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[v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023*

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[v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023*

Babylon 5 mod effort for Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion

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This is the story of the last of the Babylon 5 mod-efforts. It's goal, to prevent another failure, by creating a place to solve our problems collaboratively. Its a port of call, home away from home, for modelers, texturers, programmers and sound engineers. 

 

Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races

 
Disclaimer:
The authors are not responsible for any damage that may arise from using this mod. This mod may not be sold under any circumstances. It may be downloaded, as long as it does not violate the laws of the state/country you live in. This disclaimer must always be distributed with the mod. For other used please contact me personally.

Thanks to the TEAM:
2D Artist: Tobias Liebhart (TobiWahn_Kenobi), SteinerX
Bughunters: Rob Cummings, cybertx, Darvroth, Peter1x9, ZombiesRus5
Coders: Ronie Albesa (zRazor), Rob Cummings (NewHorizons), Davroth, EvilTesla-RG, Rodney Jenkings (HotRod), Tobias Liebhart, Zvezdochets
Model Templates: Amras-Arfeiniel, James Newman (Firehawk)
Modelers: Ronie Albesa, Amras-Arfeiniel, Fileosoft, Johan Klaver, Koobalt, Tobias Liebhart, Stefan May, Timmaigh, Pauli Valkeejärvi (Hawkwall), Zvezdochets
Musician: Pauli Valkeejärvi
Research: Rob Cummings, Darvroth, Rodney Jenkins
PR: Darvroth, SteinerX
Sounds: Rob Cummings, Pauli Valkeejärvi, Zvezdochets
Texturers:  Tobias Liebhart, SteinerX, TFL_BigBangTheory, Timmaigh, Pauli Valkeejärvi, ZombiesRus5
Moderation: Blake00


Additional support: boshimi336, Lavo_2, myfist0, Gürol Salk (Geopard)

And to
MysticAngel for the Automated Fighter docking ability
The Babylon 5 X3TC team


And thanks to all those modelers whose work is a inspiration and a template for creating ingame assets

If I forgot anyone, please contact me so I can give proper credit. (There seem to be so many decent people involved at the moment)

 

Release 0.54.1 Full Download for Rebellion 1.95+
& Patch 0.54.2

Sins Of The Younger Races Remastered

NEW - Balvarin Carrier and Minor Factions fix!

 

 

Installation Guide:

  1. Download the latest Sins Remastered mod from here:
    https://www.moddb.com/mods/sinsre
  2. Extract the archive into a 'SinsRemastered' folder in your 'C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder.
  3. Download the latest Babylon 5 Sins of the Younger Races mod from here:
    https://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-the-younger-races
  4. Extract the archive into your root 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder instead of a new mod folder as the archive ALREADY contains a premade 'SotyrRemastered' folder inside of it (so if you're not careful you'll end up with a mod folder inside of a mod folder and it won't work lol).
  5. Start Sins and go to 'Options', then 'Mods', and you should see the mods you've installed.
  6. Enable 'SotyrRemastered' and then enable 'SinsRemastered' too. Make sure that the load order is SotyrRemastered first/top and then SinsRemastered second/bottom.
  7. Restart Sins and you should be good to go!

Sometimes the in-game mod loader can be a bit funky so if you can't see the mods you've installed or something isn't working then enabling the mods via the 'EnabledMods.txt' file in your 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder where you installed the mods to is the other alternative. It should look like this to work:

TXT2
SinsArchiveVersion 194
Version 0
enabledModNameCount 2
enabledModName "SotyrRemastered"
enabledModName "SinsRemastered-v0.95b"

 

DISCORD:

https://discord.gg/9AwgByEEKn

 

Old Blog with screenshots and infos maintained by SteinerX can be found here (*OUT OF DATE*)
http://babylon5ins.blogspot.com/

 

Yours TobiWahn_Kenobi

 

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Reply #3326 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting AdmiralRevan, reply 3326
After the download counts down, the page says "This webpage is not found"

Confirmed - oh dear! x_x

Strange it should work for harpo - perhaps a different mirror server?

The gamefront link worked (for me) upto a couple of weeks ago when I re-downloaded b5sotyr to compare against my heavily modded copy.

Reply #3327 from Sins Forums Top

I had not gone the whole way to the actual download, and yes the gamefront is NOT finding the file for me either.

if it would help the b5 team I could upload a copy I have in my sins archive named 'b5-sotyr 0.4202.rar' with a size of 369,873 kb to my dropbox.

harpo

 

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Reply #3330 from Sins Forums Top

ok rustie, I will upload to my dropbox, but it will take HOURS for my internet to upload it, and I will post links in this thread in the morning when it is done (and I will be also uploading a copy of the PATCH file as well in-case it is having difficulties).

harpo

 

 

Reply #3331 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks all, with luck TobiWahn will fix the link when next he is on line. His personal life is a bit busy at the moment...

 

Reply #3332 from Sins Forums Top

Megaupload is down thanks to the USA Government and their masters the RIAA and MPAA

Origo is no longer available, the university ended the service so we had to move to BitBucket.

I seem to have unintentionally removed the 0.42x files so I'm now uploading a full 0.422 version to gamefront agin and will post here once available. Remember that 0.422 has many bugs including not having Vorlon and Shadows playable (they might crash)

 

@Darvroth
Yes, all of Ticket 3 is done.

 

Quoting Rustiek, reply 3330
send me the mod 0.43. my mail is [email protected]. Please!!! Please!!! Please!!!

Please stop it. I know you want the newest version yet you do nothing for the mod but posting crap and messing with tickets on BitBucket. Please stop, stay quiet and wait till I release 0.43 (which will still take a while)

Oh, and to all of you, I will be on vacation in September so don't worry if I don't post because I might not have any internet.

