Oh, top job Animage, thanks a lot for that. I've added the link and credit to the top of the First Post. Can I ask, have you had any problems with the Relic world, like described above?

Uzii:

Found a typo, which might (or might not) be the problem Lazerbug is having. At the beginning of your GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef file, you have the following:

starType
designName "RedStar"
designStringId "IDSGalaxyScenarioTdypeStarRed"
orbitBodyTypeCount 1
orbitBodyType "RedStar"

Lol, yes. Someone has spotted that too (don't blame you, even I loose track of this thread ;)). If something else pops up, I will release another update, but it only should effect the displayed name of the Red Star in the in-game map maker. But thanks for the heads up, I would prefer to get 10 posts of one problems, than none at all. Cheers

My bad, Uzii. I looked back a couple of pages to check to see if anyone else had spotted this, and didn't see any mention of it.

Otherwise, great mod as always...!

I've had no problems with Relic planets.

BTW this is a great mod, it is so well done I would have thought it was part of the game.

Ohh I found a duzzy of a bug; or maybe it is something I did and am just stupid... Occam's razor......

I played a slightly edited random map where in were contained several derelict graveyards. All the graveyards in enemy AI space where filled to the rafters with enemy ships. I jumped into one with two lv 10, 4 lv 5-7, and around 50 various others and had my ass handed to me. All the graveyards where like this. I think the AI figures they are hostile and tries to kill them (my command ships kept designating them too). When they fail, since they are invulnerable, the AI keeps sending more ships... and more and more till 90% of the AI fleet is at graveyards. I suspect one way of fixing this would be to not set planet ownership, if that is possible, or set planet ownership to the local enemy AI in a hand made map.

Damn, this is serious, and I don't know a work around. I can try to set them as no owner, that might work. I have set them all so that they have zero chance of being targeted, but clearly the AI still sees them as a threat and converges on them. Tomorrow I will look into this, as I'm just off now (GMT). Thank you for the feedback.

Hey, first off i would like to say that your mod is fantastic!

I found it at 1.2, showed it to all my friends. We have been addicted to Sins for quite a while and after playing with your mod, we don't play it without. Unless your mod is on, the games seems boring and lacks spice. Well, i came up with a few suggestions for new planets, because i love seeing the variety. I have no need to actually see them added to the mod, just trying to contribute to, what i can tell, is the best mod for Sins i have ever seen.

1. A Agricultural planet. Solar empires have an immense number of citizens, and sometimes an empire might need to terraform an entire planet into a farm planet to help feed the masses, perhaps it was abandoned or the natives currently use it. Good for trade, as well as a tourist attraction to see all the beautiful farms and crops.

2. Maximum Security Penal Planet. Every government has a prison, i am suggesting this mainly after having watched The Chronicles of Riddick (yet again). Perhaps something along the lines of Crematoria. Which, in case you haven't seen the fore mentioned movie, was a barren planet that had an large underground prison that help the most dangerous of criminals in the area. Probably have good Tactical slots, but penalty to pop.

3. Research facilities. An entire planet that was dedicated to research, labs cover its surface. More likely to have an artifact, maybe an increase in ship production.

4. Ruins of an alien species. perhaps a planet that was more recently discovered that was covered in ruined buildings from a civilization never before encountered. good tourist attraction, perhaps has prebuilt (but shut down) turrets surrounding it. could be captured when you own the planet, similar to ship graveyard.

5. Jungle planet. Yeah nothing too new, you already have a forest planet. But i thought i would throw it in since a jungle planet would get more rain fall, even dangerous wild life. But would have good trade options because of the massive amount of varied flora and possible medicines.

Thats it for me right now. yet again Fantastic mod! can't wait for 1.4 to come out!

-Zachery Gangrel

Just out of curiosity, what's the relic planet supposed to BE, exactly? I have no problems with it, I just like to be able to visualize what all the planets are like. I saw some earlier discussion about it but it never seemed to touch on that question.

I used Korriban (from Star Wars) as an analogy to my brother. Abandoned or empty world, lots of ruins, some valuable stuff, but also maybe something...vicious lurking in the shadows.

Thanks Uzii and Lazerbug for your posts.

Great mod Uzii.

Hey Uzii, first off awesome mod!

I've been running the newest version and I'm getting a MiniDump error that crashes the game. I'm playing on a random huge map, one star, as TEC, against one hard Advent CPU. The computer sends it's already damaged carrier towards one of my planets, my bombers kill it, and the game crashes shortly after the explosion, regardless if I'm zoomed in or not.

I did not notice any errors like this in previous versions of this mod.

Any other details I can provide, lemme know. I'll do my best.

I've got an idea for a planet:

Black dwarf - Well, technically not a planet, but you get the idea. This should have minimal colonization, but a large gravity well as well as a ton of logistics and tactical slots, due to its extremely high gravity. Make the population cap virtually zero, and unexplorable. No upgrades at all, either, but give them a bonus that increases antimatter recharge times of nearby ships, call it Lingering Radiation or something. Lingering Radiation should also make population growth impossible, by decreasing the growth rate by 100%, if that's possible.

