But they'll dilute my asshole karma if I keep getting it for legitimate reasons!  Getting it for creative swearing, now that's karma you can be proud of.

See page 3 of my karma list for details.

I love playing as the Borg. Yes they are overpowered. Yes you have to change the balance of enemies to make it more even. I still love playing them though. Their technology is so much different than the other factions. Helps to give the game higher replay value with them than without IMO. I don't think Fist intended to do this but please don't make them a non-playable faction.

Ah, the infamous Sprint overshooting a gravity well issue? I have a suggestion for that, a solution I came up with myself. Modify the main buff to apply a new buff to self on finish, and have the second buff be something like this. Such a secondary buff allows a ship to correct it's heading, and thus not overshoot a distance drastically.

Nay.  The problem is fighter movement.  It's moronic.

Fighter movement works by doing runs on the target, they approach, turn around, and run away to max range, then turn back around for another approach.  If they never hit maximum range, they never turn back around.  If they never finish their approach, they never turn around.  You end up with an infinite pursuit course when you have two equal speed units chasing each other.  It ends when one of them blows up.

It works in vanilla because the ships doing fighter movement blow up really fast, and don't target each other.  Fighters only end up shooting each other after they run out of bombers, and they drop like flies.  The occasional screw up ends relatively fast, just a few rounds of fire.

hey guys, thanx for the awesome mod, loved it every step of the way. completely love playing the borg against two teams of 4 its brilliant or slugging it out against the borg as any other race.

i have a bit of a weird crash for you, i got the mod yesterday and played it for 8 hours no problem, today i tried to load up sins and it crashed 5 times, i thought well this is weird and decided to go in to the *.txt file for enabled mods and removed the SOA line and set it to 0 active mods, then booted it up and i got in just fine, i then went to activate SOA and it crashed. do i send the *.DMP files to your email?

Many thanx and pints of chickens blood

We can't do anything with dump files, only SD devs can open them. We need a repeatable crash in an Auto-save and the corresponding .stat file, or a regular save sometime, hopefully not to long before the crash. As long as if you run tthe game again and start the save, and it crashes again, that's what we are looking for.

zip/rar/7z sent to

soa2 at hotmail dot ca

and if you were running Diplomacy with/without patch
or Rebellion

game settings?

victory settings if Rebellion?

running a save, is it an old save?

custom map? 

We will be very grateful to people that help us track down and squash any bugs.

The ships leaving the grav well issue is really bad in the rebellion release. the AI fed, and dominion fleets were chasing after the last planetary defender till doomsday. Adding ships to that fleet flying into limbo instead of expanding elsewhere. After an hour the "limbo" fleets counted into the hundreds of ships, and were literally halfway across a large random map before i quit the game.

I think we need to buff fighter speeds just a little bit, because we didnt have the issue this badly before the nerf. The fighters helped to take down that last straggler before the speed nerf.

hey psychoak, i get 8 error messages in total when i load the game in dev and activate the mod with each error message i clicked skip so as to get to the next one.

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(234)

false

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(398)

m_aiUseTime == AIUseTime::Invalid

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(234)

false

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(398)

m_aiUseTime == AIUseTime::Invalid

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(234)

false

randomShipCount exceeds the maximum allowed. 7077958 requested but only 6 allowed. If a larger number is needed bug a programmer!

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\main\CodeSource\Engine/Archive/BinaryFileArchive.cpp(106)

numChars < bufferSize

Failed to Read File 'C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.1 Dev\SOA2\GameInfo\AbilityFerengiReinforcements.entity'. desired read bytes = 6619237, actual read bytes = 182.

these are the error messages i received. thank you for the help

hey again, reinstalling the mod seems to have sorted the problems and i can play again. i installed the mod from the correct SOA download SOA2.6R.7z and unzipped it in to the rebellion mod directory and it worked fine for 8 hours of play, i have no idea what happened for it to crash on me.

thanx for the help guys.

Corrupted files!

You should do a full scan of your hard drive.  For you to end up with funky file information after the install was previously working, something is probably going screwy with your memory or the disk.  In either case, if you continue having problems you're up for some hardware replacement most likely.

Edit:  Just in case, DO NOT USE convertdata on the entire set of entity files.  It's broken and doesn't properly convert ship spawning files that use requiredShipCount

spawnShips
    minFleetPoints 129.000000
    maxFleetPoints 129.000000
    requiredShipCount 1
        requiredShip
            type "FrigatePirateDKora"
            minCount 3
            maxCount 3
    randomShipCount 0

This is where your game was going haywire, if you converted AbilityFerengiReinforcements to binary, you broke it and don't need to worry about potential hardware problems.

That is the MO of the first run crash issue. Restart the game with the mod enabled, and it should run fine.

I put a vote for Damage Report.

Report could mean anything good or bad. Damage Report would be a report of something broken in a general manner including casualties. Level 1 Diagnostics would be more of a preliminary scan showing something that is out of the norm and possibly what it is so it can progress to the repair stage.  Level 2 Diagnostics would be a more detailed and time consuming scan to try to determine what is wrong. Level 3 Diagnostics is the most detailed scan and time consuming task of find the cause of the problem.

Typically, the diagnostics would be done by the 'engineer' and not the report that a department would give to the engineering team. 

(That's what I've gotten out of watching all of TNG, DS9, and Voyager)