Reply #3334 from Sins Forums Top

OK, gamefront seems to have problems right now, everytime the upload finishes it just stays at the upload page and I can begin anew (used 3 diferent browsers so far, no success) so I'm trying minus.com

http://minus.com/l6lTVlKL8yb3v

 

@harpo
Shall I remove your link from the original thread post?

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Reply #3335 from Sins Forums Top

It works, thank you for posting the download. Sorry to stir up so much trouble.

Great mod so far.  :thumbsup:

 

The Admiral

Reply #3336 from Sins Forums Top

tobi, only if you want to, I can leave them there till the next version is released as I still have about 300mb space left in the dropbox.

harpo

 

Reply #3337 from Sins Forums Top

Harpo, just notify me in case you need the space. Thanks!

 

Quoting AdmiralRevan, reply 3336
It works, thank you for posting the download. Sorry to stir up so much trouble.

Great mod so far.



The Admiral

No trouble at all, thanks for telling us that the download needs reuploading.

Reply #3338 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn,

Organizing my Envoy work it is evident the SoaSE Diplomacy abilities equally impact enemy and allied planet/factions... My thinking some should impact both to raise relations against any faction but some should be one or the other providing additional boosts for the lack of versitality. While negative effects from a diplomatic presence may not work for SoaSE if B5 is any indication a diplomatic presence can come with plenty of baggage of out mod. I'll reuse as much as I can but may find the need to break out race specific variations on basic abilties.

Should have plenty uploaded by the time you return. :)

Reply #3339 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3261
Forge of the First Ones : An ancient, but highly efficient, Quantium-40 refinery reduces jump-gate construction cost by 20%

Couldn't find a way of reducing the cost of a specific structure in Diplomacy, although Rebellion may have, eg TL Novalith Deregulation, AR Mass Communion.

So as compromise

Forge of the First Ones

Metal extraction rate:            20%

Resource cost decrease:        10%

Credit cost decrease:             5%

 

Structure Improved:

Orbital Metal Extractor

 

An ancient, but highly efficient

Quantium-40 refinery that improves

extraction rates and reduces construction

costs

Should be handy considering that metal is very much sought after in B5-SotYR.

 

Reply #3340 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3340


Should be handy considering that metal is very much sought after in B5-SotYR.

That's right, precious metal :grin:

Thanks!

Reply #3341 from Sins Forums Top

OK guys, I will fly to iceland today so wont be online for the coming 2 weeks. Haven't had the time to work on the mod in the last days due to preparations. Will post here once I get back. Have a nice time all of you.

:sun:

Reply #3342 from Sins Forums Top

Enjoy, and note the divide at the tectonic plate boundary! Geology seen in few other places on Earth. When you get back we will need Envoy .entity files for Vorlon and Shadow.

Reply #3343 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvroth, reply 3343
Geology seen in few other places on Earth.

Indeed - there's not many places where you can see the inside of a volcano

Have a good trip.

Reply #3344 from Sins Forums Top

Bring back some awesome pictures of you being awesome! :D

Reply #3345 from Sins Forums Top

I've mapped out the techs for the envoy ships and have altered the SoaSE standard of diplomatic immunity and 4 abilities (3 researched) that equally impact Allieorenemy with a system where by each SotYR Envoy have the following:

Diplomatic Immunity in two standards, younger and elder

Goodwill - as SoaSE without modification

A researched, scaled ability that only negatively impacts enemy planets/systems with no diplomatic boost (will defalult to off)

A researched ability that impacts friendly or allied planets with an appropriate relations boost

A beefier researched ability that impacts allied planets with an appropriate relations boost

This will weight the impact of military actions and diplomatic deals (missions and grants) more and the impact of diplomacy (envoys) less. Enough envoy coverage of an opponent with judicious mission accomplishment can still bring about a peaceful offering but it will be harder than in SoaSE. There are still some details to be worked out and the abilities and entity files are still in need of redesign and testing, and TobiWahn has yet to fully bless this approach but wanted to let the forum poke holes in the design before I got too deep into the execution.

Thoughts?

Reply #3346 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvroth, reply 3346
A researched, scaled ability that only negatively impacts enemy planets/systems with no diplomatic boost (will defalult to off)

I think use of such an ability should have a negative effect on the relationship.

Will all races have the negative envoy ability? Fits well with the Shadows, maybe the Centauri & Vorlons too, not so sure about the others.

Reply #3347 from Sins Forums Top

It is very easy to have negative relation actions, it was my thought that a diplomat should not by design contribute to that but should have the ability to increase diplomatic relations, however all the diplomats on B5 conducted nefarious acts sometimes sanctioned and sometimes not. The negative acts for the envoy ships are default off so they don't run around degrading your relations but can selectively be turned on so as to have a useful ability should there be no need for diplomacy at that moment. The abilities I'm thinking of are more punative and will likely result in a diplomatic offset. For instance attacking a planet always has a negative diplomatic impact from the attacked faction and doesn't need an additional negative effect.

I'll post when the notes are up in bitbucket which may help your analaysis.

EA for instance semi-sanctioned what some corporations were doing which furthered EA policy while allowing plausible deniability.

Reply #3348 from Sins Forums Top

Take a look.

Reply #3349 from Sins Forums Top

Team,

See the Common Envoy Note ticket on BitBucket. EA Envoy files are uploaded, crux of the problem is buff statement "AlliedOrEnemy" substatution for "Allied". If anyone could confirm there is no internal conflict...suggested string file also supplied but master and string list counters would have to be incremented.

Reply #3350 from Sins Forums Top

Darvroth,

   Does your EA envoy entity require 0.43 or could I merge it into my copy of 0.422 to try out?