already said this but the tunneling tech is not selectable because barren colonization is not present to select and get the prerequisite for tunneling.

On another note. I suggest going and getting the small mod that allows all races starbases to move. It definitely makes that game interesting.

Thanks for the great mod Nacey!

 

I want to say this...the pirate attack at high is nuts... finally, an attack for my money

YEA, LOTS OF PIRATES....... it's a good thing i built a base to defend my planet right before they came. i got 25 pirate bases in my map.....

I made the unfortunate discovery of what a LRM/Ogorev spam can do. The AI used this on a planet where most of my defenses were static. They were tearing through things outside of their range until my caps showed up. Sadly, when I was repelling it, another AI used a typical cap led attack to do serious harm elsewhere.

 

Not much to do with the mod itself, just thought it was a notable ass-kicking.  I think the AI is definitely harder in this mod than in vanilla, but that's a good thing.

i put all the one's on my hard and i will admit, they are hard to kill. most of the time though, u take out cap ships and rest of fleet retreats within 5 or 10 minutes......

Well, given some of the changes and bugs, I wanted to do some strategic testing on medium. Still hard. Although I scrap the cap first, I find that either they start retreating when it's already a mop up job or when I bring more reinforcements. Either way, it seems more logical than the old "Enemies here, gotta leave" AI.

 

Btw, Nacey, you thinking of increasing the starbase range for Advent and TEC?  I was thinking about the mobile starbase suggestion and it struck me that architectural stresses, even in space, are usually at their highest when being pushed upon, making it likely that a human structure would tear itself apart. The Vasari have more advanced tech, so they might have some means of compensating. So what do you think of extending missile and beam range for the other stations to compensate for lack of mobility? If possible, maybe you could limit the range of the smaller beam weapons to make that stations better at close range.

Just a minor point.

The research for Improved Destabliazation for the TEC lists this research for the Orkulus the Vasari Starbase. It should be for Argonev the TEC starbase.

And yes I checked the original unmodifed and it is correct.

May have found the issue with Tunneling research. I researched everything I could with the exception of tunneling for obvious reasons. I then noticed that the flask button used for research was grayed out indicating that there was nothing left to research. The problem maybe that this research is not even recognized by the game. I hope this helps, cant wait for completion of next phase.

You know I had an idea for a change to the mod and I was wondering what you guys thought of it. Random abilities for Capital ships. Make a couple of different abilities and as the ship advances in level random abilities become available. Just an idea I had to change how capital ships work.

I was thinking of making them more and less generic. Like have generic Armor or weapons upgrades and then have a possibility based on research or something for a better type sheild or an awesome weapon. 

I don't know just an idea.

 

Had a funny  thing happen to me recently (Entrenchment, 0.4)

I had a fleet in SystemB, and a newly built Marza in SystemA. I regrouped the fleet in SystemB to include the Marza in SystemA, while the Marza still had the construction yard waypoint set to SystemB. The Marza then proceeded to SystemB by ignoring it's ability to phasejump and just flew over there.

And I was wondering why it took so long.. anyways, just wanted to mention that

Wow thats alot of replies, I'll reply to everything in order so this may take some time! Sorry about not being around all weekend guys to reply to your posts & concerns. As I mentioned in my previous post real life has been really hectic this last weekend, I'am on the case though and will have a bug fixing patch out asap.

Thanks for all of your reports, it really helps cut down the development time, and im glad your all really enjoying the mod by the sounds!

The graphical bugs are a known issue I honestly dont ever think of cosmetical problems like these as being a problem due to obviously their cosmetical nature aslong as the gameplay works fine it doesnt really cause an issue hence why they werent fixed however they will be changed to correct & working icons once I remake the appropriate files & edit the coding for the buttons.
I do have some changes in mind for the starbases, more on those to come in future updates!

I'll certainely take your PJI changes under advisement and see if I could come up with a better way to use them, as I must admit at the moment the AI can be a little bugged with them.

all I can say to that is, "eh?" lol

Hey Ryat, thanks for the suggestion. I do plan on changing all of the research for entrenchment to be equivalent to the original researches however I havent worked this in to the mod yet, however I will do in the upcoming patches (probably 0.5)/

That is an interesting one, thanks for the report Olli, I'll definetely be looking in to that one asap and it will hopefully be fixed within the next patch. It's definetely one of my main concerns that you mention it though i'll have it fixed asap!

Generally merging mods you'll want to decrypt the files you wish to change (mentioned in the "nifty things" you found) and then add the changes there.

This is fixed internally and should be going live in a bug fixing patch soon!

Tunneling has been fixed internally & will be going live in the next patch also.

Yeah deadly secrets are rather evil, it remains unchanged from the original Sins Plus Mod

1. Fixed!

2. I'll take a look in to it, sadly I dont know of anything that could be causing the AI to do this however you can be assured im looking in to it!

3. Fixed!

As I mentioned in a reply to Yokushin I do have some changes I plan to make to the starbases however until then I ask that you hang in there

Thanks Ryat i'll fix that asap

Sadly I dont think random capital ship abilities is possible, although it may be worth looking in to if anyone has any ideas on how to accomplish it. Definetely a good idea because lets face it, generic caps can get a little boring.

Lol you've gotta hate it when that happens >.<

 

Not sure if this is noticed, or is it mine?

Just to my post above, for some reason edit won't work...that is the research for the gas gaints as you can see, that isn't the right images

And in reply to Nacy quote on, like in photoshop layers...

Yes Nacey has noticed this. He wants to lock down the working aspects first before the cosmetics.

Another bug report:

           The repair bays in the pirate system (an area not for the faint of heart) do not operate. Just sit like a bump on the log.

really...

I want to know what is the name of the song on the opening page?

Nacey, the AI and my starbases are working properly. I have not noticed any delay in weapons fire. So, walkers64 might have a problem of his own.

Mooster, mods can be stacked in Entrenchment, the one on top taking priority. But if the first mod changes the tech tree and you want any tech tree additions from the second mod, the game uses the first only. That means you have to merge the mods the old fashioned way to get the affect. If one mod changes graphics and the other changes tech, they should work when stacked.

I just got done with a 3v1 battle with unfair AI. it was a intense battle. But some notes i want to add. It seems the AI is weak on researching, I watch a recorded game and looked at how they were doing and they barely do any research. They would only research ship prototypes and defenese/starbases. Most other researches were put into 1-2 points. This actually hurt the AI later games because without then being as upgraded as me, their firepower and protection is weak and they end up dying alot. I put the Advent as a researcher and the most they done on the civillian tree was just grab the temple of communion, they never went to farther than that.

Idk if this is something you can fix or not but something to look into. The AI was just sititng with 1mil credits, 80k metal, and 80k crystal and would not spend it on anything but ships.

And is there anywhere i can get some of the songs from this mod? most of them are amazing and makes the battle much more intense.

Get a ogg player.