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[Mod]Star Wars: Interregnum [Beta 2.5 Release, 12-20-23]

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[Mod]Star Wars: Interregnum [Beta 2.5 Release, 12-20-23]

A new Star Wars experience built on the Enhanced 4X Mod

from Sins Forums

 

Intro 

Star Wars: Interregnum is an upcoming mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion that builds off of the highly successful Enhanced 4X Mod. Fleeing the unknown terror that is chasing the Vasari, the factions of Sins of a Solar Empire stumble on a temporary wormhole that takes them to a galaxy far, far away. The sudden arrival of armadas with trillions of refugees and thousands of warships between the events of Episodes 5 & 6 forever alters the Star Wars universe and plunges the galaxy into an unprecedented period of chaos and violence.

 

Star Wars Interregnum Beta 2.51

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Features
4 new factions: Interregnum will feature 2 new races each with 2 subfactions like vanilla Sins races...

  • The Galactic Empire is the remains of Palpatine's Empire now headed by Darth Vader, and enjoys a powerful industrial base and perhaps the most powerful fleet of all factions. However Vader's poor political skills and the feeling that the Empire is being crushed from all sides has left the Empire with extremely poor morale, and further defeats may start damaging the Empire's war effort. 
  • The Imperial Warlords are an umbrella faction that represents the various Empire factions that have operational independence, whether they've gone Rogue to serve their own agenda or are acting under orders in special circumstances. While lacking the legitimacy and infrastructure of the Galactic Empire, this has forced the warlords to use their forces more wisely than the sometimes brutish Imperial war machine. And the Emperor's fondness for conducting research in remote locations, along with Vader lack of interest in major R&D projects has allowed the Warlords to get access to many powerful technologies that might more than make up for their shortcomings. The player will also be able to choose to ally with one of the Major warlords for additional bonuses, mainly Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, Warlord Zsinj, and Director Yasanne Isard.
  • The Rebel Alliance is the original military branch of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and continues to fight the Empire much as it did in the Galactic Civil war. Preferring hit and run attacks and strikecraft superiority along with some innovative and dirty tricks, the Rebels are one of the most unique factions and are extremely difficult to stamp out.
  • The New Republic was created by Rebel sympathizing planets after the Empire was forced to abandoned the Outer Rim following the emergence of the Sins races. Fearing that the Rebels would not be strong enough to protect them if the Empire tried to conquer them again, the New Republic has decided to create its own conventional armed forces from scratch. While this focus on new institutions leaves the New Republic vulnerable and disinclined to attack early on, once it gets going its powerful new warship designs along with its substantial economic and cultural strengths make the New Republic an extremely competent and well rounded faction with few weaknesses.

Superior Gameplay: As a successor mod to the Enhanced 4X Mod, Interregnum will support all the gameplay enhancements found in that mod, including...

  • Hero Units: Both Sins and Star Wars factions can call in their most powerful champions to turn the tide of battle.
  • New Planets and Random Encounters: Truly Explore the Galaxy far, far away with an expanded array of planet types, some of which will be populated with everything from Rogue Imperial Moffs to abandoned Republic era fleets to Mandalorian raiders.
  • Improved Civics, Economy, Diplomacy and Espionage: Don't feel like just blasting your opponent? The Enhanced 4X substantially fleshes out the noncombat side of Gameplay with things like improved culture, embassies and spying.
  • Customization: From adding upgrades to your favorite capitalships and titan to a library of minimods to customize your gameplay experience, 
  • Upgrades to existing factions: Players totally new to the Enhanced 4X series of mods will find the familiar Vanilla races they know have all gotten an upgraded. All factions of received new techs, faction and racial bonuses, new starting units and other alterations that encourages more diverse gameplay.

 

Unit and Character List

See this post

 

Story

Progress

 

With the third alpha release, the Rebel Alliance has been added, meaning this mod can now be used to relive the Galactic Civil War as well as the current war with the Sins factions. The militia and pirates have also been replaced with Star Wars versions; now the vast majority of material on the game map is clearly from a galaxy far, far away.

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Reply #476 from Sins Forums Top

Alpha 3.21 is now on Moddb and will be available for download in one hour.  :grin:

Star Wars Interregnum Alpha 3.21 (Full Install)

Reply #477 from Sins Forums Top

Sweet. :)

By da by, forgot to say this way back when you were mentioning shield affects... they look awesome. :)

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Reply #478 from Sins Forums Top

I'm not sure if its on purpose or not (and likely already has been reported) but for the Imperials at least, the Admiral Piett  and Harrask researchs (the level three hero units) require resources and credits to research rather then being free

Reply #479 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Sucal, reply 478

I'm not sure if its on purpose or not (and likely already has been reported) but for the Imperials at least, the Admiral Piett  and Harrask researchs (the level three hero units) require resources and credits to research rather then being free

This is intentional, because Harrsk and Piett command Allegiance class Battlecruisers, which have a bit better stats than other hero flagships. Likewise Thrawn's research is at tier 5 and is a bit harder to get since he has an ISD, which is a bit better than vanilla caps.