Amazing mod, by the way. Keep up the good work!

Psion, I can't stress this enough: if you have a crash or bug in a mod, the easiest way to get it fixed is to enable logging in your user.settings file, and send the log to whoever made the mod. These logs really help, and if there's something going wrong that leads to the minidump, Uzii will be able to fix it.

@ Zachery Gangrel
Mmmm... Some nice ideas there. 1 and 2 definitely sound good, and could quite easily be put in. I'd have to think of something that would make them stand out, but I like the ideas. 3 is not doable at present, I tried adjusting research from a planet for the Relic world, but failed, they just aren't compatible at the moment. 4, interesting, but quite similar to the Relic world, and 5, like you said , too similar to the Forest and Swamp worlds. Thanks for the ideas.

@ amishmonster
Good question; Well, I imagined it to be similar to Zachery's point 4. An abandoned or dead world which once housed another species. Hence the eerie looking structures and their glow. I also took into account that they may have something to do with the Advent, as I based the planet on a Desert world, having read something about them liking those worlds because of... well, I can't really remember, but check the description on the Desert population increase research topics for the Advent.

@ Cypher
Interesting, but again, much like the Relic world.

@ PsionStorm
Strange. Could you do as Carbon said in the above post? Change your user.settings file to Logging TRUE. Then send or upload the log for me. Thank you.

@ WIck742
I'll consider it, but all this talk of Dwarf and Black/Brown/Red stuff is getting a bit boring. No offense to you, but it keeps popping up, and I'm aware it exists in real life, or whatever, but I think I will stick to 'Real' planets, if that makes sense? Thanks for the input though.

@ Carbon
Thank you sir, I hadn't even thought of this, it would help me infinitely in the search for bugs other people get.

Thanks again to everyone for the feedback.

just wanted to say that this is an awesome mod!

it incorporates meanwhile so many additions, it's just great!!

keep it up!  :CONGRAT: 

Not to get away from the mod, but as far as I know it would be utterly impossible to colonize a red dwarf/white dwarf/hypothetical black dwarf. They're all super-dense stars and couldn't support any kind of life or surface development. So, as cool as these would look, we can probably put that idea to bed for now No offense to anyone's suggestions, just trying to keep it vaguely scientific

OK, bug report.

The game crashes as a unit approaches to those added planets, when the the quality of planet is 'highest' in the setting.

When I changes 'highest' to 'high', the game does not crash at all. But I am too used to live with highest setting on planet quality. And it is more annoying since the quality difference in planets is more viable than other quality settings.

Strange bug, and something that should really not be caused by my mod. I have always used the highest graphic settings on everything, and have never experienced a crash like that. So, now your turn:
1. Have you changed any of my mods files?
2. Have you changed any of the game files?
3. Are you using any other mods with mine (replacement packs)?
4. Have you merged my mod with any other mods?
5. How many times has this bug happened?
6. What race where you playing as when it happened?
7. What ships were you using when this happened (selected, and in gravity well)?
8. What new planets did this occur at?

I think thats it for now...

No single change made on both your mod and original game files.

It always happens in highest quality mod, and(found another one) happens in high quality mod when I try to see the custom planet around by rotating the camera around the planet.

With any race, any ships it happens to -it seems- any planets. The game version is 1.3

I can't get any log files -the game does not even has chance to dump. It simply crashes...


Edit : I used the preview mod and the game immediately did not crash. The texture/design of the planets are awesome. Nice work.

But after a while the game crashes when I rotate the camera around swamp planets. Did you use any special effects on those planets? Maybe my video card driver is the problem, but I had not gotten any errors/crashes on this game so far except with your mod.

No dump? Sound more like a graphics card or driver issue. A crash with a dump is always a user error (me), but no dump, most of the time, is something a little deeper, either in the game files(if so it would have happened to others) or in the computer's files. Now, I'm out of my league here, but have you got the latest driver for your card, and what OS are you using?

Edit: I strongly suggest getting the latest driver update for your card. I have used a slightly different way to save the texture files in 1.3, but it shouldn't really effect it as the end product of the save is the same as before.

OK, I did more testing, and sometimes it gives me dump files, sometimes it does not.

I am using windows Vista, all updated applied. Yes, I am currently using very recent video card driver, but let me try really latest one..

This is weird, and I'm afraid to say, I'm running out of options. Perhaps, like a lot of things I encounter, this is a Vista issue. Failing the above, all I have left to suggest is to do a fresh download and install of my mod. Delete it totally from your computer, and extract it again from the newly downloaded one, maybe try the other link you didn't use before, perhaps something was corrupted somewhere along the lines. Good luck, and any advancements, please drop in and post.

I tried everything you suggested and it still does not work.

Oh well, I guess the problem may lie on drivers and Vista, but I am not sure. Guess I need to give up on this mod.

If you used different method on 1.3, can I try previous versions?

You can try 1.2b...
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