user interface mods? cool!

and its a great step to have the modding functionality approaching the capabilities found in the Civilization series

This is probably a useless question, but I've noticed in the pictures above that the UI retains some "shininess" to it. I'd really like to be done with that effect, especially on the minimap. Can that "shininess" be editted out? I would imagine so.

personally I kind of like the mettalic 'shiney' look. but yea, I'd like to remove the 'shineyness' from the minimap, which kind of obscures things in that top area. having the rest of the UI looking 'shiney' is np for me.

Wow! Is it heresy to like the mod interface _better_ than the normal one? Great job team, looking forward to b2

I never said it's heresy to like the mod interface better than the normal one. I was just stating my opinion.

I wonder if it would be possible to make rotating components on the ships. For example, one that once you install it constantly rotates around its center axis. My Angel's Pencil ships just don't look right without their outer ring spinning, and the same goes for Babylon 5 style ships.

I wonder if it would be possible to make rotating components on the ships. For example, one that once you install it constantly rotates around its center axis. My Angel's Pencil ships just don't look right without their outer ring spinning, and the same goes for Babylon 5 style ships.

I think the Omega class destroyer ship in the library already does htiis.

Double darn on the 'no rotating part'...

I was looking forward to making 'Serenity' from the movie/TV show.

(grins)

Is it possible to design new, floating UI elements? I've always wanted to have the econ sliders and income breakdown available in a mainmap window.

Just a bit more reason why all gamers should luv the folks from Stardock!

Keep up the great work Brad and co.!

The string not found errors were caused by the servers not being synchronized properly. They are now synchronized, so you should be able to get it properly now.

Do you mean I must reinstall the game?!

Cari, I still get String not found errors in the Options screen in the Mods window. What do I need to do to solve them (since Stardock isn't letting me redownload), reinstall the entire game? I hope not; that would be a really poor way to solve the problem.

Have you tried the following:
- uncheck the "show prerelease" checkbox
- install the associated version (ie the 1.11 productive version)
- check the the "show prerelease" checkbox
- install the associated version (the beta version)

If you have archived the 1.11 version, you can also reinstall it from archive and then redownload the beta.

Nope, the AI is not scripted so it's not possible to mod the AI.

So be it - I think it would be sweet if the AI's had a state file that they could update so that they, over time, adapted to my play style. Obviously you could imagine to share the state files using MetaVerse as well in order to make the AI better than all of us.

Oh well, I do not expect this to happen as I suppose it would be a major redesign of the AI.

What I think could be done is to store a trustworthiness bonus for the player between sessions so that the AI ain't fooled every time that nasty player shows up with gifts or whatever and then backstabs it.

Another thing I have thought about is how closely the UI and the AI's are attached to the core game engine, if they are well separated then it should be trivial to create games with 0 or 1 human player. The purpose of a 0-player game is to let the AI's fight it out amongst themselves, I suppose that could be a useful development tool and additionally it could be a way to get an instant war story using the resume function of the game.