Hey Guys, was wondering if you would be interested in a little something I was putting together....

A new tech flagship, perhaps? 

Definite improvement.

Awesome !!

YES!

Update:

Planet Defense Models: I had to change the Vasari model as the UV map on the other one is not very good and very hard to work with. The Advent model has the same UV problem just not as bad, but I'm trying to work around that. Let me know what you think.

Awesome!

Tech one looks great.

Not really a fan of the Vassari one.... looks too.... tentaclely? 

Oh, and PM me if you want that Tec model... I've got no experience trying to get them in game, XSI and I do not get along.

What would I do if I wanted

DS-PowerfulPirates_v1.0R-RG

   DS-MapPack_v1.1R-RG


   DS_v0.21R+FWSP-RG

Plus DS-AHA_v1.2R-RG

Currently it crashes the game in any sequence.

That's because Powerful Pirates and AHA have their own seperate entity list. You would have to combine them in order to make the game accept them together.

Hi guys, thanks for this amazing mod, there is just one thing that I would like to change for me personally and I hope that I can do this without knowledge of modding or can do it that it doesn't break the game.

Can research that are 0/8 be reduced to 0/4? 

Thats kinda against the whole direction of the mod... to expand the research and enhance its effects.  It's the signature item of DS mod.  

But I don't speak for them, I only feed them models from time to time, So Ryat will field that question.

Well, it won't break the mod but you do have to do some modding work to drop it down. Flip side, its a real simple mod. Just take the research you want to change, convert it from BIN to TXT (Converter is .exe comes with the game but its recommended you use a program that can use it. harpo999999 has one that people like.) and change the 8 to a 4.

You'd also have to change the research prereqs on the next tier items to light up after 4 researches are done otherwise it'll be expecting 8 and you'll never get there so it'll never light up.

I always miss that one.

Sounds a bit complicated for someone with no knowledge of modding I might just set research on fast, but then the AI will have even further advantage when it comes to research. 

Anyway that said, I love this mod, what made it complete for me was the soundtrack of EVE Online, Transformers, and probably some other game/movies !

If you run the game from the dev.exe (you'll have to put the mod in the dev mod folder once it's been created, same process as before, just a different folder     cut/copy then paste it over) you can just give yourself all of the research items, or speed up the research when you're doing it, and put it to slow when you're not so the AIs don't tech up so quickly.  (pressing A twice in the dev menu for 'quick start' gives all players everything, so don't do that one.)

It's been awhile, but I believe the in-game (development) menu is brought up by pressing shift+> and pressing the comma key backs out of it.  Someone correct me if I'm remembering any of these key commands wrong.

*edit* Think of the Dev.exe as the game with a built in trainer.  Lots of neat options in there.  Play with it, get to know it...  You can have a lot of fun with the game once you learn what the selections do.

thanks ill maybe do that! Btw, the TEC Rebels Pirate Mercenary Abilitie/Tech, is suppose to be at the broadcast center but it aint there? because I have played this game with only Distant Stars iam a bit to afraid to load up my save file and corrupt it when I run it unmodded.

Its a bug. Fixed (and modified ) with next update.

Awesome! Maybe its also why the 'Rebels' just hover over enemy planets ( none TEC Rebels too ) and just sit at the edge not attacking?

That may be another issue. Will keep an eye out for it. Haven't personally observed that, or maybe I don't understand what you are talking about.

Ahm the tech that spawns Rebels radomly, they just sit around the border not moving, however I should try again some time to make sure its bugged or not since it could be that everyone where I noticed it was a TEC Rebel, didnt think so though.

That's what I thought you were talking about. Will keep an eye out for it.

Hey guys,

Loving this mod but it crashes often. I haven't identified a pattern yet. What's the best way to submit crash logs?

FWIW, I run the game at max detail and 2540 x 1440 reso and generally play on medium sized maps with flagship victory condition. 

Wish we could read the logs but we can't (would be helpful). As for a fix, judging from your resolution I would say you need to turn things down a bit. Start with keeping your empire tree trimmed and clean, set things in the options menu to off such as show trade ships and such. This reduces the clutter and RAM usage. If this doesn't work then drop down the detail or see if you can drop the resolution.

I DLed the new mods ... figured I'd go with the core + aha + sol ... but I get no checksum from any of them at all.  I deleted the v1.8 folder, loaded the game, told it to show me the mod path (which re-created the folder) then re-copied in the downloads.  The older DS mod, version 17 I think, gives a check sum, as does the 4X one ... but the new one doesn't seem to be giving me one .... anyone else gotten this problem? and know of a solution?  DS was the 1st mod I used and I like it a lot.  Want to keep using it if I can.

Thanks