Reply #480 from Sins Forums Top

Unfortunately, the game crashed after five minutes of playing. I have the latest version of your mod and Sins 1.85. I use the "no Super weapons minimod". LAA has been applied. The checksum is 153154122 without minimod and 1531720712 with the minimod.

 

Here is the crash dump:

http://www.megafileupload.com/7afe/sins_of_a_solar_empire_rebellion_1850_crash_2016_7_16T16_7_6C0.mdmp

 

Please help. Thanks.

Edit: It works so far now, after I put the minimod above the main E4XMod and below the Interregnum Mod. Checksum now: 190133365. I hope it works fine now.

 

Reply #481 from Sins Forums Top

The constraint in the "Buff_ING_RebelScumTarget" file is "HasAntiMatterPool", whereas in the parent "Ability_ING_RebelScum" file, the constraint is the appropriate "HasWeapons" value. Considering the nature of the ability, I'm guessing you don't mean for there to be different constraints?

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Reply #482 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting AKenny47, reply 481

The constraint in the "Buff_ING_RebelScumTarget" file is "HasAntiMatterPool", whereas in the parent "Ability_ING_RebelScum" file, the constraint is the appropriate "HasWeapons" value. Considering the nature of the ability, I'm guessing you don't mean for there to be different constraints?

Fixed. I've removed the constraints from both abilities. Thanks for your ever reliable observations.

Reply #483 from Sins Forums Top

The optional minimods are back!

E4X & Interregnum Optional Minimods 1.811

Reply #484 from Sins Forums Top

Oh, I think I found another major problem in a different part of the Rebel Scum ability. 

In the "Buff_ING_RebelScumTarget" file, the part that creates the AOE buff points to itself for the AOE effect, instead of the "Buff_ING_RebelScumEffect" file. 

 

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Reply #485 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for updating mini-mods. I don't have Moddb access. I concur with the other post there that the No Superweapons mod is broken. This is a new game session. I can't make my own superweapons, but it appears at least some of the enemy empires can still build theirs. I've seen plenty of Galaxy Gun and Novalith shots flying through my region and at me.

Current game is me as Rebels, vs Empire, Warlords, HTS, Orthodox Advent, VCC. While E4X artifact stations include superweapons too, I have personally destroyed a few Novalith cannons attacking the HTS as my immediate neighbor so I have at least confirmed that type is being built. Most of the other empires are too far away for me to check on specifics, but I frequently hear the superweapon activation warning.

Load Order:

enabledModName "INT Deathmatch Mode"
enabledModName "INT All E4X Random Encounters"
enabledModName "E4X No Superweapons"
enabledModName "E4X Resetting Titan Levels"
enabledModName "E4X Expanded Research"
enabledModName "E4X Doubled Fleet Supply and Capitalships"
enabledModName "E4X Enhanced AI"
enabledModName "INT Lend-Lease Capitals"
enabledModName "E4X non-Vasari Phase Gate"
enabledModName "E4X Exploding Mines"
enabledModName "E4X Alternate Main Menu Music"
enabledModName "Star Wars Interregnum Alpha 3.21"
enabledModName "Enhanced 4X Mod 1.811"

 

 

Reply #486 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Faceless_Wanderer, reply 485

I concur with the other post there that the No Superweapons mod is broken.

What was the difficulty of the AIs? At harder levels one of the AI cheats is to get some research for free, I wonder if this is causing the superweapons to be unlocked.

Unfortunately, the way this minimod used to work was broken for some reason with the 1.84/85 patch, so I can't restore it to how it was before. Just have to try something else I guess...

Reply #487 from Sins Forums Top

All of the AI are set to Hard Aggressor in my game.

Also confirm superweapon use by VCC. Oddly, despite solidly being in the lead and holding the most planets, so far I am not seeing any superweapon shots by Orthodox Advent.

Reply #488 from Sins Forums Top

Something I just noticed is that the MC80 cruiser's deploy gunship ability spawn the X-4 gunships at what appears to be their base health, and doesn't take into account the factions' hull and armour upgrades. So you see gunships deploying with health bars only half full.

Is this an engine limitation?

Reply #489 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting AKenny47, reply 488

Something I just noticed is that the MC80 cruiser's deploy gunship ability spawn the X-4 gunships at what appears to be their base health, and doesn't take into account the factions' hull and armour upgrades. So you see gunships deploying with health bars only half full.

Is this an engine limitation?

