I will also be uploading a new fleet size mod for SOA2. Warning this is only to be used on high end machines and may cause lag. use at your own risk. File upload is in porgress.

ps thinking of making one for the people who complain of borg superiorirty.  Thoughts??

thanks jay

Others have thought as you have Jay.. They tried to fight the inevitable... Now they are all Borg...

not if played right. I found this out testing heavily. With diplomacy and pacts it can rather be easy to take out the borg.

thanks ajy

Yea we know about the faction icons. MyFist0 pulled that UI off by himself from scratch. So no doubt there is still stuff that needs doing (like re-making the correct faction icons). UI is still WIP, but its MUCH better than last release.

I never said the Borg were "impossible" to beat (unless you turtle too much and let them tech up in which case you deserve to get your ass handed to you). The Borg are just "difficult" to beat.

I had one last night around the same time as an Ambassador level up(first game new ver)....but restarted with no problems.

The thing i hated the most was seeing my hard work getting overwritten by older crap on the old sync site. That is why i damn near had to rebuild 0.5D.1 from scratch when i added TSOP to it. Too much crap from the older entrenchment versions in it, and stuff being overwritten by old crap by peeps not paying attention, or by peeps not asking if the mod was updated. I am glad we switched to SVN. There was one instance where i accidentally overwrote Psychoaks work (oops!). But there was that handy revert function in SVN that saved our ass's.

My Windows 7 64, i5 3.2 gig, 6 gigs ddr3 ram, rig is now pushing on the "low end" spectrum too. Bought it last year, but the stuff coming out now is damn near unplayable on it (SoTS 2). However, i can play SoA 2 on max settings on my crappy laptop (with an even crappier intel video chip), and i get a very good frame rate. I can run large maps with 5 vicious AI factions damn near all day until the typical late game slow down. Ram usage never goes above 1.6 gigs.

It happened when I first activated the mod, and I didn't restart the game so it might have just been related to that.

I'll let you know if I get it again. Had a complete game last morning with no trouble.

New skyboxes are great.

Red in particular.

Just realized, why does it still say : [MOD WIP]? Aren't you guys past that point?

The factions aren't much of a WIP at this point, but the neutrals are almost entirely WIP still.

You'd be amazed at how many ability bugs there are in the version I just put out that you'd never have any idea were there without spending a couple weeks pouring through the files.  I found half a dozen in some test games last night, spent the afternoon fixing them.  There's a few interlinking abilities that create branching conditional effects, no one is the wiser when one of them isn't working, only the designer realizes it.

With all of the frustrations, and hair pulling we went through over the years it is those comments that make it all worth the effort.

There is a new dump issue.. However we dont think it is a mod issue, but a Sins issue of not loading all of the mod files correctly at first run (Psychoak posted about this on the ModDB page). So if you experience a dump restart sins with the mod enabled. The mod seems to load correctly after restarting Sins with the mod enabled. Not sure why Sins is doing this.

As long as there is an interest in Sins, and SoA 2 it will always be a WIP

The MD happens after the game starts anywhere from the first 2 minutes up to 2hrs in game. Always the first game after the mod is fresh loaded and enabled.