Simple go big or go home Mod

from Sins Forums

Hi everyone, first of all I regularly play the game as it is, but one thing I like about it is the battles between cap ships. All I would like to do is have a mod where the frigate factory is disabled or at the very least, a player can only produce scouts and colony frigates, the main offensive capabilites will all be on the shoulders of using caps. I feel this would constitute a much more decisive range of tactics and strategy than with the regular game (not to mention make it run quite a bit faster). So as someone who has never even looked at a mod before...of any game, how would I go about making this small change to a mod I could use just for fun?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

They're already a mod which only enables cap ships inside the wincustomize site!

Just go to this forums download section and grab it!!!

Enjoy!

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you, I am sure there propably is, but I was asking how I could personally make a mod like this on my own since it seems like such a simple aspect to change instead of having to search for a similar mod which may or may not be the right fit for what i ahd in mind, this way I can be sure the aspects I'd like are incorperated into the game.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Ohh...well in that case you open up the game's entity files and remove all files that have a concern whatsoever with frigates! Leaving only cap ships!

Then you open cap ships entity files and you tweak the values until you find the desired balance!

Since youre not adding anything new, you shouldnt have to touch the string file and thus the game should start after with only cap ships!

Hope Im right...and hope I helped!

Justin S.

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Cool, that is what I was looking for, umm, just need to know how to actually do all that lol. and this is just a mod right I mean, I dont want to potentially mess up my game accidently by removing stuff I shouldent.

Edit: Nevermind I found the entity files, and I can pretty much figure out which files correspond to what units, but this looks alot mroe like I'm changing the vanilla game itself on my HD instead of creating a mod dosent it? Or is there something i'm missing? I was looking for a little thing I could switch on and off if I wished, thats why I liked the mod function in this game.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Download the forge tools from the download section..inside you will find all basa fles needed to mod!!!

That way you work on 'outsander' files and leave the game core untouched!!!!

 

Anyhow even if you do screw up, you can unlimitly download SoaSE off the stardock bay if you're game is registrered!! So go ahead, make changes, make mistakes...won't matter anyhow since you've got plenty of backups :)!!!

 

Have fun!!

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

tried the first idea btw...dident work.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

DAMN! Do you one what failed?

I'll have to review my help posts...my abilities are failing me!

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

something about a minidump error or something, dosent matter, just took the whole damn thing off my HD and reinstalled, I guess if I want to play the thing this way I'll just make it a special rule in a multiplayer game, I dont really feel too comfortable DLing forge or really getting in too much with extra stuff on my comp.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Your choice!:D

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

its impossible to have a cap ship only battle with AI just so you know. and make sure if you use this online that you remove the factory from the player<race>.entity so it does not look for it.  also dont forget to change the line counts when you add/remove stuf from the player<race>.entity.  also on another note, the forge tools were only 1.05 last time i checked, the newest version of the game is 1.09 (or 1.1 beta). the two are not compatable.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

That might explain the problem...

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

welll blah, with all this i'll stick to vanilla then lol.  As for online I simply ment actually telling the player i'm with about the rules, hope thier an honost person who agrees to them, I cant be the only one who would prefer a game using only caps and scout and colony frigs.

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

I'm sure youll find some honest players!!! They might be hard to find..but they still exist :)!

Have fun!

Justin S.