I think you're not taking into account the extra health boost that the MC80's credibility ability grants. The spawned X-4s should have identical stats to ones you build yourself, but since they spawned in range of the MC80 it immediately grants the extra health. Since its a flat X increase ships with small health pools like the X4 or Corellian Corvette benefit the most, and at higher levels can more than double their hit points.

Reply #490 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 489

you're not taking into account the extra health boost that the MC80's credibility ability grants
Completely forgot. It would be nice if the credibility ability granted its health bonus instantly, but that is a engine limitation, it seems.

Reply #491 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting AKenny47, reply 490


Quoting GoaFan77,
reply 489

you're not taking into account the extra health boost that the MC80's credibility ability grants

Completely forgot. It would be nice if the credibility ability granted its health bonus instantly, but that is a engine limitation, it seems.

Well that would basically be equivalent to immediately healing the target for the same amount every time they entered the ability's area, which would be extremely exploitable. ;) Ships keep any extra hit points they had when they the buff wears off, but they need to naturally generate or get healed up to the new maximum. As far as I'm concerned its working as I intended.

Reply #492 from Sins Forums Top

Been a while since I've posted screenshots on here. Time to fix that I think.  ^_^

Here's the Firespray Patrol Craft we'll be adding in the next version.

Reply #493 from Sins Forums Top

http://steamcommunity.com/app/204880/discussions/0/154642447915096966/

Reply #494 from Sins Forums Top

Interregnum Alpha 3.3 has been released! Prove yourself in battle against fearsome Mandalorian raiders.

Star Wars Interregnum Alpha 3.3

Reply #495 from Sins Forums Top

Hello! I have been trying to download the latest release of your mod (great work by the way) from moddb, but the download never starts and the archive I get says that its an unknown format or damaged.

Any help? Thanks!

Reply #496 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting QuecoJones, reply 495

Hello! I have been trying to download the latest release of your mod (great work by the way) from moddb, but the download never starts and the archive I get says that its an unknown format or damaged.

Any help? Thanks!

Someone else reported that, but now says they got it to work. Trying downloading it again, I think something was wrong with the Moddb servers.

Reply #497 from Sins Forums Top

I have read the complains on ModDB about slow down at large games. One problem which seams to have worsen with sins 1.86 (and 1.87) is buffEntityModifierType "DamageSharing" (vanilla advent ability), that is causing heavy slow down, even the game to stop with many ships. Without any CPU load. Seams some sort of deadlock, specific when they are attacked with area damage weapons.

PS: A minimod to replace the effect could solve the issue

I also get some random crashes now, I could not track down. They seam engine related, maybe 4X is using abilities/buffs on planets that don't work any more "as advertised".

 

Hope it helps.

Reply #498 from Sins Forums Top

How did you figure out it was "DamageSharing"? That is probably something that should be posted to the devs in a new thread.

Do you have any save games of these crashes where loading them will reproduce the issue? Usually random crashes are due to system specific issues (running out of RAM/not apply Large Address Aware, drivers etc).

Reply #499 from Sins Forums Top

The "DamageSharing" issue already was in earlier Sins versions. I recognized it when helping on the Maelstrom mod. In latest Sins versions (can't remember since when) it wasn't an issue, I only remembered it when reading the complains about Advent. So I run some test games and I'm pretty sure it is this ability (again).

On the crashes:

I'm modding around myself a little, nothing serious but enough the savegame wouldn't help(?)

I don't think it is the PC. I'm also running another CPU & RAM heavy sim game, but also I can run medium maps with 4 to 6 players without issues. Where to say I busted fleet support to 3000 and more and have large fleets battling around without a problem other than slow down due to many thing going on. So the crashes seam really very specific to vast & huge random maps, independent on what the (AI) players are doing.

Now just thinking I recognized a new "hard" limit on ships. I wanted to test the limits on the new engine and pushed fleet support to 6000 which caused a crash when multiple AI would reach this. In 1.85 sins would slow down to a crawl but not crash. I wonder if there is a new "limit" on planets or planet related abilities/buffs that causes trouble?

Probably something that just kicks in on new game start. I never was able to repeat the early (few seconds into game) crashes, even with a save games just a moment before the crash. When loading the game again it runs for an hour or so before the next crash. But as said only with very large maps.

Now even with the Dev exe and using record/watch to check any used ability, I was unable to locate the issue. So it must be the PC or an engine bug.

Reply #500 from Sins Forums Top

Hey Goa, I just ran a game using only your E4X 1.82 mod that was packaged with your latest release of SWI (Alpha 3.3) and ran into an issue.  Not sure if it's with the mod or with the latest changes the Devs made.  Will be a long while before I can run another game to confirm.  Played as Tech Rebels, researched TAR, and the Pirates remained hostile towards me for the whole remainder of the game.